Rating: WORTHY! Sally Huss has almost consistently turned out, in my experience, works of originality, upbeat attitudes, educational in...

Rating: WORTHY! Another graphic novel with a weird-ass title! How could I not?! In this one, Finney Bleak's outlook on life is...w...

Rating: WORTHY! This team of writer (Takaoka )/illustrator (Toennisson) had a .75 batting average with me, and that's now gone up t...

Rating: WORTHY! This felt more like it was written for parents than ever it was for three-year-olds, so I'm not convinced that this...

Rating: WARTY! This fiftieth anniversary edition was not impressive to me. It was larded with prologue and afterword and introduction,...

Rating: WORTHY! YA authors an graphic novel writers could learn a lot from an awesome book like this, about depicting strong female cha...

Rating: WORTHY! Translated by Greg Moore, this was another quirky graphic novel from Japan, which has elements in common with Tank Girl...

Rating: WARTY! Read by the author in an average manner, this was another dead audiobook added to my list. This is the first time I...

Rating: WORTHY! This is an interesting story about a school bully and a deaf girl. Shoya's problem is boredom, but instead of find...

Rating: WARTY! Elmore John Leonard Jr (which was misspelled on the CDs!) has been hailed, at least in his later years, as a great write...

Rating: WORTHY! I adore this author's name! I've always been fond of 'Susan' and I had to wonder of this one whether o...

Rating: WORTHY! Couldn't fail to review a book by a namesake now, could I?! Not that I know this author, or am any relation to her...

Rating: WORTHY! This title was so bizarre that I pulled it off the shelf in the library and glanced through it, and decided to take it ...

Rating: WARTY! "A girl was dead, a beautiful girl and there was tragedy in that" was the phrase in this novel which first tur...

Rating: WARTY! Read by (I kid you not) someone named Ann Dover, and written by Anne Cleeves, this was another experimental audiobook an...

Rating: WARTY! I liked the previous novel I read by this author, but this was another failed audiobook which went on too long and was f...

Rating: WARTY! This book, I have to say up front, was a fail for me. Superficially it pretends to be a tribute to Lori Piestewa, who w...

Rating: WARTY! This YA novel should have been titled Ill-fated. It was at least different in that it's about a young female who is...

Rating: WARTY! This was another audiobook experiment that went south with the honking geese! It sounded good from the blurb, but then ...

Rating: WARTY! In this, the last Robert Heinlein novel I shall probably ever read, Podkayne Fries, an eight-year-old Martian girl (15 i...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This story is set in Kenya, a nation of almost fif...

Rating: WORTHY! Megan Bryant seems to be something of a polymath in the novel world, not stuck-in-a-rut with any one audience or genre,...

Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. The review copy had some major issues, but I worked...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Do not under any circumstances let this book fall ...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. You never quite know what you're going to get ...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Written by James Robinson, this was an unusual and...