Archive for June, 2008

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

The New Policeman, by Kate Thompson

[Rachel Caine's Feast of Fools is available in the U. S. today.] I had never heard of Kate Thompson prior to this book, but that appears to be my fault, as she has published three books for adults and thirteen for children, including this volume and its sequel, The Last of the High Kings. She [...]

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Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Victory, by Susan Cooper

I, uh, didn’t know that Susan Cooper was still publishing books. Yeah, that Susan Cooper. But really — The Dark is Rising sequence is from when? So when I picked up a copy of this novel, I assumed it was from the early 1980s or something. An odd reference in the book made me turn [...]

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