Read for the RIP IV and Patricia A. McKillip Challenges. “She opened her drawing pad and sat there, drawing the stairs she remembered from her dream. They began in the tide, each ebbing wave revealing another step, and then another. As she drew, the mists overhead blew inland and sunlight streaked the water. She made […]
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I’ve finished the first of my year long reading challenges! I definitely preferred the TBR Lite format to the full TBR treatment I did last year. You wouldn’t think reading 12 books I’d been meaning to read anyway would be stressful, but setting a list at the beginning of the year turned out to be
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Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. I’m enough of a word geek to be familiar with the Oxford English Dictionary, but I admit to knowing next to nothing about its history. Considering the scope of the dictionary, it’s not surprising that it has a long and interesting story behind it. The OED was
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. The fourth installment of the Sookie Stackhouse novels has Sookie involved in a war between the vampires of Shreveport, and a coven of witches (who also happen to be Weres) that move in and try to take over the vampire’s territory. The vampire’s leader, Eric, has lost his memory
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I know time is flying when it’s already time to start the R.I.P. IV Reading Challenge. This year, I’ll be doing Peril the 1st, which is to read at least four books in the mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror, or supernatural categories. So far, I’ve got the following queued up or in my
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Elvenblood is the sequel to the Elvenbane, and I went into this read thinking it was a reread, but as I read along, I found I really didn’t remember where the story the story was going, so I think this was the first the time I read this book. After rereading Elvenbane earlier this year,
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Read for LibraryThing Early Reviewer Books I have to admit that I requested this book through the LibraryThing Early Reviewer’s selection list because I saw the name Bill Bryson on the cover, and I’ve always enjoyed his books. I figured a new Bill Bryson book was worth checking out, and something about places off the
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Read for the Dream King Reading Challenge. Coraline is the story of Coraline Jones, who discovers a secret door in her new home that leads to a mirror version of reality where her Other Mother is waiting to welcome her. Naturally, all is not as it appears, and the adventure begins. I’m afraid that since
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Read for the Patricia A. McKillip Reading Challenge. “They said later that he rode into the village on a horse the color of buttermilk, but I saw him walk out of the wood. I was kneeling at the well; I had just lifted water to my lips. The well was one of the wood’s secrets:
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Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. Cloud Atlas has a little bit of story for everyone. There’s the 19th century clerk on a ship in the South Pacific, an early 20th century aspiring composer trying to worm his way into the home and life a musical genius, a reporter from the 1970s investigating
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