Archive for September, 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Bright Star (2009)
[Happy birthday, Andy! Not that you read this, but maybe someone'll tell you about it. Love, Your Sister.] One of my study group members (I’m in law school) was, er, less than enthralled with whatever it was we were supposed to be doing so took a moment out to look up the upcoming movies for [...]
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
The Demon’s Lexicon, by Sarah Rees Brennan
I decided to read this book after I read a companion short story that the author posted on her blog; that story is available here. Reading the story doesn’t require knowledge of the book, and vice versa; however, it will fill in a few bits of backstory that may be interesting to some readers. Sarah [...]
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
City of Stars (Stravaganza, book 2), by Mary Hoffman
A few days ago I reviewed the first book in this series and expressed my desire to read more. Fortunately, there are (at this point) four books in the series, and I am currently in possession of all of them. (I am also confused as to why they decided to redesign the series starting with [...]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
The Dream Thief (The Drakon, book 2), by Shana Abe
Apparently The Dream Thief was Amazon.com’s #1 Romance of the Year, and the first book in this series, The Smoke Thief (review here) was RT (Romantic Times)’s #1 Historical Romance of the Year (presumably in different years). The Drakon series is up to four books now; the third volume is entitled Queen of Dragons and [...]
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
The In-Between, by R. A. MacAvoy
About the only thing I know about R. A. MacAvoy is that she’s female. Apparently she was born in my (former) neck of the woods in 1949, and attended Case Western Reserve University. This, apparently, allows her to make Cleveland jokes. (It’s okay. The Browns are enough of a joke for most of us.) She [...]