Al Capone Does My Shirts (Review)

Posted on March 7, 2009 by B.G. Smith

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
This book has amazing depth for such simplicity. Choldenko grabs you with a unique setting, and then hooks you with real people. A pure delight. She really recreates an older era, the 1930s, where society was different, and takes you into that era like no other book [...]

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A Boy and His Tiger

Posted on August 1, 2008 by B.G. Smith

And so it goes with God. These words will now haunt me. The last words that Pi Patel utters in Yann Martel’s triumph: Life of Pi. I was enraptured by Martel’s story-telling, his thought-provoking philosophy wrapped into the most beautiful language I have EVER read in novel. But the ending…the ending, that’s what will keep [...]

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Early Review of Breaking Dawn

Posted on July 29, 2008 by B.G. Smith

So apparently, a lot of people are finding me through Google looking for early reviews of Breaking Dawn, the 4th installment in Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular vampire novels.
Being a fan…I’m flattered you’re coming here. But, since I don’t have any inside-access to the publisher or to Stephenie’s publicist, and thus, do not get an early [...]

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The Potter Plotline

Posted on July 14, 2008 by B.G. Smith

Ok, it’s been a year since the official end of the Harry Potter craze…and sure, Jo Rowling and WB will do their best to keep it going with a theme park, and splitting the 7th movie into two movies (what will they call them, Harry Potter 7a and 7b?). But I’m wondering when the official [...]

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Of Sequels and Trilogies: Bartimaeus and the Empire Strikes Back Syndrome

Posted on July 2, 2008 by B.G. Smith

I’m starting to notice a trend, and was wondering if you’ve noticed it too. The more I see and read, the more I think that the 2nd installment in a trilogy is one of the best. Empire Strikes Back is a dark horse favorite for a lot of people, me included, in the trilogy, and [...]

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Revisiting an Invasion…(Review of The Host)

Posted on May 14, 2008 by B.G. Smith

I recently launched into a new book….now, before I go on, I have to confess, I was never a book reader as a kid, but, after I got through all 7 Potter books, I said to myself, that was thousands of pages of reading…I have time for this kind of stuff!
So, back to the point. [...]

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