Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Strictly speaking we're not supposed to post reviews un...

Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Strictly speaking we're not supposed to post reviews ...

Rating: WARTY! I grew up next door to Sheffield so I wondered if I might find something of interest here, but I grew quickly bored with...

Rating: WARTY! Given that this was the first in the "The Dream healers" series, I should have known better, but I was stupid....

Rating: WARTY! This novel is the first in the inevitable trilogy and that was the first strike against it. The second strike was the a...

Rating: WARTY! While we're on the celestial plane so to speak, here;s a pile of stinking horseshit festering rancid, wishing it was...

Rating: WARTY! This is one of those books that a publisher puts out as a sampler of its author stable. For some reason they seem to do...

Rating: WARTY! This is your standard English country murder story and it baldly states it right there in the title. I'm not a fan ...

Rating: WARTY! Another classic bites the dist. This is one of the most stupid, tedious, repetitive, and pointless stories I've eve...

Rating: WARTY! You know, you may be passionate about playing trading-card games or about video games, but unless you can turn that pass...

Rating: WARTY! I was disappointed in this. It's like listening to an old relative drone on about an ancient past in which you as t...

Rating: WARTY! I'm sure this sounded like a great idea for a story when it first hit the author, but the idea far outstripped her e...

Rating: WARTY! Errata: "But even big kids don't need to rude words." - to use rude words "friends with her just be...

Rating: WARTY! This was yet another attempt to wring some value from the antique and ridiculous Peter Pan story. About the only one I...

Rating: WARTY! I made very little progress into this book before I gave it up as a bad job. The main female character is Catherine Lin...

Rating: WORTHY! Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is a psychologist and primatologist. This book is about her work with a Bonobo (an ape closely rel...

Rating: WARTY! I've been a big fan of Duane's ever since I read So You Want to be a Wizard? many years ago. This book I am so...

Rating: WORTHY! This book discusses how girls can be the worst kind of bullies of all, employing microaggression and social freeze-out ...

Rating: WORTHY! This book has nothing whatsoever to do with Doctor Who! Instead, it tells the true story of Sir Standford Fleming and ...

Rating: WARTY! This is the debut novel of the author and it was a fail for me for an assortment of reasons. I made it about halfway th...

Rating: WARTY! I gave up on this in short order after I read how yet another female writer refers to her female characters. "...L...

Rating: WARTY! This was Blatty's attempt to get back some of his former glory after The Exorcist supernova had faded. I thought t...

Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I'm definitely not one of these people who thinks Niko...

Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This graphic novel was great! It featured a superhero nam...

Rating: WARTY! This book was entirely inappropriate for young children - or anyone. it had an attitude that the environment is there f...

Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I made it about a third of the way through this book before...

Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Erratum: "Kamala's 2020 presidential campagin....

Rating: WARTY! Originally published (in Latin in 1516!) as A truly golden little book, no less beneficial than entertaining, of a repub...

Rating: WORTHY! Edward Morgan Forster published this very short story (only some 25 pages) in 1909, and I came to it by way of an artic...

Rating: WARTY! This was written in the eighteenth century and published in 1798 the year after the author died. Mary Wollstonecraft wa...

Rating: WARTY! Errata: Having missed being at the track on the Monday and Tuesday, he last sighting was on the Sunday when he was spot...