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Dragons of a Lost Star: War of Souls Trilogy, Volume Two (Dragonlance)

Return to Krynn: A World in Trouble Authors: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Returning to a tumultuous world in flux, the second offering of the War of Souls trilogy jolts back into the four-storyline motif, spiraling political complexities with mystical difficulties and our usual characters with the requisite baggage. Considering that I read the first installment, Dragons of a Fallen Sun, back in 2011, this has been quite a gap. The first book captured the beauty and ingenuity of the fantastical world of Krynn, but the multiplicity of complicated stories, none of which truly intertwined, juxtaposed against the slowly moving [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:25-07:00April 6th, 2014|Tags: |

Russian Winter

Amber Allure Author: Daphne Kalotay You guys know I’m a sucker for a book about jewels. Throw in an exotic WWII-era Russian setting, beautiful ballerinas, and a genealogical mystery, and who could resist? Slowly and deliberately offering up its long-buried secrets (and a bit of romance), Russian Winter is almost as tantalizing as the real-life historical mystery of the Amber Room. Old and terminally ill, Nina Revskaya, a former star of the Bolshoi Ballet who escaped Russia for the U.S. decades ago, is auctioning off her legendary jewelry collection in order to pay for her medical care and to begin [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:25-07:00April 4th, 2014|Tags: , |

Inimitable Jeeves

A Fast Paced Comedy Read Author: P.G. Wodehouse The victim of a long-bumpy commute with an ever more ill-tempered pickup, I decided that it was time to weave some classics back into my slumping reading list. With this in mind, I hit the library in search of a pick-me-up, discovering the P.G. Wodehouse audiobooks section. I tucked the Inimitable Jeeves, a semi-novelish collection of short stories written (and published separately) about Bertie and Jeeves, into a towering hand-full of audio books and got ready to let the warmth of laughter brighten this winterish spring. In typical Wodehouse fashion, The Inimitable [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:26-07:00March 26th, 2014|Tags: |
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