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Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals by Carla Sonheim is a beautiful book on drawing imaginary animals from found images. 8 out of 10 stars. This is a wonderful book to check out from the library. I’m not sure I would purchase … Continued
Mapping the World by Caroline and Martine Laffon, while not nearly as nice as the previous map books I’ve reviewed, is still a nice selection of maps. 8 out of 10 stars. This book also had some beautiful maps. One of … Continued
Map: Exploring the World by John Hessler is a beautiful collection of artistic maps from 1500 BC to present day. 10 out of 10 stars. This is a beautiful book filled with an assortment of maps from battle maps to … Continued
The Art of the Map: An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments by Dennis Reinhartz is a large oversized volume full of old maps, rare maps from centuries ago that are beautiful. 8 out of 10 stars. For anyone … Continued
Woodburning by Betty Auth is a cool book with some interesting and visually appealing projects made of wood. 8 out of 10 stars. I love wood and am in awe of the artists at art fairs who work with wood … Continued
Whisper Painting by Suzy Eaton is a book designed to help you make artistic wall covering. Think wallpaper made from household papers. 2 out of 10 stars. For what it is, it’s unique. It’s not like you can go to … Continued
My Wish List by Gregoire Delacourt is a short novel about a middle-aged woman who wins the lottery. 10 out of 10 stars. This is a small novel, an easy two-hour read, that tells the story of Jocelyne Guerbette who … Continued
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman is a period piece, about a girl with webbed hands raised by her father, owner of a museum of freaks, to become his latest spectacle. 0 out of 10 stars. When I … Continued
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin is a novel about reverse racism in a small town in the heart of Mississippi. 2 out of 10 stars. I hated this novel. I hated the writing which is sloppy. I hated the … Continued
Grizzly by Chrstine Andreae is a 1996 murder mystery that takes place in the mountains of northern Montana. 2 out of 10 stars. This was another really bad novel. Nothing happened in the entire first half of the book. The … Continued
The Bear by Claire Cameron is a novel told completely from the point of view of a five year-old named Anna who tries surviving in the wilderness after her parents are brutally killed by a bear at their campsite. 0 … Continued
If you enjoyed A Walk Among the Tombstones, then you may like the other novels in the Mathew Scudder character series. Here they are in order: 1. The Sins of the Fathers 1975. The hooker was young, pretty…and dead, butchered … Continued
Everybody Dies is the 14th novel in the Matthew Scudder series by Lawrence Block. Although Block’s writing has significantly deteriorated (the dialogue is nothing more than sentence fragments with no subject and no verb) the plot was at least engaging. … Continued
The Devil Knows You’re Dead is #11 in the Matthew Scudder series by Lawrence Block and the ninth Scudder novel I’ve read. It is by far the worst, considerably less of a murder mystery and more of the musings of … Continued