Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. Leave it to me to manage to request the second book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels before the first. And to decide to read it for a challenge so that I don’t really have time to send it back and get the actual first book. So, I was […]
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Read for the RIP III and YA 2008 Reading Challenges. I finally succumbed to all the hype and read Twilight. Per usual with this kind of book, I approached it with a great deal of trepidation, and was rather pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I can’t say this is the best romance
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Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. One of the things I really enjoyed about Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell was the way that the author wove the fairy aspects of the book into the story in such a way that it came off just as much as a historical fiction book, as much as
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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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