The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 98

Brotherhood by Mike Chen

Goodreads Blurb: The Clone Wars have begun. Battle lines are being drawn throughout the galaxy. With every world that joins the Separatists, the peace guarded by the Jedi Order is slipping through their fingers. After an explosion devastates Cato Neimoidia, the jewel of the Trade Federation, the Republic is blamed and the fragile neutrality of the planet is threatened. The Jedi dispatch Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the Order’s most gifted diplomatic minds, to investigate the crime and maintain the balance that has begun to dangerously shift.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: An illuminating book, Mike Chen keenly weaves in ideas that were explored in “legends” , into the context of the current Star Wars Canon. An ideal book for anyone who enjoyed the Clone Wars, the Prequels, or just Star Wars in general 😁

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 97

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Goodreads Blurb: The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Well written, and a fascinating read. Would be a five star review except…wow, the…er…Elves are a lot more racist then I remember. Why are we meant to like these people again?

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 96

The Dark Fields / Limitless by Alan Glynn

Goodreads Blurb: Imagine a drug that makes your brain function with perfect efficiency, tapping into your most fundamental resources of intelligence and drive, releasing all the passive knowledge you’d ever accumulated. A drug that made you focused, charming, fast, even attractive. Eddie Spinola is on such a drug.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: A deep dark look into the nature of addiction, the danger of big pharmaceutical companies, and the twisted nature of the stock market. Honestly I’d recommend this book over the film, which really is a lesser creature once you’ve seen the original.

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The Wee Archive – The Wee Writing Lassie and Ailish Sinclair present “Meet Ariel” Question 7

The Wee Writing Lassie and Ailish Sinclair present “Meet Ariel” – Question 7: If push came to shove, what would they say is their greatest flaw

This is something else that changes through the book. At one point Ariel will wonder if she’s been irrevocably damaged by her upbringing and left unable to communicate properly. However, nearer the start of the story, she believes that she has no choreographic ability and sees this as a major flaw and problem.

Excerpt from Ariel: Dancing on TV

“I’m sensing drama here,” says Justin as he arrives beside us, followed closely by Nigel and the notebook, and a woman with a large portable camera.

“I’ve never done choreography before,” I tell the producer. “I’ve only just started learning pas de deux.”

“It’s all a journey, darling,” he says, then doing a double take. He’s seen my hand, but he’s not horrified; if anything, he’s excited. “You’re Ariel. Oh yes, this is good. Stick to her,” he orders the camera woman. “Nigel! Write this down: oh the pain of youth, the sighing sadness… no, cut that. Start again: a young woman, beautiful, talented, just starting out in her dancing life, is suddenly the victim of a crime so terrible, so heinous, that it cannot be detailed for legal reasons.”

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 95

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

Goodreads Blurb: 1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.

When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: A story of pirates and beekeepers. This was a very good book, although that should probably go without saying by now. So I won’t talk about the pros, or the clever literary techniques on display. No, that’s not what’s going to keep you reading … it’ll be the characters. You are going to love these characters, and I think there’s not anything better to say about a book than that 💜

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 94

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Goodreads Blurb: An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: I’ll say one thing, and one thing only…this was much better than the movie, and I loved the movie 😁

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 93

Redshirts by John Scalzi

Goodreads Blurb: Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It’s a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship’s Xenobiology laboratory.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: A tremendously funny book, with some genuinely heartfelt moments that will make you sob. This was a really lovely surprise.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 92

Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt by Geraldine Pinch

Goodreads Blurb: From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination. Now, in Egyptian Mythology , Geraldine Pinch offers a comprehensive introduction that untangles the mystery of Egyptian Myth.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Man there were a lot of weird baby stories in ancient Egyptian Mythology – it says something about your Mythos when the Mpreg story is the least … well… certainly not the most weird.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 91

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Goodreads Blurb: Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again. Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: I enjoyed this much more than the film – it was one of the strangest reads yet and that is saying something 😁😇

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 90

Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir

Goodreads Blurb: Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent–and dangerous–courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set against the cultural, social, and political background of his glittering court.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: And in new news … Henry the Eighth was a clean freak. That was not the fact I was expecting to learn when I started this book.

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