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The Digging Leviathan (2002)
3.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.http://www.fantasyliterature.com/revi...The Digging Leviathan is the first book in James P. Blaylock’s LANGDON ST. IVES/NARBONDO series. I’ve been reading these out of order, which doesn’t seem to matter. The books have some overlapping character...
Outcast (1999)
SHACKLED BY HIS TRAGIC PAST--SHUNNED BY ANCIENT SOCIETYCulture-clash in Roman Britain is presented in an unbiased manner for both Celts (or Picts, judging from the facial tattoes) and Romans in this interesting YA novel. Sutcliff's predilection for ancient times and primitive civilizations result...
Sword at Sunset (1997)
SWORD AT SUNSET BY ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF: The late Rosemary Sutcliff was a prolific writer from the 1950s through the 1970s, publishing a number of children's books, including the Eagle of the Ninth series and a series of Arthurian novels, as well as over twenty other children's books on historical s...
A Palm for Mrs Pollifax (1992)
Mrs. Pollifax's fourth adventure takes her somewhere new (well, if you don't count her brief stop there at the end of the last book, but that was after the action was over) - Switzerland. And this mission is a promotion of sorts: instead of a courier assignment, this one is about reconaissance. S...
Femininity (1985)
I found this book an entertaining and fascinating exploration of the phenomenon, "femininity." I would like to start with the caveat that I just picked up this book in a used book store, so I have no preconceived notions of who the author "is" within activist or feminist circles. For me, this boo...
Nim's Island (2002)
Bloodbrothers (1999)
This is the book that made me want to read. Before this book, I hated to read, all the books we were forced to read in school sucked big time, so i had no desire to read any other books. This book was sitting on my dad's book selve forever, having nothing to do, I decided to give it a try. This w...
Boomer's Big Surprise (1999)
This book is about an older dog who gets replaced with a puppy. He wonders why he is being ignored. After a while the older dog is so sad, but the next thing he knows is that there is a little tongue licking his nose. The new puppy hasn’t forgotten about him! They become best friends. I really li...
A Way in the World (1995)
ere is an interesting discovery. Not for the literary world. The man has a Nobel Prize, after all. But for me, Naipaul was an unknown quantity. So much so that (ignorance confessed here) I thought he was an Indian writer. In a way he is, I guess, his parents being Indian emigrants. (if you can ca...
Socks (2015)
I definitely want to give this book two and a half stars, and was very much on the fence as to whether to round that rating up or down. Socks is a nice story with much to offer. I tend to believe that Beverly Cleary came into her best years of empathetic and insightful writing beginning in the 19...
Jade Lady Burning (2003)
George Suenos and Ernie Bascom, investigators for the 8th U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, are assigned to a joint investigation with the Korean National Police when a young prostitute is brutally murdered and her apartment torched.Suspects are as prevalent as the scent of kimchi on t...