Read for the 2011 TBR Lite and Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenges. I’ve read a fair amount of Charles de Lint’s work, and I think at this point, I can safely say that my favorite books of his are his short stories collections of Newford tales. The beauty of the world he’s created […]
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. Somewhere in England is a boarding school that is far more than it appears. The staff is large, but there are only five students, and life at this boarding school is all that they’ve known. Now teenagers, they’ve begun to see the school for what
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. Arthur Blessing was a normal 20th century boy until he found a dirty old cup in the gutter. That cup was the Holy Grail, and finding it was the first step for Arthur to find his destiny, for he is King Arthur, reborn into our
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. In this retelling of the Russian fairy tale, Ilya is the middle son of tsar Ivan, a rather brutish man who has raised his sons to distrust and prey upon each other. Ilya is the smartest of the sons, and therefore most prone to be
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. Jane True lives in the tiny Maine village of Rockabill, and she’s always known she was different. You see, she swims. In the ocean. In all seasons. In Maine. If you’ve ever been in the ocean here, you know that’s just not normal. It’s always
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. In honor of the recently departed Diana Wynne Jones, one of my favorite fantasy YA authors, I simply had to include a book of hers in my Once Upon a Time Reading. In fact, I managed two, in this omnibus book from the Chrestomanci series.
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume II – Diana Wynne Jones Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. Sealey Head is a sleepy little town on the edge of the ocean. There are several prominent families: the merchant Blairs, whose eldest daughter Gwyneth is being courted by Raven Sproule, the heir of wealthy gentlemen farmer’s family, but who instead fancies Judd Cauley, the
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Read rather quickly for the Once Upon a Time V reading challenge, courtesy of the April Fool’s Nor’easter. In the previous books of this trilogy, Evie Scelan brought down a group of magicians that had been ruling Boston’s magical undercurrent for centuries, and then took control of the Wild Hunt to gain back something important
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Challenge. Have you ever read a book, or series of books, because you just had to see what exactly the author was going to do next, because you never knew what would be? (Original Dune series, I’m looking at you!) This series, which began with A Princess
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It’s officially Spring, so it’s time again for the Once Upon a Time reading challenge – for fantasy, fairy tale, folklore, and mythology. I’m going to do Quest the First, which is to read at least 5 books in any of the challenge categories. As I’ve done for the past couple of challenges, I’m not
Once Upon a Time V 3/21/11 – 6/20/11 Read More »