Read for the 2010 YA Reading Challenge. Tally is an Ugly, just shy of her sixteenth birthday, when she’ll have an operation to make her Pretty. Once you’re Pretty, it’s your job to party all day, with no cares in the world. Tally’s one of the youngest in her class, so most of her friends […]
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This book grew out of a question that the author and illustrator (a wife and husband pair) would often ask people in their travels: what do you eat when you’re by yourself? The variety of answers is endless. This is an interesting look at how we view food. For some people, the answer is something
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I hadn’t realized, but I actually completed the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge with the last book I read, as I’d included an extra book, just in case. So, I’ve managed to top the Fascinated Level by one. I’ve decided not to go up to the next level (and read 12 books), as the TBR tub
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Read for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. Mollie Peer is the second in a series of books set in late 19th century Maine, about the Moosepath League, five men who somehow manage to stumble into grand adventures. Mollie Peer is a reporter for the Portland Argus, relegated to the society column because she’s a woman.
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Solstice Wood is a sequel to Winter Rose, and it’s also an interesting study of the variability of the author’s writing style. In the present day, Sylvia Lynn, the great-great-great granddaughter of Rois in Winter Rose, is called back to Lynn Hall when her grandfather Liam dies. Sylvia left Lynn Hall as soon as she
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Read for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. I will freely admit to having barely any preconceptions of this book, going into it. I’d seen it mentioned in a couple of book blogs, and was intrigued by the idea of reading of 14th century life in Norway, written by a Norwegian (a Nobel-prize winning Norwegian author,
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Read for the 2010 YA Reading Challenge. I’ve come to the end of another series that I’ve very much enjoyed. I’d been both anticipating and dreading finally reading the The Singing – it’s nice to see a story to a satisfying conclusion, but also sad that there are no new tales to look forward to.
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This is the sixth book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, and because I’m also watching the True Blood series on television, I’m to the point where the two story lines have diverged enough that it’s strange reading ahead in the novels, and seeing things that would never be able to happen in the world of
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Charles de Lint does high fantasy. There’s not a hint of Newford or any other urban influence in sight! Cerin was a fairly ordinary seventeen-year-old boy, raised by a village witch in the High Downs. His entire life is changed when he meets the maid of the Grey Rose, the most beautiful maid he has
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Read for the Graphic Novel Reading Challenge. Well, I think I’ve found a new addition to my short list of graphic novels or collections I’d recommend to someone trying to sample the genre. The different books within this collection are basically short story vignettes of the lives of some of the superheroes and regular people
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