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Book Review Small Things Like These

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  Book:   Small Things Like These Author:   Claire Keegan Pages 114 Hard Core Scale: 2/4 Recommend – Yes if you want a short Christmas read Publish date: 2021. About – A man on a job runs discovers a secret in a church that will change his life forever. Review: Really short, lots of forced telling. That plot makes up the last 30 pages. Everything before is to build the character foot print. Writer jumps topics often with poor transitions leading to confusion. No natural action until close to 40 pages in. Author had an agenda for expressing a historic moment from a fictional lens. Really close drop ending on author’s promise over closer. The whole thing feels like a early draft shart out shoved through a press. The fuel for that rather small, but succeeds in a feel good Christmas package of the dawdling everyday human, the small things in the world that matter.                        ...
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Fishflies review

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  Comic Book: Comic Book: Fishflies Author: Jeff Lemire Issues: 7 Hard Core Scale: 4/4 Recommend: Yes. Its Great. Publish date: 2023-2025 About: A lonely girl named Franny forms an unlikely friendship with a fugitive that leads them on an odyssey of discovery and redemption. Review: Jeff Lemire again at his best. Lovely use of his black and white style and faded comics. Glad he finished this thing. Haunting use of beauty in the ugly. Character’s have lovely agency. Deep questions on ends and troubles of violence and peace. Lemire can always shove a lot in such a little package. Well worth the read, especially for the supernatural fans.    Author: Jeff Lemire Issues: 7 Hard Core Scale: 4/4 Recommend: Yes. Its Great. Publish date: 2023-2025 About: A lonely girl named Franny forms an unlikely friendship with a fugitive that leads them on an odyssey of discovery and redemption. Review: Jeff Lemire again at his best. Lovely use of his black and...
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