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  • Master Class by Christina Dalcher – Book Review

    February 28, 2021February 28, 2021Book Reviews
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    Imagine if your school scores defined your live, your opportunities, your shopping trips? That's Master Class by Christina Dalcher.

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  • Before the round table with Cursed by Thomas Wheeler

    February 5, 2021February 5, 2021Book Reviews
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    I didn't know Cursed by Thomas Wheeler was adapted on Netflix or a King Arthur retelling when I started reading. Now I NEED to watch the series.

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  • The Last Wish – starting The Witcher series

    January 12, 2021January 12, 2021Book Reviews
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    After watching the Netflix series, I read The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski--the first book in The Witcher series... and wrote down my thoughts.

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  • Meeting Karou in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone

    January 5, 2021January 5, 2021Book Reviews
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    I'm in love with another Laini Taylor novel. This time it's the first book in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series.

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  • Deathless Divide: a perfect sequel by Justina Ireland

    December 14, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    The sequel to Justina Ireland's Dread Nation is here. In Deathless Divide, Jane fights zombies, delusional scientists, sexism, and racism.

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  • Ending the story with The Pretenders

    September 15, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    I finally got a chance to read The Pretenders by Rebecca Hanover. It's the longed-for sequel to the science fiction YA novel, The Similars.

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  • Cloud and Wallfish: in East Germany

    August 24, 2020December 24, 2020Book Reviews
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    Imagine being 11 years old and transported from your suburban American life to 1980s East Germany. That's Noah's life in Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbit.

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  • The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

    January 4, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    A collection of speeches, book introductions, and editorials by Neil Gaiman. All bundled together as The View from the Cheap Seats.

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  • Book Review: Dear Martin by Nic Stone

    November 3, 2019December 21, 2020Book Reviews
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    Justyce is heading to Yale and has a promising future, once he navigates growing up black in Dear Martin by Nic Stone.

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  • Dread Nation: I’d say zombies and Post-Civil War but it’s so much more

    July 29, 2019June 7, 2020Book Reviews
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    Dread Nation: A post-civil war historical novel, with added zombies. Justina Ireland has written a mostly historically correct novel.

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  • A semester of reading. Fluffy, non-academic reading

    July 13, 2019January 13, 2021Book Reviews
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    In among my grad school work it was a semester of reading fluffy books. These novels helped me get through my first semester.

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  • The end of the world is on Saturday in Good Omens

    June 1, 2019December 24, 2020Book Reviews
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    Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens is an amusing end-of-the world telling of an 11-year-old Antichrist, whom they lost.

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  • A Crime-Fighting Baby Elephant – The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

    April 18, 2018December 24, 2020Book Reviews
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    This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link,...

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  • Boy Meets Boy – A utopianly sweet love story

    February 8, 2018December 17, 2020Book Reviews
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    This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link,...

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  • I read some self-help books so you don’t need to

    February 7, 2018January 20, 2021Book Reviews
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    This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link,...

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  • You’ve Read the Harry Potter Series, What’s Next?

    January 31, 2018January 2, 2021Book Reviews
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    You’ve just read 4,224 pages of wizarding magnificence. That’s if you read the US editions of the Harry Potter series....

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  • What I Learned Reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

    January 17, 2018January 20, 2021Book Reviews
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    This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link,...

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  • The Story of Happy Liu, Trash Picker – Book Review: Happy Dreams

    January 3, 2018December 31, 2020Book Reviews
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    This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link,...

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  • PS from Paris – a book review of a predictable and fluffy romance

    December 26, 2017January 13, 2021Book Reviews
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    PS from Paris by Marc Levy is a kinda cute, rather soppy, and very predictable romance set in Paris. An author and movie star fall in love.

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  • Let It Snow this Christmas – Book Review

    December 19, 2017May 17, 2018Book Reviews
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    This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link,...

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