A Book a Day...

This is a really cool story about found family, but, with, ah, dragon training thrown in there too. Garrodigh is a newly three headed dragon (used to be four). He sneaks into a dragon rider academy (he pretends to be tame) so that he can heal. Instead, he finds Raina, who is desperate for a dragon to ride. Can they save the academy and also their city from the people who also took Garrodigh’s fourth head?

The world building was awesome, and, the characters were so much fun, and then, there were the three heads of Garrodigh. That was just… the differences between Centerhead, Bottomhead, and Upperhead, it was all just so much fun. It was an amazing read.

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Don’t laugh. I mean, if that doesn’t mean that I will absolutely laugh, I don’t know what else would do it. Not surprisingly, the hilariousness of the book gets more and more out there making it harder and harder not to laugh. Such a simple concept and such a hilariously awesome book. (Shh… for all ages too, after all, everyone needs to laugh).

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I know that this is the fourth book in a series, but, I just couldn’t help myself (and, I may or may not have totally read it out of order as well, so, I can tell you that it’s okay to read this one first). But, that title. It drew me in, it made me have to read this book.

Ernest is a former mystery author and amateur detective. And he’s stuck in a locked bank with a robber which is also full of other thieves. Oh, and then there’s a murder, and, instead of thieves, that means that someone in the bank is a murderer. Can Ernest solve the crime, figure out who is stealing what, as well as who committed the murder? Oh, and do it all before the police come and rescue everyone?

It’s like a locked room story on steroids, with a ton of puzzle, wicked puzzle, thrown in for good measure. It was an interesting mystery and thriller and I could not put it down. A wicked fun read.

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You're getting sleepy

There's a day for everything

It's hypnosis day.

Lionel Luthor is thrown in prison and that leaves his two kids (Lena and Lex) in charge of LuthorCorp. Well, technically Lex is in charge. And, he has a plan to solve all of LuthorCorp's problems. Take down Superman. Except, maybe that's not the exact plan after all. (I won't spoil it). Will it all go according to genius Lex’s plan, or will Lex get foiled yet again.

It is a book for kids, and, so, Lex doesn’t go as hard as he does in the adult comic books. I was a little thrown off by Lena, who in both the Supergirl TV show and in a lot of the adult comic books is a brain like Lex, not so much brawn. But, the character did work really well in the story. All in all it was a really fun read.

This was very nicely like another episode. Global Dynamics is having a problem, Sheriff Carter has to help fix the problem, oh, and someone from the town of Eureka may have a connection to the problem. I mean, that’s basically the majority of the episodes of the TV show too, so, this was very much in line with something like the Legends of Korra or Avatar Last Airbender comics, it just continues on (really well) with the TV show. Not trying to break new ground, but, just give fans a little bit more.

Unfortunately, there is no volume two. That’s really the only thing that I didn’t like about this. Heh…

Trinity works for the Hive, a government research center. She meets the nephew of her neighbor, Le Wei, and finds herself drawn to him. But, he is not exactly what he seems. He’s actually AI, blurring the line between machine and man. He’s trying to learn how to be human. But, can he figure out one of the hardest things even for humans to do, falling in love?

I wasn’t sure if I’d like this or not. It was an interesting idea for a book though, and, so, I thought I’d give it a try. I liked the sci-fi world building, especially when it came to Le Wei, the synthetic being, and I really liked the characters too. All unique and interesting. And I did also find myself liking the romance in the book too. It wasn’t too overdone and it did really blend well into the book as a whole. A fun read.

In 1913 Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, simply vanished. Oh, and, he was on a steamship (the Dresden) which was between Belgium and England. So, was it suicide, murder, an accident? He did have enemies on both sides of the Atlantic, but, also, this was 1913, so, it’s not out of the realm of possibility of an accident as well. It was an interesting look at an interesting man who built something that he didn’t want one country or industry to own outright.

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Poirot just wants to have a vacation at a hotel on the beach, like one does. But, then one of the hotel’s guests is strangled to death. Of course, most of the guests have a reason why they could be the killer. And Poirot has to get through the clues and false clues and maybe the false clues that aren’t so false clues, so that he can solve the case.

I’m not too proud to admit that the reason that I read this Poirot novel instead of another one was because on the TV show Lost (wayyy back when), it’s one of the books that Sawyer reads. It was a very good mystery, as most of Christie’s are. Kept me guessing mostly, and, that’s what is the most important in a mystery, new or old.

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Yes, as important

Not as cool as Butterflies

Woo, the Fantastic Four title is back. I think (okay, looked it up, yep, totally back, I’m just behind on reading my comic books, go figure…).

It's five months later from something. We start out with Alicia and Ben, awww... they have to figure out why they're in 1947, and. if they can get back to their time. Then we get Sue and Reed and an a city that hides a very interesting secret, a very Doctor Doom sort of secret. One they have to solve of course (because he's Reed Richards).Then we get what Johnny has been doing for 5 months. He's been working at a store that is taking advantage of its employees, and, he just can't take it after awhile and he finds himself a new team. And then we get what happened 5 months earlier, and, we get something that looks like Ben's skin, but in a dome shape.

Then there was my favorite part of the story, where they sorta kinda have to ‘turn off the lights’ for a couple of states, and, I will say that Maria Hill doesn’t seem to even want to give them a ‘Thank you’ when Sue and Johnny get back on Earth after, ya know, saving the world or something…

Heh. It was a really fun restart to the series. As indicated above, I’m a big fan of Alicia and Ben, so, they got me right at the beginning. But, the stuff with Sue and Johnny, and even with Reed (not my favorite of the four) was great too. It was an awesome read.

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This is a collection of stories all centering around various parts of LGBTQ+. From a story about Beckett and Jennifer from Lower Decks, to one about Sulu and Ben from the Kelvin Universe reboot, and everything in between. (Discovery, Picard, etc. etc.) It was a really fun read. And, ooh, it even has a story that’s written by Karim Diané called “Klingon’s Don’t Flirt” about his character Jay-Den Kraag (from Starfleet Academy)

What does the tag line on the cover say, low fantasy and high mischief? Sign me up!

People don’t like Goblins, and, actually, Goblins themselves would agree with a lot of things that people say about them. But, one thing that they don’t do is kill people just for the hell of it. But, that doesn’t help them much when they’re dumped by an evil wizard behind enemy lines (wayy behind enemy lines). They then come upon an elf called Sings-to-Trees. And elf who usually helps those animals that are in need of that help. And, even though the two species aren’t traditionally friends, Sings-to-Trees does help the Goblins. And then, they find empty human villages, and that presents both elf and Goblin with an entirely new issue.

It was such a crazy and zany book, the narrative was never what I thought it would be, and the world building was the most amazing thing. It was such a fun, fun read.

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This was such a cool picture book. It’s basically a young girl saying hello to everything that you’d find at the ocean. From a pelican to a piece of sea glass. And that page was actually one of my favorite pages, because, after she says hello to the sea glass she just says ‘Agate?’, and, that made me chuckle. (Just in case others don’t know what Agate is, here’s a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agate, it’s basically a really cool stone that is even more awesome when split). And finally the girl finds something that is a lot less cool, trash on the beach. And she and her parents clean it up.

I liked the art, and, I was happy that even though it did have a message about ‘don’t litter’, it didn’t do it in a way that was preachy or finger wagging at all, it worked really well with the rest of the book.