Owner: Bibliosaurus URL:http://bookdinosaur.blogspot.com Join Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 23:25:18 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Books are rad. Writing about them makes me rad too. Site statistics:Click here
Mouse Guard - David Petersen 2008-05-30 01:23:55 Picked this graphic novel up at the library, because really ... cute mice with human traits!It's the story of a medieval kingdom of mice, who are oh-so-little, and are therefore protected by the MouseGuard
s. In the first collection, betrayal and plots to overthrow are uncovered by various characters and they set out to save the day.What I loved: Cute! Mice! Oh so cute! I want to pick them up and Read more:David
World War Z - Max Brooks 2008-05-28 13:20:17 Despite my absurd fear of zombies (They really freak me out, okay? I can't even watch movies about them because they freak me out so much) I picked up World
War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
(author of The Zombie Survival Guide) and read it in one sitting. The premise of the book is that in the future there is an outbreak of the living dead, and it almost destroys humanity, un Read more:World War
Dreams Underfoot - Charles de Lint 2008-05-26 19:53:32 I always used to imagine odd things when I was a kid obsessed with fairy tales (okay, so I still do today). Like what if there were microscopic elves living in the snowbanks during the winter. Or what if that stray cat was really a werecat who would run off into the woods at night and transform into a human shape. Which is why I was so happy to recently reread Charles
de Lint's Dreams
Underfoot, w
Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi 2008-05-26 19:15:58 a.k.a. the graphic novel that makes the political/historical geek within me squeal with joy. Okay, so maybe most books I love do that.Persepolis 2 is the sequel to Satrapi's autobiographical Persepolis, which told her story of growing up during the Iranian revolution. The sequel picks up where the first one left off, with Marjane leaving Iran for Europe, all by herself.What I loved: Plucky Heroin
Foreward 2008-05-25 23:19:03 This is my first overly generalized post about what this blog is about! Uh, well ... If you can't tell by the title, it's going to be a journal about books and reading. It's not so much about dinosaurs. I know, I know, the title is a little misleading on that front. I mean, dinosaurs are cool and all, but I hardly have the expertise to write about them. But if I were a dinosaur, I'd be the dinosau
The Book of Merlyn - T.H. White 2008-06-01 10:52:18 The long lost chapter of T.H. White
's The Once and Future King. Everyone is probably more aware of Disney's The Sword and the Stone which is based off the first half of this book. In this "lost" chapter, an old King Arthur pays a visit to Merlyn and some animal friends the night before his last battle.There, the animals and Merlyn "finish up" Arthur's training in political philosophy ... the ever
Censorshiptastic! 2008-06-03 00:04:25 + Jamaica's education minister doesn't want to ban books ... he just wants to make sure no public school has the ones he doesn't want kids to read. (okay, it's almost a month old news, but still very "wtf??") + His royal highness, the supreme benevolent ruler of the The USA's Environmental Protection Agency has pretty much gutted all the EPA libraries across the country. Because knowledge is scary
Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko 2008-06-04 22:43:32 Please ignore the somewhat cheesy book cover. The innards are definitely worth it.Night
Watch is an urban fantasy tale about humans born with magical talent that makes them witches, warlocks, werecreatures and so on. At a certain point in their lives, these "Others" go to the proverbial light or dark side. Now, the good/bad armies realized centuries ago they were evenly matched and no side could w
Acts of Faith - Philip Caputo 2008-06-08 13:22:58 A fictional account of a group of people in the 1990s in Africa, working to save the Sudanese population from war, poverty and famine. Or to make a ton of money from saving the Sudanese. And all that gray area inbetween.What I loved:That the book isn't some moralizing annoying piece of preaching, even if the title would suggest it.That it doesn't judge the sinners and the saints, just the people w Read more:Faith
, Philip
All aboard the CensorShip* 2008-06-10 18:45:24 + Down in North Carolina, the Kite Runner survives a bout with a committee after a complaint for it to be removed. As usual, the complainer vows to fight onwards. Against a book that might actually help the youth of America understand Afghanistan.+ Students given copies of Fahrenheit 451+ Very cool: Interview with the director of Baghdad's national library, Saad Eskander(x-posted at Soup is Good F
Against the Grain - Catherine Ford 2008-06-28 15:10:47 Ford has been a journalist for decades, working out of the Calgary Herald, and this book is her liberal feminist love story with Alberta. Like any love story, there are its ups and downs. Western alienation, provincial parks and global warming, or the rivalry between Edmonton and Calgary.What I loved: As a liberal feminist, it's just great to hear a voice from Alberta that's different from the ste Read more:Grain
, Catherine
The Last Temptation - Neil Gaiman/Michael Zulli/Alice Cooper 2008-06-21 23:39:50 If the picture wasn't a tip off, this was the comic book created by Neil Gaiman in collaboration with Alice Cooper
as part of Cooper's 1994 concept album. The horror-based tale of a young boy and a devilish Alice-Cooper-looking man with a ghoulish theater.What I loved:The usual twists and turns on the usual that Gaiman is known for. And that it shows the power of the library to overcome all evil! Read more:Michael
The Superman Chronicles - Volume One 2008-06-21 23:39:16 Yeah, I think I'm definitely on a bit of a comic book streak after reading this compilation of the original Superman
comics, from #1 to 13.What I loved:The cheese of it all. It's just really fun to read and see how Superman evolved over the years, from these first comics to the latest movie. I especially loved seeing the things that Superman takes on in these first comics: stopping a man from beat Read more:Volume
Recommend Site To A Friend
