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April 25, 2023

REVIEW: In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviewsfather and son / found family / inventors / LGBTQIAP+ / Post apocalytpic / road trip / robots8 Comments

In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The day ... more >

July 21, 2021

REVIEW: Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsastronaut / immigrants / inventors / NASA / non-fiction / science / space flight2 Comments

8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and ... more >

February 21, 2020

REVIEW: The Clockwork Nightingale’s Song by Amy Rae Durreson

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / Commoner Aristocracy pairing / Historical / inventors / LGBTQIAP+ / London / m/m romance / short-story / steampunk8 Comments

In the automated Vauxhall Floating Gardens, high above the smoggy streets of London, Nightingale No. 48 is refusing to sing. Stern mechanic Shem Holloway brings in the Gardens’ brilliant but arrogant inventor, Lord Marchmont, to fix the broken automaton. But the clockwork nightingale has a secret, and soon both men ... more >

February 28, 2019

REVIEW: Midsummer Moon by Laura Kinsale

JennieB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsabsent-minded heroines / Dukes / historical romance / inventors13 Comments

Recommended Read

I *think* this might be the third book Laura Kinsale published. The Hidden Heart was first, in 1986, and both Uncertain Magic and Midsummer Moon are listed as 1987 releases (that’s a lot of books in two years!). I didn’t start reading romance in earnest until around 1992, and I ... more >

November 30, 2018

REVIEW: Atom Bomb to Santa Claus by Trevor Homer

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerica / inventors / non-fiction2 Comments

A fascinating celebration of America’s greatest innovators and inventions. Three cheers for the ingenious, inventive, United States of America! From the kitchen to the office to outer space, America has been at the forefront of the advances of the human race for the last two centuries. It’s given birth to ... more >

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