I’m done with the 2009 YA Reading Challenge, slightly ahead of schedule. I read: In the group were one regular fiction, three historical fiction, one historical fiction/fantasy hybrid, one post-apocalyptic/sci fi book, one urban fantasy, and five fantasy books. If someone hosts this challenge again next year, I think I’m going to challenge myself to […]
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Most of Donna Jo Napoli’s books draw from fairy tale or folklore backgrounds, but Daughter of Venice is a straight historical fiction story, something I tend not to run into as often in my young adult reading. Donata, with her twin sister Laura, is the second oldest daughter
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. In the Twelve Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to be the Chrestomanci – an enchanter charged with making sure magic isn’t misused among the different worlds. This book is an omnibus of two of the Chrestomanci books. In the first (Charmed Life), when
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I cast on my November Sockdown socks today. The pattern is Chrissy Gardner’s Tilting Cable Socks from the Winter 2007 Interweave Knits. I’m using some Plymouth Happy Feet in a tealy green colorway. I can already tell these are going to take a little while, because of the cables. I tend to grasp my work
Magic and the Modern Girl is the last book in a series about Jane Madison, who was a perfectly normal modern-day girl until the day she discovered a magical library in the basement of her new home, and that she could use it, because she’s a witch. While definitely a fantasy-based story, this is also
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Sixteen-year-old Sam’s life is going pretty well. School’s not bad, he’s actually starting to think about what he might want to do with his life, and he’s dating Alicia, a really cool and pretty girl who he wouldn’t have thought he had a chance with. And then she
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Read for the Dream King Reading Challenge. This book would be an interesting read for anyone that wants a peek instead of Neil Gaiman’s creative process. It features interviews with 27 of his collaborators: editors, artists, inkers and other authors. (It was published in 2004, so you’d need to take that into account for any
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This was meant to be a post about two new projects, but only one that I cast on this weekend decided to stick. I’d cast on some socks for either my father or C’s Christmas present (fortunately, they’re the same shoe size, so I can decide after I’ve made them who gets what), using some
It’s time to wrap up the RIP IV challenge for the year. I decided to do Peril the First, which was to read at least four books in the challenge genres. I hit four pretty quickly, so figured I’d see how many more I could read before the end of the challenge. I’ve now cleaned
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Read for the RIP IV and Vampire Reading Challenges. This is the fifth book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, and it’s quite as enjoyable as the ones that have gone before. One thing I’ve grown to appreciate about these books is Charlaine Harris’ ability to weave together at least three separate plot lines that by
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