Rating: WARTY! I'm not a runner although I do really need to get back to exercising more this year, but I was intrigued by what thi...

Rating: WORTHY! For my last review of 2019 I have found a real cracker! Books like this are essential reading because such a book almo...

Rating: WORTHY! Subtitled 'A Life in Circulation" (humor maybe?!) this biography of Harvey, the man who, in Elizabethan times,...

Rating: WARTY! I used to be a big fan of McDevitt, but lately I haven't liked his new material. Maybe if I went back and re-read s...

Rating: WARTY! Set against the growing conflict between the might of Rome and that of Pontus in 92 BC, this story is of teenager Gordia...

Rating: WORTHY! Holmes suffers through some terrible winters and storms in this volume. Why Doyle wanted a good many of these stories ...

Rating: WORTHY! Written by the Hales and illustrated exquisitely by Pham, this short, large print chapter book tells the story of a cut...

Rating: WORTHY! This was a highly colorful, fun book full of pictures of young children one one page and a texture to feel on the other...

Rating: WORTHY! Another touch and feel with a different set of textures, including the very hairy spider! Most spiders are harmless an...

Rating: WORTHY! This book is part of a series of touch and trace nursery rhymes (Itsy Bitsy Spider is another one, but it seems to me t...

Rating: WORTHY! This was a cute, colorful, and brief book about famous artists from the rock and roll era from Chuck Berry to Jimi Hend...

Rating: WORTHY! This is a colorful touch book where various animals have an insert which children can touch and explore. It's fun ...

Rating: WORTHY! Written by Babbott-Klein and illustrated by Walker, this book really is just a trip down memory lane, highlighting vari...

Rating: WORTHY! This is literally a book your kid can read in the bath without it becoming soggy. It comes in its own little plastic b...

Rating: WORTHY! Designed by Hannah Frece, this is a cute young children's book which offers a safe mirror on every page of various ...

Rating: WORTHY! A cute little book for young kids, and an affirmation of do-ability for anything they want to try. The tall, ungainly ...

Rating: WARTY! This was your standard uninteresting, first person voice, dumb, disaffected girl saved by a boy novel. Nothing new, not...

Rating: WORTHY! This is a middle-grade story which isn't exactly my cup of tea, but it's entertaining enough that it passes mus...

Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is volume two in an amateur detective series. I did n...

Rating: WORTHY! This book proved to be so much better than the previous one I read about SEAL life. This guy, who I shall refer to as ...

Rating: WARTY! I got this because it's purportedly related to the movie Atomic Blonde which is a really good movie. The problem i...

Rating: WARTY! It's important to note that this is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A Conan Doyle, not by the Conan Doyle. J...

Rating: WARTY! This was a seriously disappointing audiobook both the story and the reading of it. I should say up front that I'm n...

Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I realize this book isn't aimed at me, but from my pers...

Rating: WORTHY! Coming from a long line of renowned Mundys, such as the late lamented Sic Transit Gloria, and the animalistic Coty, thi...

Rating: WORTHY! I enjoyed Celia Rees's Witch Child which was one of the earliest novels I blogged since I first began blogging re...

Rating: WARTY! For purposes of my own, I've recently been taking a look at some of these detective stories that I quite honestly de...

Rating: WARTY! Errata: "...and her faith never waived." I think she meant 'wavered'. "Like all Northlanders (...

Rating: WARTY! Perhaps it isn't a coincidence that the initials for this book title are BS! Again this is a middle-grade book and ...

Rating: WARTY! Erratum: "for the entire three days that the titheman ad stayed on the green" 'Had stayed' was require...

Rating: WARTY! I despise what are laughably called 'cozy mysteries' and I particularly despise any novel which has a dog or a c...

Rating: WARTY! My problem with this was the complete lack of modesty and boundaries on the part of the author. I get that these guys n...