Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. I can only write about this book if I first go off on a couple of tangents: Tangent #1 – I’ve been avoiding this series because of the covers. They’ve got those typical urban fantasy covers with the female character in some sort of sexed-up pose, scantily clad. […]
Moon Called – Patricia Briggs Read More »
Shockingly, it’ll be September on Saturday, which means it’s time for the Readers Imbibing Peril Part VII (7!!) challenge. Ok, it’s not being called a challenge anymore, but I feel weird typing that without the word challenge in there somewhere. I’m going to try for Peril the First, which is to read four books out
RIP VII Reading Challenge – 9/1/12 – 10/31/12 Read More »
With the extremely steamy first day of summer upon us, I can safely say I’ve finished this year’s reading for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. I did challenge the first, which was to read at least five books in the challenge categories (fantasy, folklore, fairy tales and mythology). Due to a fair number of
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Cazaril has escaped from slavery, and for refuge, seeks the safest place he can think of, the noble household where he served as a page when he was a boy. But once there, to his surprise, he’s named the secretary-tutor to the sister of the heir to
The Curse of Chalion – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. This book combines three novellas of some sort of romantic fantasy. Rachel Lee’s ‘Drusilla’s Dream’ is a fun little little story that manages to combine a night shift data entry job with a good, old-fashioned quest by a princess to find the Behemoth that can save her
Charmed Destinies – Mercedes Lackey, Rachel Lee and Catherine Asaro Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Yeine’s mother had fled her life as the heir to the King of Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and gone north, where she had married Yeine’s father, ruler of the kingdom of Darr. Yeine had known little of her mother’s life, but when her mother mysteriously dies, Yeine is
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – N. K. Jemisin Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Claire and Sydney are sisters – both members of the Waverley family, which means something in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Claire learned from their grandmother how to prepare dishes grown from the herbs in their garden, things like the honeysuckle wine they always bring to
Garden Spells – Sarah Addison Allen Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. I went a bit old-school in the folklore department for this next challenge selection. The Death of King Arthur is a thirteenth century French version of the last days of King Arthur (though the text itself claims it’s written by a Welshman). It’s the third book of
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. These short stories take nine traditional fairy tales and translate them into modern day Los Angeles. The language is poetic, and still very much of the traditional fairy tale. This means that even though most of the tales are not supernatural, the writing keeps that fairy
The Rose and the Beast – Francesca Lia Black Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. This is the story of a girl named Morgan, whose father was killed by a cruel king, who then took her mother away. Her mother was able to protect Morgan and her sister Morguase for a time, but after the death of the king, the girls were
I am Morgan le Fay – Nancy Springer Read More »