Feminism and Pop Culture by Andi Zeisler

5 stars This is a great place to start to get a feminist look at pop culture. Well-written and easy to understand, this book gives a beginner’s look into pop culture as it has evolved from the 1940s to the 1990s. Since the book was published in 2008, it is obviously a few years behind,…

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The Case of the Missing Moonstone by Jordan Stratford

5 stars This is a great book for young readers! It is filled with fun history, which is made even more interesting as “the world’s first computer programmer and the world’s first science-fiction author [solve] the world’s first fictional detective mystery”. In the About the Author blurb, Stratford is described as “eager to shine a…

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Insanity by Cameron Jace

2 stars This may become a very long review, so I will briefly sum up my opinion of this book by saying that the author has great ideas, but poor execution in the actual writing. Basically, the story is a fantastic play on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that is very creative and well researched, tying…

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Reflections of the Empty Flagpole by Eileen R. Tabios

3 stars This is a good collection of poetry. The poems are very descriptive and often evoke beautiful images. The book is broken down into three sections, which designate the themes of the poems included, such as the Greek inspiration of the poems in the section, My Greece. This book took me a while to…

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Wreck and Order by Hannah Tennant-Moore

1 star I received a copy of this book from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.I hate leaving bad reviews. I usually try to find some redeeming quality in books, even if I don’t really like them, but this book was extremely difficult for me to get through.At first I absolutely loved it. The…

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It’s Come to Our Attention

4 stars   I received this book from Goodreads in exchange for an honest review. As far as anthologies go, this one is superb. While the stories vary in writing style and plot, they all share some outstanding qualities: amazing descriptions, in-depth writing, and overall very good quality work. This is quite an impressive collection;…

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

3 stars Well… that was weird. So have you read The Fault in Our Stars? This is the opposite. This book is what appears to be basically a parody of The Fault in Our Stars, or at least a YA book of the cancer variety. As a parody it does the exact opposite of everything…

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