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Robot Dreams? More like a nightmare.

Robot Dreams by Sara Varon

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cbr13bingo White Whale (I finally get around to reading and was very disappointed) I think I have found the first book in the First Second lexicon that I really did not like. For the most part I had only heard good things about Robot Dreams by Sara Varon. It sounded interesting due to reviews, but once I picked it up, I realized one big thing: it is a wordless graphic novel. So, what was everyone talking about? How can you get a story without the […]

I’m a cat person, Beanie, but I still love you.

What’s Up Beanie?: Acutely Relatable Comics by Alina Tysoe

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When you see the title, What’s Up Beanie?: Acutely Relatable Comics and only see the word Beanie as that was the nickname of your best friend growing up (we meet the night before the first day of kindergarten and in true kid form the next day we said, “I know you! You’re my friend!” and the rest was BFFs for several years and a around 40-year off/on friendship) you know you must pick it up. The book starts with Baby Beanie, a four-year-old who comes […]

Ain’t no mountain high enough

Devoted by Dean Koontz

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I feel like I should preface this review with an admission: I was predisposed to love Devoted by Dean Koontz. His earlier novel, Watchers, is one of my all-time faves, and this one is similar in subject matter: a golden retriever who is more than he appears to be is up against a monstrous experiment gone wrong in a battle of good versus evil. Circling back to my predisposition to love this newer novel, my family has always had dogs. One of them was the […]

Move over Lassie, Honey is in town

Honey, the Dog Who Saved Abe Lincoln by Shari Swanson

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I have been meaning to read Honey, the Dog Who Saved Abe Lincoln for awhile now. I had the reader copy and saw it in various places around the store once it came out a year ago. But it was not until a chance (or more actually blind) grab at a pile of reader copies in the page by the desk that it came out and the rule was, “Read what you grab.” Shari Swanson bases her story of Abe Lincoln as a boy on […]

The odd feeling when you give a book a one just because you’re not “feeling it” not because it’s a bad book

Spacebot by Mike Twohy

Cityscape: Where Science and Art Meet by April Pulley Sayre

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I know not every book can be a winner for every reader. However, I like to think that I can find something to like about books that I am not 100% behind. Of course, that is not always the case, but I at least try and go into a book with an open mind. And while I did that with the below picture books, I had to close my mind up to liking them after reading. They did not “do it” for me. And therefore, […]

Once I wore magic snow suits to play in the snow. Now I just read about the stuff.

Snow Friends by Margery Cuyler

Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper

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It is winter and as I type this, there are flakes of snow speeding about outside the window. And how can you not remember the times you were a kid and went out in the snow to play on a day like this? (Okay, maybe not in Hawaii or someplace equally warm….) But I remember the boots, hats, mittens (with mittens attached to a string that went around your back to the other mitten, so you didn’t lose it…) and snowsuits (that were magic: once […]



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