The Great White rained radiation from the skies, and much of the world was destroyed. What remained untouched were the lands far from the large cities. The people there were mostly farmers, and banded together to survive after the terrible holocaust. Over time, it became clear that the land and people had not been entirely […]
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Alice Tanner sometimes has dreams of life in the past. When she’s invited by a friend to help in an archaeological dig in the south of France, she finds herself in an oddly familiar landscape, and in the center of activities that will bring to a conclusion events that began in the 13th century. Alais
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With Christmas quickly approaching, which will inevitably bring a drain on my reading time, I’m going to call it a day on the Vampire Reading Challenge. The goal was to read two vampire books in 2009. I finished that so quickly that I decided to see how many I could read this year. I managed
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. Victoria Grantworth is a typical eighteen-year old member of the aristocracy in 19th-century England – concerned with making her debut, and finding a husband. However, she’s also a member of the Gardella family, where one member in every generation is called upon to fight vampires. Victoria answers the calling
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This book is one of the Elemental Masters series, where the author has reinterpreted fairy tales in slightly more modern times, and where the main characters are in some way involved with the elemental magic of Fire, Water, Air and Earth. The Gates of Sleep is Sleeping Beauty, set in late Victorian England. (I’m actually
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Another challenge down! For this challenge, I decided to go the Devotee route, which was to read six books in six categories and watch one movie. I read/watched: With the exception of Coraline, I had all of these books lying about the house, as my BF is a huge Neil Gaiman fan. I was actually
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Read for the Dream King Challenge. The illustrated script to the movie Mirrormask features Dave McKean’s storyboards for the movie alongside the script. There’s also a forward by Neil Gaiman, as well as an appendix containing the original back and forth conversations between the two that formed the basis for the movie idea. The movie
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. I’ll admit I was actually more than a little pleased when Paperspine inexplicably leapt my queue and sent me the next Blood Ties book. Due to certain events that happened in the last book, I was quite curious to see what would happen next in the Vicki/Fitzroy/Cellucci saga. I’m
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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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