Recommended by: GeraniumCat’s great big list of children’s books you should have read as a kid
Nothing as appealing as people mentioning things that you might have missed but they hope you haven’t. Unfortunately most of the books on the list weren’t at the library on account of, I assume, being wildly out of print and [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Carrie’s War, Nina Bawden
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Carrie's War, for young people, go off to live, Nina Bawden, World Wars on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Camel Bookmobile, Masha Hamilton
Posted in 1 Star, Heard about from the internets, tagged Africa, books about books, camels, Masha Hamilton, The Camel Bookmobile on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recommended by: Read-Warbler
This book is about an American librarian who brings books to rural African places using camels.
I’ll give you that again: She uses CAMELS to bring people BOOKS.
There are no words that adequately express how sad I am that I wasn’t able to finish this book. It contains BOOKS and CAMELS. Bringing books to [...]
The Shell House, Linda Newbery
Posted in 2 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged British schoolchildren, for young people, Linda Newbery, The Shell House, World Wars on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My second try with Linda Newbery. I really want to love her! The covers of her book are always so appealing! This one had bits that were set in Chelmsford, and I lived in Essex for nine months! But still, the only strong reaction I had to her books – like last time – was, [...]
Empire of Ivory, Naomi Novik
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about in a book, tagged biological warfare, dragons, Empire of Ivory, fantasy, historical fiction, military strategy, Naomi Novik, nice manners, Temeraire on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Temeraire series continues, hooray! I liked this one much more than I did the last two. It was more pulled together than they’ve been, and Laurence was very, very polite, and Temeraire is still a cutie. I’ve been having ongoing concerns that Laurence will get less polite the more he hangs [...]
Black Powder War, Naomi Novik
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about in a book on July 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The dragons (and Napoleon!) are back. Temeraire is still angling for dragon liberty. Laurence is still sorting through his feelings about England and dragons, and still losing his temper when people have bad manners (yay for manners!). In this book they’re all over the place – it’s all trekking off to Istanbul (and, okay, it’s [...]
I’m funny!
Posted in Misc., tagged memes on July 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Says Box of Books. (Though I think I’m only very occasionally funny.) But I still like filling up questiony things. Oo, except for when you have to bubble in bubbles like on standardized tests. Once I knew what the pattern of my name was – up-spike at the E, drastic down-spike for the Y – [...]
Waiting for Daisy, Peggy Orenstein
Posted in 1 Star, Heard about from the internets, tagged rubbish protagonists, memoirs, waiting for daisy, peggy orenstein, creepy, boundaries on July 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Oh, how distressing I found this book, and oh, how I wished that Peggy Orenstein had kept this whole distressing story to herself.
I got annoyed with Ms. Orenstein straight away when she said that in her pre-baby-mania days, she used to say that women who made pre-Betty Friedan choices shouldn’t be surprised when they end [...]
