Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. A young man named Jack is sick of working in the clock-work factory and decides to make his fortune in the city. What he doesn’t realize is that the city is Toy City, where the vast majority of the population is toys, and the few humans are […]
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Read for the YA 2009 Reading Challenge. The Books of Pellinor center around Maerad of Pellinor, who was sold into slavery with her mother at a very young age. In the first book of this series, after she has escaped from slavery, and in the course of her adventures, she finds a young boy, who
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Read for the Dream King Reading Challenge. This is a book of short stories that the author notes in the introduction were collected because they would appeal to young people. Only two are previously uncollected, so you’re not going to find much new here, though it’s a nice jaunt back down memory lane. If you
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I’ve finished the my four books for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge II. I read: I noted in my starting entry for this challenge that I signed up because Paperspine had mysteriously decided it was going to send two post-apocalyptic books that weren’t actually near each other in my queue to
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge II. This book focuses on the Abbey of Saint Leobowitz, founded after a nuclear war (called the Flame Deluge) destroys much of the world, in order to save some remnants of civilization. The documents they’re guarding come to be called the Memorabilia, and it’s
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. This is the third book of Tanya Huff’s books about ex-cop Vicki Nelson, and her plunge into the supernatural world hidden in Toronto. The story begins when the Egyptology department of the Royal Ontario Museum manages to acquire an unopened sarcophagus. It turns out that the mummy enclosed within
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I’ve finished with Quest the First for the Once Upon a Time III Reading Challenge. First completed challenge of the year! I read: The Nibelungenlied was by far the hardest to get through, but it’s a book I’ve literally had lying around as long as I can remember, so I’m glad I finally sat down
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Read for the Once Upon a Time III and 2009 YA Reading Challenges. Bound is a Cinderella story. However, it’s set in Ming-dynasty China, home of the earliest recorded versions of this classic tale. Xing Xing lives with Step Mother, who was her father’s second wife (even while Xing Xing’s mother, who has since passed
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Read for the Dream King Challenge. Harlequin Valentine is a modern-day retelling of the commedia dell’arte story of Harlequin and Columbine. Harlequin freely gives his heart to his Columbine, and then follows her around the city streets to see what she’ll do with it. It’s a weirdly romantic, definitely quirky, and almost gruesome tale that’s
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge. Isherwood Williams is in the mountains when the plague that wipes out most of humanity happens. He travels back to his home in San Francisco through an oddly silent land, having to piece together what happened from what little information was left before most
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