Read for the Once Upon a Time III and TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenges. The Nibelungenlied is an epic German poem written in approximately 1200 AD. If you’ve taken any music history, you’ve likely heard of it through the lens of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, though this is only one source for the […]
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. The Historian begins in Amsterdam in 1972 when a teenage girl discovers a mysterious book in her father’s library. The entire contents of the book are a woodcut dragon and the word Drakulya. From here, the story weaves backward and forward in time, as the girl’s father reluctantly relates
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Read for the Patricia A McKillip Challenge and the Once Upon a Time III Challenge. This is the story of Sybel, daughter of a line of wizards that live on Eld Mountain. The wizards have called the fantastic animals of the world to them, and Sybel grows up in the company of these magical beasts,
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I received this book through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. I requested it based on my familiarity with some of Gorey’s work that has shown up on various greeting cards I’ve received, as well as his delightfully macabre alphabets. The book is a companion to a current exhibit of the artist’s work at the Brandywine
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge. The title says everything you need to know about the subject matter of this short story collection. Every story is set after the world has ended. If that seems like a fairly limiting subject, you’re in for an interesting survey of how many different
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By way of Nymeth’s blog, I found Mari’s recent Show Me Your Bookmarks post, and couldn’t resist posting my own. My bookmarks are one of my earliest collections, and even have their own shiny container to live in. I have way too many to photograph easily, but highlights of the collection include: Local library bookmarks,
Read for the Once Upon a Time III Reading Challenge. This book seemed particularly apt for the challenge, as it’s part of a series that combines fairy tales with the elemental magic of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This particular book is a take off on “Puss in Boots”, but brings that story into late
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Miri lives on Mount Eskel, the one place in Danland where the prized linder rock is mined. Everyone in Miri’s village works in the linder mines, except for Miri herself, who at fourteen is tiny, and not very suited to mine work. Still, Miri wishes she could work
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It’s time again for Carl’s Once Upon a Time Challenge. I’m going to do Quest the First, which involves reading at least five books in the four categories (fantasy, fairy tale, folk lore and mythology) between 3/21/09 and 6/20/09. I actually wouldn’t mind doing Quest the Second, which is to read one book in each
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When I initially saw a link to Becky’s It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge, I thought it looked interesting, and saved a link for future reference. Well, it’s future time. My Paperspine queue is going deep – seriously, I’ve got 16 books on top for challenges, and they’re apparently all checked out to
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