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Saturday, November 9, 2019
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
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Rating: WORTHY! This was a graphic novel, apparently based on personal experience, about a twelve-year old girl going through typical 1...
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) by John Cleland
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Rating: WARTY! Written while in prison by an evidently horny inmate, this is a first person voice novel, purporting to be a memoir by a...
Girlwood by Claire Dean
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Rating: WARTY! Polly is twelve. Her older sister Bree has fallen into the wrong crowd - drugs and so on, and one day Bree disappears. ...
Off Course by Simon Haynes
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Rating: WARTY! This was a short story aimed, presumably, at luring people into the writing world of the author in the hopes that you...
Kind Nepenthe by Matthew V Brockmeyer
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Rating: WARTY! This is another ebook that I've had sitting on my virtual shelf and haven't looked at in forever, and so I decid...
Outlaw by Edward W Robertson
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Rating: WARTY! This was a sci-fi novel which is evidently part of the 'Rebel Stars' series and I should really have paid attent...
Monday, November 4, 2019
Ambassador Seeing Red by Patty Jansen
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Rating: WARTY! Once again a novel where the blurb makes it sound interesting, but the practice of reading it was an exercise in tedium....
Being a Super Trans Ally by Phoenix Schneider, Sherry Paris
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Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I'm predisposed to favor books of this nature whether f...
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Doomed by Tracy Deebs
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Rating: WARTY! This was another tired novel in first person. I think I'm going to systematically survey all of my books and give a...
The Superhero's Test by Timothy L Cerepaka, aka Lucas Flint
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Rating: WARTY! I'm very late with this particular review because I've had the book for some time and never got around to it, so...
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Mindful Artist: Sumi-e Painting by Virginia Lloyd-Davies
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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I love the idea of painting, although I do none of it myse...
Cold Copper by Devon Monk
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Rating: WARTY! I've read material from Devon Monk before and enjoyed it which is why I picked this up, but this wasn't to my ta...
The Siren's Call by Jennifer Anne Kogler
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Rating: WARTY! This is book 2 of a series I began reading so long ago that it's not even one I blogged. Also I barely remember it....
The Djinn Wars by Christine Pope
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Rating: WARTY! This one sounded interesting from the blurb and started out well, so it encouraged me to keep going. That's always ...
This is Just a Test by Madelyn Rosenberg, Wendy Wan-Long Shang
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Rating: WARTY! This is a middle-grade book that started out well enough, with some nice humor and interesting activities, but unfortuna...
Gender and Our Brains by Gina Rippon
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Rating: WARTY! This was subtitled "how new neuroscience explodes the myths of the male and female minds,"which struck me as o...
Witchnapped in Westerham by Dionne Lister
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Rating: WARTY! This was your standard loss-leading opening volume in what the author hopes will become a successful series, and I wish ...
Friday, November 1, 2019
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
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Rating: WARTY! I have no idea who this is written for. Not me, that's for sure because it rubbed me up the wrong way from the off....
Raven the Irate Princess Book 1 or something by Jeremy Whitley, Rose Higgins, Ted Brandt
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Rating: WARTY! Normally I would steer clear of a book, even a graphic novel, with a title like this, but I had come to this via its pre...
Princeless Raven the Pirate Princess by Jeremy Whitley, Rose Higgins, Ted Brandt
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Rating: WORTHY! Normally I would steer clear of a book, even a graphic novel, with a title like this, but I had come to this via its pr...
Get a Clue! by Lisa Banim
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Rating: WARTY! This is the first book in the Lizzie McGuire Mysteries series. It's the last one I will ever read! The front cover...
Lake Ephemeral by Victoria Strauss
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Rating: WARTY! Famous author name, infamous writing! This is a Strauss waltz, but it waltzed off into boredom. It's a seriously w...
The Knight's Secret by Jeffrey Bardwell
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Rating: WARTY! This author has an amusingly appropriate name, incorporating 'bard' as it does, for someone who is writing a cou...
Murder Above the Fold by Regina Welling, Erin Lynn
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Rating: WARTY! This is one of those detective novels I usually laugh at and deride - especially when it has a dumb-ass title like this ...
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