Picked this meme up from Melanie, in honor of two YA books I read for work this weekend.
The goal of this is to list favourite authors according to last name (with a representative fave book as well).
Atwood, Margaret — Cat’s Eye
Bronte, Charlotte — Jane Eyre
Card, Orson Scott — Ender’s Game
Dragonwagon, Crescent — The Year [...]
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My birthday was on Sunday, but it extended through today with a box of books that Superfast Husband bought for me! Check out this tantalizing list of books–I don’t know what to read first (after I finish The Fionavar Tapestry)!
The Axe, Volume 1 of The Master of Hestviken and Gunnar’s Daughter by Sigrid Undset
Empire [...]
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I want to start a conversation about what readers think are the books that no child should be without. I’m building a library for Superfast Baby, and here are my 10 must haves for boys and 10 must haves for girls:
Boys:
1. The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
2. A House with a Clock [...]
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Review:
The second in trilogy begun in His Majesty’s Dragon finds Temeraire and Laurence traveling by sea to China where Temeraire will take his rightful place as the dragon of an emperor–not a member of His Royal Majesty’s Navy battling against an ever-encroaching Napoleon.
Review:
Throne of Jade is a more than worthy installment in the tale of [...]
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Tags: British Literature
Synopsis:
The setting is the Napoleonic wars, in a world where dragons exist and are part of military operations. An English naval captain captures a French vessel, and on board is a particularly valuable treasure: a dragon’s egg, and joins the Aerial Corps with Temeraire, a very rare Celestial breed, and together they join the [...]
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Tags: British Literature
