Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 16th, 2008
The Explosionist, by Jenny Davidson
Jenny Davidson has published one book for YAs — this one, which comes out July 1st. She also wrote a novel, Heredity, for adults; being a professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University also means that she’s published a couple scholarly tomes. Her supposed blog is mostly commentary on things she finds in the news; [...]
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Dragonhaven, by Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley has been a powerhouse in the world of fantasy and children’s fantasy since her novel Beauty was published in 1978; her 1985 Newbery Award for The Hero and the Crown cemented that. She’s adapted a lot of fairy tales and even a folk tale (Robin Hood); her previous book before this one was [...]
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The Prophecy, by Hilari Bell
A few months ago, I read my first book by Hilari Bell, and noted that, despite her name, she is not a teenybopper, and I was a Very Bad Person for thinking that she might be one. No, truthfully, she’s old enough to have been a librarian for quite a while, and now she writes [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Another meme, or Get to Know Your Reviewer Better
Rules: Link to the person that tagged you (that would be the Ink Mage), post the rules somewhere in your meme, answer the questions, tag six people in your post, let the tagees know they’ve been chosen by leaving a comment on their blog, let the tagger know your entry is posted. (I, uh, might [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy, edited by William Schafer
Subterranean Press, of the lovely editions, has also been producing a magazine for a few years. Originally it was sold by the issue, but starting about a year ago, they put a version for free online. They do also produce a print edition, which usually sells out. This anthology is a collection of the best [...]
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Ever, by Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine is the author of the Newbery Honor Book Ella Enchanted; a companion book to that was Fairest, which I reviewed a few months ago. The majority of her books have fairy tales at the base, and a good deal of them are set in pseudo-Western lands. She even wrote an illustrated book [...]
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
The Hollow Kingdom (book 1), by Clare B. Dunkle
I picked this book up for the grand whopping total of fifty cents recently. Clare (no ‘i’) B. Dunkle seems to have written this trilogy, a separate science fiction book, and a fantasy/horror novel. Her bachelor’s degree is in Russian with a minor in Latin, although I haven’t seen any evidence of a Russian influence [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
King of Shadows, by Susan Cooper
Monday I reviewed Victory, a novel by Susan Cooper, published in 2006. I expressed my surprise that she had published a book that recently, and then I found that she’d written eight books other than the Dark is Rising sequence. Here’s another one of her books, this one set and published in 1999. Eventually, I [...]
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Magic Study, by Maria V. Snyder
Last week I reviewed Poison Study, a novel I’d read when it first came out. Today’s review is the sequel; there’s a third book, Fire Study, that was released in March of this year. Ms. Snyder has what seems to be another novel in this universe, starring a minor character from this novel, coming out [...]
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
The Pinhoe Egg, by Diana Wynne Jones
By now, I would guess that, to frequent readers of this blog, Diana Wynne Jones needs no introduction. This is the most recent of Diana Wynne Jones’s Chrestomanci novels, others of which include The Lives of Christopher Chant, Charmed Life, and The Magicians of Caprona, among others. Other books of hers that I have reviewed [...]