Sci-Fi/Fantasy

The Queen’s Thief Series, by Megan Whalen Turner (Audio)

May 12, 2012

So, I originally read this entire series in August 2010. And I liked them well enough. But I didn’t love them. Then, during Chachic’s Queen’s Thief week, I read this post by Angie of Angieville bibliovangelizing the series. It was then I knew that I had to reread the whole thing. Well, at least, re-experience [...]

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I Am Not a Serial Killer, by Dan Wells

February 23, 2012

Dan Wells is a local author. And several of my blogging and IRL friends recommended this series. As an added bonus, every book in the series has already been published. With all of this encouragement, I delved in. John Wayne Cleaver is a sociopath. And a teenager. To keep him from indulging in his psychopathic [...]

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Mini Reviews

February 15, 2012

Sadly, I fell WAY behind on my 2011 reviews. So, occasionally, I’ll be posting mini reviews to help catch up. This is round two. Check out round one, if you like. Though they all deserve their own posts, this will have to do. Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson Rating: My third encounter with Laurie Halse [...]

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The Queen’s Thief Series, by Megan Whalen Turner

October 14, 2010

We read this series as a “summer assignment” for my book club. And I’m really glad we did. It’s a delightful series, though some books worked better for me than others. Warning, some minor spoilers in the latter book summaries appear due to the nature of reviewing a series. Title: The Thief Author: Megan Whalen [...]

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The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

April 7, 2010

Title: The Hobbit or There and Back Again Author: J.R.R. Tolkien Pages: 272 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Copyright: 1937 Format: Paperback Rating: ____________________________ I have very fond memories of my dad reading this book to me and my brother as children. This was my first reread of it, though, since ninth grade. Bilbo Baggins is, of [...]

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Coraline, by Neil Gaiman

October 30, 2008

Coraline, by Neil Gaiman is my third visit to Gaiman’s world. I think it might have been my favorite trip. Should you need more of an invitation to read this book than the author’s name on the cover check out this blurb: “This book tells a fascinating and disturbing story that frightened me nearly to [...]

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The Host, by Stephenie Meyer

May 15, 2008

Stephenie Meyer’s new book, The Host, is about aliens, the way her Twilight series is about vampires. The Host is being billed as Meyer’s first novel for adults. I was therefore expecting more from this book than from the vampires. However, this book is written in almost exactly the same style as the teen romances [...]

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