Read for the 2010 Complete Booker Challenge Katie is unhappy in her marriage – not for any one reason, but for a million and one things that have built up over twenty years. Her husband is the self-professed “Angriest Man in Holloway”, and their life together has begun to wear on her. She’s even having […]
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Read for the 2010 Graphic Novels Challenge This is an aptly titled volume, where so much of the action has to do with Snow and Bigby, and their children. I’ll admit to enjoying having the story line that kept them apart wrapped up, and it’s fun to see the children with names and personalities. It’ll
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Read for the Historical Fiction and TBR Lite 2010 Reading Challenges. Carter Beats the Devil is set in the early 1920s, in the golden age of magic, when magicians such as Houdini ruled the stage. The story is a novelization of the life of Charles Carter, an actual magician from this period, but appears to
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I feel like it’s entirely too early in the year to be saying this, but I’ve completed my first reading challenge of 2010. Considering it straddled the end of 2009, it’s not surprising, but here I am, surprised. The challenge was to read at least one book written before 1600 anytime between 11/1/09 to 2/28/10.
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Read for the Really Old Classics Challenge. The extra credit assignment for the Really Old Classics Challenge is to read a retelling of a classic. The Palace of Illusions is a retelling of the events in the Mahabharata, one of the great epic works of ancient India, and a major work of Hindu mythology. The
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Read for the 2010 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. Christopher Moore’s books tend to feature a figurative cast of thousands of people with seemingly disparate lives, who collide into some sort of climax at the end of the book. In Practical Demonkeeping, we have Travis, who accidentally summoned the demon Catch, and is traveling around the
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In a further effort to diversify this year’s reading, I’ve decided to do the 2010 Complete Booker Challenge. In reading through the prize-winners, short lists and long lists from years past, I was surprised to see how many Booker nominees I’ve read, considering I feel like I don’t read very much “straight” fiction. This made
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Read for the 2010 YA Reading Challenge. Findabhair and Gwen are sixteen year old cousins, planning a trip around Ireland when Gwen comes over from the US to visit for the summer. The two girls have always loved the stories of the Fair Folk and the Summer Realm that exists alongside our own. It’s their
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Read for the 2010 YA Reading Challenge. I’ve had this book on my radar since 2004, when I saw Robin McKinley speak at my local Borders after her novel Sunshine was published. At the time, she’d mentioned that her husband had finished his contributions to their book about fire, but her story ideas kept having
Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits – Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson Read More »
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned before, but one of the first signs I had that my BF was “the one” is his abiding love of fantasy novels. His favorite author list often overlaps mine. What I found out not much later is that he’s an even bigger comic/graphic novel fan (you have to see
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