Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Aza has the most beautiful voice in the kingdom of Ayortha, which is a good thing, because the one thing Ayorthians prize more than beauty is singing ability, and Aza isn’t winning any contests in the beauty department. She’s even figured out a way to throw her […]
Fairest – Gail Carson Levine Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Believe it or not, I bought this book in hardcover, when it first came out. (That would be 2008.) And unlike every other Harry Potter book, I didn’t read it immediately. It’s been sitting on a shelf mocking me, so in the grand spirit of the
The Tales of Beedle the Bard – J. K. Rowling Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Nepenthe is an orphan, raised in the Royal Library of Raine, and she’s become one of their best translators and scribes. One day, a young mage gives her a scroll that has so far defied translation – it’s a book written in an alphabet of thorns,
Alphabet of Thorn – Patricia A. McKillip Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Aislinn can see the Fae – an ability shared by her grandmother, who has taught her to hide that gift, for if the faeries ever found out she could see them, terrible things would happen to her. One place she’s found a sanctuary is her friend
Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Set in the a small village outside London during Elizabethan times, this version of the fairy tale is the story of sisters Blanche and Rosamund Arden, who live with their mother at the edge of the village. They make a fair living gathering herbs there, because
Snow White and Rose Red – Patricia C. Wrede Read More »
A LibraryThing Early Reviewers Book. This book is a good overview of the various mythologies and beliefs of the Celtic world. It touches on the old gods and goddesses, folk traditions, the roots of the Arthurian legends, and some interesting ideas about shamanistic practices. It’s got a more scholarly than new–agey tone to it (a
Celtic Myth and Religion – Sharon Paice Macleod Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. “Mirrinor – it was the Place of Islands, the Land of Still Waters, where every lake was strewn with islands, and every island was strewn with lakes. Indeed, it was hard to tell whether the region was mostly above water or below it. Tall snowmint trees
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Sorcha is the youngest child of the Lord of Sevenwaters, and the only daughter. With their mother dead, she and her brothers mean everything to each other, and her brothers have protected her as she’s grown up. Their lives are shattered when their father takes a
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Frederica Merriville has charge of her younger sister and brothers after her parents have died, and so she decides to bring them all to London for a season. Her main aim is to see her sister Charis advantageously married, because Charis is a sweet, beautiful girl, who Frederica thinks is wasted on the country. The
Frederica – Georgette Heyer Read More »
It’s that time of year again – Spring, and the Once Upon a Time challenge, which I love so much, I’m even doing it in this year where I’ve given up most challenges. I’m going to be doing Quest the First, which is to read at least five books in the challenge categories (fantasy, folklore,
Once Upon a Time VI Reading Challenge 3/21/12 to 6/19/12 Read More »
