Read for the Graphic Novel Challenge. I have to admit to being what I guess I would have to label as a casual X-Men fan – my knowledge of these characters is from tv and movies. It is a story I’ve enjoyed, but there are so many different series out there it’s hard to know […]
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Read for the 2010 YA and Historical Fiction Reading Challenges. The Beduin’s Gazelle takes place in the 14th century, in the desert of Northern Africa where the Beduin roamed. It’s the story of cousins Atiyah and Hamila, who were promised to each other at birth. Atiyah has been sent to the city of Fez to
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Read for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. I must first confess that I picked this book up because the cover painting is Boreas, one of my two favorite J. W. Waterhouse paintings. That it then turned out to be an Arthurian tale sealed my desire to read it. This book retells the Tristan and Isolde
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I’d been holding out to see if I could finish one last book (The Wandering Unicorn) for this challenge, but I clearly haven’t, so here’s what I did read: Apparently, I read more when I don’t do a set list, and just pull whatever strikes my fancy from Mount TBR. I’ll definitely have to keep
Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge 3/21/10 – 6/20/10 Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. The Grey Isles lie in some unnamed sea, a land of sorcerers and warriors, whose people are well aware that the Lords of Chaos have entered their land, dooming it to fall beneath the waves. The stories in this book are of a number of
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Read for the 2010 YA and Historical Fiction Reading Challenges. Tessa is the under-wardrobe mistress of one of 1920s Vienna’s opera houses, where she loves being in the thick of things. It’s hard work, but she loves it, and everyone in the opera company adores her. What they don’t know is that she’s really Princess
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Challenge. Eddi McCandry is a musician in Minneapolis, playing in band with her boyfriend, Stuart. Neither the band or the relationship are going anywhere, and she breaks off her connection to both after a particularly bad night. Against her friend Carla’s (the band’s drummer) advice, she walks
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Read for the 2010 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. I’ve been trying to get my hands on The Dying Earth for years now (I have all the other books written in this particular world, but for some reason, the first was the hardest to locate). It’s one of those seminal earlier works of science fiction (or
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Read for the 2010 YA and the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenges. Every person that’s read Graceling, every blog that I follow that’s reviewed it, has had nothing but the best things to say about Graceling, so I started this book with high expectations. I’m very happy to say it didn’t disappoint. In
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I started The Mulberry Empire for the Complete Booker Reading challenge. It seemed like a promising story: the events surrounding the failed British invasion of Afghanistan in the early 19th century. I’ve abandoned the book a quarter of the way into it (first abandoned book since 2007). I just couldn’t get into the story. There
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