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Deja Dead – Kathy Reichs

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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. I do watch the tv show Bones, so I was aware that it’s very loosely based on a series of books about an anthropologist names Temperance Brennan.    She does help the police solve murders, but that really is about as connected with the show as the books get. […]

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A Tangled Web – Mercedes Lackey

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This is a novella from the 500 Kingdoms series, in which the Tradition forces people into certain paths  based on fairy tale characters, sometimes to good, sometimes to bad.    In this story, we’re dealing with the Greek pantheon, and it turns out that they’re half-Fae, and as soon as they have enough people that believe

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Home from the Sea – Mercedes Lackey

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Mari Prothero had always seen things – things that no one else could see – tiny manlike creatures that lived in the sea or streams, and seemed to be made of water.    They always treated her kindly. Mari grew up in a small Welsh fishing village, where her father was a master fisherman.     Her mother

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RIP VIII

RIP Reading Challenge VIII 9/1/13 – 10/31/13

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Well, it’s RIP Reading time again, and I find myself in a bit of a bind.    I definitely want to do Peril the First (any four books in the challenge categories in the challenge timeframe), but I have the small matter of a three week European vacation in September, with limited luggage space (seriously –

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Zealot – Reza Aslan

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I really enjoyed this book – it’s a look at Jesus of Nazareth the man, not Jesus the Son of God.   The author gives a great deal of background of what was going on with the Jews being part of the Roman Empire at the time Jesus lived, which informs a great deal of why

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Queen of This Realm – Jean Plaidy

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It’s a measure of how fascinating a character Queen Elizabeth I was that I managed to finish this book. Strike 1:   When I bought it (several aeons ago, admittedly), I thought it was a scholarly book.    When I picked it up to read it, and found that it was a fictionalized memoir, I was somewhat

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Burning Brightly – Mercedes Lackey

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Lavan Firestorm is a Herald mentioned in passing in the main Valdemar books, having been the last person before the present day of that world to have the Firestarting gift.    This book is the story of how he discovered his gift, and became a Herald.    It’s not a pleasant story, because Lavan was severely bullied,

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Songbook – Nick Hornby

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This is a book of essays about songs that have particularly interested Hornby at various points of his life.    The essays may not concern the song directly, but are sometimes about what that song may remind him of, or of feelings or events that that song is forever linked to in his mind. It’s an

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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple – Karen Cushman

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Karen Cushman writes really excellent young adult historical fiction, where she really gets inside the head of a young person from some past historical period, and does it in such a way that they don’t feel too modern, but still firmly belong in their own time period.   Up until now, what I’d read of hers

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Fool’s Run – Patricia A. McKillip

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So, as I’ve probably mentioned any other time I’ve written up a McKillip book, is how she will throw you into the middle of a fully built up world, and you’ll just be along for the ride, picking up clues to what the heck’s going on as you go along.    What makes this book different

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