His Own Last Good Beijing Will Be Baptized
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maribouThe Last Good Day, by Gail Bowen
Gail Bowen is awesome. For some reason I stopped reading her backlist and now I had this one to enjoy, and still two more upstairs, as yet unread. *beams* Nothing like reading about a middle-aged sociology prof living in Saskatchewan to take me away from the exigencies of day-to-day life.
(168/300)
His Own Where, by June Jordan
A strange and poetic YA novel that deals with true young adult themes, not kid stuff. Kind of an escapist fantasy, kind of bleak. A bit hard to read, but in a challenging/woth-it way, not an annoying way.
(169/300)
Through Time: Beijing, by Richard Platt and Manuela Cappon
The text was pretty standard kid's-non-fiction-book-y, quality but not very exciting, and the illustrations were beeootiful.
(170/300)
Trespassers Will Be Baptized, by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock
I was severely underimpressed with this book for the first two-thirds or more. Nothing really wrong with it, I just wasn't enamored of the voice or taken by the stories. Somewhere during the last third though, I was completely won over and started finding most things very funny and/or very touching. Soooo, two stars for the first part, 4 stars for the last bit. Weird how that can happen. Dunno if it was me or her.
(171/300)
Gail Bowen is awesome. For some reason I stopped reading her backlist and now I had this one to enjoy, and still two more upstairs, as yet unread. *beams* Nothing like reading about a middle-aged sociology prof living in Saskatchewan to take me away from the exigencies of day-to-day life.
(168/300)
His Own Where, by June Jordan
A strange and poetic YA novel that deals with true young adult themes, not kid stuff. Kind of an escapist fantasy, kind of bleak. A bit hard to read, but in a challenging/woth-it way, not an annoying way.
(169/300)
Through Time: Beijing, by Richard Platt and Manuela Cappon
The text was pretty standard kid's-non-fiction-book-y, quality but not very exciting, and the illustrations were beeootiful.
(170/300)
Trespassers Will Be Baptized, by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock
I was severely underimpressed with this book for the first two-thirds or more. Nothing really wrong with it, I just wasn't enamored of the voice or taken by the stories. Somewhere during the last third though, I was completely won over and started finding most things very funny and/or very touching. Soooo, two stars for the first part, 4 stars for the last bit. Weird how that can happen. Dunno if it was me or her.
(171/300)
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