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Narwhal’s Sweet Tooth will educate its young readers about the importance of dental hygiene while entertaining all the way. Every single page spread in this 80 page graphic novel is chock full of hilarious drawings and word puns, making the underlying message go down quite easily. Kids of all ages will love it. Thanks Tundra and Netgalley for the ARC.
Everything about this picture book is perfect. I love the child’s stubborn opening attitude and their dislike of ants, and how gradually the ants themselves make them change their mind, while educating the reader about a whole lot of different ants that are out there and how each has a specific role in its community. Anna Pirolli’s illustrations are wonderful and I love Rosemary Mosco’s underlying message of inclusiveness mixed in with the wry fresh humor and ant education. Thank you Tundra Books and Netgalley for the ARC.
Whimsical and colourful, this picture book will spark the imagination of young readers into asking themselves a million new what-if questions. I particularly love the fresh and bright illustrations.
Immigrant kids learn English more quickly than their parents and so often have to translate for them. This role-reversal can be demeaning for the parent and burdensome for the child, but Jack Wong shows that there’s more to communication than knowing the right words. His illustrations have a graphic novel feel to them and they make the story very approachable. The text is everything that’s needed but no more, making it crisp and clear to read. I love that the father’s words are written both in English and Chinese.
Simple, beautiful, brilliant and universal.
Megan Goldin is one of my go-to authors for fast-paced thrillers that are perfect for a long flight or to relax on the beach with. Dark Corners has enough twists and turns to keep the pages turning and her stories have a freshness often missing in this genre. I particularly like her character building. Very entertaining.
This book is written by Keir Giles, who is a Senior Consulting Fellow for the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. He speaks with authority on the topic of Russia’s world-view and goals and the risks we all are facing because we don’t take the malevolence of the Russian Federation seriously enough. Giles shows how Russia uses the west’s openness, innate decency and democracy as tools to destroy those very things. Russia’s antipathy to the west is all encompassing, as is Putin’s ruthlessness. No enemy is too small to destroy, nor too big. This book will shock and inform you. I urge you to read it. If you think the current war is just about Ukraine, you need to read this book. If you think the road to peace is negotiation, you need to read this book.
First Russia bans me, now Amazon bans me. This past summer, Amazon stripped me of reviewing privileges, both for amazon.ca and dot com, plus they deleted years’ worth of my reviews. Why? Because they said I violated community guidelines with one of my reviews, then cited two earlier reviews. The cited review is posted below, plus I looked up the other two. One is linked below. The other is odd — I didn’t review a book that day. I keep them all logged on my goodreads profile. I don’t know how these reviews break guidelines, but I have to wonder why books about Russia are being targeted. Sooooo … now I am posting my reviews in a new spot on my website, as well as on as many other places I can think of. I do like to support my fellow authors, after all.
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Emma Donahue is one of my favorite authors and the topic of this newest novel is fascinating. It’s the reconstruction of Anne Lister’s (aka Gentleman Jack, the 1800s openly lesbian trailblazer) year at a boarding school in York as a teen, and of Eliza Raine, her first love. The mass of research and passion that went into writing this novel is evident on every page, but the narrative bogs down from the weight of it. This novel lacks the classic narrative pull that makes an Emma Donahue book so unputdownable. I was also put off by the uncharacteristically clunky dialog tags. That said, it was still an interesting read.
A sobering study of just how thoroughly propagandized Russian youth are in the cult of hate and death. A must-read for anyone trying to understand the magnitude of what Ukraine is fighting.
I almost didn’t read this book because of the title, but I’m glad I did. Elena Kostyuchenko fearlessly and precisely documents what life in Russia has become under Putin. The hopelessness, the casual cruelties, the graft, and the utter desolation of backwash communities where people are living in conditions akin to medieval times. It brought to mind a real life Hunger Games, with Putin and his cronies living in the Capital and everyone else vassals in the districts.
This book is not in any sense an apology for Russian behavior, but it does give context to the complete grip of Putin and his cronies. Reading this book brings home the fact that Russia must lose this war, not just for Ukrainians and the sake of the world, but also for Russians.
It’s always important to know one’s enemy, and this book helps those who cherish a democratic world to do just that.
