I did it! After putting it off for years, I finally finished all the Anne books. I have to admit, the books about Anne’s children just do not interest me as much as the books about Anne herself, but I really wanted to get through the whole series. A couple of weeks ago, I sat [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Young Adult & Children's’
October 29, 2009
Contest: Because Angels are HOT
Enter to win a copy of Hush. Hush and Fallen at The Story Siren’s blog!
Contest: Because Angels are HOT.
October 26, 2009
What a [Steam]punk
Scott Westerfeld came to Books & Books on Sunday afternoon to promote the first book in his new steampunk trilogy, Leviathan.
I have yet to read the Uglies series, though it has been on my “I will get around to it one day” list for a while, but after reading a blurb for Leviathan and seeing [...]
September 23, 2009
(s)heroes
I’ve received some great recommendations and discovered some wonderful reads as part of my search for fantasy featuring strong female protagonists—the kind who are willing to take up a sword and fight as well as any of the male heroes that abound in fantasy fiction. It’s difficult finding these characters; though there are a lot [...]
August 6, 2009
the duchess and the tower
On a quest for strong female characters in fantasy fiction – Part Deux
I love a good bildungsroman and if it breaks the mold of male coming-of-age stories, even better. Caroline Stevermer’s A College of Magics is most assuredly not your typical coming-of-age novel.
Set in an alternate Belle-Époque Europe where elemental magic can be harnessed by [...]
July 29, 2009
death by chocolate
While on my quest for that elusive element in fantasy fiction–the strong female protagonist (or girls who do things)–I was introduced to Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer’s Sorcery & Cecilia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot a magical romance set in Regency era England. Caught up in the magical machinations of their country neighbor, Sir [...]
June 16, 2009
the gory details
I picked up Sarah Quigley’s TMI after reading a post about it on Cupcakes Take the Cake. And if you’re asking yourself why a cupcake blog would post about a YA book, I’ll just tell you that there is a lot of cupcake baking in this book. At times you have to wonder if these [...]
May 9, 2009
viking disco inferno
I was starting to wonder about this one…
The final installment in the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series, Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? is due to be released on October 6, 2009 according to Amazon. I kind of can’t wait, though this means that this is the end of all those series I [...]
January 29, 2009
a bit of fluff
Watched the “City of Ember” movie last night and though it has been a very long time since I read the book, I cannot say that I recall there being giant mutant moles in the pipeworks. But I may be wrong about that. Were there really mutant creatures in the book?
Otherwise, the movie was excellent. [...]
January 14, 2009
Fairytale ending
After 10 volumes (and several half volumes) Meg Cabot’s Princess Diaries series has finally reached an end.
Forever Princess is Cabot’s final installment in the series and manages to bring Mia’s story to a very satisfying end.
Returning to AEHS in the final weeks of Mia’s senior year, the story takes an unexpected shift, picking up nearly [...]
