A few days left…if I read anything else stellar this year, I’ll add it to the list… Five stars, in reverse order of reading: The Non-Designers Design Book, by Robin P. Williams. In a discipline that values intuition over clear explanation (seems like), a refreshingly blunt books on what’s actually going on. The Best of […]
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**** Excellent. The main character is a boy, but a strong girl character is with him throughout most of the book. About 100 pages. Peter Swift’s Fright Files: The Broken Thing by Peter Swift In short: Stevie likes horror movies and books…but when he discovers a real haunted house and a real haunting, he chickens
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I happened to hear about the Best Book Reading Challenge Ever: the TBR pile challenge. The rules: pick 12 books (or 14, so you can ditch 2 books that you don’t like) that have been on your To Be Read (TBR) pile for over 12 months, and read one a month throughout 2012. If you
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The year in review for my De Kenyon pen name… The Exotics Book 1: The Floating Menagerie Nobody knows what happened when Rachael’s mom disappeared a week ago–except Rachael’s classmate Raul. So when giant talking dogs attack him, Rachael follows and gets kidnapped, too. Now she’s on a mysterious ship full of kids who can
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The year in review for my DeAnna Knippling ebooks… Novel: Chance Damnation: A Tale of the Weird West A little girl with the power of a God. Invaders from another world. When demons rewrite history on the Great Plains, three brothers follow one of their own into a strange Hell to change it back. (Related
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The year in review for my De Kenyon pen name… The Exotics Book 1: The Floating Menagerie Nobody knows what happened when Rachael’s mom disappeared a week ago–except Rachael’s classmate Raul. So when giant talking dogs attack him, Rachael follows and gets kidnapped, too. Now she’s on a mysterious ship full of kids who can
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In the world of making food, there are two main divisions: bakers vs. cooks (not that it’s a battle, although that would make a fun fight sequence). Now, there are some people who are both, but mostly people will tend toward one or the other. I’m a cook. I don’t really like to make cakes
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Tad Williams is one of my favorite authors…he and his wife, Deborah Beale (they write the Ordinary Farm kids’ books together) have independently put up an ebook collection (A Stark and Wormy Knight) of short stories and novellas, of which this is one. Subterranean Press will put out the print edition next summer. The collection is going
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Tad Williams is one of my favorite authors…he and his wife, Deborah Beale (they write the Ordinary Farm kids’ books together) have independently put up an ebook collection (A Stark and Wormy Knight) of short stories and novellas, of which this is one. Subterranean Press will put out the print edition next summer. The collection
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