162. The 2023 White Ravens are here! Posted on October 18, 2023 by helenwanglondon Every year, the children’s literature experts at the International Youth Library, Munich, make a selection of especially noteworthy books from the large number of review and donation copies the library receives...
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Their college days are long behind them, and they barely talk now. Also, I’m not dating him—we’re just sleeping together. There’s a difference. Except there’s not a lot of sleeping going on, and neither one of us wants to stop what we’re doing. It’s all fun and games ...
#BookReview: THE IVORY KEY by Akshaya Raman The Ivory Key can be described in five words: family drama, mystery, magic, and adventure. (My favourite thing about Hot Key Books is their “what’s in it” wheel, and their contents are: magic, secrets, ciphers, and sibling rivalry. I ...
I enjoyed it – it was fun and suspenseful and had all the elements of a classic espionage novel. It is not great literature and there are times you have to suspend disbelief, but it was a good time. Life Undercover Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox So, staying on the ...
There are hard-won insights but few moments of accessibility in this posthumous collection ReviewCrime books Turow’s courtrooms, Philby’s murky mystery — cracking new crime fiction From innocent to guilty, Los Angeles to Oxford, stories of guns, gangs, missing children — and the theft of ra...
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There are several subplots with a large cast of supporting characters, and although some of this could have been cut down, ‘Love Marriage’ is an entertaining modern family saga. Many thanks to Little Brown for sending me a review copy via NetGalley. Continue reading → 7 Comments Filed ...
Book Review: 妖怪出租 1-4 Rent A Monster Age:6+ Purchase link: 妖怪出租 套書 1-4 This is a set by the same author as 神奇柑仔店 series. The stories are very fun and finished by my kids in record time. We love lighthearted reading. My kids alternate between these fun books as wel...
This review is for Volumes 1-4 ofLore Olympus. I’ve read volumes 1 and 2 before, but it was my first time reading volumes 3 and 4. I decided to pick up all of these in one day, and it was such fun to be able to immerse myself fully into this world and story. ...