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Posted in Writing, book reviews on Dec 11th, 2009
I was the youngest of three daughters. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour, but few people except perhaps the minister who had baptized all three of us remembered by given name. My father still likes to tell the story of how I acquired my odd nickname: I had come to [...]
Posted in book reviews, reading on Nov 25th, 2009
As I watch my son slowly, slowly start to learn the sounds of letters and recognize words, I realize that I’ve been reading for the better part of three decades. Books are comfortable companions, solace in lonely times when other friends have been scarce or far away, and there are certain tomes that I [...]
Posted in book reviews on Sep 29th, 2009
In the spirit of letting YOU do the talking (but, of course, being entirely self-centered as journals are wont to do), let’s talk about my books!
Go click on the link to my LibraryThing library or pick one of the four titles that displays on the front page, there, down on your lower right. Sort [...]
Posted in book reviews on Apr 16th, 2008
I’m surprised that the Bone Doll’s Twin doesn’t seem to be in print (or that Amazon.co.uk is out of stock, anyway) as I think it’s a fantastic book. This is why I’m including a third general fantasy review in this year’s challenge, because it’s really original, very well-written, and I’ve never seen anyone [...]
Posted in book reviews on Apr 16th, 2008
Something I’ve been considering for a while now is the way that recommendations by other authors and the famed jacket-quotes influence readers. I know that they’re intended to make a book by a new or lesser-known author seem more appealing to people buying into the bestseller phenomenon, but sometimes they backfire. Anything that [...]
Posted in book reviews on Apr 14th, 2008
I finished The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale while working through The Bloody Chamber and have to confess that my frame of mind was far more conducive to the former!
The Goose Girl is a re-telling of the Grimms’ fairy tale of the same name, which tells the story of a princess-turned-goose girl who must win [...]
Posted in book reviews on Apr 14th, 2008
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (the link and picture are of a different edition than the one I got from the library, so the stories included may be different) is an anthology of fairytale re-tellings. The tone is dark, as can probably be guessed from the title, which refers to the [...]
Posted in book reviews on Apr 6th, 2008
The Riddle-Master trilogy is one that’s been on my list to read for years because it simply is classic fantasy writing. I’m not sure entirely why I’ve never picked it up until now but suspect that it was at least in part due to the fact that the protagonist of the first novel is [...]
Posted in book reviews, reading on Mar 29th, 2008
I am not a book reviewer. In all honesty, I haven’t done any book review that was more than a couple of sentences since the horror days when I had to do book reports for school. Why? When? Where? How? I always disliked setting down my gut instinct [...]
Posted in book reviews, reading on Mar 26th, 2008
Following on from my last post, sort of…
Reading has always been my refuge in times of woe. Find yourself in an alien country that’s supposed to be “home” and don’t have any books? Visit the library! Feeling out of place and awkward in the real world? Re-read an old favourite and [...]
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