Love from Godzilla by Olivia Luchini
Love from Godzilla by Olivia Luchini is due late December 2023-early January 2024, but I was able to find an online reader copy. And I am terribly glad I did. It was a rough start to the day that I saw this goofy kaijus, on a hot pink cover. And it was a bit of a sugary book, it was also the pick me up I needed. I am not a cryptic kind of person usually, but I do like them and sometimes something “hits” just […]
Family is Family by Melissa Marr
Puff: All About Air by Emily Kate Moon
Let me tell you a not so secret secret: I like books. But what is a somewhat secret is that I do not write reviews for all the books I have read. However, I am going to write reviews for the two below (both read via online reader copies) Family is Family by Melissa Marr and illustrated by Marcos Almada Rivero, due March 2024 While the “all families are different” theme has been done before, this is the first time I have seen it done […]
Surprisingly Sarah (Emmie & Friends) by Terri Libenson
Surprisingly Sarah (Emmie & Friends) by Terri Libenson is the seventh installment of Libenson’s Emmie & Friends series. It is perfectly their signature style dealing with Lakeside school and the middle schoolers that go there. There are the typical growing pains, and how each character a book focuses on goes through them. And while each character has dealt with similar things, no two characters’ stories are exactly alike. And like previous graphic novels, the other characters pop up showing where we are in the timeline […]
Not Really Buddies (Buddy and Bea) by Jan Carr
Tiny Tornadoes (Buddy and Bea) by Jan Carr
They look adorable on the cover. Two kids ready for adventure. I figured there would be bumps, but nothing like they actually had. Not Really Buddies (Buddy and Bea) by Jan Carr and illustrated by Kris Mukai had more bumps than a Three Stooges movie. The character of Buddy has a lot going on. First, is his name, Buddy. I am assuming that is what he is called and not his birth certificate name, but that is what we are told his name is (after […]
Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
I’m doing terribly at keeping up with my reviews this year, so I’m going to do a review dump. Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry (4.5/5) (Spoilers abound.) Lonesome Dove was a revelatory experience for me. It was that rare experience that I knew to appreciate while I was reading it. Rather than devouring the book and then mourning it’s end, I was able to savor the novel and drag it out a little bit. I was still a little skeptical about reading the follow-up, […]
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
With all due respect to the recently departed, I have no idea what this book was about. I don’t know if there was a story at all. I know there was one character who started out as a deep-sea diver who got involved with a suspicious plane crash, but instead of investigating that crash he just seemed to have a bunch of tortured conversations with drunks and other people at the margins of society. Apparently our main character was both a former physics student and […]
