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2017RC: Magic Study
After finishing Poison Study for my Reading Challenge, I was able to get my hands on a copy of Magic Study pretty quickly, and will admit that I finished it in one day. As the second in Maria V. Snyder’s series, this certainly makes a nice transition from where we ended up at the end of the first, to where I’m assuming Snyder takes the story in the third. This post is a short one, because in this second book there are a lot more world-related details, a lot more excitement, and for me, a little less reflection.
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From My Bookshelf: Handmaids, Station, Terrible
For this month’s From My Bookshelf feature, I pulled three books that are either about the end of the world, or take place in a variation of our world/an alternative future. Two are frightful and one is hopeful; all are genius.
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2017RC: Poison Study
After falling in love with Deborah Harkness’ The Book of Life series, I sought out other fantasy series to fill the void I was left with after completing her trilogy. For my 2017 Reading Challenge, I decided to include The Lord of the Rings as my “series pick,” but wanted to read an additional series I was not familiar with. So after reading countless blogs and scanning multiple BookRiot lists, I decided on Maria V. Snyder’s Poison Study series.
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Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Nail
“A merchant had done good business at the fair; he had sold his wares, and lined his money-bags with gold and silver.” This fairy tale isn’t about those wares, it’s about the merchant’s horse, ignorant decisions, and foolishness. Oh, and an oxymoron.
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Audiobook Review: The Magician’s Nephew
To kick things off for the month of August, and to commemorate the new beginning that a new month brings, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on something new-to-me: a love for audiobooks. More specifically, the audiobook version of The Magician’s Nephew from The Chronicles of Narnia. I recently spent an entire day listening to it, which has increased both my desire to explore more audiobooks and the standards at which I hold the narrators of audiobooks. I’m quite a novice when it comes to this medium, but with the right narrator and story I don’t think I will quit completely any time soon.
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