![]() ![]() I’ve made up for that crime today by hosting Day 2 in the book’s all new blog tour. I was a fan of the book back in 2013 when I first ran across it and always felt vaguely sad that I didn’t get a chance to review it. Lively and witty rhymes plus wonderfully demented illustrations reveal how the paleontologists’ infamous rivalry began, and how-despite making genuine and lasting contributions to the field-their mutual obsession with outdoing one another spun out of control. This frenzy of discovery and one-upmanship-known today as the Bone Wars-was a gold rush–like scramble to find the most and “best” dinosaur fossils, thus bringing to glory to their respective home-base universities. The first book in the Unhinged History series is a ripping yarn-full of adventure and deceit-that brings to life the best-known public spat in all of paleontology: the bitter rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. This year, the book has been picked up by Schiffer Publishing. Enterprising souls, they sent it to me then and I rather liked its apology-free mix of fact, fiction, and rhyme. Sticks n’ Stones n’ Dinosaur Bones was originally self-published by creators Ted Enik and G.F. ![]() ![]() As you may know, I’ve a soft spot in my heart for independent publishers and self-published titles. There are a fair number of them out there and how do you choose which ones to feature? But today’s book is kind of special. I don’t usually do straight up blog tours and the reasoning for this is simple. ![]()
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