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Lester Papadopoulos closes it out

The Trials of Apollo : The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan

January 12, 2021 by Manimama Leave a Comment

We’re big fans of Rick Riordan in my house- my son has been re-reading various of his book series for the last four years pretty much non-stop. His latest book, The Tower of Nero, completes the five-book Trials of Apollo series and wraps up the Greek and Roman mythologies he began in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In this series, the god Apollo is punished by Zeus by being cast down to Earth in the form of a pimply, flabby teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. Apollo has lost his powers […]

What a way to start the year

You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Daria

January 12, 2021 by Manimama Leave a Comment

After failing miserably to keep up with reviews last year, I’m hoping to do better with this Cannonball. And so to start off my year of reading I picked You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Daria. This romance reminded me a lot of Jasmine Guillory’s better books. Jasmine is a soap star looking to get a big break and make more of her career. She lands the lead role on a series for a streaming service and is determined to make the most of it. […]

Parts of two series

Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren

Dirty Rowdy Thing by Christina Lauren

Dark Wild Nights by Christina Lauren

Skin by Dale Mayer

January 27, 2020 by Manimama 2 Comments

The Wild Seasons series by Christina Lauren is a 4-book series. I’m reviewing the first three, and won’t likely be reading on to the fourth. This in no way means that the first three aren’t great. Sweet Filthy Boy is the first in the series. Three childhood friends have just graduated college and take a weekend in Las Vegas to celebrate. Mia is the main protagonist of this installment. She has a distant relationship with her parents and is dreading moving to Boston in […]

Two Stories, Rethought

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

Thor Vol 1: The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron

January 27, 2020 by Manimama Leave a Comment

I’m a big Jane Austen fan and Pride and Prejudice is my favorite of her works. Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld is a modern-day retelling of this classic story that stays pretty faithful to the spirit of the original. Elizabeth Bennet is here re-imagined as a writer for a women’s magazine. She is 38 and living in New York City. She and her elder sister, Jane, unexpectedly return to Cincinnati after their father has a heart attack. They find their family and their childhood home […]

I’m still thinking through this one

When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

January 22, 2020 by Manimama Leave a Comment

I’ve been piecing my thoughts together on this one for a week now. I’m still not sure I can say anything coherent or incisive. Some good, some bad, some icky and some baffling choices in this book. When We Were Vikings is the story of Zelda, a young adult woman who was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. She lives with her brother, Gert, who has been helping to care for her since the death of their mother. Zelda is high-functioning but has very focused interests. […]

An old favorite

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

January 22, 2020 by Manimama Leave a Comment

I read all of Agatha Christie’s books in the years of elementary through high school. Hercule Poirot heavily influenced my idea of what a Frenchman should be, and I read all of his lines in my head through the filter of my French teacher in 5th grade (Miss Marple sounds like my grandmother, but stuffier, in my head). I haven’t picked up one of her mysteries for at least twenty years but my daughter has recently started to be interested in mysteries so I was […]

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