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Archive for March, 2009

The Crystal Shard

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore is a fantasy novel set in the Forgotten Realms, a world created for Dungeons & Dragons players. Its also a buddy book, brother to the buddy movie where the focus is on male friendships instead of male-female relationships. Main characters Drizzt, Bruenor, Regis and Wulfgar (elf, dwarf, halfling [...]

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next great book inspiration. Who would have thought it would come in the form of a letter from a stranger who lives on the island of Guernsey.
Juliet begins a correspondence with this stranger and other members of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This [...]

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

I read this book by Maggie O’Farrell quite some time ago, but I recently recommended it to someone who really enjoyed it so I thought it might be good to put up here.
The plot is what made me pick this book up; it is the story of a woman (Esme) who has been locked away [...]

Tamora Pierce Books

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I recently saw a duology of books that caught my eye, Trickster’s Choice and Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce. Before reading them, I found that while they are a stand-alone set, they are connected to previous books by the author. Since I am one who really likes to read things in order/series, I looked up [...]

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Sunday, March 15th, 2009

I’ve never used WordPress, so here I am trying it out before I go live.