Archive for the ‘Reviews’

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    Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (Vol. 1) by Mizuki Nomura
    Do you ever get into reading a book so much that you practically want to devour it? How about this question: Does looking at some books fill you with a perverse hunger for their authors’ delicious figures of speech, ironic sense of humor, edge-of-your-seat suspense, heart-rending romance, or delectable mystery so much that you do actually devour the book, page by...
    by Douglas Cobb at July 19th, 2010 at 06:07 pm
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    Loopz by Mattel – Review
    I originally saw this game at the 2010 Toy Fair, and it was interesting to me then.  Now that I actually have it in my possession, I can tell you it is pretty awesome!  It does a lot more than I had originally thought, and my 6-year-old, given the choice, would rather play this than video games.  How long that will last I do not know, but it does speak to the fact...
    by Damon Cap at July 14th, 2010 at 07:07 pm
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    First Toddle – Review
    I owe First Toddle an apology, as I received this as a product to review eons ago.  My wife wrote about it after Toy Fair after seeing it at the show.  I think I personally forgot how long it was going to take my baby to get to 3 months old, as silly as that seems, when I put in the request for the review set.  Now that our baby girl has crossed that 3 month barrier,...
    by Damon Cap at July 12th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
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    Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl by Daniel Pinkwater – Review
     You’ve heard of airplanes, biplanes, planes used by carpenters to plane (shave) wood–but, did you know there might be–even many scientists believe there are–different planes of existence?  Big Audrey, the cat-whiskered girl is the main character of Daniel Pinkwater’s latest funny, adventuresome, and mind-bending novel (full of marvelous...
    by Douglas Cobb at July 12th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
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    All That Lives Must Die by Eric Nylund – Review
    San Francisco’s Paxington Institute ain’t no Hogwarts. I like the Harry Potter books and consider J.K. Rowling an excellent author, but in Eric Nylund’s All That Lives Must Die, his sequel to Mortal Coils, half-Immortal, half-Infernal teen siblings Eliot and Fiona Post find out that failing a test or class at the new high school they’re enrolled...
    by Douglas Cobb at July 12th, 2010 at 11:07 am
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    Blue Jay Girl by Sylvia Ross – Review
    Everyone has a different nature, or personality, and eight year old Blue Jay Girl has an adventurous one that makes her popular and exciting to the other girls in her tribe.  She likes to explore the woods around her village, running and playing with the animals, and once, when she was six, she fell into the river when she was chasing dragonflies.  Her aunt almost drowned...
    by Kerry at July 8th, 2010 at 09:07 am
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    Yakima – Skybox 16 Review – Because my Mazda CX-9 was too small
    I made a bit of a mistake.  When looking for a car after having our third child, I thought that we would be able to pack all the kids up and store all of our gear for the vacation in our new 2010 Mazda CX-9.  How wrong I was.  After a few weeks with the car, I knew that I was in for it when it came time for vacation this summer.  Considering I could not return the...
    by Damon Cap at July 6th, 2010 at 09:07 am
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    Wizards At War by Diane Duane – Review
    What happens when wizardry stops working? Can the end of the world as we know it be far behind? The young teen wizards Nita and her younger sister, Dairine, fellow wizard Christopher (Kit) Rodriguez, and his dog, Ponch find out in the eighth novel in Diane Duane’s “Young Wizards” series, Wizards At War. It’s the longest of the novels that make...
    by Douglas Cobb at July 5th, 2010 at 08:07 am
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    The Yggyssey by Daniel Pinkwater – Review
    The ghosts of the La Brea Tarpits Woman, Rudolph Valentino, and Harry Houdini have gone missing. Yggdrasil Birnbaum, the heroine of The Yggyssey,is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, stop more of the ghosts of Los Angeles from disappearing, and bring them back from wherever they’ve gone. To do this, her adventures will take her to an alternate dimension...
    by Douglas Cobb at June 27th, 2010 at 07:06 pm
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    Can You See What I See? Bingo Link by Gamewright – Review
    We have been playing this game for a while on Family Game Night and I really want to make sure I let the world aware of how fun this game really is.  As you can tell from the description below the game has you calling out a picture on your board and trying to match two of the same edge colors with a line of covered pictures.  The strategy is that you want to make sure...
    by Damon Cap at June 25th, 2010 at 08:06 am
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