Entries Tagged as ‘Children's’

July 22, 2008

Ambivalent About It: Tigerheart

Maybe I’m just in a mood…but I started off really liking this book and then it just sort of petered (there’s a pun there…stay tuned) out on me.

Peter David’sĀ Tigerheart isĀ a reworking of the Peter Pan (see, told you there was a bad pun connection) story. The best parts of the book are when the narrator [...]

July 15, 2008

Book Pairings: They go together like rama lama lama…

…or something like that. Don’t ask me to hand jive as it always ends badly (more like Monty Python’s fish slapping dance).
Through some strange twist of fate, I ended up reading books that seem to mesh quite well together.
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The World Without Us by Alan Weisman is just fantastic (for fun, look at this quick study). [...]