It’s the little things that are starting to make me happy about Spring. Like despite the fact that it’s the first full day of Spring, and there’s still snow on the ground (and it snowed all morning -thank goodness it didn’t stick), the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge is starting up. I’ll freely […]
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With the news of Terry Practchett’s death, I had to read a book of his. I first read one of his books in either late middle school, or early high school – my mother gifted me with a book club edition of The Wyrd Sisters. I’d never read anything like it
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett Read More »
This is a young adult book, and isn’t explicitly set in Newford, but very well could be. There are two teenagers as the protagonists: TJ – whose parents lost all their money, and had to move to the city to get new jobs, meaning they gave up the farm, and the horse
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The frame for this collection of short stories is utterly genius. I mean, I liked Ursula K. Le Guin anyway, but I think this book cemented my love for her. She came up with this book while bored to death in airports. The idea is that you attain such a state utter
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This is a book of four novellas, set in four larger universes the author has written about. I’ve not read any of her other books (my mother gave me this one), and I think this was a pretty good flavor of what her work is like. There was only one of the stories that I
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I was so excited to see that there was another Old Kingdom book coming out. So excited in fact, that when I bought the book, I sat on it for a full month because I was afraid I’d hyped it up too much in my mind, and I’d be disappointed. Happily, I was not. I
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Anyone with any Talent on the entire planet of Altair heard when the Child was the only survivor of a mud slide in her mining village. Her anguished mental screams led them to her. Unable to narrow down exactly who her parents were, she was simple known as The Rowan, after the mining company, and
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I decided I had to bite the bullet and finish out the second book of the Talent Saga, to see if it held up as well (or not, really) as the last had. Fortunately, this book was written a good twenty plus years after To Ride Pegasus, and holds up much better than that one
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This ombinus contains two novels (Cetaganda and Ethan of Athos) and a short story (“Labyrinth”) that all involve genetic manipulation. Cetaganda is the first chronologically, but was written last, which left me with a few questions that were answered by the author’s afterwards, once I figured out the written order. The Cetegandans are one of
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Here’s another reread – this is a five book series (The Pendragon Cycle) that I had read the first three books of back in high school, and then lost track of. (It was originally a trilogy when I first read it, but he then expanded it.) I happened upon the last two used, so brought
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