Tag: fantasy
group name: commonerbookrevs
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November 25, 2007 11:58 PM EST --
When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon . . .
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April 02, 2009 12:13 AM EDT --
This is the Newberry Award winner for 2008. It's a charming story about a baby boy who toddles out of his house while his parents and sister are being murdered, and wanders into the local graveyard. . . .
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June 11, 2007 04:31 PM EDT --
Summerland is a magical place, where the local Little League plays baseball on a perfect lawn, and the sun is always shining. However, the small beings known as ferishers, who ensure this perfect . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:16 PM EST --
The climax of Roberts' vampire trilogy, and quite possibly the best of the bunch. As typical of her trilogies, Roberts offers three heroines - one per segment - one blonde, one brunette, one redhead. . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:58 PM EST --
This is my new favorite book. It's a wickedly funny, irreverent parody of the End of Days, the Apocalypse, and the key players therein.
First, we have Agnes Nutter. Agnes has been dead since . . .
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September 28, 2008 10:59 AM EDT --
I am always on the lookout for a few good books. What have you read lately that is worth recommending?
For me, I just recently finished The Orc King by R.A. Salvatore and quite enjoyed. I also read . . .
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June 02, 2008 06:19 AM EDT --
I was taking a break from the difficult reading I've been doing about the Chinese Cultural Revolution... whew.
This book is light fantasy. It was SO much fun. The tension builds and builds - this . . .
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September 09, 2007 04:29 PM EDT --
The book is enchanting. I love the author, Orson Scott Card, and have read at least 10 of his books.
This is a re-writing of the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, wherein the main character goes back . . .
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April 20, 2009 08:17 AM EDT --
"Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him...."-The Lamb
If you've read any of Christopher Moore's books you'll have an idea of what to expect from . . .
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August 02, 2009 12:35 PM EDT --
various authors
subtitle: An anthology of old magic and new myths
Over the years, I have read many books about the King Arthur legend. This book takes the various strands of the . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:27 PM EST --
Not so much a book as a graphic novel, it's nonetheless an interesting read.
Yorrick (his father was a literature professor) is a young, unemployed, broke escape artist living in New York. His . . .
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January 13, 2008 11:01 AM EST --
Title: Neverwhere
Author: Neil Gaiman
ISBN-13: 9780380789016
ISBN-10: 0380789019
Publisher: HarperTorch/1997
Pages: 370
I came to know of Neil Gaiman from the blog world. I . . .
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January 07, 2007 08:41 PM EST --
Wow. That pretty much sums up my reaction to reading this book. Derek P. Gilbert's first published novel is nothing short of excellent. To be honest, I wasn't expecting it to be this good... and . . .
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December 05, 2007 09:01 PM EST --
I am an avid Vamp fan... I'm even going to eventually write a vamp book... So I was wondering:
Are Vamps overdone or just the right thing to make a GREAT story?
I'm really still in my . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:44 PM EDT --
author: Peter Dickenson
This is a young adult book by an author I'd read before. I liked the other two books, more sci-fi, firmly rooted in scientific possibility.
This was pure . . .
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October 19, 2008 10:56 PM EDT --
Tale of the Thunderbolt is the third book in author E.E. Knight's excellent Vampire Earth series. This book is a little different from the first two, but I liked how it took the story in a . . .
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October 27, 2007 07:09 PM EDT --
Author: Ysabeau S. Wilce
It's a fantasy book for teens (probably for girls considering the style d the protagonist being an almost 14 year old girl).
The setting is almost San Francisco- . . .
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December 05, 2007 09:24 PM EST --
Well I don't know that I could name them all and I am still working on MANY Vamp Series and well also consider myself fairly new to the Genre... I mean I've read Vamp novels for years but I've . . .
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December 31, 2007 06:10 PM EST --
So my lovely bestest friend Julia worked really hard to earn a $25 Borders gift card on here and then gave it to my for Christmas!! So sweet but on top of that she got another $10 Borders giftcard and . . .
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May 07, 2008 08:13 PM EDT --
Good Morning, friends and writers!
Welcome to the Saturday Writing Essential. I hope this finds you well and ready for a wonderful weekend, full of family and those things you love. I'll be out . . .
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