Review: ‘Doc Rat. Vols. 8-10′, by Jenner
Author: Fred
These three pocket-sized books contain the Doc Rat daily (Monday-Friday) comic strips from #951 to #1088 (February 15 to August 25, 2010), #1089 to #1218 (August 26, 2010 to February 23, 2011), and #1219 to #1426 (February 24 to Dece...
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Video review: ‘DreamKeepers Vol. 3′ by Dave and Liz Lillie
Author: Isiah Jacobs
See more: DreamKeepers, Dave's Essays, Leon on Youtube - animated intro by Rei Vagan.
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Review: ‘Sale Bête’, by Maïa Mazaurette and Jean-Paul Krassinsky
Author: Fred
I thank Lex Nakashima again for ordering these books from Amazon.fr and loaning them to me. Hmmm. Well, you certainly gain a vocabulary of current French slang from reading this series. Ordi = PC. Les etrons = turds. La clope = cigarett...
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Review: ‘Farmost Star I See Tonight’, by Jonathan W. Thurston
Author: Fred
Full disclosure: I wrote a blurb for this book, which is quoted on the back cover. Farmost Star I See Tonight is a mystical, dreamy, touching romantic fantasy for shy teenagers. Whether humans or wolves, ‘omega’ adolescents may feel tha...
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Book review: ‘Freak’s Amour’, by Tom De Haven
Author: Patch Packrat
Freak's Amour, by Tom De Haven, is simply a masterpiece. This is some of the best weird literature that few seem to have heard of or remember. It's been out of print for 27 years. I started it once, long ago when I wa...
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Review: ‘Where the Blue Begins’, by Christopher Morley
Author: Fred
Each in turn may call this a fairy story, a dog story, an allegory or a satire, but all will be moved by the beauty and the meaning--a beauty and a meaning that seems to live within the realm of those books that go on and on making fri...
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Review: ‘The Fortune Teller’s Poem’, edited by Andres Cyanni Halden
Author: Fred
Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a liv...
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Review: ‘A Monster in Paris’
Author: dronon
Recently released on DVD in North America, A Monster in Paris (trailer) is a CGI-animated kids' film that originally came out in France in October 2011 as Un monstre à Paris.
Taking place during the Parisian flood of 1910, the two mai...
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Review: ‘L’Épée de Ardenois’, t. 1 & 2, by Étienne Willem
Author: Fred
Lex Nakashima & I have started a project to inform YOU of the best untranslated French-language funny-animal adventure cartoon albums. The Blacksad series by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido has found a good American home at ...
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Review: ‘The Cats of Tanglewood Forest’, by Charles de Lint & Charles Vess
Author: Fred
Boston & NYC, Little, Brown & Co., March 2013 Hardcover $ 17.99 ( 285 pages)
Kindle $ 8.89. Illustrated by Charles Vess.
The age rating on this is “8 and up”. This is one of those “all ages” books like The Wind in the W...
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Review: ‘A Town Called Panic’
Author: dronon
As the Franco-Belgian animated film Ernest & Celestine should soon be released on DVD, I thought this would be a good time to review A Town Called Panic (trailer), a movie produced by some of the same animators in 2009.
Actually, ...
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Review: ‘Fire and Fur: The Last Sorcerer Dragon’, by Roger C. Schlobin
Author: Fred
What do university professors do after they retire? If they are like Dr. Roger C. Schlobin, Ph.D., they write a fantasy novel based upon Chinese mythology, self-publish it (in an unusual size; 9” x 6”), and try to get it sold to be made...
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Review: ‘The King of the Cats’, by P. T. Cooper
Author: Fred
ONE winter's evening the sexton's wife was sitting by the fireside with her big black cat, Old Tom, on the other side, both half asleep and waiting for the master to come home. They waited and they waited, but still he didn't come, till...
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Review: ‘Jolly Rover’ for PC and Mac
Author: dronon
There aren't too many anthropomorphic computer adventure games out there, so I thought I'd review Jolly Rover, a swashbuckling scenario by an Australian company called Brawsome (aka Andrew Goulding). This game is aimed at th...
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Review: ‘The Goldenlea’, by Rose LaCroix
Author: Fred
Faol Carric was born to rule, inheriting the dukedom upon the passing of his father. Immediately tested by the conspiracy of the usurper Virgil Dol, Faol will need to prove his worth as a leader, a fighter, and a strategist if he is to ...
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Review: ‘Hank the Cowdog and the Case of the Dinosaur Birds’, by John R. Erickson
Author: crossaffliction
Hank the Cowdog and the Case of the Dinosaur Birds is number 54 in John R. Erickson’s long running series of short novels for children featuring the misadventures of Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security.
The books are publ...
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