Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Claidi is about to marry her true love, Argul, but on the morning of her wedding, she’s kidnapped, and brought to a castle in far off land. It’s surrounded by impassable jungle, and the only person that lives there is Prince Venn, who looks a lot like Argul. […]
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Read for the 2011 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. My previous reads of Byatt’s work have been of Possession, and her books of fairy tales – all later works. The Shadow of the Sun was her first novel, and while I’ve loved everything else I’ve read by the author, I wasn’t a big fan of this
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Set just after Napoleon’s reign has come to an end, this sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia takes up where the last book left off. Cousins Kate and Cecy are now married, and along with their husbands, Thomas and James, are off to Europe for a combined honeymoon. In
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Read for the 2011 TBR Lite Challenge. One of my hobbies is languages. Back when I had seemingly unlimited amounts of free time, and a full academic library at my disposal (I do miss college…), I spent a great deal of time looking at dictionaries and reading up on basics of a variety of languages
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue – John McWhorter Read More »
Read for the Foodie’s Reading Challenge. I’m familiar with exactly one of Nigel Slater’s cookbooks (Real Fast Food – worth checking out), and not being British, don’t have easy access to much of his non-book work. So I’m not exactly sure why I was interested in reading the story of his life – a feeling
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I’ve been waffling about signing up for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge, because I read enough YA books that I don’t necessarily feel like I’m challenging myself by committing to read some again this year, but I really like the excuse to scroll through the review page every time I post a new one of
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I’m going to do the TBR Lite Reading Challenge again in 2011, because I have plenty of books that have been hanging around for far too long at my house, unread by me. I’m going to do level B again, which is to read 6 books throughout the year that I’ve had hanging around for
2011 TBR Lite Reading Challenge 1/1/11 – 12/31/11 Read More »
Tis the season for signing up for next year’s reading challenges, already! Time certainly flies. I saw The Foodie Challenge on A Novel Challenge, and pretty much had to sign up, based on some books I know are lurking my TBR Tote of Shame. I’m going to commit to the Nibbler level, which is to
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