Back to my, ahem, Studies

Once again, I just couldn’t resist. The day after I finished Poison Study I bought both Magic Study and Fire Study; because of my class, I figured that it would be easy enough to set them aside in favor of doing actual coursework. Yeah. Right. I spent the majority of Friday lost in the forests [...]

Early to Rise…

I’m not a morning person, never have been and most likely never will be, but if anything could give me reason to be it just might be the beginning of Michael Dorris’s Morning Girl:
The name my family calls me is Morning Girl because I wake up early, always with something on my mind. Mother says [...]

Poison Study ~ Maria V. Snyder

…A Once Upon a Time II Challenge Read
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She’ll eat the best meals, have rooma in the palace–and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing [...]

Wake ~ Lisa McMann

…A Young Adult Challenge Read
Not all dreams are sweet.
For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people’s dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie’s seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.
She can’t tell anybody about what she does — they’d never [...]

Returned to the Shelves

Yesterday morning found me putting the majority of my library books in a bag to go back – unread. I had to force myself to do it {and there was absolutely some pouting involved} but it just became too much, especially – or more accurately because of – my graduate class. The books we’re expected [...]

Once Upon a Time II

Yea! I am so excited that Carl’s laid out the plans for Once Upon a Time II!!
He has several quests you can take up, but here’s the one I’m going with:
Quest the First
“Read at least 5 books that fit somewhere within the Once Upon a Time II criteria. They might all be fantasy, or folklore, [...]

House of Cards ~ C.E. Murphy

New York City’s only legal counsel to the fabled Old Races, Margrit Knight, is level headed in all matters extraordinary. But when she’s summoned to negotiate a peace treaty among rival factions, her own mortal world threatens to fall apart. Margrit’s been in hot water before, but reentering the underworld brings a new set of [...]

Went to the Bookstore & Found This…

That gorgeous piece of art is on the cover of Dru Pagliasotti’s Clockwork Heart. As you can see, the artist is Timothy Lantz; he’s done quite a few covers for Juno Books. It goes without saying that once I laid eyes on this cover I was doomed. There was no way I was leaving that [...]

The Wright 3 ~ Blue Balliett

Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, and it’s up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. Stir in the return of Calder’s friend Tommy (which creates [...]

Favorite Books – In the Physical Sense

I was recently over at Carl’s blog {um, okay – actually? – I’ve been checking it every day – multiple times – waiting for news of the Once Upon a Time challenge} and saw his really lovely post on his favorite books. Chris at Stuff as Dreams are Made On started bloggers on the theme [...]