Tag: review
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Year in Review 2020
Oy, this was a long year… I had originally planned to read only female authors this year to see if I could go a year without reading men, but I ended up reading 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson on my Dad’s recommendation and Chthon by Piers Anthony on unfinished business and spurred by…
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A Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan
Rating: 4/5, good Have you ever had a book mirror your life so much it’s spooky? A Gift of Magic is a children’s paranormal book. It was first published in 1971 and I read it in 2000 when I was about ten years old. It got re-released in 2012 and after looking up the synopsis…
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Sula by Toni Morrison
Diverse Reading Challenge #1 Rating: 4/5, good Sula is a modern classic. It was published in 1973 and is Morrison’s second novel after The Bluest Eye. I tried to read Beloved in college (it was assigned for Helene Moglen’s Gothic Imagination class – by the way, there’s a colloquium in her honor happening in March) but…
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New Invisible Man is an Edge-of-Your-Seat Horror Flick
Rating: 4/5, good I have long believed that invisibility is the coolest superpower. It may not be the strongest or the most useful, and it may have some serious drawbacks (like we saw in the Invisible Man book with the having to run around naked in freezing weather because clothes aren’t invisible) but it’s just…
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Your and My Secret by Ai Morinaga
Rating: 4/5, good I’ve only read volume 1 so far, but this manga is really cute! It’s a bit old (2003), but I think it’s still worth a look. I picked this up at the swap meet at Fanime. It’s about a teenage boy and a teenage girl, Akira Uehara and Nanako Momoi, who switch…
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We Are Legion – We Are Bob (Bobiverse #1) by Dennis E. Taylor
We Are Legion – We Are Bob (Bobiverse #1) Rating: 3/5, average Oy. Here we go again… another scifi new release that I would never have picked up if it weren’t for our science fiction book club. 😛 The strongest part of the Bobiverse series is the science. The fiction part is a little weak,…
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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Rating: 4/5 Wonderful! This is a book that appeals to anyone with a heart (in the metaphorical sense). This book is what I always wanted scifi to be, but it never was… aliens who are really alien, but not othered by the narrative.
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Want by Cindy Pon
Rating: 2, bad I almost put this book down at 15%, but I powered through for the sake of my scifi book club. Want is about a teenage boy named Zhou living in futuristic Taiwan where the air is so polluted most people die by the age of 50. The only people who live long…
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Tomboy by Liz Prince
Reviewer’s Note: I sometimes read modern books. This one was published in 2014! Tomboy is a graphic novel memoir by Liz Prince. In it, she talks about her experiences growing up as a girl who doesn’t fit the standards for behavior and appearance that society expects girls to meet. She writes about hating to wear…
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“When Did You See Her Last?”
Welcome to Stain’d-by-the-Sea, where all the children are sharp, all the adults are foolish, and all the people are peculiar. My brother suggested I read “When Did You See Her Last?” while I was visiting family in Milwaukee. Since I haven’t read anything by Daniel Handler (alias Lemony Snicket) since the Unfortunate Events series, I…