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Bookish Blather · 3W ago

Sci Fi Friday Review: Invisible Sun by David Macinnis Gill

Whoa...new look for Blogger...trippy. But! I'm not back to talk about blog service layouts, I'm back to talk about a new book! Yaaaaaaaay! Invisible Sun by David Macinnis Gill is the sequel to 2010's Black Hole Sun, which was easily one of my top books of the year. The combination of humor and awes
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Bookish Blather · 2M ago

Sci-Fi Friday Movie Review: THE HUNGER GAMES

 The Hunger Games (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (The first part of this review contains minor spoilers for The Hunger Games novel. The second speaks about a few departures/additions the movie made. Proceed with caution if you haven't read and seen both!) In August, 2008 I first started hearing a
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Bookish Blather · 4M ago

Looking Ahead

In many ways, 2011 was a fabulous year for me. Got to spend quality time with family and friends, my family is healthy and happy, and I continue to have steady employment. That's so much more than so many other people can say, that I recognize how lucky I am and continue to count my blessings. Howe
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Bookish Blather · 8M ago

Review: Don't Stop Now by Julie Halpern

Julie Halpern totally won me over with Into the Wild Nerd Yonder, so even though Don't Stop Now didn't promise me nerdy D&D hijinks, I still needed to check it out. There may be no D&D, but I love road trips, so I thought this would be worth a shot - and I was totally right. When Lillian's sorta-fr
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Bookish Blather · 8M ago

Nonfiction Monday: Super Mario by Jeff Ryan

I'm not really a big video gamer - I like to say that video games got too advanced for me around the era of the N64. Once they stopped doing side scrolling games? I was totally lost. But my brother is a huge gamer, so despite hardly playing a game at all, I try to keep abreast of the latest gaming
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Bookish Blather · 8M ago

Book Thoughts: Library visit + final #SpeakGeek post

First, the results of my weekly library trip: Picked up this week: Sweetly - Jackson Pearce This Thing Called the Future - JL Powers Dust and Decay - Jonathan Maberry Still have from last week, haven't started: The Floating Islands - Rachel Neumeier Wrapped - Jennifer Bradbury Finishing now: Supe
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Bookish Blather · 8M ago

Book Thoughts: Anachronistic Historical Fiction

A few months back I wrote about the suspension of disbelief in fantasy and science fiction, and how it's not necessary to counter one fantastic element with everything else being hyper-real, especially when it comes to cultures that oppress minorities. But...now I'm going to go be all complicated a
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Bookish Blather · 8M ago

Nonfiction Monday: Wheels of Change by Sue Macy AND #SpeakGeek Day 1!

My first Speak Out With Your Geek Out post ties into the Nonfiction Monday theme, so I figured I'd combine the two in the name of efficiency! First the review, then the #speakgeek post. Before I had a car, my bicycle was my life. Since third grade I lived close enough to my schools that the distric
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Bookish Blather · 8M ago

Book Thoughts: Library trip, graphic novels, #speakgeek

I ended up taking the whole summer off from blogging, for all intents and purposes. Didn't really mean to, that's just kind of how it happened. Back in June...I don't even really remember what I was reading, but I was getting burned out because so much of it felt kind of repetitive and derivative th
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Bookish Blather · 10M ago

Book Thoughts: Why I'm Not Worried about Boys (or Men)

Image via WikipediaOoh, provocative title is provocative ;-) Last night was another meeting of the #YALitChat on Twitter. And part of me really wanted to join in, because I loved the authors being highlighted (Michael Grant, Scott Westerfeld, and Jay Asher). The other part of me wanted to avoid the
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