The Grey King is the first book I actually read of the Dark is Rising sequence, despite the fact that it’s actually the fourth book of the series. Thinking back about it, I actually read a far number of series in weird order when I was that age, and unable to buy books to supplement […]
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Greenwitch is the third book of the Dark is Rising Sequence. I have to admit right here that the books involving the Drew children are not my favorite books in the series (you’ll notice I’m not even rereading Over Sea, Under Stone this go around). This is partially because I read The Grey King the
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My Young Adult Challenge 2008 reading is done! I ended up reading the following: For the most part, I enjoyed everyone of these. Even the ones I didn’t like as much as the others weren’t so bad that I wasn’t able to finish them. Several of these were the beginnings of series that I’m now
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Read for the YA 2008 Reading Challenge. The fairy tale and folklore group I lurk on at Ravelry is currently reading The Dark is Rising as a winter-themed read along, and I was suddenly seized by a fit of nostalgia and decided to read along too. The story is set during the Christmas season, and
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Read for the TBR 2008 Reading Challenge. I read somewhere once that Stephen King’ On Writing was the best book about writing available, and while I haven’t read enough in the genre to feel comfortable agreeing with that sentiment, I can definitely say it’s one of the best books about writing I’ve ever read. The
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I’d originally had this book as a selection for the YA Reading Challenge, but it’s definitely a younger book than that, so I’ll read something else to finish out that challenge. Clockwork is a quick macabre fairy tale set in a stereotypical German town, on the eve of the day the newest clockmaker apprentice will
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Having read the second book in the series already, and seen part of the tv series based on it, I wanted to get my hands on the first Sookie Stackhouse novel as soon as possible. I definitely liked it. It was weird, having seen the show first, and not finding a couple of plot threads
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This is a book I’ve been meaning to read for quite some time, but I’ve had a hard time getting my hands on the first book of the series. In the meantime, I read the author’s The Sundering series, which was a Lord of the Rings rip off with a completely irritating ending. So I
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My RIP III Reading is done! I was starting to worry that this wasn’t going to happen, as Paperspine has inexplicably been hopping over the first six books in my queue for my last three selections, and this included the final two (of which I only actually need to read one) RIP III books I’d
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Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. My only prior experience with John Connolly’s work was his novel The Book of Lost Things. That book definitely has some dark overtones, but the stories in Nocturnes make it look full of sweetness and light in comparison. The stories all have some level of creep to them,
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