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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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
R.I.P IV Reading Challenge 9/1/09 – 10/31/09 Read More »
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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Read for the RIP IV and Vampire Reading Challenges. This book is best summed up as: Henry and Mike fight over Vicki, now with the undead! Undead joking aside, this book was clearly the source material whenever anyone on the TV show needed to deal with Henry and Mike’s prickly relationship, and it’s great fun.
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This reading challenge immediately caught my eye. I have a number of classics in my reading queue, and it seemed like the perfect excuse to dust off that portion of my virtual TBR pile. The challenge is to read just one book. (There’s a higher level to read four books, but I tend to read
Really Old Classics Challenge 11/1/2009 – 2/28/2010 Read More »
Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. Jenny is a thirteen-year-old from New York City whose world is turned upside down when her mother marries an Englishman. The next thing she knows, she and her mother have moved to a farm in Dorset, and she’s acquired two new step-brothers. What follows is a combination ghost
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Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. In Cambridge, during the reign of Henry II, four children have been murdered. The town’s Jews have been wrongly accused of the murders. They’ve been given sanctuary by the sheriff, and are now trapped in the castle under threat of death by the townspeople outside. So Henry sends
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Arthur Penhaligon is a normal boy who was never meant to be a hero. In fact, he should have died, except his life was saved by the sudden arrival a key that’s shaped like the minute hand of a clock. Arthur discovers that this key belongs to Mister
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