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Mini Reviews: Non-fiction
Okay, I am so far behind on reviews at this point that I need a clean slate to get back in the game. So that means mini-reviews! I'm going to break it up into two posts:...
Audiobook Review: Charmed Life
"You must have made a mistake," Cat said distractedly. "I didn't drown because I was holding on to Gwendolen, and she's a witch." Oh, Diana Wynne Jones, how are you so awesome?...
Book Review: Insatiable
The vamps were just too alluring. And their victims just never seemed to think they deserved better than the treatment they were given. It was almost as if they were afraid to...
Audiobook Review: Sunrise Over Fallujah
Once we get home, we'll have known what we've been fighting for. Walter Dean Myers takes on war again with his follow-up to Fallen Angels, Sunrise Over Fallujah. Sunrise follows...
Book Review: Diablerie
"The word can mean either mischievous or evil." Diablerie by Walter Mosley is an erotic thriller about recovered alcoholic Ben who has his past questioned by a woman he doesn't...
Book Review: Rich and Famous Like My Mom
Another street lady, I decided, and suddenly it seemed to me that I was peeking into another whole world. There we were, Mom and me with Agnes and Sebastian and Adolph, and all...
Book Review: On My Own Two Feet
It has been said of our society that, "We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge." This is particularly true in the realm of money. One of the fundamental premises...
Book Review: Princess Ashley
I kept looking at Ashley Packard and saw her as a little girl entering kindergarten all those years ago. I saw she'd been in charge from the first day she set foot in the...
Banned Books Week: Book Review: Life Is Funny
So now that's why I'm sitting here, because I have to be alone to try and figure out two things that are getting on my nerves, bad. One of them is what do I do to stay out of...