The Ivory and the Horn is a collection of stories set in Newford, de Lint’s fictional Every City where many of his urban fantasy novels are based. The beauty of Newford is that there are so many shorter stories set there, and it’s easy to ease yourself into this world, and meet the many recurring […]
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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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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
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Having learned from earlier mistakes, I started reading Harpist in the Wind, the final book in the Riddle-Master trilogy, just after finishing the second book. The trilogy follows Morgon, the Prince of the tiny island of Hed, as he finds he’s heir to a much larger destiny, and begins a journey across the realm to
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Raederle is pledged to marry Morgon, the Prince of Hed, but he has disappeared into the wilds near Erlenstar Mountain, and no one knows if he is dead or alive. With several friends, Raederle sets out to find Morgon, and along the way, discovers her own strange heritage. This is the second book of the
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The Great White rained radiation from the skies, and much of the world was destroyed. What remained untouched were the lands far from the large cities. The people there were mostly farmers, and banded together to survive after the terrible holocaust. Over time, it became clear that the land and people had not been entirely
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. Victoria Grantworth is a typical eighteen-year old member of the aristocracy in 19th-century England – concerned with making her debut, and finding a husband. However, she’s also a member of the Gardella family, where one member in every generation is called upon to fight vampires. Victoria answers the calling
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This book is one of the Elemental Masters series, where the author has reinterpreted fairy tales in slightly more modern times, and where the main characters are in some way involved with the elemental magic of Fire, Water, Air and Earth. The Gates of Sleep is Sleeping Beauty, set in late Victorian England. (I’m actually
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Read for the Dream King Challenge. The illustrated script to the movie Mirrormask features Dave McKean’s storyboards for the movie alongside the script. There’s also a forward by Neil Gaiman, as well as an appendix containing the original back and forth conversations between the two that formed the basis for the movie idea. The movie
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