Caught My Eye Week of 9/28/09 October 3, 2009
Posted by sadiejean in Caught My Eye, Peaked My Interest.Tags: Michelle Zink, Rebecca Scott, The Coral Thief, The Prophecy of the Sisters
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I saw The Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink over on Bloggin Bout Books. It is apparently the first in a triology, and it sounds pretty intense. The description from Amazon:
“An ancient prophecy divides two sisters- One good…One evil…
Who will prevail?
Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled in a mystery that involves a tattoo-like mark, their parents’ deaths, a boy, a book, and a lifetime of secrets.
Lia and Alice don’t know whom they can trust.
They just know they can’t trust each other.”
Neato.
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The Coral Thief is the new historical fiction novel written by Rebecca Scott, the author of Ghostwalk, a novel which I have been meaning to read since it came out in 2007. This one is set in post-revolutionary France. And the main character is a medical student. Sounds up my alley!
Caught My Eye, Week of 9/14/09 September 19, 2009
Posted by sadiejean in Caught My Eye, Peaked My Interest.Tags: American Fantastic Tales, Ask and the Answer, Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg, Patrick Ness, Peter Straub, The Knife of Never Letting Go
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Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father’s Story of Love and Madness by Michael Greenberg. I saw this in my Random House newsletter this week. It is Greenberg’s memoir of his daughter’s mental illness. Amazon reviewer Daphne Durham describes it as “an unforgettable story of a young girl’s descent into madness, told through the eyes of a harried and helpless father trying desperately to bring her back.”
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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Polps and American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s PUntil Now is the two-volume anthology of horror stories collected by Peter Straub. Thinking these would be great reads around Halloween this year!
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#3
Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness is Book Two in the Chaos Watching series, the first being The Knife of Never Letting Go, which I of course want to read first. I was reminded of this series by Jenny at jennysbook.wordpress.com. I don’t know how to describe the plot quickly, so I’ll just say that is looks great and I can’t wait to start reading these books!
Caught My Eye, Week of 9/7/09 September 12, 2009
Posted by sadiejean in Caught My Eye, Peaked My Interest.Tags: A Duty to the Dead, Charles Todd, Harry Potter, Jane Austen, Lev Grossman, Narnia, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Sense and Sensibility, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, The Magicians
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What books last week were added to my TBR list?
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The Magicians by Lev Grossman. I read and really enjoyed Codex, also by Grossman. This was Amazon’s best book of August 2009, and is described as “Harry Potter discovers Narnia” by Publisher’s Weekly.——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–
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September 15 Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is released, and it makes it feel ashamed that I haven’t yet picked up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. So the goal is to do side by side reviews with the original Jane Austen classics. See the Book Trailer. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-#3
