I’ve been lurking the Weekly Geeks blog, and this week’s question caught my eye: 1) How do you feel about classic literature? Are you intimidated by it? Love it? Not sure because you never actually tried it? Don’t get why anyone reads anything else? Which classics, if any, have you truly loved? Which would you […]
Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge The third book in the Sookie Stackhouse series brings Sookie out of Louisiana to Jackson, Mississippi, when her vampire boyfriend Bill goes missing. Bill’s boss Eric sends her up there to meet with a rather unwilling accomplice named Alcide, who just happens to be a werewolf. By trying to
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Read for the Dream King Challenge. At Death’s Door is a retelling of the events on The Sandman: Seasons of Mist from Death’s point of view. I actually had a pretty strong sense of déjà vu reading this book, because the events follow the original story quite closely. I know I’ve never read this before,
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Read for the Patricia A. McKillip Challenge Morgon is the Prince of Hed, a small, peaceful land of farmers. He’s completely attached to his land, but he’s driven by a curiosity of the outside world unusual to the natives of his land. Unlike any of the princes before him, he ventures to the city of
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I did a big LibraryThing cataloging push this weekend (up to 786 books, which includes almost everything we have out on shelves at the moment, and a crate or so from storage), so I’m able to update my Dream King Challenge list. Based on what I’ve found, I can definitely handle Devotee level. The updated
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Read for the 2009 YA Challenge. This YA novel, set in an alternate England after the Napoleonic Wars where magic exists, takes the form of letters between cousins Kate and Cecy. Kate’s been sent to London for the Season, and Cecy has stayed at home. Even apart, they manage to find themselves in the midst
My BF is a huge Neil Gaiman fan, so we have a large variety of Neil Gaiman’s work here at the house. With Jessi at Casual Dread starting a Neil Gaiman themed challenge, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to delve into the parts of the collection I haven’t touched yet. There are four levels of participation
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge So I managed to stay up about forty-five minutes late on a work night so I could finish Eclipse. I suppose I’m smitten. I’ve been trying to put my finger on why exactly I enjoy this series as much as I have been, and it’s been tough. As a
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Kathrin at It’s All About Books is hosting a Vampire Challenge. Since I got a vampire book for Christmas (that I’m dying to read), aim to finish the Twilight books shortly, and am working on the Sookie Stackhouse novels, how could I resist signing up? The challenge is to read at least two books with
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I really wish I’d know about Marion Zimmer Bradley’s various short story anthologies back when they were being published. I was in my teens at the time, but she usually had at least one teen in each anthology, and my head is often full of might have beens when I read these books now. At
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