By Margaret Sacks
Read: February 2010
Rating: Hmm
I want to talk about this book in two capacities–as a story, and as a representation of South Africa. My bestie gave it to me for Xmas, and it looks like a pretty rare find to me. I had no idea there were kids books about SA in 1989, when [...]

By Mame Farrell
Read: A long time ago?, June/July 2009
Rating: Good
A really adorable book. Do not write it off because of the cutesy word, adorable. It’s a very serious book. I think I read it onceuponatimeago because it seemed quite familiar, but I think I was too young for it at the time. It didn’t all [...]

By Amy Mebberson
Status: On Hiatus, Storylines Complete
http://www.mimisgrotto.com/thorn
It took a little while for me to notice that my RSS feed had stopped updating… and that Thorn really had gone on hiatus/retired. Thorn was a labor of love for its artist, an attempt to get syndicated, and I really wish it had. Now that it’s over, I [...]

by Noel Streatfield
Read: Eons ago, December 2008
Rating: Sweet
You may know of Ballet Shoes because the BBC has turned it into a movie with Emma Watson (aka Hermione). Like Harry Potter, that movie is based on a book. Unlike Potter, Ballet Shoes is OLD. It dates back to the 1930s. My copy is from 1958.
This is [...]

By Philip Pullman
Read: August 2008
Rating: Intense
I totally missed the boat on this one. It’s a real shame, because I think I would have quite liked it at the time it was published, and I was just ten years old. At 22, I’m much more critical of some things, and less easy to impress in other [...]

By Dan Hess
Books at Lulu.com
WWW: http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/
Read: February 2007
Rating: Qute
Genre: Magical Girl, Parody, Humor
Format: Four panels
Style: Grayscale
Published: In 3 volumes, or a compilation (link above)
If you always thought Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura were too saccharine, look no further. AM is not your typical Magical Girl comic. In fact, it’s a parody. Dan Hess took some [...]

Welcome to another edition of “Mini-Reviews Clumped Together Because I Was Too Lazy To Dedicate a Full Page to Each One.” This one covers books read between July and December 2006. (#22-51 of the 50 Book Challenge)
Included:

The Invisible Ring (Anne Bishop, Black Jewels spin-off)
The Seven Daughters of Eve (Non-Fiction)
Rebel Angels (Libba Bray)
Thoroughly Kissed (Romance, Fairy [...]

Something occured to me a few weeks ago. I read an unholy amount of webcomics these days (I think I’m following over 30 right now), and I always read the whole archive first. Some of those archives are HUGE. …like, book-length.
My procrastination = your review-reading pleasure.
Count Your Sheep!
By Adis! (Adrian Ramos)
Archive Read: October 2006
Rating: [...]

By Patricia C. Wrede
Read: When I was but a lass… and July 2006.
Rating: Fun
These were my very first proper fantasy novels. I’d recently made the graduation from the low paperback shelves to the (seemingly) giant big kids’ shelves, and had only been able to find books like Mrs. PigglyWiggly and brush up on the American [...]

By Ikuko Itoh
Rating: Meh
Read: March/April 2006
Maybe it’s just meant for younger kids, but I found it boring and predictable. I guess most shoujo romance/magical whatnot is predictable, but this was lamentably so.
Ahiru (whose names means duck) goes to an arts high school where the focus is ballet. She loves it but is clumsy, and is [...]

By Neil Gaiman
Rating: Lovely
Read: July 2005

Coraline was recommended by a friend of mine who is still enamoured with childrens’ fiction, despite being a college sophomore. Because it’s a Neil Gaiman book, I decided to give it a shot.

By “Lemony Snickett”
Rating: Good
Read: June/July 2005

These books are the way good childrens’ fiction SHOULD be. They don’t talk down, they are whimsical, clever, amusing, and honest.