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  • Review: The Fifteenth Pelican


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    A couple years ago our local independent television channel aired in order every episode of The Flying Nun . After seeing the "based on the novel by..." for the dozenth time or so, I decide to track down a copy of the novel and see how it compared to the series. The Fifteenth Pelican by Tere Rios is a slim and ...
    2 weeks ago
  • New rating note


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    I realized I’d fallen into the habit of giving a 5 out of 5 sometimes simply because I couldn’t point to any specific negatives in a book. Unfortunately this meant that good-but-not-stunning books occupied the same rating as “it blew my socks off” books, and that seemed unfair to the latter. I’m not about to ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Book Review: Hounded by Kevin Hearne


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    It has been a really long time since Ive loved a protagonist in a book. There are books that Ive loved, certainly, but whatever I loved about them had more to do with the stories themselves or the other characters in the book. All of this occurred to me today when I finished Kevin Hearnes Hounded and loved it . ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Amreekan Desi


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    A chance Tweet some days back with [ AmreekanDesi ] about a completely non related matter and he volunteered to share an advanced copy of his soon to be released book. It had slipped my mind, however within the next couple of days the book promptly arrived from the publishers. The kindle on charge, meeting in far ...
    3 weeks ago
  • The Long, Slow End of the World: Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey


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    Published: March 26th, 2013 Publisher: Angry Robot Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror, Post-Apocalypse Format: eBook Length: 496 Pages Joseph D’Lacey’s Black Feathers is an interesting anomaly in the world of apocalyptic fiction. Instead of focusing on a dystopian post-apocalypse, as is the fashion nowadays, ...
    3 weeks ago
  • And the Soft Wind Blows: Lance Umenhofer


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    Timmy Enosh is a peculiar, small man: fivethree, onehundredandfifteen pounds, and is a pharmacist in Ashton City, Tennessee. He finds himself at fortythreeyearsold as his life starts to fall apart: his threehundred pound wife disappears, his romantic interest has lost interest and has gained hatred toward him, ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Review: Island Sting


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    Island Sting by Bonnie J Doerr is a tween novel set in the Florida Keys. Kenzie has moved down there with her mother, after her parents have divorced. Shes a New York City girl and the wilds of a small Florida island leave her feeling out of sorts and out of place. While exploring her new home, Kenzie sees what ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Is It Good? Uncanny X-Men #5 Review


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    Every comic book reader knows the feeling of dread when a comic they love drops back to #1 with a new writer and artist. Why change a good thing? Why mess up the numbering? Will my favorite characters be the same? Well, Marvel Comics did just that with Uncanny X-Men , giving writer Brian Michael Bendis the reigns. So ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Bento box spotlight: A real Pokeball bento box


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    Several people noted how the red, black and white color combination bento from monbento shown in the in-depth review looks like a Pokeball. I just wanted to let Pokémon fans out there know that there’s a “real” Pokeball bento box out there. It is kind of small, at just 170ml capacity. (For the ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Review: Mr. Poppers Penguins


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    : 04/22/13 Mr. Poppers Penguins by Richard Atwater and Florence Atwater was a 1939 Newbery Honor book. Mr. Popper spends the warm months as a decorator — painting and papering rooms. He spends the cold, wet months listening to the radio and following his hobbies — like learning about the exploration of ...
    4 weeks ago
  • The Bankster


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    I had reviewed an earlier book here and had liked his earlier books. Surprisingly, Ravi Subramanian was on twitter, maybe to market his book – not a bad thing, I say – and actually responded saying, he would be glad to send me a signed copy, however I promised him that I would buy his book & after ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Imperfect Mr. Right


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    Disclaimer: I may be prejudiced reviewing this, because the author is practically our God child. I first heard about this unnamed book some 4 years ago at a breakfast place where Aparna Ruchi Shakti B50 amongst others were there. The excitement petered out after a while and Shakti claimed writer’s ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Review of Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan


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    Over the years, Crossroads of Twilight has borne the dubious distinction of being considered the “worst” WoT book of them all. Even fans of the series tend to view it as containing mostly extraneous material that could and should have been included in the previous two volumes with no loss in narrative flow (if ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Review of Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan


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    Over the years, Crossroads of Twilight has borne the dubious distinction of being considered the “worst” WoT book of them all. Even fans of the series tend to view it as containing mostly extraneous material that could and should have been included in the previous two volumes with no loss in narrative flow (if ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Four Board Books (2013)


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    Whos That...Playing? See How The Animals Play .  Kingfisher. 2013. 14 pages. Whos that playing? Tip tap I am a kitten. I have long fur and pointed ears. Whos that splashing? Splish splosh I am a duckling. I have a beak and webbed feet. Whos That...Playing is a fun board book for young readers--toddlers and ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Who let the Dork out?


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    I have earlier read and done by two bit review here Having received the last & final book from Flipkart with the blurb “ From the bestselling author of Dork and God Save the Dork it actually gathered dust for the past couple of months. The need to Declutter, which you can read here led me to clean up ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Dark Tide, a Novel by Elizabeth Haynes - Review and Reader Giveaway


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    Notes from the publisher on Dark Tide , a novel by E lizabeth Haynes : Elizabeth Haynes, author of the bestselling debut Into the Darkest Corner , returns with a tense, gripping thriller about a woman caught in an underworld of corruption and murder... Genevieve has finally achieved her dream: to leave ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Review of Mage’s Blood by David Hair


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    In a fantasy marketplace that has only recently seen a conclusion to Robert Jordan’s iconic Wheel of Time , and long suffering delays to George R.R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire , I’ve compiled a list of authors and series I can recommend in their place, which includes: Peter Brett’s Demon Cycle , ...
    5 weeks ago
  • Review of Winter’s Heart by Robert Jordan


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    I have spent the past eight commentaries talking about where I was as a reader in my early-to-mid 20′s when I first read (and then re-read, in some cases more than twice) the first eight volumes of The Wheel of Time . For the first seven, I read them all within a two-week stretch in-between and just after my MA ...
    5 weeks ago

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