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Book 55: The Twits by Roald Dahl

Well, Roald Dahl, as you may or may not know, wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among other things. This is no "Charlie". I found this book extremely mean-spirited and grotesque. I tried to imagine it being appealing to anyone. Maybe little boys who like to pull the wings off of insects... Bullies... ( Read more... )

Title: Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
Author: Hugh Lofting
Genre: fantasy, animals

Doctor Dolittle wastes no time in setting up the most efficient mail service in the world when he discovers that there is not only an animal language, but animal writing as well. “The Swallow Mail”, as it is called, soon boasts good pens in the post office, postmen ( Read more... )

Title: The Clue of the Leaning Chimney (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #26)
Author: Carolyn Keene
Genre: mystery, teen lit, pre-teen lit

As a result of an encounter with a sinister stranger on a lonely country road, Nancy Drew and her friend Bess Marvin discover that a rare and valuable Chinese vase has been stolen from the pottery shop of Dick Milton ( Read more... )

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( The Hunger Games by Susanne Collins )

I have fond memories of John Bellairs' young-adult thriller The Dark Secret of Weatherend, so I was pleasantly surprised to
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Okay, I admit, I have a weakness for these types of books- the simple 'all about (fill-in-the-blank) peoples' even tho I often read much more in depth books about them... it's just FUN to read! This one was enjoyable, despite a few problems ( Read more... )

Title: Over Sea, Under Stone
Author: Susan Cooper
Genre: Adventure, fantasy, Arthurian

This is the first in Cooper’s fan-favourite The Dark is Rising Sequence, although it was originally intended as a standalone and was written some years before the four that eventually followed it.

From the blurb:
On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children ( Read more... )

I made it to 170 books last year, so here is the beginning of my new 200 books in a year challenge! There's 15 for January, 5 off my goal of 20 per month, but eh, what can you do?

American Vampire #22 by Scott Snyder
A Flight of Angels by Rebecca Guay
Aphrodite the Beauty, Artemis the Brave, and Aphrodite the Diva by Joan Holub and Suzanne ( Read more... )