Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop This is a fantasy book that doesn’t fit neatly into categorizations. It feels less like a fantasy book than a character-driven literary novel that happens to have unicorns and spirits in it. We have Bo, who’s dying of AIDS and has been ostracized by his family for being gay. Libby, …
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Aug 25
Book Review: Scumble
Scumble by Ingrid Law This is a charming middle-grade fantasy about a boy in a magic-wielding family finally getting his own “savvy” on his 13th birthday. Ledger (all the kids in the family have bizarre names) hopes that he will become a super-fast runner, the track star that his father hopes for. Instead, his talent …
Jul 15
Book Review – Lassiter
Lassiter by Loren Zane Grey I picked this book because I wanted to borrow an audiobook from the library and didn’t know what I wanted. How about a western? Isn’t there an author Zane Grey? So, this isn’t by Zane Grey senior, which I didn’t know until I borrowed it. I basically picked it because …