Sunday, January 19, 2014

IMA’S BOOKWORM REVIEW, VOLUME IV OVERVIEW

A few books have been adjusted from their original rating to be in better alignment. Don’t bother reading anything at 2.5 or below. Search "Ima's Bookworm Reviews" on this blog for brief reviews in past issues.

Ima’s Bookworm Review Ratings:
FIVE WORMS = Perfection; or
FOUR AND A HALF WORMS = Excellent
None this volume!

FOUR WORMS = Very Good
Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown
Prophet of Bones by Ted Kosmatka
Jewelweed by David Rhodes

THREE AND A HALF WORMS = Good
The Old Man’s Love Story by Rudolfo Anaya
The Lovebird by Natalie Brown
Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins
London Falling by Paul Cornell
Josh Whoever by Michael Guillebeau
Anonymous Sources by Mary Louise Kelly
The Facades by Erick Lundgren
Lifetime by Liza Marklund
Reviver by Seth Patrick
How to Greet Strangers by Joyce Thompson
Capital Punishment by Robert Wilson

THREE WORMS = Fair, but readable
Southern Cross The Dog by Bill Cheng
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Ghosts of Bungo Suido by P.T. Deutermann
The Old Turk’s Load by Gregory Gibson
The Asylum by John Harwood
The Jackal’s Share by Chris Morgan Jones
Under Tower Peak by Bart Paul
The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee
Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Boy from Reactor 4 by Orest Stelmach
Necessary Evil by Ian Tregillis

TWO AND A HALF WORMS = So-So
The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
Shattered Pillars by Elizabeth Bear
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Decadence by Eric Jerome Dickey
The Book of Someday by Dianne Dixon
There was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron
People of the Black Sun by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
Always Watching by Chevy Stevens

TWO WORMS = Oh-Oh
Fuse by Julianna Baggott
My Education by Susan Choi
Deep Down by Deborah Coates
Order of Darkness by Philippa Gregory
A Call to Arms by William C. Hammond
Duel Inheritance by Joanna Hershow
The Golden Egg by Donna Leon
Deadly Devotion by Sandra Orchard
Paris by Edward Rutherfurd
Studio Saint-Ex by Ania Szado
Once A Spy by Keith Thomson
Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui
The Retrospective by A.B. Yehoshua

ONE/ZERO WORM = No-No or Avoid
In The House Upon The Dirt Between The Lake And The Woods by Matt Bell
Destined to Fly by Indigo Bloome
Honor Thy Thug by Wahinda Clark
The Gamal by Ciaran Collins
Pacific by Tom Drury
King of Cuba by Cristina Garcia
The Fall of Stone City by Ismail Kadare
Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura
This Magnificent Desolation by Thomas O’Malley
Julia Stirs Up Trouble by Ann B. Ross
The Dream Maker by Jean-Christophe Rufin

UNRATE-ABLE
House of Earth by Woody Guthrie (due to its delay in publication)

NOTE TO AUTHORS SEEKING A REVIEW:
In an effort to support the library, please send a copy of your book to the Ramsey County (MN) or St. Paul Public Library system. Then, message me via Facebook or this blog include the author's name & book title and I'll check it out to review. THANKS! Links to the libraries: https://thefriends.org/about/contact-us/ or http://www.rclreads.org/about/friends-library

Read three worms and above.
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