I realize I’m asking a lot when I want my Pride and Prejudice sequels to measure up to Jane Austen’s original. I mean, she is Jane Austen, and she had a very singular way with words. Now, the ones that really bug me are the stories where the author goes for High Drama, in a […]
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In the last book in the series, our heroine had finally found her true identity – Ashalind na Pendran, who had run free from the lands of the Faeran when the gates that connected that fair land and the land of mortals were closed and bound by the orders of the Raven Prince, younger brother
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So I’m on vacation this week, but I’ll be posting pretty much nothing of any interest, because I managed to come down with a nasty head cold, and have spent most of the week on the couch, surgically attached to a kleenex box. One of the last things I did before lethargy completely claimed me
In the first book of this trilogy, a youth was discovered, mute, and disfigured outside Isse Tower. Through the course of that book, the youth discovered she was a she, and went on adventures throughout the lands of Erith. Near the end, she met a Diannen warrior named Thorn, and fell madly in love with
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Sir Nicholas Beauvallet, one of the favorite knights of Queen Elizabeth I, meets the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva when he raids the ship carrying her and her father back from the New World to Spain. On a whim, he brings the two back to Spain, and vows that he will be back
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Yeah, I’ve been bad about recording the CSA this year. Last week (another bad picture week)’s haul was: basil, new potatoes, baby carrots (real ones!), lettuce, frisee, zucchini, peas and scallions. This week’s haul (above) was: peas, lettuce, new potatoes, tomatoes (yay!), zucchini and yellow zucchini, carrots, and scallions. I also had my first harvest
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Keladry of Mindelan is finally a knight, and with war with Scanra on the horizon, she journeys north, expecting to see battle. Instead, she’s assigned as the commander of a refugee camp. Even she has to admit it’s a job she’s perfect for, but she feels like she’s not doing enough to help the battle
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I read young adult books with some frequency, and I’ve discovered many of my favorite authors in that category well after I left the demographic. Tamora Pierce is one that I’ve been reading since I was, in fact, a young adult. I think the thing I love most about her books is how well she
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The White Tyger is the third book in the series that began with A Princess of Roumania. Miranda Popescu had been sent at a very young age into an alternate reality where the isle of England hadn’t sunk into the ocean, the American colonies aren’t a back water frontier, and Romania is a small, relatively
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