This is a blog reviewing the latest book I have read along with the books I have self-published. Please feel free to follow along with my reading / writing journey.

Book 53 of the Boxcar Children. Can you think of anything worse than stealing someone’s guide dog? I couldn’t. It is ok because the Alden children are on the case. This was a fantastic ride with some good red herrings. Maybe it was just that I really want this perpetrator caught. A quick happy story…

This is a varied collection of short stories that I believe are continuations from each author’s main body of work. To me it was like I was coming in the middle of the movie on each story. They were all well written but I think I need to spend a little more time with each…

Book 13 of a Series of Unfortunate Events. This is the end of the series and I feel it stayed true to the rest of the story. It was a nice close. I was curious how he would end this and am glad that he took this way to end it. I do recommend the…

Book 12 of The Series of Unfortunate Events. This was interesting. The orphans are in the middle of all the villains and good guys. They themselves seem to be straddling that line between good and bad. It will be interesting to see how it all ends in the next book.

Book 41 of Animorphs. This was a fantastic look at a possible future. This was unlike any in the series and still leaves you with more questions than answers. I like that at some level the author is addressing how hard a secret would be to keep inside a household. Regardless a nice dystopian feel…

Book 52 of the Boxcar Children. The Alden’s are off to look for the Lost Dutchman’s Mine. We’ll at least they’re the area. The formula is still working well with plenty of red herrings and suspects along the way. Well written and a little different scenery than normal but they still get their bad guy.

Book 3 of Battle Mage Farmer. This was as gripping and fun as the previous books and leaves me still dying to read book 4. The only downside was that there were a lot of places I thought he could use X spell that he had learned and never did. If you really want a…

Book 40 of the Animorphs series. I really liked this book. Finally some good substance tackling questions on prejudice for the disabled. Not agreeing 100% on the ending but the very end is pretty cool and allows for some really good future prospects. The battle in this one I was a little disappointed with as…

Book 50 in the Boxcar Children series. This was a good one. Almost to the brink of danger but still kept very low key for those young readers. Oh what a different world. I could only imagine people now a days telling young kids, “Oh no problem go explore those underground caves.” Just interesting how…

This was a middle eastern collection of fables. They were great. I had even heard of some of them before. Like many great fables, these had a lot of wisdom in them. I highly recommend the read.