Read for the Young Adult and Once Upon a Time II Reading Challenges. This tale of the beast from “Beauty and the Beast” is an interesting twist on the fairy tale. In the author’s notes, she lists a popular poetry version of this tale by Charles Lamb in 1811 as the inspiration for the setting […]
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I got my first earlier reviewer book from LibraryThing. I feel so special! I don’t normally count cookbooks as real reading material, because they’re generally more flip through and skim the recipe title type books, but at least the first half of Food 2.0 dealt more with the philosophy of why the author cooks the
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Read for the TBR Reading Challenge I do enjoy a good book where I’m completely surprised when the mystery is resolved at the end of the story. The build up of this story was great. Margaret Lea, a book store employee who has published a couple of biographical essays, but is certainly not known for
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I can’t resist a fantasy/fairy tale/folklore reading challenge. Those subjects are such a large percentage of my TBR pile I’m happy any time I find a way to structure in reading more of them. I’m going to do the first quest, and read at least five books in the challenge subjects. I’ve come up with
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Read for the Young Adult Reading Challenge The Goose Girl is an expanded version of the fairy tale where a princess is sent to marry the prince of a neighboring kingdom, but on her way there, the princess’s maid steals her identity and the princess is forced to work as a goose girl. Eventually, events
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One of my prime reading equivalents to comfort food is David Eddings’s books, especially the Belgariad and Mallorean series. The Belgariad were among the earliest books that I bought of my own volition, and I could not even tell you how many times I read them when I was a teenager, though I can’t tell
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So the rest of my tax refund treat came today (part one was the Interweave Sock book). Two skeins of Socks that Rock Raven Clan medium weight. I got Thraven and Valkerie. Valkerie because I think it would make good socks for my best friend – the perky goth with red streaked hair. I got
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What a sweet book. It’s about Ruth, who seems to have a pretty perfect life, until her husband is laid off, her 16-year old daughter loses the ability to relate to her, and her father breaks both his arms and has to move in, when her mother (note that Ruth’s parents have been long divorced)
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Have I mentioned I can be an obsessive completist? I read The Summer Country last year, and I thought it was mainly ok. So, on the way to Thanksgiving at my father’s, I stopped at the Big Chicken Barn, and managed to find The Winter Oak. Hey, it was used, and cheapish, and I do
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So, I’m a little, ok, massively late with this, but I really wanted to answer the 2/14 Booking Through Thursday question. Have you ever fallen out of love with a favorite author? Was the last book you read by the author so bad, you broke up with them and haven’t read their work since? Could
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