Please read the Intro Post if you haven’t already. It explains pretty much everything (except how to use your microwave. Nobody can explain that!) Given how many responses I got from the Get-Go, my plans to collect responses over several months fell by the wayside. I’m able to start right away! That makes me pretty happy.
Recommendations & Responses
Firewater made a suggestion of Ghost Story by Peter Straub. It's obviously horror, so I'm noping that like nobody's business.
Joelendil recommended Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain by Adolfo Martinez. He compared it to Despicable Me and Megamind in his review, so I am totally adding this to my TBR!
Joelendil also recommended a non-fiction book. He even reviewed The Siege by Ben Macintyre. All in vain. Because that's a hard no-a-rewski!
Snapdragon recommended To Journey in the Year of the Tiger by Heather Dickson. I wasn't sure what to I was going to decide. Then she reviewed it (Here) and I realized it was dealing with anthropomorphized animals and I decided on a "no".
Lashaan suggested the comic book series Tintin by Herge. I read these in my tweens and teens and have often wondered about re-reading them and recording my thoughts in a review. However, after my attempt at doing just that for the Asterix series, and having it whimper out, I have decided to simply let Tintin stay in my memory, for good or bad.
Chartreuse Flag Hall of Shame
Orangutan Librarian "recommended" (knowing full well what she was doing) the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. If you don't know, ol' Cassie used to write Harry Potter fan fiction, BAD harry potter fan fiction. Then she decided to publish it with changed names, etc to be a "new" series. There was a lot of outrage, especially at Devilreads and she was one of the bitches who clamored for censoring of reviews, shelves, tags, whatever it took, of the reviewers because they were just stupid peons and not a giant intellectual like herself. She specifically got the P2P shelf automatically deleted from users accounts, with no justification by the staff at GR. P2P "can" mean "pulled to publish" and refers to people who write terrible fanfiction trying to go legit and pretend they are real writers and not just total scumbag losers. HOWEVER, P2P has a lot of other meanings but that didn't matter to Cassie. P2P was deleted from GR and if you complained, your account was put under review and your reviews were 'hidden'. I dislike a LOT of writers and authors as people, but Cassandra Clare can burn in hell for the role she played in '13 in the censoring of reviewers on Devilreads. And I'm going stop there before I start writing things I will regret later. But suffice to say, she is one of the lowest of the low in my opinion and is an enemy to free speech.
The Most Important Part
Well, as you might have noticed in the title of this post, I am going to be winding this "series" of posts down with the next one. Honestly, when I started this I figured I'd get two or three posts out of it, but here we are, approaching seven. I am as pleased as punch about that and want to make sure I thank you all for your needed participation. I literally couldn't have done this without you. I'll be thanking you all again in the next and final post.
Because the next one will be the final post for this, if you have any recommendations, please limit it to just one in the comments here. I'd rather not have to add 33 more reactions all in one post :-D
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