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Scorpio Races, The

A Race Against Time Author: Maggie Stiefvater Credit where credit’s due: whatever else a young adult fiction novel may be lacking, it’s usually strong in the creativity of its premise. Now that sparkling vampires and werewolves and boy wizards have been pretty thoroughly mined, it’s time to move on to the B-list creatures of myth, like… meat-eating bloodthirsty horses that live in the ocean? And… the weathered, hard-hearted islanders who love (and are often eaten by) them? Welcome to The Scorpio Races! The story is set on the tiny, fictitious island of Thisby (which, culturally, seems rather Irish), possibly in [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:21-07:00May 14th, 2012|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Soulless: The Parasol Protectorate

Author: Gail Carriger So, you know, maybe it’s my fault for expecting too much of a supernatural-alternate-history-steampunk-romance. (Not that I’ve really encountered that particular blend of genres before, come to think of it.) Given that there are now five books in the Parasol Protectorate series, though, someone must be enjoying them enough to clamor for more. Maybe the fact that Gail Carriger cranked out those five books in just over three years should have been the first clue that they wouldn’t be masterpieces of period-accurate research and witty dialogue, but after reading Soulless, I think one is more than enough. [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:24-07:00April 26th, 2012|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The

Peeking into Pippa Author: Rebecca Miller All too often we think we know people because we’ve been in their house or know what they do for a living or what their children are like.  But the truth is, especially as people get older, that those outward things mean very little.  When we meet people as adults they have lived whole lives about which we know absolutely nothing.  The Private Lives of Pippa Lee vividly demonstrates that fact while it looks at life in stages, from childhood to old age. Pippa Lee is the 50-year-old wife of a very successful 80-year-old [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:26-07:00April 25th, 2012|Tags: , , , |
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