Yeah.....not for me. Especially because I really am interested in the history of the place.

Cute. Manga is great for light reading and entertainment

I worked the lecture at CHQ. I liked his lecture but this book is so special. You can tell just how personal and yet how distant this book is. It simultaneously is so close to his heart and life yet doesn't fully open the door for us to come in. This is art, this is wny.

4.5 I liked that. Interesting but it didn't dwell on boring things. It knew exactly what we were in for. I needed a book about dinosaurs and got a manifest destiny, stupid boy goes on a ride of a life time for some dinosaur bones and I ate it up!

** spoiler alert ** I liked this book. I would give it a 2.5 though, not a 3. Was it as good as the first book in the series, no. Was it still entertaining and fun, yes. The plot just wasn't there. Bella and Mina spent the first 20 pages looking for their supernatural roller derby teammates, who were forced to look for a new home. It is not a big town so not sure why they spent months doing it. The next 30 pages cleaning an asylum. They don't even have their first practice back together til 62. Then they immediately have to take part in a to the death showdown playing roller derby and they have 3 measly days to prepare. Not to mention Mina's inter turmoil over fighting with her best friend, dealing with her parents impending divorce AND still being hung up on feelings of not belonging. I'm sorry. You need more than three days to prepare for a roller derby game, human or supernatural. Also, Mina left her little brpther unattended a lot and all she had to do was make sure he had dinner. Irresponsible much amd the parents didn't even question where she was. Maybe being a parent gives me some perspective but, even being out of sorts, these parents lack of concern always concerning at best but negligent at worst. I wanted to read more about roller derby but got a lot more drama than I cared for. However, looking forward to the plot twist with the zombies for the next book

That was so fun! I loved that. Very gripping and entertaining!! I dont think it needed to be a devil wears Prada sequel but I did really enjoy those moments

Very compelling. I liked the will they won't they element and the questioning of truth. The book felt much shorter than anticipated. I easily got through half in my first sitting. What a great book to end pride on. Although I did guess the twist pretty early on it didn't really ruin it for me.

ARC read. I love Tarah DeWitt. Love the content warnings, Loved everything. How beautiful and sad and unexpectedly spicy.

Dinosaurs in America after some calamity split America apart. The United States has been split into many little pieces of territory ruled by overlords, gamgs and evangelical states. Latif Tamim is an orphaned boy of war working for a Dino rodeo circus circuit. While he is working, a dinosaur in his care escapes and is fatally wounded then sent back to the past. Tif, is fired and forced to find employment elsewhere. He finds employment in the household of a high ranking evangelical pastor, to train a dinosaur which was purchased for his son. Upon inspection of the Carnotaur, it is old, maimed and ill suited for riding. The son threatens to kill the Carnotaur if Tif doesn't take it with him so he agrees. On his poisoned bike, he rides to join another rodeo and is taken in by Memphis Red's Tatterdemalion Circus. Tif meets Memphis, show woman and proprietor, Matilda, wrangler and dino whistler, Prince, buckaroo and Silver Clown, paralegal and engineer. In this rag tag band, Tif finds new home but yearns to save a friend from his past and see his Carnotaur taken care of, even if it means saying good bye to send it back to the past. I was really impressed with this short but detailed read. I could imagine the characters, the dinosaurs and even the tumultuous tension throughout Tif's journey through a war-torn Wild West post apocalyptic wasteland. The ending was satisfying and I would certainly read more from this author.

Alien Rik and the Ingergalactic Waffle Protocol was pure and unadulterated chaos and hilarity. Rik, an alien, crash lands on Earth with his robot assistant Glubax. He befriends Debra, Bud and a goat named Clarity, forms a cult around breakfast and toasters, and reforms a Pentagon agent assigned to shut down his cult. Rik even manages to befriend DJT amd gain a nemesis in an evangelical pastor by the of Lyle Grindle. There are waffles, syrup, guru enlightenment and only a little chia seeds in this romp into one aliens journey to found family, pancakes and a world wholly different from anything he ever experienced on his home on Astralara. The first book in this book was funny, irreverent and entertaining if not equally confusing all at once. Here, Somehow was a little more straightforward but not without equal parts humor. Assistant to Nicola Tesla, Stefan Petrovic is accidentally transported through time from 1895 to current times in an experiment gone wrong. Stefan blindly stumbles through Times Square, New York City until NYC cops pick him up and introduce him to Mira, an NYC Civil outreach coordinator. Mira decideds he is mostly harmless amd takes him into her home until Stefan and Tesla can figure out how to get him home. Stefan meets a lot of people, finds out more than he ever cared to about Instagram while also falling in love. This book reminded me of the 1994 movie IQ where Albert Einstein, played by Walter Matthau, tries to set up Meg Ryan, his niece, with a mechanic played by Tim Robbins. IYKYK. I really enjoyed the relationship between Mira and Stefan and was glad that Stefan decided to stay in the future with Mira.