Mort‘s long wait at the annual hiring fair pays off when Death finally shows up looking for an apprentice. They go back together to Death’s…oddly-black land…until such a time when Death decides it’s about time to teach the boy about helping the dead die. From then on, it’s all downhill. […]
Book of the Week
Many people view the beginning of October as one of two things: the beginning of the Halloween season or the continued encroachment of Christmas on more and more holiday seasons (essentially and cannibalisticly devouring every other holiday in its path). I don’t care what you think about Christmas, it’s that Halloween […]
Book of the Week: The October Country by Ray Bradbury
A Stranger Came Ashore is a relatively short book, and writing a review means giving away a large portion of the story. And so the actual review is shorter than normal. A dark and stormy night begins this tale, a shipwreck, a lone survivor a mystery man. Robbie doesn’t trust […]
Book of the Week: A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie ...
It seems to me The Giver is one of those books you either love or are fairly apathetic about. Unfortunately, the flood of dystopian novels this last decade has moved a lot of people into Camp Apathy. Undeservedly. Color, joy, music, love, thought, wisdom. These are a few of those things that […]
Book of the Week: The Giver by Lois Lowry
My first real book series addiction arrived in the form of The Dark is Rising, a book and series by Susan Cooper. I loved books by that time, but this was the first series I absolutely obsessed over (shy of collecting news articles which were not readily available for books […]
Book of the Week: The Dark is Rising by Susan ...
Ley line – a straight line of mystic energy (or magnetism) that passes through natural and man-made locations/buildings of great significance, anything from Stonehenge to churches and natural wells or mountain ranges. It’s one of these ley lines that lies at the center of The Raven Boys. A boy named […]
Book of the Week: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Especially when that cover makes no sense to you and doesn’t appear to fit in the genre its assigned to. If you ignore this advice, you’re likely to overlook an amazing book like The Name of the Wind. The story of Kvothe begins […]
Book of the Week: The Name of the Wind by ...
I promised myself I would not include a Harry Potter book here at least for a very long time. Then I reread one and realized how silly that promise was. Some of you don’t remember how rare it used to be to stumble across magical books in the Children’s section […]