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After grousing so much about the last two audiobooks I listened to (Austenland and The Sharing Knife: Beguilement), and being a little worried about sharing Gatty's Tale with
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Such an unappealing title - this is the 'Special Omnibus Edition' of Mary Hooper's At the Sign of the Sugared Plum and Petals in the Ashes, set in London in 1665 (Great Plague) and 1666 (Great Fire) respectively.

I did a very short review of At the Sign of the Sugared Plum back in August, but didn't say much about it, other than thinking that the ( Read more... )

I said in my last post that I'd probably be saying more about Philip Reeve's Here Lies Arthur soon, but I didn't expect it to be quite this soon. I finished it this afternoon and have already sent off two (probably fairly incomprehensible) texts about it and talked as much as I possibly could with OD, who hasn't yet read it. This is definitely ( Read more... )

Blowing a virtual kiss to Kevin Crossley-Holland, which is about the sum-total of my commenting ability just now.


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Just FYI - 'A book in the Time Runners series' - though even this isn't yet published. Does that kind of thing annoy anyone else? End of rhetorical questioning ( Read more... )

Overdue enough that I'm in danger of forgetting anything I thought about it, other than a grunt of 'good'. Gideon (by Linda Buckley-Archer) apparently came out in June, but first I noticed of it was the rave by Gail Gauthier, followed by the chance to hear the author at the IBBY conference (which I wrote up here), followed by the book's nomination ( Read more... )

Been doing a few flocked entries, with (extremely boring) comments about my study programme which I didn't really want public, but hopefully the need for such has passed for the moment.

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One old - Simon, by Rosemary Sutcliff, one newer, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, by Karen Cushman.
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