Every now and then, there's a book that's written to one like a letter. This book was one of those, addressed to me at the address I had when I was fifteen. I loved it from the second I opened it. I was a little afraid after the first chapter that there was no way it could live up to my hopes, but i...
One of Amy Poehler's rules for improvisation is "Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped."Morwenna Phelps has already jumped. Her mother tried to take over the world, but she and her twin sister, Morgana prevented her. A...
It's been a long time since I read one of those books. You know the kind -- the book that you take with you everywhere, and read a page whenever you have an extra moment or two standing in line or waiting for a bus. This is the kind of book that will make you miss your subway stop. The kind of book ...
Among Others is a fun, interesting book, and I sped through it in one day. Looking back though, several flaws detract from what might otherwise have been excellent. Through her journal entries (which are really just regular first-person narration), this book relates the story of Mori, a Welsh teenag...
This is either a mainstream novel about a teenage girl who retreats into a fantasy world after the death of her twin sister, or a fantasy novel about a girl who talks to fairies and uses magic to defend herself against her mother; signs point to the later. It is primarily a novel about loving scien...
Opening: "The Phurnacite factory in Abercwmboi killed all the trees for two miles around."I'll cut straight to the chase here: I loved this book. I read the first of Walton's alternate history series, Farthing, and liked it, but in a sort of intellectual what-if way, which is the way alternate histo...
I'm not sure what to say about this. It's very good, but it didn't overwhelm me with love or recognition the way it has a lot of people, maybe simply because advance press told me it would. The fantasy bits are very good and it doesn't feel drifting or anticlimactic even though I kept expecting th...
Its so odd, because when I finished this book I wasn't at all sure I liked it. So much of the plot takes place "offstage." It either happened before the book started, or its going on behind the protagonists back or is being reported to her after its finished and decided, and on and so it goes. She...
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