Category Archives: Books

The Rest of the Series is Awesome

My audiobook listening seems to have been a lot of teen books of late. Here are a couple of them. Boston Jacky. Bloody Jack Book 11 by L.A. Meyer. Narrated by Katherine Kellgren. HMH Books for Young Readers, 2013. Jacky … Continue reading

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The Seat of Magic

I am still recovering from our large Talk Like a Pirate Day celebration at the library on Saturday – but since official Talk Like a Pirate Day isn’t until the 19th, you still have time to celebrate if you haven’t … Continue reading

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The City in the Lake

Brandy at Random Musings of a Bibliophile had a giveaway for this book awhile back, which reminded me that I really like Rachel Neumeier and hadn’t read this book. I elected to make sure the library copy kept going out, … Continue reading

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Waiting for Blue Lily, Lily Blue

I have queues of books to review and instead have been writing pirate poems for the Talk Like a Pirate Day program I’m running at the library this weekend… but Maggie Stiefvater today is doing a thing where if I … Continue reading

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Six (mostly) Silly Picture Books

It’s time for the first Kid Lit Blog Hop of September! Take a look at all the great books! In honor of my daughter starting kindergarten, here’s the latest large batch of new picture books that got the most reread … Continue reading

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Huntress

I really loved Malinda Lo’s Cinderella retelling Ash, which is why I’d originally put this book, set in the same world, on my 48HBC pile. It took me a couple of months to get to it, but here it is! … Continue reading

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The Snow Spider

I remember seeing this book around, but it was Stephanie at Views from the Tesseract writing about it that prompted me to check it out. The Snow Spider, The Magician Trilogy Book 1. by Jenny Nimmo. First published by Methuen … Continue reading

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Dodger

I’ve mentioned before that Pratchett is a reliable author whose prolific works I don’t try to keep up with. I just know that if there’s a gap in my listening (or, much less often, reading) schedule, there will be a … Continue reading

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Books I Want To Read But Don’t Own Yet for Top 10 Tuesdays

Once again, the lovely folks over at The Broke and Bookish have come up with a list idea that I couldn’t resist. Since the vast majority of books that I read are library books, the concept of not reading a … Continue reading

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Courting Magic

Most often, if I want a book that the library doesn’t have, I’ll either interloan it from another library or ask one of my colleagues to get it for me. Here was a book that I had to buy for … Continue reading

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