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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions: Car Hacker (e-short story) by Rosie Claverton
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions. Read-alikes, watch-alikes, and reviews/commentary for the things that entertain me. Saturday, July 11, 2015. Car Hacker (e-short story) by Rosie Claverton. Is #25 in the Amy Lane Mysteries series. It's 11,000 words long. I'm not including a read-alikes list for this one. This short story takes place after Code Runner. And can be obtained for free by signing up for Rosie Claverton's newsletter. There were appearances from Cerys (Amy's co-conspirator in the birthday pl...
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions: Murder in Mystic Cove (e-book) by Daryl Anderson
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions. Read-alikes, watch-alikes, and reviews/commentary for the things that entertain me. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Murder in Mystic Cove (e-book) by Daryl Anderson. Murder in Mystic Cove. Published by Carina Press. It has a word count of approximately 90,000. My read-alikes list isn't very good. I had trouble thinking of books that would fit that I had actually read, so I ended up listing books with similar settings. 8220;There was a serpent in paradise and last night it had...
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (live action movie), via Netflix
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions. Read-alikes, watch-alikes, and reviews/commentary for the things that entertain me. Saturday, May 25, 2013. Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (live action movie), via Netflix. Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Is a mix of historical fiction. It's a co-production between China and Hong Kong, and Netflix has it in Mandarin, with English subtitles. A magic deer that can speak (not quite accurate, but still). People who can change their...
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions: Ancillary Justice (book) by Ann Leckie
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions. Read-alikes, watch-alikes, and reviews/commentary for the things that entertain me. Sunday, July 5, 2015. Ancillary Justice (book) by Ann Leckie. The first book in a trilogy. Has been on my TBR for a while, because books with prominent AI characters that aren't evil are my catnip. Then the whole thing with the Sad Puppies and the Hugo Awards blew up. Ancillary Justice. Before I write anything else, I need to talk about one thing that no review of Ancillary Justice.
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions: Bake Sale (graphic novel) by Sara Varon
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions. Read-alikes, watch-alikes, and reviews/commentary for the things that entertain me. Saturday, August 1, 2015. Bake Sale (graphic novel) by Sara Varon. Is a slice-of-life graphic novel. I checked it out from the library. My read-alikes list is, unfortunately, pretty skimpy. I think this graphic novel would be most appealing to those who are interested in baking. Thankfully, I fall into that category. There was something calming about watching Cupcake get ready...Is no...
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions: Manga Tag
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions. Read-alikes, watch-alikes, and reviews/commentary for the things that entertain me. Friday, July 24, 2015. After reading Ash Brown's post over at Experiments in Manga. I decided to join in on the fun. It gave me an excuse to look through my manga collection, which is now large enough to be worth writing about. 1 What was your first manga? It was either the first volume of Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha. Or one of the Battle Angel Alita. I don't recall ever having been g...
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Shh... Kymberlee's reading!: My Review of Recalled by Cambria Hebert
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Saturday, April 25, 2015. My Review of Recalled by Cambria Hebert. A simple question really. The choice seems obvious. But. What if you never knew love, what if your life was spent just trying to survive? What if you knew your fate before you were fully grown? And then you died. And you were given another chance. A better chance. This new life depended upon one thing: your job. And so you agreed. You thought it would be simple. You thought it would be cut and dry. Dex and Piper are the new it. The Lord o...
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Paper Safari: Book Review: Kids Books on Surrogacy, What is a Family, Foster/Adoption Story
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ReadingGrrls adventures into the magical world of books. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Book Review: Kids Books on Surrogacy, What is a Family, Foster/Adoption Story. Sophia's Broken Crayons: A Story of Surrogacy from a Young Child's Perspective by Crystal Falk. Why is the sky blue? Why do dogs bark? When will I be tall? Where do babies come from? Children Books: What is a family? Preschool Values book) - Picture Book for Early and Beginner Readers fiction (Balu Baldauf series 9) by Ruthz SB. The author has ...
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Paper Safari: May 2015
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ReadingGrrls adventures into the magical world of books. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. ARC Review: Bones of You. The Bones of You by Debbie Howells. Advanced e-copy from the publisher through netgalley.com. In exchange for an honest review. This book is due to be released June 30, 2015. I have a gardener's inherent belief in the natural order of things. Soft‑petaled flowers that go to seed. The resolute passage of the seasons. Swallows that fly thousands of miles to follow the eternal summer. Its amazing what s...
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Review | Bookish Comforts
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General and Comment Policies. Review} Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman. May 18, 2015. 9733;★★. Orange Is the New Black: A Memoir. On March 8, 2011. I picked up a copy of. Orange is the New Black. At my library’s spring book sale last month because 1) I like non-fiction, and it seems to be one of the very few things that can still draw me in while I’m in this god-awful book slump and 2) I wanted to see how it faired to the TV show. When I first heard about the TV show. Orange is the New Black.
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