Read for the YA and RIP III Reading Challenges. Blood and Chocolate is the story of Vivian, a teenage werewolf. Her pack was recently forced to flee their home in West Virginia after a fire that caused the death of the pack leader (her father). They’ve moved to the suburbs in Maryland, and both she […]
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Read for the Mythopoeic Award and TBR 2008 Reading Challenges. I should start this by noting that with the combination of L going back to school, and Sigerson’s recent post on LJ about the classes she’s taking this fall, I was feeling rather wistful about my college days. And then I read Tam Lin, and
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I finally got around to reading the second of Allison Croggon’s Pellinor books. It was a great, quick read, and I’m definitely enjoying the world she’s built. The story picks up directly after Maerad and Cadvan’s escape from the city of Norloch, and follows our heroes through some of the outer lands of Edil-Amarandh. This
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Read for the TBR Reading Challenge Christopher Moore writes a great comic book. He can bring humor to situations usually better left touched only with great gravity and tack. I hate to say it, but I wasn’t feeling that so much with Coyote Blue. The premise is certainly a good one: a Crow Indian named
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Read for the Mythopoeic Awards Reading Challenge. Charles de Lint is probably best known for his books set in the city of Newford, but this novel, one of his earliest, is set between Ottawa and the forests of the Otherworld. It was very much a story of the old world vs the new world, and
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Read for the YA 2008 Reading Challenge.First Test is the third trilogy set in the land of Tortall (the present day, as it were). In it, we met Keladry of Mindelan, the first girl to openly attempt to become a knight in at least a century in Tortall. This was a sweet book, extremely reminiscent
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Read for the YA Challenge 2008. I love Tamora Pierce. I discovered her when I was actually a member of the YA demographic, and have continued to enjoy her work ever since then. Her latest series goes back in time in Tortall, the setting for her original series (about the knight Alanna) to tell the
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Read for the YA 2008 and Mythopoeic Reading Challenges. Inkheart is an absolutely charming story, definitely one of the better YA books I’ve recently read. Being an avid reader, I have on occasion wished that the story that I was reading could come alive, but this story is great cautionary tale of why that might
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Read for the Mythopeoic Awards and TBR 2008 Reading Challenges. Having recently read Anansi Boys, and having been forewarned that while the two books are set in the same world (and at least one overlapping character), I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with American Gods. I did know that Gaiman’s never done me wrong
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I’ve been both looking forward to and dreading this book. The dread stems from the fact that Marion Zimmer Bradley has actually been dead for some time now, and I’m not overly fond of the author that her literary trust assigned to continue with the Darkover books. I got into Darkover shortly after Bradley died,
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