There’s only about two weeks left in the month of December, and I’ve finally finished the last of the reading challenges I signed up for in 2008. Here’s what I read: Once Upon a Time Challenge II (3/21/08-6/20/08) – Finished 6/15/08 Beast – Donna Jo Napoli – finished 3/26/08Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman – finished […]
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I’ve completed my final reading challenge of 2008! The TBR challenge was a challenge to read 12 books I’d had hanging around for some period of time. We were allowed a main list, and a list of alternates. My main list was of books I actually had at home, and my alternate list was books
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Read of the TBR 2008 Reading Challenge. I don’t read classic texts in translation very often anymore, and I could really feel that while reading through The Histories. I feel like I’ve been reading this book forever, but it’s really only been since some time in November. Herodotus lived in the 5th century BC, in
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My Young Adult Challenge 2008 reading is done! I ended up reading the following: For the most part, I enjoyed everyone of these. Even the ones I didn’t like as much as the others weren’t so bad that I wasn’t able to finish them. Several of these were the beginnings of series that I’m now
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Read for the YA 2008 Reading Challenge. The fairy tale and folklore group I lurk on at Ravelry is currently reading The Dark is Rising as a winter-themed read along, and I was suddenly seized by a fit of nostalgia and decided to read along too. The story is set during the Christmas season, and
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Read for the TBR 2008 Reading Challenge. I read somewhere once that Stephen King’ On Writing was the best book about writing available, and while I haven’t read enough in the genre to feel comfortable agreeing with that sentiment, I can definitely say it’s one of the best books about writing I’ve ever read. The
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My RIP III Reading is done! I was starting to worry that this wasn’t going to happen, as Paperspine has inexplicably been hopping over the first six books in my queue for my last three selections, and this included the final two (of which I only actually need to read one) RIP III books I’d
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Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. My only prior experience with John Connolly’s work was his novel The Book of Lost Things. That book definitely has some dark overtones, but the stories in Nocturnes make it look full of sweetness and light in comparison. The stories all have some level of creep to them,
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Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. Leave it to me to manage to request the second book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels before the first. And to decide to read it for a challenge so that I don’t really have time to send it back and get the actual first book. So, I was
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Read for the TBR 2008 Reading Challenge. So, as far as I can tell, a colony ship landed on a planet. Somehow, the crew got some sort of control over the passengers. They managed to gain power, and taking on the aspects of the Hindu pantheon, ruled over the planet and made sure that the
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