I added this book to my Kindle for my trip because I’ve had it on my to read list for a while, and since I was actually going to Cornwall, it seemed like the perfect time to read it. And it was. Ross Poldark has been off in America, fighting in the Revolutionary War (which
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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. Gwen’s father is a bard, and has been summoned back to the court of King Owain Gwynedd to perform at the wedding of the king’s daughter to one of the neighboring kings. On the journey there, they find the wedding party of King Anarawd slain on the road,
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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. In picking books for my vacation reading, since I knew I was going to try and concentrate on RIP theme related books, I did try to make sure I picked a few lighter books. This one seemed ideal – it’s set in London (one of the locations I
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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