https://jonathanmckay.com/tags/children/Recent content in Children on Jonathan McKayHugoen-usSat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-lost-colony-artemis-fowl-%235/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-lost-colony-artemis-fowl-%235/Infinitely better than the movie.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/east-of-eden/Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/east-of-eden/Hits like a hammer, but jumps the shark on the 3rd generation.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-rose-field-the-book-of-dust-%233/Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-rose-field-the-book-of-dust-%233/Incomplete Selves Across Time My read of Amber Spyglass 20 years ago was less a story and more an involuntary life timestamp. I remember where I was whenhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/daring-to-be-different/Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/daring-to-be-different/Daring to be Different Completed: March 19, 2025 Last edited time: February 9, 2026 1:39 PM Status: OBE Type: Bookhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-sunlit-man/Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-sunlit-man/1st Book of 2025: Entirely Forgettable. Read through this in one sleepless post-surgery night, and it just felt like a draft of a side-plot from ahttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/of-mice-and-men/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/of-mice-and-men/Last week was at my college alma mater, and I was surprised at the memories that came back to me. The campus was permeated with fear and self criticismhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/six-of-crows-six-of-crows-%231/Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/six-of-crows-six-of-crows-%231/Fantasy Heist genre with characters interesting enough to keep turning the pages. Read it out of order, but the characters were interesting enough tohttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-hero-of-ages-mistborn-%233/Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-hero-of-ages-mistborn-%233/Sanderson fantasy is what Audible 3.5x was invented for. 3.5 stars.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/mistborn-the-final-empire-mistborn-%231/Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/mistborn-the-final-empire-mistborn-%231/Certainly a page turner, although the parallels to to Stormlight Archives are clear. It's like Sanderson has found a set of chords that will attracthttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/car-goes-far-i-like-to-read/Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/car-goes-far-i-like-to-read/Kinda disappointed by the 1 star reviews here. The sparse words and for some reason strange illustrations have made this my son's favorite book, despitehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-secret-commonwealth-the-book-of-dust-%232/Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-secret-commonwealth-the-book-of-dust-%232/74th book of 2019. Not disappointing. Picking up a beloved childhood series as an adult can be a gamble. It's like rewatching films in high definitionhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/thunderhead-arc-of-a-scythe-%232/Sun, 03 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/thunderhead-arc-of-a-scythe-%232/68th book of 2019 When I'm bored and on a plane, sometimes I write book reviews (i.e. right now). Other times I watch marvel movies. This book fitshttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/scythe-arc-of-a-scythe-%231/Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/scythe-arc-of-a-scythe-%231/67th book of 2019. Scythe -- an interesting, somewhat meditative YA scifi novel on death. The premise was fun, and I appreciate how the author went tohttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/to-kill-a-mockingbird/Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/to-kill-a-mockingbird/A great American novel I missed when too busy reading Dragonlance growing up, now it's time to catch up. For the first 2/3 of the book, I wasn't sure whathttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-ice-dragon/Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-ice-dragon/Worst grrm book I’ve read.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/lost-stars-star-wars/Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/lost-stars-star-wars/Did you ever wonder, after seeing the episode 7 trailer, how a star destroyer could crash into a planet without disintegrating mid flight? Turns out thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-martian/Sat, 13 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-martian/As good as everyone says it is. Don't let the weird looking cover put you off. Go read it now. If you don't believe me, go watch the trailer for thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/little-brother-little-brother-%231/Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/little-brother-little-brother-%231/Fun, but squarely in the uncanny valley between fiction and non fiction. Taken as a collection of short vignettes, it was entertaining. However, thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/i-am-number-four-lorien-legacies-%231/Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/i-am-number-four-lorien-legacies-%231/Yes I read this book - don't judge me. OK judge me. I read it 6 months ago and I'm really having a hard time remembering anything interesting orhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/catching-fire-the-hunger-games-%232/Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/catching-fire-the-hunger-games-%232/还行吧。我觉得这本书的语言水平适合我，但是我们为什么需要等到最后一部才看饥饿游戏的事件呢？