Read for the Once Upon a Time III and 2009 YA Reading Challenges. Bound is a Cinderella story. However, it’s set in Ming-dynasty China, home of the earliest recorded versions of this classic tale. Xing Xing lives with Step Mother, who was her father’s second wife (even while Xing Xing’s mother, who has since passed […]
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In a presumably future Earth, the powerful Elven lords arrived through a portal from their home world, and subjugated the humans they found in this new land. Their domination is so complete that the humans no longer remember their past civilization, or that they themselves have magic different than that of the Elven lords. The
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Read for the Dream King Challenge. Harlequin Valentine is a modern-day retelling of the commedia dell’arte story of Harlequin and Columbine. Harlequin freely gives his heart to his Columbine, and then follows her around the city streets to see what she’ll do with it. It’s a weirdly romantic, definitely quirky, and almost gruesome tale that’s
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“This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.” Here’s my list: 1. Sunshine – Robin McKinley2. Sabriel – Garth Nix3. Beauty – Robin McKinley4. Pride and Prejudice –
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge. Isherwood Williams is in the mountains when the plague that wipes out most of humanity happens. He travels back to his home in San Francisco through an oddly silent land, having to piece together what happened from what little information was left before most
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Jane Austen is either spinning in her grave, or laughing her ass off from heaven over this book. I’m sure many purists are full of righteous indignation over it, and I wouldn’t recommend it to my co-worker that reads Jane Austen, because I know the zombies aren’t her cup of tea, but this is a
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Book Gluttony! Are your eyes bigger than your book belly? Do you have a habit of buying up books far quicker than you could possibly read them? Have you had to curb your book buying habits until you can catch up with yourself? Or are you a controlled buyer, only purchasing books when you have
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Read for the It’s the End of the World II and 2009 YA Reading Challenges. In the city of Ember, the only sources of light are gigantic floodlights over the city, which go out at night, leaving the city in complete darkness. Outside of the city is the Unknown Region, where no one ever goes,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time III Reading Challenge. Evie Scelan works days as a courier in Boston, but she has the magical ability to scent out missing people and objects, and also occasionally takes jobs finding things. It’s a balancing act – using her ability to help people, but not bring herself to
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I’m back from a rather whirl wind trip Downeast for the weekend. The main reason for the trip was so that my father and I could attend a workshop at the Woodlawn Museum where we learned to make our own painted canvas floorclothes. Since I have pretty much no native artist ability, I chose to