Mira, Mirror
By Mette Ivie Harrison
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Mira desperately wants a sister, someone to love and trust. When her parents sell her to a witch, Mira thinks she has finally found a sister in her fellow apprentice, but her new sister instead uses Mira’s trust to lock her [...]
Summers at Castle Auburn
By Sharon Shinn
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Illegitimate daughter of a royal lord, Coriel’s time is divided between her life n the village as her healer grandmother’s apprentice and her summers at Castle Auburn, where she lives as her uncle’s ward and spends three glorious months with [...]
A Curse Dark as Gold
By Elizabeth Bunce
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Charlotte Miller has just lost her father, and now she stands to lose the family wool mill as well if she can’t find a way to keep in competition against the steam powered factory [...]
All right, so I briefly mentioned before that I thought Gail Carson Levine was doing a tour, due to the ARC’s marketing copy. Well, I contacted the publicist and got a copy of the tour schedule and I was told I could post it at “the end of next week”, which is today.
So, drum [...]
Reading Challenge – Twisted Fairy Tales
Challenge by Squeky books
“Read 4 books about twisted fairy tales by May 5, 2008
And here are the exceptions:
You may read a book that is not directly based on a fairy tale, but has a very fairy-tale theme (i.e. Sarah Beth Durst’s Into the Wild)”
I think I will be reading:
Twice [...]
OMG YOU GUYS!!!!!
Somehow, I’ve missed any notice that there is a sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle coming out this summer! And I just got an ARC in the mail. Darn it, I’m in the middle of reading Twice Upon a Marigold, but as soon as its done, I’ll be on to this.
The book [...]
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City Of Masks
By Mary Hoffman
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Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
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Talia, a world similar to sixteenth century Earth, where science is what we would call magic, exists in parallel to our own. All that connects the two are travelers known as Stravaganzas, only distinguishable by their lack [...]
I found this article in the NYT to be fascinating about how adult and children’s titles are sold. The gist of the article is that James Patterson wants his books upfront in stores so that adults have an easier time of find the books.
Personally, though I’ve had plenty of readers comment on how much they [...]
It’s time to challenge myself with two new reading lists!
Royalty Rules Reading Challenge
Okay, so I’m late on this, but the deadline is April 30th, so I’ve got no worries. Here are the books I plan to read:
Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor (okay, so I’m halfway through this already, but I think this is the only [...]
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