Book Review: Get Out!: 150 Easy Ways for Kids & Grown-Ups to Get Into Nature and Build a Greener Future by Judy Molland

Author:  Judy Molland Title: Get Out!: 150 Easy Ways for Kids & Grown-Ups to Get Into Nature and Build a Greener Future by Judy Molland Publication Info:  Minneapolis, MN : Free Spirit Pub., 2009. ISBN: 9781575423357 Summary/Review:  This book is a short reference book with a list of 150 suggestions of what children and families [...]

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Book Review: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

Author:  Brandon Sanderson Title:  Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Publication Info:  Scholastic Paperbacks (2008) ISBN: 9780545024938 Summary/Review: Another audiobook I downloaded based on title alone from the public library and one that shows that Young Adult literature is far ahead of grown up fiction for imagination and creativity.  Alcatraz Smedry is a teenage orphan with [...]

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Book Review: Dangerously Funny by David Bianculli

Author:  David Bianculli Title: Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” Publication Info:  Tantor Media (2010) ISBN:  9781400115709 Summary/Review:  When I was young I discovered records by The Smothers Brothers in my family records collections and became a fan of their witty interpretations of folk music classics.  I even went to [...]

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Book Review: Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion by Johan Harstad

Author:  Johan Harstad Title: Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion Publication Info:  New York : Seven Stories Press, c2011. ISBN:  9781609801359 Summary/Review: This book from Norway, recently translated into English by Deborah Dawkin, is the latest book I’ve received free from the Library Thing Early Reviewers program and a book for [...]

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Book Review: Selected Shorts: Lots of Laughs! by Symphony Space

Author: Symphony Space Title: Selected Shorts: Lots of Laughs! Publication Info:  Symphony Space (2005), Edition: Unabridged, Audio CD ISBN:  0971921822 Summary/Review:  This collection is something I downloaded randomly from Overdrive and it was suitably entertaining.  There are seven stories and they are all read – or performed – in front of a live audience reminiscent [...]

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Book Review: Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price

Author:  Reynolds Price Title: Kate Vaiden Publication Info:  Scribner (1986) ISBN:  0689117876 Summary/Review:  This story set in rural North Carolina and later in Norfolk, Virginia is told from the perspective as a memoir titular character.  Kate’s parents die in a murder-suicide leaving Kate to be raised by relatives and to get involve in self-destructive sexual [...]

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