This week’s question seemed fairly apropos, because my vacation is next week, and I’ve actually been pondering what that will mean for my summer book buying: Do you buy books while on vacation/holiday? Do you have favorite bookstores that you only get to visit while away on a trip? What/Where are they? Books are pretty […]
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So I’m pretty massively behind on my Google Reader feeds, and finally found some time to take a look today, and boy was I glad I did. The Hidden Side of a Leaf had a post about Paperspine, which is more or less the Netflix for paperbacks. I tried valiantly for about five minutes to
Read for the Mythopeoic Awards and TBR 2008 Reading Challenges. Having recently read Anansi Boys, and having been forewarned that while the two books are set in the same world (and at least one overlapping character), I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with American Gods. I did know that Gaiman’s never done me wrong
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I’ve been both looking forward to and dreading this book. The dread stems from the fact that Marion Zimmer Bradley has actually been dead for some time now, and I’m not overly fond of the author that her literary trust assigned to continue with the Darkover books. I got into Darkover shortly after Bradley died,
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This is a lovely little book with a charming coming of age story set in the world of Norse Mythology. Odd is a crippled boy who falls into the company of the gods Odin, Thor and Loki, and is able to help them regain Asgard from a frost giant who had overpowered and thrown the
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Read for the TBR 2008 Reading Challenge I’ve been hung up a bit on my TBR Challenge reading, because I’ve been totally hung up trying to get through the Idylls of the King. I picked this up back in the days when I was reading anything Arthurian that I could get my hands on (about
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I’m done with the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge! I believe this was the fifth challenge I actually signed up for this year, but it’s the first I’ve finished. I’m feeling quite accomplished with that. I did end up changing my list a bit. The original list was: Anansi Boys – Neil GaimanThe NibelungenliedHowl’s
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Read for the Once Upon a Time II Reading Challenge I decided I needed to read this book after catching the movie version again recently on Cartoon Network. I think I may have read it before long ago, but I’m not sure if that sense of familiarity is from a prior reading, or having seen
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The Bestiary is the tale of Xeno Atlas, a boy who has always been surrounded by people with an affinity for animals, and who grows up and takes up the quest to find the Caravan Bestiary, a book that records the animals that Noah did not include on the ark. Xeno definitely doesn’t live a
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Read for the Mythopoeic Award and Once Upon a Time II reading challenges. The Sorceress and the Cygnet is a beautifully written, very dense book. The story is told from two points of view: Corleu, a Wayfolk man forced into finding legends made flesh to rescue those he loves, and Meguet, the guardian of the
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