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Dead Guji Honey; Hot Cherry Stories; Single Modern Witchcraft
Guji Guji, by Chih-Yuan Chen
A charming, ebullient, and sufficiently chaotic new spin on the Ugly Duckling, featuring a crocodile of all things. So fun!
(269)
Bunny My Honey, by Anita Jeram
Comforting and sweet. If I had a kid of my own and this became their "read every night" book, it would take me a long time to get sick of it.
(270)
Dead Ice, by Laurell K. Hamilton
Ugh. There is JUST enough that I still love about any LKH book that I keep reading them, even though the things that irritate me pile higher with every successive entry in this series. (The other series irritates me less.) There are just certain things that she does better than anyone else even as she gets painfully less good at everything else. I miss the tight structure and sense of mystery from the first few books...
(271)
Cherries and Cherry Pits, by Vera B. Williams
Cleverly done AND heartwarming, an admirable combination. Wish this children's book had made a deeper dent in the collective consciousness than it has, I think a lot of kids would still love it today.
(272)
Stories of My Life, by Katherine Paterson
Lovely to read about the childhood and early adulthood of one of my favorite children's authors. And she writes with the same combination of emotional understatement and attention to concrete detail that characterize her best books.
(273, O56)
Harley Quinn, vol. 1: Hot in the City, by Amanda Conner et al
Goofy and over-the-top. Occasionally obnoxious but much more often endearing. For all my skepticism about the New 52, there's some good work being done.
(274)
Girl's Guide to Witchcraft, Sorcery and the Single Girl, and Magic and the Modern Girl, by Mindy Klasky (nook)
These were the *perfect* airplane books during the tiresome travel needed to return to PEI for a visit this summer. Light, brisk, funny, and never too demanding - but with real emotional stakes for the characters (even when I the reader am pretty sure what will happen, I never get the sense that the characters are just marking the paces). I don't read a lot of chick lit, or romantic novels in general, but this series is among my favorites. And I suspect it still would be if I were deeply versed in the genre. Mindy Klasky is such a reliably ... fizzy... writer. Like a cold Sprite. I appreciate her a lot.
(275, 276, 277; O57, O58, O59)
A charming, ebullient, and sufficiently chaotic new spin on the Ugly Duckling, featuring a crocodile of all things. So fun!
(269)
Bunny My Honey, by Anita Jeram
Comforting and sweet. If I had a kid of my own and this became their "read every night" book, it would take me a long time to get sick of it.
(270)
Dead Ice, by Laurell K. Hamilton
Ugh. There is JUST enough that I still love about any LKH book that I keep reading them, even though the things that irritate me pile higher with every successive entry in this series. (The other series irritates me less.) There are just certain things that she does better than anyone else even as she gets painfully less good at everything else. I miss the tight structure and sense of mystery from the first few books...
(271)
Cherries and Cherry Pits, by Vera B. Williams
Cleverly done AND heartwarming, an admirable combination. Wish this children's book had made a deeper dent in the collective consciousness than it has, I think a lot of kids would still love it today.
(272)
Stories of My Life, by Katherine Paterson
Lovely to read about the childhood and early adulthood of one of my favorite children's authors. And she writes with the same combination of emotional understatement and attention to concrete detail that characterize her best books.
(273, O56)
Harley Quinn, vol. 1: Hot in the City, by Amanda Conner et al
Goofy and over-the-top. Occasionally obnoxious but much more often endearing. For all my skepticism about the New 52, there's some good work being done.
(274)
Girl's Guide to Witchcraft, Sorcery and the Single Girl, and Magic and the Modern Girl, by Mindy Klasky (nook)
These were the *perfect* airplane books during the tiresome travel needed to return to PEI for a visit this summer. Light, brisk, funny, and never too demanding - but with real emotional stakes for the characters (even when I the reader am pretty sure what will happen, I never get the sense that the characters are just marking the paces). I don't read a lot of chick lit, or romantic novels in general, but this series is among my favorites. And I suspect it still would be if I were deeply versed in the genre. Mindy Klasky is such a reliably ... fizzy... writer. Like a cold Sprite. I appreciate her a lot.
(275, 276, 277; O57, O58, O59)