Author Archive
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 [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in bio/autobio,historical fiction,romance novels,TV/movie reviews by Stephanie
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 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in alternate history,book reviews,children's lit,fantasy by Stephanie
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 [...]
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
OMG!
New Attolia book info!
2 Comments » - Posted in children's lit by Stephanie
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Impossible, by Nancy Werlin
Apparently Nancy Werlin primarily writes ‘literary suspense’ novels for YA/teen readers. She began publishing in the mid-1990s, and Impossible is her first book that is explicitly on the border of fantasy. She has a B.A. from Yale College, and won an Edgar Award for a novel entitled Locked Inside at some point. She was born [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in book reviews,children's lit,contemporary,fantasy by Stephanie
Monday, June 8th, 2009
City of Masks (Stravaganza, book 1), by Mary Hoffman
Mary Hoffman is English; she was born in a railroad town, but moved to London when she was quite small. She has a degree in English Literature from Cambridge and a diploma in linguistics from the University College of London. Just after that, in 1970, she started writing children’s books; to date she has published [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in alternate history,book reviews,children's lit,fantasy by Stephanie
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Bound, by Donna Jo Napoli
Donna Jo Napoli is a linguistics professor at Swarthmore College and an author of children’s books. She used to have a cat named Taxi, for the sheer joy of calling the cat and watching the neighbors make faces. She takes modern dance and yoga classes for fun, and bakes bread. She has also coauthored a [...]
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Cybele’s Secret, by Juliet Marillier
Juliet Marillier is the author of a number of books, one of which was Wildwood Dancing, which I read and reviewed earlier. This novel is a companion (not a direct sequel; it follows a different character) to that one, and continues the story of the Transylvanian sisters. Ms. Marillier is a musician by training and [...]