Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. This book is a companion to Merlin’s Harp, which portrays the Fae as a primal people living alongside the human inhabitants of King Arthur’s Kingdom. In Arthurian legend, Sir Percival is raised far from court by his mother, because his father and older brothers have all died in […]
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Read for the 2011 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. Hundreds of years ago, a race of nanorobots called the Cold Minds took over the Earth, and humanity was only saved by a group of Pilots that were able to bring the remnants of the population to the Hidden Worlds, where the Cold Minds could not find
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Read fort the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Gen landed in the King’s prison because of his bragging. After months chained in his cell, he’s released by the the Magus, the king’s scholar, who wants him to help him steal a treasure. Gen, the Magus, the Magus’ two apprentices and a guard leave Sounis and travel
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. The Morgan family lost their mother in an auto accident, and not long after, their father, David, decides to take the two younger children, Peter and Becky, to Wales with him, where he’s been given a visiting professor’s position at the university. Jen, the oldest, is to stay
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Evvy had left her home in Chammur to become an apprentice Stone Mage at the Winding Circle school. For the most part, her life is good, but she ends up on a trip to the far away Battle Islands after she pushes too far in a fight with
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Read for the 2011 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. I picked this book up from the bargain bin because there were so many stories by authors I love: Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, Patricia K. McKillip, to name a few. The book did not disappoint. The theme is obvious, but the variety of stories that came out
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Somehow, it’s going to be summer tomorrow. I’m not sure how this managed to happen, but it has, so that means the Once Upon a Time V challenge is over. This year, I did Challenge the First again, which is to read at least five books in any of the challenge categories: fantasy, fairy tale,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. Swordspoint is the story of Richard St. Vier, a swordsman in a nameless city once ruled by a King, but now ruled by a council of nobles. These nobles use swordsmen as proxies for their personal battles, and Richard is the best. Richard lives in
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. I am pretty late to the whole Hunger Games phenomenon, but I finally got my hands on the first book. I can totally understand how this is the next big thing since Twilight. This is a post-apocalyptic tale, where the US has morphed into a country called Panem,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. This anthology has a wide ranging selection of stories held together only in that they needed to involved elves. Some were funny, some more serious, and one so awful I couldn’t finish it. A few highlights: “The Phaerie Bride” – a great twist on the
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