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Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
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| Delightful little book. It reminded me of The Phantom Tollbooth, except it was more sarcastic (which I liked). | |
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2.5 stars.
The setting and time didn't work at all. The main character Truly is a baby boomer in upstate NY, yet she uses the word icebox regularly, despite a great deal of the book being set in the late 80s and early 90s. Baker throws in a few ...more |
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I loved the idea of a story written from the perspective of a giant, but this one doesn't delve into her emotional character development the way I would have liked and some of the other characters are distractingly odd. The book's more about... I gue...
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Great book about recent scientific studies on children & teens. I have already put some of these ideas to work, with immediate results!* I recommend this book to anyone who spends time with children or teens.
*My 5-year-old told me she didn't do s...more |
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A great way to start out 2012 - I read the Book of Mormon in two weeks (beating my previous record of 19 days). Not easy but definitely worth it!
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*This is my review of the entire trilogy, and there are some minor spoilers*
I'm a sucker for a good muli-pantheon tale. I think Sandman did it best, but Gaiman's reprisal with American Gods was also good. Thus I was excited to check out t... " Read more of this review » |
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“Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Dreamhunter
― Elizabeth Knox, Dreamhunter
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka
― Franz Kafka
“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
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