From the back cover: How can anyone describe this book? It isn't a parable, a fairy story, or a poem, but rather a mixture of all three. It is beautiful and it is comic. It is philosophical and it is cheery. What we suppose we are trying fumblingly to say is, in a word, that it is Thurber. There are only a few reasons why everybody has always wanted to read this kind of … [Read more...] about The 13 Clocks by James Thurber: B
Children's Fiction
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling: A
From the inside flap: We now present the seventh and final intstallment in the epic tale of Harry Potter. Review: Spoilers beyond the cut. "I'm going to keep going until I succeed—or I die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years." Overall, I liked Deathly Hallows a lot, though there was one thing that seriously threatened my enjoyment of the … [Read more...] about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling: A
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CDN ed.) by J. K. Rowling: A+
From the back cover: It is the middle of the summer, but there is an unseasonal mist pressing against the windowpanes. Harry Potter is waiting nervously in his bedroom at the Dursleys' house in Privet Drive for a visit from Professor Dumbledore himself. One of the last times he saw the Headmaster was in a fierce one-to-one duel with Lord Voldemort, and Harry can't quite … [Read more...] about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CDN ed.) by J. K. Rowling: A+
The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket: C
From the back cover: To: My Kind Editor Top secret—only for readers deeply interested in the Baudelaire case. How I pity those readers. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket Review: Cons? Rather pointless and reminds me of the Griffin & Sabine series with its obscure epistolary nature. Pros? Short! No answers are forthcoming in this series of letters, but we do get … [Read more...] about The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket: C
The End by Lemony Snicket: B-
From the back cover: Dear Reader, You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of THE END. The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope. This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate … [Read more...] about The End by Lemony Snicket: B-