The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 267

The Last Don by Mario Puzo

Goodreads Blurb:The Last Don is Mario Puzo at his finest – a masterful saga of the last great American crime family, the Clericuzios, and their powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas. Domenico Clericuzio is a wise and ruthless man who in his old age is determined to create a life free from criminal activities for his grandchildren. But as he strives to establish his heirs in legitimate society, secrets from his family’s past spark a vicious and bloody war between cousins . . .

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Proof that a good writer can get you to root for absolutely anyone – an excellent read with once again fascinating characters but I have to say I did enjoy the Godfather more 💜

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 266

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Goodreads Blurb: When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the ‘Master’ and his imminent arrival.

(Goodreads Blurb)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: The first thing that strikes me is just how damn likeable everyone in this book is. Well … everyone except the vampires but then they’re evil blood-sucking fiends from Hell I think we can just let them be their unlikable, murderous selves. We don’t have to go and woobify the vampires, right internet? Internet? Why is nobody answering back?

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 265

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Goodreads Blurb: Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy – until he is rescued by an owl, taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason … HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: To give it it’s due the film was surprising faithful but it’s no replacement for the original. So if you haven’t already give this a read.

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These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Goodreads Blurb: Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but keeps at it so that she can help pay for her sister Mary’s tuition at the college for the blind. During school vacations Laura has fun with her singing lessons, going on sleigh rides, and best of all, helping Almanzo Wilder drive his new buggy. Friendship soon turns to love for Laura and Almanzo in the romantic conclusion of this Little House book.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: A loving beautiful story of two people finding each other on the frontier. If you can get past the slightly uncomfortable age discrepancy.

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Merlin: The Arts by iMinds

Goodreads Blurb: As the advisor who helps King Arthur through the early years of his reign, Merlin has become the most famous wizard of all time.

The stories of Merlin may have been based on a real person. But the character we know as Merlin today has come down to us through the “History of the Kings of Britain”, a book by the twelfth-century English writer Geoffrey of Monmouth. A later text called “Le Morte D’Arthur”, written by fifteenth-century English writer Thomas Malory, further popularised the tale of this wizard.

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: An excellent start to a study of the Merlin legend; I also liked that it actually acknowledged that their are different versions of Merlin’s death.

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Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

Goodreads Blurb: It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders.

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: I’ve throughly enjoyed all the books of this series – that I’ve read thus far – but their’s really no beating the first book in terms of writing quality or sense horror that it builds as it expounds on the world that Dracula has created.

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Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Goodreads Blurb: In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day’s sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic’s heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Thank Goodness this has a relatively happy ending otherwise it would absolutely be the most miserable thing I’ve ever read.

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The Chocolate Tree by Dina Gregory

Goodreads Blurb: Charlie and her friends are avid video gamers. But when they spot a huge chocolate bar growing from the top of a tree – then another, and another – it is the beginning of a real-life, outdoor quest!

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: This story should have been called the judgemental tree.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 259

Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov

Goodreads Blurb: Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley’s vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructible will to win….

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review:So, the love between Elijah and Daneel is canon now? Excellent, now we only need the sex scene. What? That spacer woman gets to sleep with Elijah but we don’t get one scene of love between that old man and his robot spacer husband? A tragedy. Oh and Earth has been flooded with radiation that will slowly kill it in a hundred years and has to be evacuated but lets stay focused on the big picture here.

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Brave by Irene Trimble

Goodreads Blurb: An epic adventure set in the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland. Determined to carve her own path in life, a skilled archer named Princess Merida defies a sacred age-old custom–and inadvertently unleashes a beastly curse upon the kingdom. To set things right, Merida embarks on a perilous quest and discovers the meaning of true bravery.

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: I think I may ship Merida and Young MacGuffin now. What? What do you mean that’s not what I was supposed to take away from the story? You can’t tell me how to feel. 😁

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