Read for the Young Adult Reading Challenge. This book was a double young adult selection, both by intended audience and by the fact that the author was thirteen when she completed it. Considering the age the author, this is quite a decent book. The plot is extremely quick; it centers around the vampire Risika and […]
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After a rather pathetic run of January reading (I can read three books in a week if I really get going), I felt the need to turn to some comfort reading, so out came my copy of Robin McKinley’s Sunshine. This book is one of the few relatively recent books I’ve bought (and I bought
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Read for the Mythopoeic Award and 2008 TBR Challenges. I admit to picking up this book after reading all the hype surrounding it when it first came out. I actually bought it as a gift for my boyfriend, and in the spirit of it being a gift, originally left it to him to read it
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I read Druids, the predecessor to this book, ages and ages ago, and I found myself wishing I’d reread it before reading this book. It wasn’t that this book was completely incomprehensible without having recently read Druids, but I felt like I was missing some of the flavor of the story, and why the characters
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I came to read A.S. Byatt by way of her novel Possession, a book I very much enjoyed. I was extremely intrigued to note that she also writes fairy tales, five of which are featured in this book. The first two are actually in Possession, which initially gave me an incredible sense of déjà vu
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I admit to being intrigued by a number of Laurell K. Hamilton’s books, but somewhat off-put by how they seemed to be mostly marketed for the sex content, more than the story. (It’s not that I’m a prude, I just like a certain amount of, hmm, plot in the books I read.) However, some of
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I do enjoy Christopher Moore’s books. He comes up with the most random assemblage of characters and somehow manages to weave them into a cohesive story that actually makes whatever crack-brained idea he’s dealing with in the current book work. This book is about whales. He captured a pretty decent picture of the whale scene
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I really need to stop reading chick lit with an expectation of great plot development or stunning new characterizations. I need to remember that the girls in these stories are supposed to have guy problems, even when they seem otherwise too intelligent to get themselves into that kind of situation multiple times. I also need
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Read for the R.I.P. II Reading Challenge. It’s not every day where you read a book where the titular character doesn’t ever speak a word. Titus Groan is the first novel in the Gormenghast series, and starts with the birth of Titus, the heir to the earldom of Gormenghast, a large pile of a building
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Read for the R.I.P II reading challenge. I very much enjoyed this book, despite the fact that it took me forever to get through it. I’m a pretty fast reader, so it doesn’t often take me 20 days to finish reading something. I was somewhat reminded of my (high school) freshman attempt to read Les
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