If you go to Amazon search and type “The Al...” you’ll get this book as your first auto-complete option. And you’ll see that it has 4500+ reviews and you’ll know immediately that it’s immensely popular worldwide. Right now it’s only $2.75 on Kindle and at that price, you should absolutely give it a read. My copy is paperback and I’m pretty...
$2.75 on the Kindle - definitely worth it!

I loved this book! Oscar Wilde's flowing, eloquent, highly-civilized writing style and his exquisite word choices kept me mesmerized. I particularly enjoyed the fascinating views on life that were doled out by Lord Henry Wotton, who is Dorian Gray's best friend, main influence and probably, Gray's worst source of corruption. I didn't necessarily always agre...
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Here's a bit of Kevin's Book Bacon in the pan....with a couple of Roald Dahl books sizzling hot! Flavor: "Boy" and "Going Solo" tell the story of Mr. Dahl’s life before he became one of the best children’s book writers ever in the history of the known universe. He is very clear that these are not moment by moment, tedious “autobiographies”; they ar...

Time for more of Kevin's Book Bacon! The writer of "The Peculiar", Mr. Stefan Bachmann, was just 16 when he began this book and it was published when he was only 19! A mighty fine accomplishment for a teenager. Flavor: The story takes place in a “steampunkish” version of Victorian London where faeries and humans live - somewhat - at peace. The unl...

I’m rambling quite a bit with my reviews and I’m not churning them out quick enough after I finish books. So I’m starting with a new format here that I hope works for all future reviews. I’m calling this review structure “Kevin’s Book Bacon” so everything will relate to.... bacon. Yummy. Flavor: I read the special “Tenth Anniversary Edit...

For Christmas this year, our 7y/o daughter received a Roald Dahl boxed set (thank you so much Aunt Randi!). And I was unexpectedly surprised to realize I haven’t read any of his books. Actually, I did recently listen to the audiobook of "James and the Giant Peach", read by Jeremy Irons. Which was absolutely phenomenal, by the way....I highly recommend i...

This book mesmerized me. There’s truly no other word to describe my time with it over the last couple of weeks. I read it at night, at the gym, while cooking dinner, while “watching TV” with the family, whenever I could. Finally, I put in a late night, 90 minute solid session and finished it. And I must say, this is a magnificent book! Please go t...

Another delightful, outstanding children’s book by the fantastic Richard Peck. If you read my reviews, and why wouldn’t you....they’re awesome....you’ll know that I recently read another of Mr. Peck’s mouse stories called “Secrets At Sea”. I LOVED that book. This one was really great, but “Secrets” is even better. The main mouse chara...

This book is exactly what you expect it to be. A quick, enjoyable, not too challenging YA novel. Our heroine Beatrice lives in a future dystopian version of Chicago where there are five factions in which all people live. Each faction represents and lives by a core value. The peaceful interaction between the factions and specific tasks performed by each...

Confession: I picked up THE PALE KING because I thought it was a cool thing to do. I happened upon it at “Half Price Books” and knew of the name “David Foster Wallace”. And coincidentally, just before buying the book, I’d read a few random blurbs about him on the internet. So I grabbed it, thinking that as an avid reader, I should probably dig t...
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I'm participating in this challenge for the second year. The goal is to dream up 30 picture book ideas, or one for each day of November. Plus, Miss Tara Lazar (the organizer) does a great job of creating a community around the event by providing participants many fun ways to connect with each other and by having many prominent children's authors write gues...
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