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Peter J.’s Reviews
Peter J.
Webmaster for the Lincoln City Libraries
reviewing for BookGuide since April 2004
Peter’s most recent reviews…
Bob
by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead, with illustrations by Nicholas Gannon (j Mass)
reviewed in September 2022
The Nature of Middle-Earth: Late Writings on the Lands, Inhabitants, and Metaphysics of Middle-Earth
by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Carl Hostetter (823 Tol)
reviewed in September 2022
The music of Saor Patrol
by Saor Patrol (Contemporary Music database)
reviewed in July 2022
The Science of Middle-Earth
edited by Roland Lehoucq, Loic Mangin, and Arnauld Rafaelian (823 Tol)
reviewed in February 2022
Pig
(DVD Pig)
reviewed in December 2021
Crossing in Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships and a Journey to the New World
by David Macaulay (j623.824 Mac)
reviewed in January 2021
The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury (Bradbury)
reviewed in November 2018
The Innocence of Father Brown
by G.K. Chesterton (Chesterton)
reviewed in August 2017
Time and a Word: The YES Story
by Martin Popoff (Music 781.66 Yes)
reviewed in November 2016
Ollie’s Odyssey
by William Joyce (j Joyce)
reviewed in August 2016
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
by J.R.R. Tolkien (829.3 BeoYt)
reviewed in August 2016
Reverse Wine Snob
by Jon Thorsen (641.22 Tho)
reviewed in October 2015
Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
by Grant Petersen (796.6 Pet)
reviewed in August 2012
Once Upon a Time is Enough
by Will Stanton (398.2 Sta)
reviewed in June 2012
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick
by Chris Van Allsburg (813.08 All)
reviewed in May 2012
The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Holidays
by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht (394.26 Piv)
reviewed in February 2011
Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens (DVD Dickens)
reviewed in July 2010
A Lantern in Her Hand
by Bess Streeter Aldrich (Aldrich)
reviewed in May 2010
John Adams
by David G. McCullough (B Ad1m)
reviewed in March 2010
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson (Stevenson)
reviewed in August 2009
The Inkworld Trilogy
by Cornelia Funke (j Funke)
reviewed in July 2009
The History of the The Hobbit
by John D. Rateliff (823 TolYr – 2 volumes)
reviewed in January 2009
The Jeeves and Wooster series
by P.G. Wodehouse (Wodehouse)
reviewed in July 2008
The Mark of Zorro
by Johnston McCulley (McCulley)
reviewed in April 2008
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens (Dickens)
reviewed in February 2008
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
by Ross W. Duffin (Music 784.192 Duf)
reviewed in May 2007
The Mennyms
by Sylvia Waugh (Waugh)
reviewed in February 2007
Till We Have Faces
by C.S. Lewis (Lewis)
reviewed in January 2007
Unfinished Tales
by J.R.R. Tolkien (Tolkien)
reviewed in October 2006
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson (Stevenson)
reviewed in June 2006
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G.K. Chesterton (Chesterton)
reviewed in April 2006
Guitar: An American Life
by Tim Brookes (Music 787.87 Bro)
reviewed in March 2006
The Transitive Vampire
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon (428.1 Gor)
reviewed in January 2006
Griffin & Sabine
by Nick Bantock (Bantock)
reviewed in September 2005
The Tea Lover’s Treasury
by James Norwood Pratt (641.3 Pra)
reviewed in November 2004
Lost Languages
by Andrew Robinson (411 Rob)
reviewed in September 2004
The Book of the Dun Cow
by Walter Wangerin (Wangerin)
reviewed in June 2004
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in 19th Century England
by Daniel Pool (942.08 Poo)
reviewed in May 2004
The Warden
by Anthony Trollope (Trollope)
reviewed in April 2004
Posted to the BookGuide site in October 2006 | Last updated in September 2022