Book #1: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
A wonderful rec I received here, and I really loved it. Mary is a great character, and the era is captured so well. Also, is it wrong that I sort of find the relationship between Holmes and Mary a little Doctor and Rose-y? :)

Book #2: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

A quick and fun ( Read more... )

Book #1 - Mansfield Park
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Book # 48 - The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler

So... I was hoping to round out my year with something sort of impressive-ish... but as I doubt I'll finish two more books as planned, I guess that's not going to happen.  This was a fun middle-grade book.  Kind of strange as to its look at mermaid society and whatnot... but a quirky enough main ( Read more... )

Holy cow, I haven't posted since mid-August. For whatever reason, I fell into a major reading slump this fall. I had expected to easily surpass 60 books this year, but that's definitely not going to happen now. Ah, well; at least I hit 50!

#47: Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery: I bawl through little Joyce's brief life and Leslie's ( Read more... )

Book #42 - The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

This was a bloody brilliant book.  I loved every moment of it.  A re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland, I thought it would probably annoy me like a lot of reimaginings tend to... (Wicked, for example) but while it was definitely a whole different spin on the story, even going so far as to saying that ( Read more... )

51 -- Katharine of Aragon by Jean Plaidy ( Read more... )

 Every once in a great while, I’ll read a book and just wonder, ‘where the fuck has this author been this whole time?’  Imagine my surprise when I searched for Bruce Coville and found hundreds of results.  Odder than Ever is one of the most pleasant surprises I’ve encountered in a long while.  I wasn’t expecting much because first, I bought this ( Read more... )

Book #30 - The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

Reread this almost entirely because I'd lent it out and it changed hands a couple of times before getting back to me, which sort of thing gets me panicky a bit.  Enjoyed it a bit more the second time around, since the background characters are all very interesting, and it was easier to keep them straight ( Read more... )

Book # 27 - The Life Murder of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty

Once again, it has been proved that Jaclyn Moriarty is smarter than me.  It took me about half the book to figure out that one of the secondary characters in this is actually a main character from The Year of Secret Assignments, and then another while to realize another character was ( Read more... )

Book 22 - The Circle Opens: Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce

This was my favorite of the four narrators, but this book was So.  Bloody.  It disturbs me that kids read these.

Book 23 - The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

This continues to be fun to read.  I love that there are no limits whatsoever in what can happen.  It always amazes me when fantasy writers ( Read more... )