Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. A young man named Jack is sick of working in the clock-work factory and decides to make his fortune in the city. What he doesn’t realize is that the city is Toy City, where the vast majority of the population is toys, and the few humans are […]
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Read for the YA 2009 Reading Challenge. The Books of Pellinor center around Maerad of Pellinor, who was sold into slavery with her mother at a very young age. In the first book of this series, after she has escaped from slavery, and in the course of her adventures, she finds a young boy, who
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Read for the Dream King Reading Challenge. This is a book of short stories that the author notes in the introduction were collected because they would appeal to young people. Only two are previously uncollected, so you’re not going to find much new here, though it’s a nice jaunt back down memory lane. If you
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This is a great book. Started out as a balcony read, which I kept reading late on my last night on vacation, and read in the airport and on the airplane, despite being under the effects of a nearly 12-hour sleep deficit. I couldn’t put it down. Set in Victorian times, this is the story
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I don’t normally go out of my way to read mysteries, especially knitting-based mysteries, but this one had a bright and shiny cover and was prominently placed at the used bookstore, and so caught my eye. It ended up being a perfect beach read (or in my case, balcony read). The book is pretty much
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I’ve finished the my four books for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge II. I read: I noted in my starting entry for this challenge that I signed up because Paperspine had mysteriously decided it was going to send two post-apocalyptic books that weren’t actually near each other in my queue to
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge II. This book focuses on the Abbey of Saint Leobowitz, founded after a nuclear war (called the Flame Deluge) destroys much of the world, in order to save some remnants of civilization. The documents they’re guarding come to be called the Memorabilia, and it’s
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Being the huge Pride and Prejudice fan that I am, I’d signed up for this book from the Early Reviewers list on LibraryThing pretty much before my brain actually consciously recognized what it was. And I was really excited when I was actually chosen to receive it. It’s not a bad read, though Darcy’s not
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. This is the third book of Tanya Huff’s books about ex-cop Vicki Nelson, and her plunge into the supernatural world hidden in Toronto. The story begins when the Egyptology department of the Royal Ontario Museum manages to acquire an unopened sarcophagus. It turns out that the mummy enclosed within
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I’ve finished with Quest the First for the Once Upon a Time III Reading Challenge. First completed challenge of the year! I read: The Nibelungenlied was by far the hardest to get through, but it’s a book I’ve literally had lying around as long as I can remember, so I’m glad I finally sat down
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