I love the utter oddness of Victorian Easter Cards, and this one is a doozy! There are so many difficulties involved in wearing a giant eggshell (not that I've ever tried) that I can't even. And how is it staying up?
But in any event, here's this week's round-up. As ever, please let me know if I missed your post!
The Reviews
The Arctic Code, by Matthew Kirby, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile and The Reading Nook Reviews
Bayou Magic, by Jewell Parker Rhodes, at Views From the Tesseract
Button Hill, by Michael Bradford, at Back to Books
The Eigth Day, by Dianne K. Salerni, at Nerdy Book Club
Fork-Tongue Charmers, by Paul Durham, at Waking Brain Cells
Hook's Revenge, by Heidi Schulz, at Kid Lit Geek
The Inquisitor's Mark, by Dianne K. Salernie, at Otakutwins Reviews
The Keepers: The Box and the Dragonfly, by Ted Sanders, at books4yourkids
The League of Beastly Dreadfuls, by Holly Grant, at Waking Brain Cells
The Lost Track of Time, by Paige Britt, at Ms. Yingling Reads (with bonus quick review of the IPhone that Saved George Washington, by David Potter
Nightbird, by Alice Hoffman, at WinterHaven Books
One Witch at a Time, by Stacy DeKeyser, at GeoLibrarian
Rapunzel-the One with all the Hair, by Wendy Mass, at Becky's Book Reviews
Return to Augie Hobble, by Lane Smith, at Mom Read It
The School For Good and Evil, by Soman Chainani, at Pages Unbound
The Spider Ring, by Andrew Harwell, at Charlotte's Library
Story Thieves, by James Riley, at Always in the Middle and Charlotte's Library
The Whispering Mountain, by Joan Aiken, at Read Till Dawn
The Unwanteds,by Lisa McMann, at Kid Lit Geek
The Wide Awake Princess, by E.D. Baker, at Cindy Reads A Lot
Wish Girl, by Nikki Loftin, at The Hiding Spot
The Witherwood Reform School, by Obert Skye, at The Social Potato
And a time travel twosome linked by Alexander Graham Bell at Time Travel Times Two
Three that lean toward horror (The Jumbies, I Text Dead People, and The Murk) at SLJ
Authors and Interviews
Nikki Loftin (Wish Girl) at Kirby Larson
Other Good Stuff
I loved this April 1 article at Nature suggesting that climate change might favor the reapparence of dragons
Something for Animorphs friends (and foes?) at The Toast
This’ll help immensely on your writing journey (Upstairs) and, believe-you-me, you’d want nothing else if you experienced what I did. So, why should you love our exploded plethora of produce which’ll plant the seeds for you to grow to great heights?? PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK:
ReplyDeleteGreetings, earthling. Not sure if we're on the same page if you saw what I saw. Because I was an actual NDE while in a coma on the outskirts of the Great Beyond at 15 yet wasn’t allowed in, lemme share with you what I actually know Seventh-Heaven’s dichotomy gonna be like for us if ya believe/accept: meet this ultra-bombastic, ex-mortal Upstairs for the most blatantly, tastefully, incomprehensibly phat… catch-22-zany-excitotoxins… myriads of cogently-ironic-metaphors… sheer endorphin-rush with pleasure-beyond-measure to boot… Ultra-Firepower-Idyllic-Addiction in the Great Beyond for a BIG-ol, kick-ass, point-blank, party-hardy, robust-and-risqué-play-station voltage, eternal-real-McCoy-warp-drive you DO NOT wanna miss the sink-your-teeth-in-the-rrrock’nNsmmmokin’-hot-deal: PLEASE KEEP HANDS/FEET INSIDE THE RIDE UNTIL WE MADE A CIRCUMFERENCE OF the OUTSTANDING, NEVER-ENDING, THRILLIONTH-RED-MARKER-POSSIBILITIES …with eXtra eXciting eXtroverts doing the most vivid, brazen congruent as flawless as pearls from the Toyster Upstairs!!! Quite a run-on-sentence… yet, Upstairs, you may push-the-hydraulic-envelope for endless exaggeration. WAIT!! THAT’S NOT ALL!! TELL’M WHAT THEY’LL RECEIVE, JOHNNY!! In that [in]sane landscape of tumultuous, thoroughbred metabolism high-above ’N faaar-beyond the paisley troposphere? Duuude! Just a drop-in-the-bucket in the many universes fulla audacious innuendo!! So, gain altitude, not attitude, and take front-row-seats, miss gorgeous, as the inexhaustible, irresistible intimacy from THE PowerPlaya shall blow-your-fragile-mind to peaces. Meet me Upstairs. Do that for us. Cya soon, girly.
PS “It is impossible that anyone should NOT receive all that they have believed and hoped to obtain; it gives Me great pleasure when men hope great things from Me and I will always give them more than they expect”
-Our Lord to Saint Gertrude