book list
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs: Film VS. Book
While visiting Tommy’s Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents including Mrs. Lancaster who mystifies her with talk about “your poor child” and “something behind the fireplace”. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW One of the darker Christie’s I have read and I’ve read my fair share so…
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Showstopper eARC Review
This summer’s production is to die for. The Ghostlight Youth Theater Camp isn’t the best program in the world, but to Faye, it’s home. — Even when the drama turns deadly, Faye remains determined to make this the best production the Ghostlight has ever seen. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW I grew…
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Tales from the Cafe
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . . –Storygraph MY REVIEW I enjoiyed this…
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Mini Comic Reviews!
**Now this title is misleading in the fact that it also includes graphic novels and manga too! But here we go!!** When we meet Eagle Valiant Brosi, he is a long-haired commune kid, bullied by other kids,teachers, and his neighbors. –StoryGraph This is dark and dark humor wrapped up in…
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Mini Comic Reviews!
The mysterious Red Hood returns to Gotham with a vengeance! Former Robin Jason Todd parted ways with the Batman over their vastly different approaches to crimefighting. –Storygraph MY REVIEW Red Hood is one of my top three favorite characters in comics, so it’s really no surprise that I’m just basically…
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Down a small alleyway in the heart of Tokyo, there’s an underground café that’s been serving carefully brewed coffee for over a hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers its customers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW We read this for…
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(S)Kin
Fifteen-year-old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant. Every new moon, she sheds her skin like the many women before her, shifting into a fireball witch who must fly into the night and slowly sip from the lives of others to sustain her own. But Brooklyn is no place for…
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Phantasma
Welcome to Phantasma.There are only two rules to the game. Stay alive. And don’t fall in love. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Welcome to Caraval Phantasma. Where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter. This was such a blatant ripoff of Caraval for me. It literally took so much…
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His Majesty’s Airship
Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Another book club read, this one for our nonfiction club at my local library (I’m in two book clubs there and one…
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Sea of Tranquility
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a…
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