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Dave Barry’s ‘Class Clown’: A Journey Through His Hilarious New Memoir

I have been a fan of Dave Barry’s since middle school. I own just about all of his books, many of them signed and personally inscribed, and have been lucky to have met him several times and had some correspondence with him over the years since. When he hand-wrote me a letter when I was a sophomore in high school and asked him about his career, he solidified my choice to dedicate my life to the wri

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	The New Guard Volume IX by Shanna McNair (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Scott Wolven (Consulting Editor), Julie Carpenter (Editorial Assistant) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Pathway (Quabbin Quills Anthology Book 4) by Garrett Zecker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steven Michaels (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), James Thibeault (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cascades and Currents (Quabbin Quills Anthology Book 5) by Steven Michaels (Goodreads Author), Karen Vongchairueng, Evelyn O’Dea it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time's Reservoir (Quabbin Quills Anthology Book 1) by Garrett Zecker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steven Michaels (Goodreads Author), Clare Kirkwood 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Wild Winds (Quabbin Quills Anthology Book 6) by Steven Michaels (Goodreads Author), Skylar Winn, Olly Lefsyk 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Mountains and Meditations (Quabbin Quills Anthology Book 2) by Garrett Zecker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ned Green, Jon Bishop 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voices of the Valley (Quabbin Quills Anthology Book 3) by Steven Michaels (Goodreads Author), Garrett Zecker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dennis King 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wandering Roots (Quabbin Quills Anthology Book 7) by Steven Michaels (Goodreads Author), Garrett Zecker (Goodreads Author) (editor), James Thibeault 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Bone, Vol. 8: Treasure Hunters (Bone, #8)

by Jeff Smith

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Garrett Zecker said: " I picked these up when my middle son and I decided to read them at bedtime and see what everyone was talking about. Over the past three years, we blasted through these great books – books that are strangely banned in some places in the US. When they I picked these up when my middle son and I decided to read them at bedtime and see what everyone was talking about. Over the past three years, we blasted through these great books – books that are strangely banned in some places in the US. When they are forced from their home, Boneville, three cousins that look something more anthropomorphic Casper the Friendly Ghosts need to figure out what to do next. Their cartoonish goofy attitudes are certainly why they were dropped from the community – and next they must deal with the wild, uncertain wilderness in their certainly funny way.

The most notable aspect of these comics is the variety of art styles that Smith combines in telling this story. It is a strange amalgamation of cartoony Warner Bros characters, more streamlined Disney ones, and occasionally a hero or villain straight out of regular comic heros, and they all live in a Discworld/Lord of the Rings-type universe that has villains, weather, citizens of distant lands, and all manner of weirdos getting in the way of our three main protagonists that embody the Three Stooges character tropes: Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone. There are cow races, royal lineages, romances between humans and... uh... whatever the Bone cousins are. At every turn they are chased by rat creatures and their hooded disciples bent on undermining the evolving goals of our main characters. It makes for some brilliant fight scenes, near escapes, and my favorite, sentimental, quiet introspection under the stars.

While I have not completely finished reading all of the available volumes of BONE, nearing the end it makes the most sense to write about all of them and review them all at once as the storyline runs through all of the books and the delineations just separate the overall story beats. This is less about the story and very much about the solid characters and beautiful illustration styles that serve as not only a backbone to the story, but as an homage to the characters and situations they are (at times) clearly based on. Inventive and original, BONE is a delight, and I find it interesting that the parts that touch me the most tend to be those quiet moments that my youngster likely doesn’t entirely grasp. We’ve had a wonderful time with it so far and look forward to finishing the final two books. ...more "

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

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“Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

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“Wonderful," he said. "Tell me. Which books in the Bible do you favor?"
"Oh, I favors 'em all," Pa said. "But I mostly like Hezekiel, Ahab, Trotter, and Pontiff the Emperor."
The Old Man frowned. "I don't recollect I have read those," he said.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

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