Stray by Rachel Vincent
Okay, first off the cover to this is awful. Really, it is. And second of all, I did have huge problems with this book. But I’ll get to them later, first...
20 December 2011
Winter’s tale by Mark Helprin
Peter Lake was once in training to be a mechanic, but a tragedy meant that he was cast out of that life, and found himself with the Short Tails. A New...
18 December 2011
Grave’s end by Elaine Mercado
In 1982 Elaine Mercado and her family moved from an apartment into what they hoped would be their dream home. This house, in the Gravesend section of south Brooklyn, needed some...
10 December 2011
The Islandman by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1856–1937)
Translated from the Irish (An tOileánach) by Robin Flower Tomás Ó Criomhthain, or, if you’d prefer an anglicised version, Thomas O’Crohan, was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1856. He...
1 December 2011
The hunger games by Suzanne Collins
Ever since Katniss’ father died in a mining accident she has been the one to take care of her family. Her mother’s depression left her unable to care for either of...
1 December 2011
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29 November 2011
Pegasus by Robin McKinley
On their twelfth birthday all members of the royal family are “bound” to a member of the pegasi royal family. It has been so ever since humans first came to this...
12 November 2011
Dark Jenny by Alex Bledsoe
Sitting in Angelina’s Tavern, Eddie LaCrosse’s winter evening is suddenly disturbed by a delivery. The delivery of a coffin to be precise. Obviously this piques the interest of the other tavern...
10 November 2011
Heir of night by Helen Lowe
Book one of The Wall of Night series When I started reading this book, with it’s ancient evil and aristocracy fighting against the darkness, I thought it would be a very...
3 November 2011
Wall of days by Alastair Bruce
On an island, all alone, the narrator, Bran, lives out his exile. He has been here ten years, time carefully marked out. He is kept busy each day by the struggle...
31 October 2011
The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
I seem to be reading a lot of myths, and myth inspired fiction, at the moment. Last it was Norse myths, and now I’m on to Greek myths, and the tale...
29 October 2011
Ragnarok : the end of the gods by A. S. Byatt
Quotes I liked ; Pinterest There was once a girl, an evacuee during the blitz, who read a lot. Myths, legends, religious books. And her favourite was the Norse tales. She...
26 October 2011