Read for the Complete Booker 2010 and TBR Lite 2010 Reading Challenges. The Welsh Girl is the story of Esther, a girl from northern Wales, whose village is home to a POW camp during WWII, as well as Karsten, a German soldier who ends up in the camp after surrendering during the invasion of Normandy. […]
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Read for the Graphic Novel Challenge. I have to admit to being what I guess I would have to label as a casual X-Men fan – my knowledge of these characters is from tv and movies. It is a story I’ve enjoyed, but there are so many different series out there it’s hard to know
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Read for the 2010 YA and Historical Fiction Reading Challenges. The Beduin’s Gazelle takes place in the 14th century, in the desert of Northern Africa where the Beduin roamed. It’s the story of cousins Atiyah and Hamila, who were promised to each other at birth. Atiyah has been sent to the city of Fez to
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I have a new bureau (or rather, I have two Ikea boxes that will remain in a boxed state until we can manage a break from the heat on a weekend, but I digress). Since my TBR piles reside on the my bureau, as part of the necessary clean up, I gathered all my to
The HMS Reliant is at sea when it captures a French frigate carrying an unexpected cargo: a nearly ready to hatch dragon’s egg. When the dragon hatches, it bonds with the Reliant’s Captain, Will Laurence, and with Temeraire, Laurence leaves the Navy, and joins the Aerial Corps to defend England against Napoleon’s Army. This particular
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This book, written in 1913, is billed on the cover as the first ever sequel to Jane Austen’s work. It’s definitely an ambitious story. Characters from all six of her completed novels appear within the pages. The action mainly centers around Mr. and Mrs. Darcy, and their interactions with their various friends as they move
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Read for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. I must first confess that I picked this book up because the cover painting is Boreas, one of my two favorite J. W. Waterhouse paintings. That it then turned out to be an Arthurian tale sealed my desire to read it. This book retells the Tristan and Isolde
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This first of Mercedes Lackey’s Elemental magic books is a take on Beauty and the Beast, which takes place in turn of the 20th century San Francisco, just before the great earthquake. Rose Hawkins is the daughter of a Chicago University professor, raised as a scholar, and therefore not quite ready to take her place
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I have to admit right now, I infinitely prefer Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse books to her Aurora Teagarden books. This is the second book in the latter series that I’ve read, and I’m not in a hurry to read more. In this book, one of the elderly members of the now disbanded club that was the
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The Wandering Unicorn is the tale of Melusine, a fairy once married to a medieval French knight, and therefore founder of the house of Lusignan. Due to a curse, she must take the form of a woman with a serpent’s body, and has been chased away from her beloved Raymondin. Though she can no longer
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