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If you haven’t already, meet the Honey Badger, voiced by Randall. Dubbed the “Crazy Nastyass”, this fearless creature fights all kinds of wild life in order to eat and take whatever it wants, and basically takes no shit off anyone and doesn’t give a shit about anything. In this book, he basically gives us the lowdown on other ugly, [...]
In this version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose their own interview by choosing which questions, and how many questions, they want to answer! It is early days in 2012 reading, but already Alex George’s A Good American stands out as a favorite for the [...]
In Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child, Jack and Mabel are a middle-aged married couple who have moved to Alaska in the 1920′s to attempt the successful farming of a homestead. The land is harsh and unforgiving, and though it is of their own choosing, the couple is isolated from family, and have made no friends in the tiny [...]
Naomi Benaron’s Running the Rift takes place in Rwanda and a lot of the staple foods were unfamiliar to me, with the exception of a few vegetables. All of the food sounded delicious, and I took to the internet to look some of it up. Isombe is a stew made of cassava leaves, fresh vegetables, peanuts and peanut [...]
The complexities and tragedies of Rwanda and the Tutsi-Hutu tensions are intricately and beautifully captured in Naomi Benaron’s emotionally stirring debut, Running the Rift. Jean Patrick Nkuba is a young Tutsi boy who loves his family, excelling at his studies and running with his brother. A school visit from an award-winning runner awakens Olympic dreams in Jean-Patrick, but his world begins to [...]
Just about two years ago I read Susan Hill’s novella The Man In the Picture. I had some issues with the novella format, and though the story was creepy, I wanted more detail and resolution in the plot. The soon to be released The Woman In Black is based on a novella by Susan Hill and this trailer [...]
Cinder by Marissa Meyer, is the story of a half-cyborg girl adopted by a businessman, but left in guardianship of his wife when he dies suddenly. Cinder lives with her stepmother, Adri, and stepsisters, Peony and Pearl, in the kingdom of New Beijing. Though she has a strong relationship with Peony, her place in the household is precarious due to the resentment filled relationship [...]
I’m still a little hazy on what book trailers are supposed to accomplish and who they are for. I usually only watch them after I have read a book since I like to form my own opinions before entertaining any others. The trailer for Daniel O’Malley’s The Rook is not what I expected it to be at all. [...]
Ella Thomas is a down on her luck eighteen-year-old – just days away from not being able to pay rent – when she auditions for a gig as a jazz singer. After completing of a rigorous interview process she finds out that she has been recruited by an arm of the military for an assignment that only she [...]
In this version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose their own interview by choosing which questions, and how many questions, they want to answer! Right now I am thoroughly enjoying Alex Gilvarry’s funny (and you know I don’t say this lightly)and poignant debut From the [...]
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