Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. I’ve read a number of de Lint’s books (mostly of the Newford persuasion), but this the first young adult book of his that I’ve read. Coincidentally, it was the first young adult book that he wrote. Nina and Ash are cousins, and have been sharing a room since […]
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Read for the TBR Lite Challenge. When 13-year-old Briony witnesses the flirtation between her older sister Cecelia, and Robbie, the son of their housekeeper, she thinks that by witnessing this act, she’s finally crossed over in the world of adulthood. Unfortunately, her lack of adult understanding of what she has seen causes her to commit
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Watched for the Dream King Challenge. After one aborted attempt (and frankly this attempt was very nearly aborted, as apparently all of southern Maine is taking shelter from the cold in movie theaters), we finally managed to see Coraline last night. I love this movie. I’d hoped to be able to read the book before
Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. In Inkheart, Mo and his daughter Meggie had the ability to read characters out of books, most notably the book Inkheart. So in the first part of this trilogy, we dealt with characters from a story being brought into the real world. In Inkspell, the roles are reversed,
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Read for the TBR Lite Challenge. Apparently, at the tale end of WWII, there was a fleeting idea to allow Jewish refugees to settle in Alaska. It was indeed a fleeting footnote to history kind of idea, but Michael Chabon took it, ran with it, and the result is this book, an alternate history, Jewish,
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. I first heard of this book in 1999, when it came out, and was compared to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. It’s set in the same time period as those books, but takes place on the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker (Madeline Island) in Lake Superior, a
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. I didn’t hate this book. But I can definitely see why a lot of people did. In the first three books, there was always some level of sacrifice going on. I mean, we’re dealing with humans, vampires and werewolves here. This kind of thing is not meant to go
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge The third book in the Sookie Stackhouse series brings Sookie out of Louisiana to Jackson, Mississippi, when her vampire boyfriend Bill goes missing. Bill’s boss Eric sends her up there to meet with a rather unwilling accomplice named Alcide, who just happens to be a werewolf. By trying to
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Read for the Dream King Challenge. At Death’s Door is a retelling of the events on The Sandman: Seasons of Mist from Death’s point of view. I actually had a pretty strong sense of déjà vu reading this book, because the events follow the original story quite closely. I know I’ve never read this before,
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Read for the Patricia A. McKillip Challenge Morgon is the Prince of Hed, a small, peaceful land of farmers. He’s completely attached to his land, but he’s driven by a curiosity of the outside world unusual to the natives of his land. Unlike any of the princes before him, he ventures to the city of
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