Now, I’d forgotten about this, but the collected first gn is out now. Not sure if I want to pick it up or not, but I did enjoy the first book (but not the fourth). So maybe I’ll check it out from the library so he doesn’t get any more of my money.
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Crimson Thread
A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin
By Suzanne Weyn
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Bertie’s father is a dreamer, and after her mother dies, he takes them to live the American dream, leaving their home in Ireland for an unknown world. In 1880 though, many Irish are immigrating and jobs are scarce. [...]
Awesome news. The Hunger Game will be made into a movie.
“Lionsgate has acquired feature rights to Suzanne Collins’ futuristic novel “The Hunger Games” and set the project up with Nina Jacobson at her Color Force banner.
The mini-major announced Tuesday that Collins will adapt her own novel, the first in a trilogy.”
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Wild Orchid
A Retelling of the Ballad of Mulan
By Cameron Dokey
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Mulan was never the kind of girl that would bring honor to her family. She rode horses, could shoot a bow, and fight with a sword.
But she’s never really known her father. He left before her [...]
Wow… everyone needs to read this and know about it.
Summary of it is, the new “save our kids from lead” law will also affect all books published before 1985 and the government wants those books destroyed, or at least not sold or where kids can have access to them.
Now, I’m against lead poisoning and everything, [...]
In the coming year I will be blathering on about The Rise of Renegade X by Chelsea Campbell, because it is written by a very good friend of mine, who also edits all my book reviews on this blog. This book is amazing, and I’m currently reading it for the second time, as she made [...]
Mairelon the Magician
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The Magician’s Ward
By Patricia C. Wrede
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Kim has played the part of a thieving boy for most of her life, hiding her gender being the safer alternative to revealing herself as a girl in the dark underbelly of [...]