The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 178

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Goodreads Blurb: The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. They settle into a house made of sod on the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds them a sturdier house, with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and Mary go to school, help with the chores around the house, and fish in the creek. Pa’s fiddle lulls them all to sleep at the end of the day. But then disaster strikes—on top of a terrible blizzard, a grasshopper infestation devours their wheat crop. Now the family must work harder than ever to overcome these challenges.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Even better than the previous book in the series – even if it’s not quite as famous 😁⭐️

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 177

Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller

Goodreads Blurb: In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before—Caroline Ingalls, “Ma” in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books.

In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril.

The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone, sickness tended without the aid of doctors, and babies birthed without the accustomed hands of mothers or sisters. But Caroline’s new world is also full of tender joys. In adapting to this strange new place and transforming a rough log house built by Charles’ hands into a home, Caroline must draw on untapped wells of strength she does not know she possesses.

For more than eighty years, generations of readers have been enchanted by the adventures of the American frontier’s most famous child, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in the Little House books. Now, that familiar story is retold in this captivating tale of family, fidelity, hardship, love, and survival that vividly reimagines our past.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Little House, now with twice the depression 😁

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 176

Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

Goodreads Blurb: There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we’d better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son… a wizard squared… a source of magic… a Sourcerer.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: This was the first Discworld book I ever read when I was a kid. And you always fear when you come back to a book as an adult that it’s never going to be as good as you remember it. Thank all the Discworld Gods that didn’t end up being the case – if anything it was better 😁

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 175

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown

Goodreads Blurb: In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors.

In this gripping narrative, Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most infamous events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah’s journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Goodreads Review: This is a fucking Amazing Book – told full the form of a kind of narrative nonfiction it takes you into the world and lives of the Donner Party in a way I’ve never experienced before. Would read again.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 174

Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things by Breanne Randall

Goodreads Blurb: In the small town of Gold Springs, Calliope Petridi and her two sisters carefully guard the secret of their magic and the price they must pay to practice it: memories. The more powerful the magic, the greater the memory required.

Luckily, all Calliope wants to do is forget. Forget the mother who left them without a trace. Forget the cracks in her relationships with her judgmental oldest sister, Thalia, and her distant middle sister, Eurydice. Forget about the very cost of her magic. And most of all, forget the way the love of her life shattered her heart two years ago.

But when an ancient evil awakens in their town, the fragile thread that holds the sisters together breaks. As their magic slowly begins to fade, Calliope accidentally binds herself to an annoyingly handsome leader of a rival coven infamous for their ruthless pursuit of power.

Battling a sizzling chemistry to a man she can’t trust, Calliope needs to confront her sisters and the painful memories of her past, dark family secrets, and ancient magic in order to keep the town and all she loves safe. But will she have anything left of herself?

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: A world of teas, baking and magic is the village that these three sisters make their home. These three witches. A moving tale that speaks of the strong bonds of sisterhood, love and the deceptive lie of prejudice. Well worth a read. My only warning would be that the main character is very, very dumb.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 173

America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock

Goodreads Blurb: Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author and television presenter, has made it his life’s work to find out — and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion.We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago – amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere.Hancock’s research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient ‘New World’ cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected ‘Old World’ cultures. Have archaeologists focussed for too long only on the ‘Old World’ in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the ‘New World’?America The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilisation is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock’s body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: This is an Amazing Book – really lets you get a glimpse into the true potential of what humanity has always been capable of. Warning: may leave reader with a strong hatred for Walmart.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 172

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

Goodreads Blurb: 1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon) are all grown up and haven’t seen each other since their fateful, final case in 1977. Andy, the tomboy, is twenty-five and on the run, wanted in at least two states. Kerri, one-time kid genius and budding biologist, is bartending in New York, working on a serious drinking problem. At least she’s got Tim, an excitable Weimaraner descended from the original canine member of the team. Nate, the horror nerd, has spent the last thirteen years in and out of mental health institutions, and currently resides in an asylum in Arkham, Massachusetts. The only friend he still sees is Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star. The problem is, Peter’s been dead for years.

The time has come to uncover the source of their nightmares and return to where it all began in 1977. This time, it better not be a man in a mask. The real monsters are waiting.

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Just because something sounds stupid doesn’t mean it’s wrong. And dismissing it out of hand doesn’t make you clever, it could make you dead. A true lesson on the dangers of arbitrary scepticism, with an ending you won’t see coming. Worth reading. However if you’re looking for a unique subversion of the Scooby-doo-genre honestly most of what this book did, some form of Scooby Doo itself has already done.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 171

Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

Goodreads Blurb: There’s no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumours of black magic in the Windy City.

As Harry adjusts to his new role, another problem arrives in the form of the tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend, all grown-up and already in trouble. Her boyfriend is the only suspect in what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago, but it’s all in a day’s work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob….

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: This was a lot more action heavy than I thought it would be – not that that’s a bad thing, it’s just I would have liked a little more time for someone to actually express remorse for what she’s done. Here it feels more like implied remorse – and I need it more spelled out for me if I’m going to continue to like this character going forward.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 170

The Mystery Knight by George R. R. Martin

Goodreads Blurb: The Mystery Knight is a novella published in 2010 as part of the Warriors anthology, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. It is the third in the series of “Dunk and Egg” stories. Previous stories are The Hedge Knight and The Sworn Sword.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: “I begin to understand why your father was so willing to be rid of you.” – I don’t care if he’s creepy as all seven hells, Bloodraven is the best 😁

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The Sworn Sword by George R. R. Martin

Goodreads Blurb: The Sworn Sword is a novella by George R. R. Martin that first appeared in the Legends II anthology series. This is the second in the series of Dunk and Egg stories.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: I think I’d like to go to the wall too, I hear it’s tall 😁

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