I haven't done the Wednesday reading Meme in ages, but I'm going to try to get back in the habit of doing it at least semi regularly.

What are you currently reading
Carlene O'Neil: One Foot in the Grape: First book in a mystery series about a photojournalist who takes over her family's winery. Dramatic neighbors abound. I'm only just to the ( Read more... )

Is there a proper term for the “(British) kid opens door to other world” plot, aside from “Narnia knockoff.” (Which I don’t think most are, but that’s not the point ( Read more... )

Or this girl's fiance is.

Or both.

This is a post of much awesomeness.

So, Books of Magic.  If you mention Harry Potter to most people who've read this book(or many times, just the ones who know a fair bit about  Tim Hunter,) the polite ones will say that HP is an all ages version of BoM, or heavily influenced by.  The less polite ones will just say it's a ripoff.


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Stardust is a ballad about the realm of Faerie, in prose and illustrated form.  In it, a young man named Tristan Thorn swears to bring a fallen star to the girl he loves.  Tristan lives in the town of Wall, which exists on the border between Faerie and our world, and the people of Wall guard the hole in the wall that can be used to cross between ( Read more... )

You know, it occurs to me that, someday soon, I really should read my Stardust trade instead of just pulling it out and looking at the pretty pictures all the time...

(of course, I've read the novel version...my first exposure to Gaiman, actually, but I love Charles Vess's work-he really needs to do a second Book of Ballads series, or just GN would ( Read more... )

KENSHIN! AOSHI! STOP KILLING THE POOR HELPLESS BOOKS! (just to give those who have seen RK an idea of where I am now)

Booksale was, at best, disappointing.  New place, hard to find, sucky parking.  They're using about 1/3 of the space available to them, meaning about 50% of what they had, they didn't have out. That incidentally, is almost all of the ( Read more... )