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Too Many Books

I seem to be finishing a lot of books as of late, which means this post is going to be pretty long, even if the individual reviews aren’t. Bear with me, I guess. The Way Home, by Peter S. Beagle … Continue reading

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The Search for More Mushrooms

Annabel, by L. Frank Baum – I noticed some definite similarities between this one and some of the other Baum non-fantasies that were included in Oz-Story Magazine. Like Sam Steele’s Adventures on Land and Sea, it has a boy who … Continue reading

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Sticker Fun

I finished Paper Mario: Sticker Star last weekend, and I’m only just writing about it now. It’s fairly slight, especially for a role-playing game, but still pretty fun. I wrote earlier about how you can only make moves by using … Continue reading

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Who Put the Thwomp in the Thwomp-Ba-Domp-Ba-Domp?

Moving on down the list of Mario enemies (well, figuratively speaking, anyway; I’m not actually working from a list, and I’m not sure how many more I’ll write posts about), we come to the Thwomps, giant stone blocks with faces … Continue reading

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Super Scario Bros.

Since I’m loosely following a Halloween theme with many of my posts this month, today I’m going to look at the spookier enemies in the Mario series. Perhaps the first qualifying being is the Phanto, a sort of animated theatrical … Continue reading

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