Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Another fun topic for this week, but I’m doing aContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Feature Travel”
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Graphic Novel Review: Jessica Jones: Alias, Vol. 2
By Brian Michael Bendis, David W. Mack (Illustrator), Michael Gaydos (Illustrator)Format: PaperbackPublished: January 1st, 2003Age: AdultGenre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy – Crime Rating: 5/5 Stars In Alias, Volume 2, superhero turned PI Jessica Jones investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl, with little but the girl’s collage books to get clues from. As she gradually pieces it together, she gets an eyeopenerContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Jessica Jones: Alias, Vol. 2”
One Sentence Book Reviews – Part 3
I keep meaning to do these a bit more often, but other stuff often gets in the way and, well, it’s been a long time! But they seem to be popular posts so here’s another one. These are one sentence book reviews for the last 5 books I’ve read at the time of writing. OneContinueContinue reading “One Sentence Book Reviews – Part 3”
Book Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Format: PaperbackPublished: November 5th, 2019Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary Romance Rating: 5/5 Stars If you’ve been following the blog for a bit, it’ll probably come as no surprise that I was really excited to read this. After reading Take a Hint, Dani Brown, I was keen to go back to book 1 and experience The Brown SistersContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert”
Graphic Novel Review: Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers
By Bill Willingham (Writer), Mark Buckingham (Artist), Craig Hamilton (Artist), Steve Leialoha (Artist), P. Craig Russell (Artist)Format: PaperbackPublished: November 30th, 2004Age: AdultGenre: Urban Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I’m really enjoying these graphic novels. If you’re not familiar, Fables is about fairy tale characters living in the real world. In the fourth volume, the first refugee in centuriesContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers”
Book Review: The Hemlock Queen by Hannah F. Whitten
Format: ebookPublished: April 9th, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I loved this. I think sometimes a second book can not-quite-hit in a series. There’s a lot it has to do – continuing the story from the previous book, introducing new elements to keep it a little fresh, raise the stakes and keep you hookedContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Hemlock Queen by Hannah F. Whitten”
Book Review: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
Format: HardbackPublished: April 16th, 2024Age: Young AdultGenre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars Indulge me for just a moment – I ended up reading this book at the same time I was reading Hannah Whitten’s The Hemlock Queen. They’re not two books I would naturally pair together, but they do compliment one another. Both main characters haveContinueContinue reading “Book Review: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang”
Book Review: Write Great Dialogue by Irving Weinman
Format: PaperbackPublished: January 1st, 2012Age: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – Reference – Writing Rating: 3/5 Stars This is a writing guide designed to teach you how to write dialogue – it’s not as simple as merely mimicking the way people speak, and it’s a very tricky area of writing. I think Weinman does a good job ofContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Write Great Dialogue by Irving Weinman”
Book Review: Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
Format: ebookPublished: January 27th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – Politics Rating: 5/5 Stars Nan Sloane has done an excellent job in detailing, as much as possible, the lives of women who had an impact of politics, before women were even able to have a proper voice within politics. She explores the lives of women – notablyContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane”
Graphic Novel Review: Saga, Volume 10
by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (Illustrator)Publisher: Image ComicsFormat: PaperbackGenre: Sci-FiRelease Date: October 5th, 2022 Rating: 5/5 Stars Reread Reviews: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3 / Volume 4 / Volume 5 / Volume 6 / Volume 7 / Volume 8 / Volume 9 Every time I think this series cannot possibly break me anymore,ContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Saga, Volume 10”
Unwrapping Words 