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Category: capsule reviews

Posted on March 30, 2017

Review of “The Lady of Situations”, Stephen Dedman, SF Site 2011

Original here. Another of my SF Site reviews of Ticonderoga Publications books after this and this.  As with “Ghost Seas”, I recall greatly enjoying the book at the time, yet have forgotten most about…

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Posted on March 30, 2017

Review of “Ghost Seas”, Steven Utley, SF Site, 2010

Original here I reviewed a slew of books from Australia’s Ticonderoga publications around the early 2010s, for the SF Site. All were at the very least interesting, beautifully produced books. Re-reading this…

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Posted on March 26, 2017March 27, 2017

Review of “Old Friends”, Tracy Kidder, 2000

This was written in around 2000 and originally appeared in The Magazine, a zine I self produced a few issues of. I ended up posting the review on Amazon  –…

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Posted on March 26, 2017

Review of Greatest Uncommon Denominator #5, Winter 2009, SF Site

Following on my reposting of my review of Aldebo 1 Issue 39, here is the first of my two reviews of issues of Greatest Uncommon Denominator  magazine. The early paragraphs include…

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Posted on December 20, 2015

Eugene Vodolazkin, “Laurus”

I  bought “Laurus” shortly after reading this TLS blog piece , and very shortly after reading some enthusiastic pieces on other blogs, wishing to read it before I could form any preconceptions…

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Posted on November 12, 2015

An unpublished review: Review of “THE GREAT WAR: STORIES INSPIRED BY OBJECTS FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918” – written for Children’s Books Ireland, Sept 2014

This capsule review took a lot of work and in the end wasn’t used for CBI’s Recommended Reading guide. I guess because I didn’t recommend it. I recently have been…

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Posted on October 1, 2015

Help! The Wolf Is Coming. Review for Inis Childrens Magazine, August 2015.

Here is the original.  I have done a fair few reviews for Inis, the magazine of Childrens Books Ireland. Not all have gone online and the magazine is fairly irregularly…

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Posted on August 31, 2015August 31, 2015

Review of The Sancy Blood Diamond: Power, Greed and the Cursed History of One of the World’s Most Coveted Gems. Susan Ronald. TLS May 5 2005

This is a pretty good example of the capsule reviews I started out contributing to the TLS. Capsule reviews impose a certain discipline on the reviewer – longer word counts…

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