A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Published by Candlewick in August 2013. Wow, I just finished reading this book and I’m so disappointed in myself for not having read it sooner. What an amazing, heartbreaking, beautiful book. From the very first line, I was hooked. Reminiscent of Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth, this story… Continue reading Review: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale The Books of Bayern, Book 1 Published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens in 2005 This is a fantastic, but heartbreaking middle grade fantasy novel about a young princess. Princess Anidora grows up on her aunt’s stories about the language of the animals around her. She longs to spend her… Continue reading Book review: The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
It’s almost 2016, and that means that it’s time for a round-up of the best books I’ve read over the past year. As of the writing of this post, I have read a total of 32 books this year, which means more selection than ever for my Best Of list. Once again, the list is… Continue reading Best Books of 2015
Uprooted by Naomi Novik Published by Del Rey in May 2015. In Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, a wizard called the Dragon protects a small mountain village from the evil forest called the Wood. Every ten years the dragon takes one young woman from the village as tribute. She will live in the Dragon’s castle the next ten years and… Continue reading Book review: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Book Review: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014. Back in January, I read the first book in Jeff VanderMeer’s ambitious Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation. It’s taken me most of the following months to fully digest my thoughts on this book, as well as mentally prepare myself to start the sequel, Authority. In Annihilation, we… Continue reading Book review: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
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