Book cover Subtitled, The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, this is a biography of a man that most Americans over 30 grew up watching as children on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which is a show that ran on US public television stations (PBS) for 31 years (1968-2001). I cannot review this book without noting that Fred Rogers means a lot to me, as I watched his show regularly for many years....
This is book one of a three book series (the third book came out earlier this month), and since I've already had good reviews of two other books by this author, I decided to pick up this series as well to see what she had done outside of the Star Wars universe. Book cover Through a ring of stabilized wormholes, large enough for whole ships to pass through, Earth expanded to five other planets....
Book cover Start from one mistake, one that is tragically common - becoming a parent a little to young. From that point, almost everything that can go wrong in someone's life while still making the best possible choice for the circumstance is laid out in the first four chapters of this book. This beginning is a treatise on despair and government anti-poverty programs. The arc doesn't exactly get better from there, but it starts to be framed in a way that shows gratitude for the things that haven't gone completely wrong, though things do continue to go wrong....
Book cover This is the second book that I've reviewed by Naomi Novik, the first was Uprooted. At a high level, there are some parallels between these books, but they are definitely different worlds. Here's a quick overview of the setting: A Jewish girl of about 16 named Miryam lives in a medieval small unwalled town with the name of either Pakel or Pavys, but the residents simply called it town which is a third of the way between two larger cities in the Kingdom of Lithvas....