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Book of a Thousand Days

This is the only fantasy I’ve ever read set in a version of Mongolia.  My love is so fascinated by Mongolian culture that some of this has rubbed off on me, so that I was delighted recognizing bits of the … Continue reading

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Toads and Diamonds

This book recently hopped in front of me and reminded me that I’d wanted to read it when it first came out a couple years ago. Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson. The original Toads and Diamonds tale by Perrault … Continue reading

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Grave Mercy

Grave Mercy, His Fair Assassin Book 1 by Robin LaFevers. The setting is 15th century Brittany. Ismae is a peasant’s daughter with an abusive father. When the man he marries her off to turns out to be abusive as well, … Continue reading

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Liar’s Moon

Here is what is really bothering me about this book right now: the first in the series was on one of the library reading lists for teens. I was trying to help a teen boy who’d read many of the … Continue reading

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. Read by Khristine Hvam. “Once upon a time, an angel fell in love with a demon. It did not end well.” So begins this story, which has at its heart two relationships: … Continue reading

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Hex Hall

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins. Sophie Mercer, age 16, is a witch. She’s lived all her life with her normal mother and never met her father, the warlock who passed on his powers. Like all Prodigium, Sophie’s had her powers … Continue reading

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The Coming of the Dragon

I’m sure I heard about this book when it first came out, but somehow, my library didn’t buy it (I’ve since requested that we do so) and we can’t interloan new books… so I forgot about it, until, once again, … Continue reading

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Linger

It occurs to me that I finished listening to Shiver, the first book in this trilogy, in early September of 2010, driving to and from the hospital. I didn’t get the books I read those couple months reviewed at all. … Continue reading

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Clockwork Angel

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare I pulled this off the returns cart, labeled new… and discovered only later that it’s a 2010 book that just gone out so much that no one here had a chance to take the New … Continue reading

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Ranger’s Apprentice. The Ruins of Gorlan

Dear readers, I very much apologize for my spotty posting as of late. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on, but these three factors are probably influencing things: 1. My deep dark secret (but totally legal according to work) is … Continue reading

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