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Showing posts with label Literary Exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literary Exploration. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

American Eve: Review

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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White The Birth of the 'It' Girl, and the 'Crime of the Century' by Paula Uruburu (200...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Challenge Complete: Literary Exploration

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The 2014 Literary Exploration (through Goodreads) challenges readers to try out new genres; with a 12 book, 24 book and 36 book cha...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Relic: Review

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Something nasty is lurking in the basement hallways of the New York Museum of Natural History. A nasty, primeval, ferocious something...that...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

Selections from the Essays of Montaigne: Review

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I have to say that Monsieur Montaigne doesn't do a whole lot for me.  It may be the translation, but he comes across as rather pompous, ...
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

A Long Fatal Love Chase: Review

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The grandmother of stalker stories with roots in obsession. A Long Fatal Love Chase is a story about the dark side of love and a passionate...
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Sunday, June 29, 2014

The 7 Professors of the Far North: Review

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Eleven-year-old Sam Carnabie is not looking forward to a family trip to visit his Great-Aunt Roberta. Great-Aunt Roberta likes cats and chin...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Undead & Unpopular [...and Unbelievably Bad]

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Let's start off with my short, to the point review over at Goodreads: ...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

12.21: Review

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For years leading up to December 21, 2012, people were getting their end-of-the-world mojo on. It seemed like everywhere you looked someone ...
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Friday, May 30, 2014

Steampunk Poe: Mini-Review

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Steampunk Poe is a sumptuous collection of stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe effectively illustrated by Zdenko Basic and Manuel Numberac...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Beyond Uhura: Review

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In Beyond Uhura , Nichelle Nichols tells her story from the beginnings growing up in a socially progressive family through her teen years as...
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Bed-Knob & Broomstick: Review

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My edition of Bed-Knob and Broomstick is the 1957 version which combines both of Mary Norton's works ( The Magic Bed-Knob or How to Beco...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse: Review

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The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse is an epic title. That would be why this book jumped off the shelf at the library, into my h...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Faro's Daugher: Review

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Poor Lady Mablethorpe is having a bout of the vapors. Her innocent, young, soon-to-be wealthy son has announced his intention to marry the b...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Postman Always Rings Twice: Review

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The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain could so easily have filled the "Out of Your Comfort Zone" square on the Golden V...
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

My Ántonia: Review

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My Ántonia by Willa Cather is the final book of her "pioneer trilogy" of novels...and I must confess that I haven't read the o...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos: Mini-Review

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Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos is a rare thing for me...a graphic novel. But, being the Ellison fan-girl that I am and having read th...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

A Girl Walks Into a Bar: Mini-Review

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Choose Your Own Adventure for Grown-Ups.  So...needing books published in 2014 as well as a book that would fall under erotica for some ch...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

India's Love Lyrics: Mini-Review

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So.... India's Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope ("collected and arranged" by) are not Indian poems collected by Hope, nor is Laur...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

XCIA's Street Art Project: Review

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Former CIA agent, Hank O'Neal traveled through the cities of the world for over 40 years. He was also an amateur photographer on the loo...
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

You Can Write a Mystery: Review

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In You Can Write a Mystery , award-winning author Gillian Roberts gives aspiring crime writers practical advice on how to produce a marketab...
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