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If you wonder what the Irish were doing in World War II this might answer it….

Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II by Alan Gratz

October 9, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is the Award Winner. The Dorothy Canfield Fisher award is a Vermont state award that the books are picked by adults (though I am not always sure why they were the pickers as one was a professor at my college who had no English or child background that I knew of) and then voted on by the kids. Of course, the year I did this award the “cool kids” pick won. But that is the perfect lead in to this book. It is 1943. Germany is winning the war. Mostly. Or at least that is what they say. Actions […]

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Sorry. Wrong door. I thought it was the desert.

The Waste Lands by Stephen King

June 30, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

Here it is, Book 3 of “The Dark Tower” series, which I may not finish the whole of in the next 5 weeks, but it won’t be for lack of trying! I love this series. I love these characters. The Waste Lands isn’t as fundamentally excellent as The Drawing of the Three was, but after the action and adventure that was The Drawing of the Three there’s some needed setting up of next steps in advance of Wizard and Glass. I assume. I don’t know. King can be a fickle and selfish writer sometimes, but I’m an optimist. A few […]

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| Tags: ake ake, bermuda triangle, billy bumbler, Dark Tower, eddie dean, jake chambers, King, Manhattan, nazi aircraft, not manhattan, nuclear wasteland, oy, roland, Stephen King, susannah dean, trains, village, wasteland | Category: Fantasy, Fiction | 0 Comments


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