Jane Austen is either spinning in her grave, or laughing her ass off from heaven over this book. I’m sure many purists are full of righteous indignation over it, and I wouldn’t recommend it to my co-worker that reads Jane Austen, because I know the zombies aren’t her cup of tea, but this is a […]
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Read for the It’s the End of the World II and 2009 YA Reading Challenges. In the city of Ember, the only sources of light are gigantic floodlights over the city, which go out at night, leaving the city in complete darkness. Outside of the city is the Unknown Region, where no one ever goes,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time III Reading Challenge. Evie Scelan works days as a courier in Boston, but she has the magical ability to scent out missing people and objects, and also occasionally takes jobs finding things. It’s a balancing act – using her ability to help people, but not bring herself to
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. The Historian begins in Amsterdam in 1972 when a teenage girl discovers a mysterious book in her father’s library. The entire contents of the book are a woodcut dragon and the word Drakulya. From here, the story weaves backward and forward in time, as the girl’s father reluctantly relates
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Read for the Patricia A McKillip Challenge and the Once Upon a Time III Challenge. This is the story of Sybel, daughter of a line of wizards that live on Eld Mountain. The wizards have called the fantastic animals of the world to them, and Sybel grows up in the company of these magical beasts,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time III Reading Challenge. This book seemed particularly apt for the challenge, as it’s part of a series that combines fairy tales with the elemental magic of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This particular book is a take off on “Puss in Boots”, but brings that story into late
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Miri lives on Mount Eskel, the one place in Danland where the prized linder rock is mined. Everyone in Miri’s village works in the linder mines, except for Miri herself, who at fourteen is tiny, and not very suited to mine work. Still, Miri wishes she could work
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I’ve been thoroughly enjoying Mercedes Lackey’s 500 Kingdoms books. They’re an interesting take on the form of fairy tales. The Fairy Godmother (the first one) is still my favorite, but The Snow Queen has just taken its place as second in that line. The Snow Queen is the story of Aleksia, the Godmother of the
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. I’ve read a number of de Lint’s books (mostly of the Newford persuasion), but this the first young adult book of his that I’ve read. Coincidentally, it was the first young adult book that he wrote. Nina and Ash are cousins, and have been sharing a room since
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. In Inkheart, Mo and his daughter Meggie had the ability to read characters out of books, most notably the book Inkheart. So in the first part of this trilogy, we dealt with characters from a story being brought into the real world. In Inkspell, the roles are reversed,
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