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Day: October 24, 2012

WWWednesday: Run My Life

You can win the entire Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Leguin.

The only thing more annoying than Christmas commercials earlier than Halloween is the inevitable Hobbitization of everything, including things that shouldn’t be Hobbitized.

There are only two links today because I’m trying something new. And these links are my way of foreshadowing.

I’m going to ‘fess up, here.

I hate Earthsea. Hahahahaa, I said it. I read the first book and I thought it was boring and stupid.

Second confession,


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October 24th, 2012. | World Wide Wednesday | 13 comments |

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Red Prophet: Entertaining alternate history

Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card

Red Prophet is the second book in Orson Scott Card’s THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER, an alternate history set in a frontier America in which folk magic is real. In the first book, Seventh Son, we were introduced to the main protagonist of the series, Alvin Miller who, because he’s the seventh son of a seventh son, is a gifted healer. We meet Alvin as a baby and follow him into boyhood. At the end of the story he has a vision of a shining man who gives him moral guidance.


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Kat, Incorrigible: Magical Austen for the middle grade reader

Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis

I was twelve years of age when I chopped off my hair, dressed as a boy, and set off to save my family from impending ruin. I made it almost to the end of my front garden.

Thus begin the adventures of Katherine Ann Stephenson, also known as Kat. Kat is twelve and has a plethora of problems. Her oldest sibling, Charles, has gambled away all the family’s money and been sent home from Oxford. Her oldest sister Elissa is in love with the idea of being the tragic gothic heroine who sacrifices everything to marry and save her family from destruction.


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October 24th, 2012. ´s rating: | | | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |

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