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A Master of Djinn
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P. Djèlí Clark
srnm
, May 28, 2022
Stuff that makes it suitable for making into a YA series, religious faiths besides Christian, post-colonial era nation, other world entities, alliances between human and entities, snazzy or distinctive dresser, relationships other than heterosexual, other than caucasian author….Check Yawn. DONE BETTER by Akata series, Trials of Apollo, Bartimaeus Trilogy, Harry Dresden series, Lord of the Rings……., regardless of background of authors.
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Flashman & the Cobra
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Robert Brightwell
srnm
, September 07, 2021
George McDonald Frazier of the original Flashman series could write dialogue, humor, and history. This guy can't and the series of Flashman's uncle doesn't make the cut for historical fiction or general story telling. Enjoy the original Flashman and forget the wanna be "uncle."
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Soldiers Live Glittering Stone 04
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Glen Cook
srnm
, June 06, 2010
A Gordian knot of tying up all that came before, including admitting to a good many of the never made sense, incongruent, and anachronistic threads of the ever ever after tale and setting up the situations for a new set of characters in a maybe new series.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Sherman Alexie
srnm
, June 01, 2010
Sherman Alexie at his finest. A wry funny sad tale of how being even a good kid is hard on or off the rez, particularly if you're from the rez, poor, alone, and people insist on dying on you.
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Black Swan Green
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David Mitchell
srnm
, June 01, 2010
Since I once nearly strangled a 19-year-old who spent a 3 hour drive extolling the wonderfulness of Catcher in the Rye, you may understand how I nearly didn't read this after seeing it blurbed as "a coming of age story." How fortunate I did read it. It's a masterful and engaging story of changing perspectives on who's big, who's important, what hurts, and who's who and there for a narrator who's bewildered, insightful, and growing up despite himself and without being a self-centered egotist.
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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
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Tom Reiss
srnm
, June 01, 2010
Very much what I (negatively) consider a standard New York Times Notable Book-- a not particularly well-written meandering tale of an era and a figure not particularly well known or frequently written about. It will serve as a placeholder until something better is written.
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Good Thief
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Hannah Tinti
srnm
, December 01, 2009
Awkwardly written, poor grasp of daily life of the times--simply a poorly written, but targeted for the lists, example of YA at its most historically inept.
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