Posted in Bookpiles, Challenges on Jun 26th, 2007 4 Comments »
Ok, here’s the deal. I did it again. Stress, a job hunt, pride weekend, a brief illness, an Internet outage, and a consuming desire to escape and not think about anything has caused me to disappear.
The Internet outage was the worst because Thursday when I got home from work, I was going to […]
Posted in Reviews on Jun 14th, 2007 7 Comments »
The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy / Nick Bantock
Chronicle Books, 1994 - 0811806960
(contains: Griffin & Sabine, Sabine’s Notebook, The Golden Mean)
The Morning Star Trilogy / Nick Bantock
Chronicle Books, 2004 - 0811845095
(contains: The Gryphon, Alexandria, Morning Star)
This is going to be a difficult review to write for a couple of reasons. 1) My feelings for these […]
Posted in Challenges on Jun 12th, 2007 8 Comments »
With the looming conclusion of the Once Upon a Time challenge, I figured I’d sign up for something new. The Book Awards Challenge is low-stress. Just 12 books from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008, and they all have to be prize winners. There’s an approved list of prizes.
I decided to […]
Posted in Challenges, Reviews on Jun 11th, 2007 3 Comments »
Peter Pan in Scarlet / Geraldine McCaughrean
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2006 - 1416918086 (hardcover)
I’m not going to spend a lot of time with this review because, while I found Peter Pan in Scarlet assuredly pleasant and charming, it didn’t leave me with much to say. I read this for the Once Upon a Time […]
Posted in Bookpiles on Jun 11th, 2007 4 Comments »
I didn’t mean to, honest I didn’t, but our movie was sold out and the only place to kill the extra hour we had to wait was the Borders right next door, and of course I had two awesome people recommending things to me, so I walked out with a mini-pile of books and the […]
Posted in Bookpiles, General Prattling On, Reviews on Jun 6th, 2007 4 Comments »
Ok, I’m back. I was out of town and then back and then out and then back and then lazy. The best part about traveling for me is that it’s very book-centric. All that airport downtime, the plane downtime, the sitting at home downtime. This couple of trips was even better […]