Rosindust by Cornelia Watkins
Tigerheart by Peter David
Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan
Curly Girl by Deborah Chiel
The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong
A Flaw in the Blood by Stephanie Barron
Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa by Jenny Nimmo
Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning
You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
A Flaw in the Blood by Stephanie Barron
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister by Jenny Nimmo
The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton
Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey (reread)
Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey (reread)
Larklight by Philip Reeve
Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones
The Art of Practicing by Madeline Bruser
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo
Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance by Marthe Jocelyn
This may have been a record month. I’m too busy to check. Yet more props to my local library for supplying me with YA and middle-grade fiction. See me tear through the Charlie Bone series! See me go through the Lemony Snicket books too quickly and have to stop!
Quick notes:
Rosindust by Cornelia Watkins: One of the best books I’ve ever read about teaching. Coincidentally, it’s also one of the best books I’ve ever read about musicianship and musicality, and the making of music. (Note that they are not the same things.)
Larklight by Philip Reeve: Er, Victorian steampunk in space? Sort of? Quite fun.
The Art of Practicing by Madeline Bruser: Excellent. I must own this one.
Tigerheart by Peter David: I’ve tried to read Peter David books before and just couldn’t quite settle into them. This one, though, was very good. If you’re a Pan fan (the original book, thank you very much) you might want to look into this one. All I can say is that it was a neat re-examination of the Peter Pan story from a different angle, except it’s not about really Peter Pan. Very good indeed.
Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan: Brilliant Elizabethan/faerie parallel story with really sharp characters and a story that draws one in and really makes one care about the characters and events. Hurrah, a sequel of sorts is being written (or at least another story set in the same world).
I was actually in chapters today (i could not believe the price of books, let alone the paperbacks!!!) and i was
going to purchase The Historian, but i could not figure out if it would be a good read or not. Have you read it yet?
LOVE the Charlie Bone books.
What do you think of the Lemony Snicket? I loved the first three, then bleh until Ersatz Elevator, and then meh again.
I’m also particularly keen on Sean Cullen’s Hamish X books. AWESOME.
Did you read the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer?
I own Mable Riley. Don’t ask me why.
Thoughts on the new Kelley Armstrong? I have a copy of No Humans Involved er… somewhere that I really should get out for traintime reading.
i see the McCaffrey rereading spree is spreading. something about that pleases me.
and i liked “No Humans Involved”. Armstrong’s novels with Paige or Lucas tend to leave me cold, but i like Jamie despite myself.
The new Armstrong was quite good. Except I think I missed a novella or something somewhere, because she kept referring to how Karl and Hope met and I can’t remember it to save my life. She made a reference in No Humans Involved too, but it was brief enough that I just kind of absorbed it and kept going. NHI was much better than I expected it to be, but then, it had Jeremy who makes any story yay!
“Larklight by Philip Reeve: Er, Victorian steampunk in space? Sort of? Quite fun.”
I got to try that one! Did you get it from the library or can i borrow it from you?
There was a novella, yes. With a Kim Harrison story in it as well. I’ll pass it on once I get it out of its box and finish reading it. :)
Ceri: Yay! Please!
Silly Imp: Larklight was a library book, from the YA section (or it may even have been middle grade, I’m not sure). I just discovered that Reeve wrote another adventure with the same protagonists, too.