This is a fun book – it’s a middle reader, so goes by pretty fast. The conceit is that Brandon Sanderson is the pen name a young man named Alcatraz, and is using this book to get his story out to those of us in the lands the Librarians are in charge of. They’re in […]
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians – Brandon Sanderson Read More »
It really sucks getting on the bad side of any of the big bads of this world. This particular book features some particularly nasty vampire infighting, with some rather serious implications for everyone else in the area (of course). This does seem like a bit of a placeholder story – nothing is particularly new, just
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I enjoyed this book a lot, partially for reasons outside of the actual story. First – I love that to move the Elemental Masters series into America, the author decided to use national treasure Dolly Parton as inspiration, and that she dedicated the book to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The second is that I work with
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Isaac and Bellatine Yaga haven’t seen each other in years, after Isaac left the family to go off on his own. They’re called together when they receive an inheritance – one they have to go pick up at a warehouse. It’s a house with chicken legs, and if you’ve noticed the last name, you know
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This is a nice, cozy book about a young man who gets hired to be the butler for a man who turns out to be a wizard. There are two interweaving subplots about a cursed amulet, and a scheming niece who’s trying to get the wizard sent to a retirement home so she can turn
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I try not to read too much about books ahead of time, because I really hate being swayed by other people’s opinions. I accidently found out that this is many people’s least favorite book in this trilogy, so I was definitely a little nervous going into it. I can definitely see where people would have
Holy Sister – Mark Lawrence Read More »
I enjoyed this book – it’s the second in a series following the lives of three sisters. They’re both the daughter of a baron in the capital city, but also the Mousai, enforcers for the Thief King, who also happens to be their father. This is Niya’s story, and we get a taste of it
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I am so loving this series. Which is making my resolution to wait until the paperback of the third book comes out very hard to stick to. If I didn’t have a ton of other stuff to read, I’m sure I would have run out and bought the hardcover already. El’s a senior now, and
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This is an interesting overview of the history of Medieval Europe, with the idea that we need to stop referring to it as the Dark Ages. The authors’ main point is that popular history tends to treat the medieval period as a fall from the glory that was the Roman Empire, but it’s better to
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Leave it to Le Guin to write a young adult book that’s a really moving story of slavery and freedom. This book is the story of Gavir, a slave in one of the households in the city of Etra, part of a confederation of cities that constantly seem to be at war with each other,
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