David Scrimshaw rated Secret Garden (Children's Classics): 5 stars
Secret Garden (Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden has awakened the spirits of four generations of children to the hope of growth and rebirth as …
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An avid sci-fi and fantasy reader who sometimes does historical fiction or even mainstream.
You might notice that most of my reviews are 5 stars. That's because if I start reading a book that doesn't engage me, I stop reading it. Life is too short. I've realized that it's not fair to review a book I haven't read and nobody really needs to hear why I didn't get into a book especially when they might like it.
My goals with reviews are to be brief and give other potential readers an idea of why they might like the book. I leave it to the marketing people and other reviewers to describe the plots.
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David Scrimshaw rated The Hobbit: 4 stars
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends …
David Scrimshaw rated The Night Circus: 3 stars
Erin Morgenstern: The Night Circus (Hardcover, 2011, Doubleday)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the …
David Scrimshaw rated The facts in the departure of Miss Finch: 3 stars
![Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein, Michael Zuli, Michael Zulli: The facts in the departure of Miss Finch (Hardcover, 2006, Dark Horse, Publishers Group UK [distributor])](/images/thumbnails/covers/eda47bc7-ee51-4098-acc5-f005ac266ab2/c2130a8724d110ef1c886dddfd5aeeb3.webp)
The facts in the departure of Miss Finch by Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein, Michael Zuli, and 1 other
David Scrimshaw rated Glory Season: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Protector (Known Space): 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Mind Games: 5 stars
Eric Wallace: Mind Games (2000, Hachette)
Mind Games by Eric Wallace (Mister Terrific, Volume 1)
David Scrimshaw rated The Graveyard Book: 5 stars
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural …
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought series Book 2) by Vernor Vinge
From inside cover Tor First Edition March 1999:
Thirty thousand years before the events of A Fire upon the …
David Scrimshaw rated The Line of Polity: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Cat's Cradle: 4 stars
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate …
David Scrimshaw rated Burning chrome: 5 stars
Burning chrome by William F. Gibson
Kiberpanko rinkinukas, prasideda Džoniu Mnemoniku...
David Scrimshaw rated Virtual Light: 5 stars
Virtual Light by William F. Gibson (Bridge Trilogy, #1)
‘Chevette never stole things, or anyway not from other people, and definitely not when she was working.’
So how's …