Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Eff is a twin, and her younger brother is the seventh son of a seventh son, making him a natural born magician with strong powers. Problem is, because of the number of sisters they have, that makes her the thirteenth child, and even some of […]
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Jena is the second of five sisters. They live with their merchant father in the mountains of Transylvania, and they have a secret. On the night of the full moon, as long as they are together, they can open a portal to the Fairy Realm,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Well here’s an interesting combination – an Arthurian post apocalyptic tale. And it’s from the 80s, so it predates the current post-apocalyptic YA trend. The story is set in a boarding school in what used to be called Wales. It’s about 500 years past a
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This is definitely one of the best years for daffodils we’ve had in a while. In other news, I managed to do a bit more gardening today. First were the back yard pots. The pots on the right are the hostas. They’re starting to bud, and I actually transplanted a couple of the larger ones
Read for the Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge. Prudence and Robin have lived all their lives with their father as masqueraders – adventurers on the continent. When they get mixed up in the Jacobite rebellion, and things go badly, their father hatches a plan to allow them to escape. Thus, Peter (Prue) and Kate (Robin) are
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A LibraryThing EarlyReviewers book. Billie has landed her ideal job – assistant to the editor of Delicious! magazine. In no time flat, she’s installed in New York, meeting the absolutely fascinating cast of characters that work at the magazine as well as some of the interesting food sites in the city. But as quickly as
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Ok, it’s slow, and definitely late,but things are happening. By the time I got out last Sunday to rake and bring the pots out of the garage, there were daffodils! It was so cold over the winter, I’m not sure what’s going to come back from the potted perennials. Here’s hoping there’s not too much
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Susanne Whitestone had lived all her life in her father’s Yorkshire manor house. And while she had a happy childhood, it did not involve her father. Susanne’s mother had died in childbirth, and Richard Whitestone had withdrawn into his second floor rooms in grief. Raised
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challange. While this book is now fifty years old, it’s still regarded as a good overview of Norse and German mythology. This is a scholarly work, so don’t go in expecting just stories. There’s an overview of the Northern European worldview, and chapters dedicated to various
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LibraryThing Early Reviewers book. About a year after her husband passed away, one morning, Kate wakes up. While she’s been out on autopilot, her mother in law has taken the reigns – getting Kate’s daughter Devin into a new school, and packing their house up to sell. She’s even given Kate a new job in
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