Nicole Hadley (380 KP) rated The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street in Books
Jun 14, 2018
The five Vanderbeeker children range from age 4-and-three-quarters to twelve; four girls and one boy. They also have a dog, a cat and a rabbit which all adds up to one bustling household. When they find out their lease will not be renewed for the new year, the kids all come up with their own ways to convince their landlord to let them stay.
Each of the kids are endearing in their own way, as are the the various neighbors who are such a big part of life as they know it. The Vanderbeekers face troubles, misunderstandings and heartaches, but in their lives there is also beauty, music, ingenuity, teamwork, and love.
I received this ARC from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group and HMH Books for Young Readers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Red Dwarf in TV
Jun 22, 2019
The show follows Dave Lister, a chicken-soup-machine repairman, who is the only human survivor of a radiation leak on his mining space ship and possibly the last living human. Having come out of time stasis 3,000,000 years into the future, Lister has very little company, one in the form of a hologram of his dead shipmate, Rimmer, self obsessed Cat, who has evolved from the descendants of Lister's pregnant cat, senile ship computer Holly and Kryten an Android whose sole purpose is to serve and clean.
This masterpiece was created by Rob grant & doug naylor (GrantNaylor) and has spawned 12 series (Back to Earth counted as the unofficial 9th and a 13th series heavily rumoured) multiple books, audio books, collectibles, magazines and a mobile game.
I'm still hoping for a mainstream console game, but until then, enjoy SmegHeads!
Jasper's Rocket
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The Genesis of Living Forms
Jonathan Roffe and Raymond Ruyer
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The philosophy of Raymond Ruyer was an important if subterranean influence on twentieth-century...
Moondance
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Bittersweet, at times funny, and always emotionally raw, this is by far the most moving and honest...
80 Animal Sounds
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I present to you this Ultimate Sound Effects App! It plays 920+ variations of sound effects with...
Naughty Mabel Sees It All
Nathan Lane, Devlin Elliott and Dan Krall (Art)
8.0
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Naughty Mabel’s back, darlings, and this time she’s causing double the trouble as she starts...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Slade House in Books
Jul 25, 2017
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Try Not to Breathe in Books
Jul 26, 2017
Similarly there were a ghastly amount of clichés - "smiled like a Cheshire cat" - and I had figured out who it was about 60 per cent of the way in to the novel.
Downsides aside, it is still engaging to a certain extent but keep in mind that it might not be so dissimilar from current plots in this genre.
Myst (0 KP) rated Serpent's Kiss (Elder Races, #3) in Books
Feb 8, 2018
<b>Crossposted at <a href="https://detetiv.wordpress.com/">What's Detetiv Doing Now?</a></b>
This review is just me being a bookworm~