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Firethorn – Sarah Micklem

At Home, Reading / Megan

Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Firethorn had grown up as the servant of a woman of the Blood, but when the Dame died, and her nephew inherited her property, Firethorn fled to the King’s Forest, where she lived for a year.    In that time, she was forced to eat […]

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The Rithmatist – Brandon Sanderson

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. What I really like about Brandon Sanderson’s work is that he comes up with fresh, incredibly different systems of magic for all of his separate worlds.     Figuring out how things work is half the fun of his novels. This particular book is slanted

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The Book of Atrix Wolfe – Patricia A. McKillip

2 Comments / At Home, Reading / Megan

Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Atrix Wolfe is the foremost mage of Chamenuard, and finds himself on battleground in neighboring Pelucir.     The prince of Kardeth is laying seige to the King of Pelucir, and if Pelucir falls, Chamenuard will be next.     Mages are not meant to

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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

With the news of Terry Practchett’s death, I had to read a book of his.     I first read one of his books in either late middle school, or early high school – my mother gifted me with a book club edition of The Wyrd Sisters.     I’d never read anything like it

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Little (Grrl) Lost – Charles de Lint

At Home, Reading / Megan

This is a young adult book, and isn’t explicitly set in Newford, but very well could be.     There are two teenagers as the protagonists:    TJ – whose parents lost all their money, and had to move to the city to get new jobs, meaning they gave up the farm, and the horse

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Quatrain – Sharon Shinn

3 Comments / At Home, Reading / Megan

This is a book of four novellas, set in four larger universes the author has written about.      I’ve not read any of her other books (my mother gave me this one), and I think this was a pretty good flavor of what her work is like.      There was only one of the stories that I

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Clariel – Garth Nix

At Home, Reading / Megan

I was so excited to see that there was another Old Kingdom book coming out.     So excited in fact, that when I bought the book, I sat on it for a full month because I was afraid I’d hyped it up too much in my mind, and I’d be disappointed.    Happily, I was not.     I

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Taliesin – Stephen R. Lawhead

At Home, Reading / Megan

Here’s another reread – this is a five book series (The Pendragon Cycle) that I had read the first three books of back in high school, and then lost track of.  (It was originally a trilogy when I first read it, but he then expanded it.)    I happened upon the last two used, so brought

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The Children of Kings – Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross

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This is the latest Darkover book – a series I’ve been following for a long time (heck, it’s outliving the original author). In this book, Prince Gareth Elhalyn is chafing a bit at the strictured life he has to live in Thendara as the heir to the throne of the Comyn (as well as being

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Heartless – Gail Carriger

2 Comments / At Home, Reading / Megan

I think I’ve hit on why I like the Alexia Tarbotti books, even though they often cross over the line of my absurdity meter: they’re just fun.    I can count on them to be a palette cleanser if I feel like I’ve been reading too much of any one thing for too long. In this

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