I must first admit that I listen to knitting podcasts. And it was through one of those (honestly can’t remember which one anymore – yes, I listen to more than one), that I heard an interview with Laurie Perry. I enjoyed the interview, so when I saw this book on Booksfree, into the queue it […]
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Read for the 2010 Complete Booker Challenge Katie is unhappy in her marriage – not for any one reason, but for a million and one things that have built up over twenty years. Her husband is the self-professed “Angriest Man in Holloway”, and their life together has begun to wear on her. She’s even having
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Read for the 2010 Graphic Novels Challenge This is an aptly titled volume, where so much of the action has to do with Snow and Bigby, and their children. I’ll admit to enjoying having the story line that kept them apart wrapped up, and it’s fun to see the children with names and personalities. It’ll
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Blood Bank is technically the last book of the Blood Ties series by Tanya Huff, and the introduction begins with this rather depressing statement: “Because the Blood books were as much about the relationship between the three protagonists as they were about the metaphysical or the mystery, and because in Blood Debt I had wrapped
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Read for the Historical Fiction and TBR Lite 2010 Reading Challenges. Carter Beats the Devil is set in the early 1920s, in the golden age of magic, when magicians such as Houdini ruled the stage. The story is a novelization of the life of Charles Carter, an actual magician from this period, but appears to
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The Ivory and the Horn is a collection of stories set in Newford, de Lint’s fictional Every City where many of his urban fantasy novels are based. The beauty of Newford is that there are so many shorter stories set there, and it’s easy to ease yourself into this world, and meet the many recurring
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Matchless is a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Little Match Girl”. If you’re familiar with the original non-Disneyfied versions of some of his stories, you’re aware that they don’t always have a particularly happy ending, unless you’re really, really into morality tales. In this story, which Gregory Maguire originally wrote to read aloud
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I feel like it’s entirely too early in the year to be saying this, but I’ve completed my first reading challenge of 2010. Considering it straddled the end of 2009, it’s not surprising, but here I am, surprised. The challenge was to read at least one book written before 1600 anytime between 11/1/09 to 2/28/10.
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Read for the Really Old Classics Challenge. The extra credit assignment for the Really Old Classics Challenge is to read a retelling of a classic. The Palace of Illusions is a retelling of the events in the Mahabharata, one of the great epic works of ancient India, and a major work of Hindu mythology. The
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Read for the 2010 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. Christopher Moore’s books tend to feature a figurative cast of thousands of people with seemingly disparate lives, who collide into some sort of climax at the end of the book. In Practical Demonkeeping, we have Travis, who accidentally summoned the demon Catch, and is traveling around the
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