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January 1, 2021

REVIEW: Do Not Let Your Dragon Spread Germs by Julie Gassman, illustrated by Andy Elkerton

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildren's book / Dragon / dragons / health / picture booksNo Comments

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Your dragon loves to hug and high-five and shake hands and sing and blow bubbles and share happiness everywhere she goes. Dragons want to spread joy to everyone! But some of those actions are also spreading germs. It’s time to wash your hands, mask up, and teach your dragon how ... more >

December 30, 2020

REVIEW: For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscats / Dark Fantasy / poetry / short stories7 Comments

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Siobhan Carroll’s For He Can Creep is a dark fantasy story of poetry, devilry, and cats in a battle of good vs. evil for the fate of humanity. Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics believing God has commissioned him to write The ... more >

December 28, 2020

REVIEW: Once Upon a Winter Wedding by Jeannie Watt

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildhood friends / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / Idaho / sister's best friend / wedding / wedding planningNo Comments

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Can opposites attract and plan the perfect winter wedding? Free-wheeling Stevie Evans is thrilled when her best friend announces she’s getting married and promises to help, never imagining she’d play wedding planner with her bestie’s uptight brother, Brant. She and Brant clashed several years ago and she’s avoided him ever ... more >

December 19, 2020

REVIEW: Here Comes Santa Cat by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Claudia Rueda

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscats / children's book / Christmas / Holiday / picture booksNo Comments

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Cat took on a bunny in Here Comes the Easter Cat, but now Christmas is coming, and Cat has a hunch he’s not on Santa’s “nice” list. Which means? No presents for Cat. So he tries to be good, but children, it seems, aren’t wild for his brand of gift-giving. ... more >

December 11, 2020

REVIEW: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 2) by Nghi Vo

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAsian characters / Fantasy / LGBTQA / non binary / novella / POC / POC author / storytelling / The Singing Hills Cycle / tigersNo Comments

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The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover—a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty—and ... more >

November 30, 2020

REVIEW: Take a Look at the Five and Ten by Connie Willis

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsChristmas / Colorado / doctor hero / dysfunctional family / found family / holiday novella / humorous / Memory / novella5 Comments

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Ori’s holidays are an endless series of elaborately awful meals cooked by her one-time stepfather Dave’s latest bride. Attended by a loose assemblage of family, Ori particularly dreads Grandma Elving—grandmother of Dave’s fourth wife—and her rhapsodizing about the Christmas she worked at Woolworth’s in the 1950s. And, of course, she ... more >

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