Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I have to say up front that I wasn't impressed ...

Rating: WARTY! I was interested in reading this because in some ways it reminded me of my own novel Femarine , but in the end - or more...

Rating: WORTHY! This is another in what appears to be a series of confidence-building books by this author. I have no idea how many th...

Rating: WORTHY! This playful and amusing little book for young children tells the story of a seal who can't seem to do much and fee...

Rating: WORTHY! Written by Eddy Simon and translated by Joe Johnson, with illustrations by Vincent Brascaglia, this was an enjoyable gr...

Rating: WARTY! I went into this not really knowing what it was, but it had seemed appealing. In truth, it wasn't. What it was, wa...

Rating: WORTHY! For a book offering a sort of biography of a woman who was both an outstanding and unassuming code-breaker, Elizebeth S...

Rating: WARTY! This was a wildly optimistic audio book experiment given that I'd already tried Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl and DN...

Rating: WARTY! Translated by Carol Klio Burrell, this was a kids comic about a cave family's child named Tib and his absurd and ana...

Rating: WARTY! This tells of the envy of the Moon wanting to have a chance to be the Sun for one day. The sun is harsh though and will...

Rating: WORTHY! Subtitled "A Book of Mindfulness" this book aimed at younger children, is intended to teach them how to be in...

Rating: WARTY! Set during the Renaissance, this book was a pretty much a non-starter for me. I did start reading it, but quickly lost ...

Rating: WORTHY! This young children's book was hilarious. A hardback with glossy colorful pages and limited text, it tells the sto...

Rating: WORTHY! I'm not a huge fan of this author, but this short, amusing, and colorful pasteboard book for young children was a w...

Rating: WORTHY! This was an amusingly written and colorfully illustrated young children's pasteboard-style book about hair, which I...

Rating: WORTHY! This was a story first published in 1958 and was recommended to me by a friend and while it wasn't the most origina...

Rating: WARTY! The story was supposed to be about this woman, Yukiko, who lives with her mother, who frankly is a bitch, but when her m...

Rating: WORTHY! This audiobook, written by the author of The Martian and of a short story called The Egg that I read and enjoyed back...

Rating: WARTY! I picked up this audiobook because it was based on a true story which I found fascinating. The title comes straight fro...

Rating: WARTY! This novel for middle-graders sounded like it might be interesting. It certainly seemed like it promised to be differen...

Rating: WORTHY! Published in French originally as Luisa: Ici et là (strictly speaking, Luisa Here and there), with this English versio...

Rating: WORTHY! This was a passable story of Rose, a girl beginning to venture into womanhood, told in graphic novel form by the Tamaki...

Rating: WARTY! Written by Leguizamo based on his earlier one-man stage plays about his life, and illustrated really well by Cassano and...

Rating: WARTY! I didn't realize when I began this that it was volume 2 of the 'Coco and Charlie Franks' series, otherwise I...

Rating: WARTY! Okay, one more and then I'm done with this disaster! This was one more in a trilogy of Silk graphic novels I had fr...

Rating: WARTY! Given what a huge clone Silk is of Spider-Man and all the other spider 'heroes' Marvel has cloned, is this title...

Rating: WARTY! This was a classic example of Marvel's cluelessness in comic books. While building a powerhouse of a movie industry...

Rating: WORTHY! This was an hilarious middle grade (or lower) illustrated sci-fi chapter book about Astra, the only child of a space-tr...

Rating: WORTHY! This is the third Pamela Ribon Graphic novel I've read and I've been entertained by all of them. Besides, how ...

Rating: WARTY! The blurb lies once again. It tells us that "Bear fills his day with food, funny jokes, tricks on his friends...

Rating: WARTY! Published originally in Britain as Chaga , this novel has too many pages and too little happening in them, and this ran...

Rating: WORTHY! Errata: “She’d and hand Annie a sack lunch” (omit 'and') “he’d by her a prettier one” ('buy', not ...

Rating: WARTY! I became a fan of this author after reading the excellent A Face Like Glass , and I've had this volume on my shelf f...

Rating: WARTY! For a novel which is centered on body image, this one sure objectified and dissed other types of body. It’s not just fa...

Rating: WORTHY! Jamilti was a curious collection of short stories in graphic novel form - sometimes very graphically. Overall I consid...