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Post #53: Vacations from Hell

2009-11-06T06:22:38Z

Post number fifty-three is for a compilation of short stories entitled Vacations from Hell. It features stories by Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maureen Johnson and Sarah Mlynowski. I have only read books by two of these authors mys...

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Post #52: Sphinx's Princess

2009-11-03T03:40:43Z

Post number fifty-two is for Esther Friesner's Sphinx's Princess, which is a fictional account of the life of Nefertiti. This books is semi-based on fact, but mostly made up, as hardly anything (aside from the names of Nefertiti's father, stepmo...

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Post #51: The Hobbit

2009-10-16T21:20:45Z

Post number 51 is for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. It's a book that's been on my to-read list for the past three years, so it's nice to finally scratch that one off. I wish I'd read this one prior to The Lord of the Rings books, because it was e...

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Post #50: Kingdom Keepers II: Disney at Dawn

2009-10-11T22:18:28Z

Post number fifty is for Ridley Pearson's Kingdom Keepers II: Disney at Dawn, the second book in his Kingdom Keepers series. I'd read the first book a couple years ago and was really hoping we'd see a sequel, as there were plenty of loose ends t...

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Post #49: The Wyrm King

2009-09-27T04:07:57Z

Post number forty-nine is for Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Book Three: The Wyrm King. Brief spoilers follow. S P O I L E R S This book picks up almost directly after the second book in the series....

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Post #48: Neverwhere

2009-09-24T04:18:20Z

Post number forty-eight is for Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, which has been on my to-read list for the past four years at least. I enjoyed the book quite a bit and have put the BBC production of the TV show (which was created first) into my Block...

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Post #47: The Garden of Eve

2009-09-15T23:01:04Z

Post number forty-seven is for K.L. Going's The Garden of Eve, which is another of this year's Mark Twain Award Nominee books for the state of Missouri. I enjoyed this book a lot. I've only read two of them thus far, but this one was the best. ...

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Post #46: The Last Olympian

2009-09-13T03:43:20Z

Post number forty-six is for the final book in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan, entitled The Last Olympian. I am in serious love with this book series, so if you've not read them yet, please do yourself a favor and do so...

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Post #45: Beyond the Grave

2009-09-09T03:45:03Z

Post forty-five is for the fourth 39 Clues book, entitled Beyond the Grave. This one was written by Jude Watson. Minor spoilers follow, just fyi. S P O I L E R S This book picks up with Dan, Amy and Nellie in Egypt. They have dislodged...

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Post #44: Deep and Dark and Dangerous

2009-09-04T02:25:11Z

*blows away dust* Um, long time no read? It's been a long time since my last update, mostly because this summer I was too busy reading my textbook for my class to read anything else. But that's been rectified with tonight's entry, which is one ...

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