Book Reviews
This is the main category for my book reviews. Every book I've reviewed will be listed in this category. If you wish to fine-tune your search, try searching by a specific category, such as cookbooks, fantasy, historical fiction, etc. (the category list is at the bottom of this page).
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Book Review: I See You’ve Called In Dead
I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney My rating: 5 of 5 stars This excellent story feels like it’s got multiple personalities. It’s part Dave Barry-ish snark, part Douglas Adams style…
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Book Review: BEELITZ-HEILSTÄTTEN: Where Ghosts Never Die
BEELITZ-HEILSTÄTTEN: Where Ghosts Never Die by Marina Osipova My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a huge departure from my usual reading choices, so my review comes from that standpoint. I don’t…
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Book Review: Just One Damned Thing After Another
If you've ever considered a career as a historian but worry that it might be too dusty, boring, and academic for your snarky personality, there's hope for you. The deliberately-dull name of St…
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Book Review: Shadows in Chinatown
I quite enjoy historical fiction novels. When they are well done, it's as if I've been given my own time travel machine. Shadows in Chinatown transported me back to 1886, where Miss Karine…
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Book Review: Immortal Consequences
Immortal Consequences by I.V. Marie My rating: 5 of 5 stars Debut author I.V. Marie’s novel has cover and page edge art that brought my tomescrolling (that’s doomscrolling for bookworms, I made it…
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Book Review: When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green?
Many years ago, I spent a year living in New Jersey. Every weekend I'd take the train into New York City and go exploring. But a year's worth of explorations is simply not…
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Book Review: Grimsworld Tales
Grimsworld Tales by David Hankins My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you haven’t yet visited David Hankins world, filled with absurdity, bureaucracy, coffee, cats, demons, quips, and scythes, you are in for…
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Book Review: Eleven Numbers
What could possibly go wrong at a mathematics conference?
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Book Review: It Rhymes with Takei
George Takei’s ventured into storytelling once again, and It Rhymes With Takei is his best effort to date.
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Book Review: Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes
I love a cozy mystery, especially when they are food-centric. Of course I couldn't resist one set in a soul food cafe in Chicago.
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Book Review: American Housewife
I'd classify this story as Fantasy. It gives us an idealized version of a rose-colored view of the past, effectively creating a double layer of the ideal mid-century American good life.
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Book Review: The Old Testament of Edmund Dulac
If you've enjoyed Albert Seligman's previous collections, you already know what a treat this book will be. If you haven't read one before, I'm confident you will enjoy this book.
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Book Review: Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape
Be honest: Who hasn't wished they could go back in time and re-do that most awkward stage of life... being a teenager?
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Book Review: The 4midables – Who Are They?
Who Are They? leans into thrills, action, and mystery, especially the rising curiosity of the world regarding the identity of who everyone is calling the "Robin Hood Heroes".
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Book Review: Enchilada Entrepreneur
As a lifelong fan of Mexican restaurants, I couldn't resist picking up this book, based on the title.
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Book Review: Trial of a Dragon
How will they convince anyone that a hellfire-breathing red dragon is innocent?
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Book Review: 8 Canterbury Tales
After decades of avoiding Chaucer, I found myself enjoying his outrageous stories (they really are rather crazy!) for the first time in my life. Perhaps this is the book you need to get…
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Book Review: Death and the Dragon
This eagerly-awaited sequel to author David Hankin's Death and the Taxman picks up the pace as we continue the absurd but believable adventures of the Grim Reaper himself.
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Book Review: The Women of Edmund Dulac
If this is your introduction to Albert Seligman's series of The American Weekly collections, you're in for a visual treat. If you've been with this project since the beginning, you're no doubt anxious…
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Book Review: Twits Hit the Target
I was pleased to see a new addition to the Twits Chronicles, just before Christmas. So of course I bought myself a present!
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Book Review: Half-Off Ragnarok (InCryptid #3)
It was brave of the author to change protagonists just three books into a series, but as it turns out, it was a fine choice.
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Book Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have learned that author T.J. Klune was inspired in part by what’s been labeled the “Sixties Scoop”…
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Book Review: Arabian Nights Illustrated
I really enjoyed reading Arabian Nights Illustrated! Of course the illustrations are mesmerizing, but I have to tell you about the excellent mini-biographies that taught me so much about the artists who created…
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Book Review: Twits on the Stump: A Steampunk Distraction
Reading the latest installment of the "Twits Chronicles" during an election year was a surreal experience. The antics of my favorite fictional friends got me thinking about what's probably going on behind the…
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Book Review: King Arthur and the Ladies of the Lake
This new version of the Arthurian mythos shines a light on the women in Arthur's life. Primarily, they are Guinevere, the Lady of the Lake, and his mother and sisters.
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Book Review: Within Wheels
Within Wheels: Volume I by J.M. Sattler My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s been a while since I read a steampunk novel that felt like a return to the exciting, early days…
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Book Review: Twits to the Test: A Steampunk Distraction
Tom Alan Robbins writing skills are at peak performance as he pokes fun at so many aspects of life.
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Book Review: Twits on the Hunt: A Steampunk Distraction
Cyril and Binky are on the run!
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Book Review: Twits on the Loose: A Steampunk Distraction
The 4th outing (5th if you count the short story that started it all) has our protagonist, Cyril Chippington-Smythe, trying to help out his cousin Binky, who's fallen madly in love (yet again),…
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Book Review: Killing Me Soufflé
It's almost as if Ellie Alexander decided to write a book just for me. After all, I love a good mystery. I'm from the Pacific Northwest. I'm a foodie. The beach is my…
