Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
The Goblin Wood, by Hilari Bell
Hilari Bell has written ten or twelve books, and they generally seem to be popular. I hadn’t read any prior to this, and it’s mostly because I’m shallow. No, that’s the truth: I saw “Hilari Bell” and my brain translated it to “Hilary Duff”. Of course, after having read The Goblin Wood, I went to [...]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, Book 1), by Kelley Armstrong
This, Kelley Armstrong’s first published novel, has been rumored to be under development for a movie, but IMDB won’t give me any proof, so I leave it here for you as an unfounded rumor. Armstrong is Canadian, from somewhere around London, Ontario, and she is shortly to hit her eighth book in this series.
Elena Michaels [...]
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
The House on Parchment Street, by Patricia McKillip
This book is wildly out of print, but the library system in Toledo owns a copy, I think. Anyway, before she started writing fantasy novels with covers done by Kinuko Y. Craft, Patricia McKillip used to write children’s books. This is one of the rarer and stranger ones, and it’s not fantasy, unlike the Riddle-Master [...]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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Sometimes it takes me a day or two to moderate comments, but I’ve been checking more frequently recently. So if your last comment [...]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Nobody’s Princess, by Esther Friesner
The Young Warriors anthology, edited by Tamora Pierce and Josepha Sherman, has quite a few short stories by authors who are on my favorite list. One of them I’m more used to seeing as an editor; I’ve been reading Esther Friesner’s ‘Amazon Comedy’ anthology series (Chicks in Chainmail, et al) for years. Her short story [...]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Valiant, by Holly Black
This is not quite the sequel to Tithe, reviewed here, by Holly Black, but it is a companion novel. Some of the same characters show up, but only briefly. Apparently Ironside is a direct sequel to Tithe, but I haven’t gotten to read that yet. While I enjoyed Tithe, despite its somewhat [...]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Wicked Lovely, by Melissa Marr
I have to admit, I bought this book new, recently, from a Barnes and Noble, because of an odd controversy involving this author and and a not-yet-published book of hers. I suspected before having read this book, which was not particularly maligned but does constitute a ‘prequel’ to the maligned book, that the pseudo-review was [...]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Pretties (Uglies Trilogy, Book 2), by Scott Westerfeld
This book is the sequel to Uglies, reviewed previously. It’s the middle book of Westerfeld’s initial Uglies trilogy. He’s still an American author married to an Australian author, and they split their time between the two countries a bit strangely: they spend summer in both places. I’m a Midwesterner and I actually like winter (when [...]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
River Secrets, by Shannon Hale
A few weeks ago, I reviewed five of Hale’s novels in an unofficial “Shannon Hale Week”. (Here’s the first review.) She’s published six novels, though; this was the one I couldn’t get my hands on in the original burst. It’s the third of an eventual four Bayern novels, and a companion novel (or sequel) to [...]
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1), by Rick Riordan
I had avoided this book for a while, because I didn’t really like the packaging. I also didn’t think I’d be that interested in it. It took a while, but enough people on the internet told me that they were actually kind of fun that I bought book 1. Not surprisingly, I now have no [...]