Cecilia Galante is a lovely name. The Patron Saint of Butterflies is quite good too. It’s all about two girls in a religious commune, Honey and Agnes. As children they were the best ever of friends, always racing and playing and having a jolly time together, but now that they are a bit older, Honey [...]
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The Patron Saint of Butterflies, Cecilia Galante
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, Uncategorized, tagged Cecilia Galante, for young people, religion, The Patron Saint of Butterflies on July 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Wear green this week.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I wish I could do something more helpful for Iran. I want justice to triumph.
French Milk, Lucy Knisley
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, Uncategorized, tagged French Milk, graphic novel, Lucy Knisley, memoirs, oscar wilde on May 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This was a gift that I bought for someone’s birthday, and I read it before I gave it to my friend. I’m sorry! In my defense, I read it incredibly carefully. I mean just incredibly carefully, you have no idea, I practically had to poke my nose inside the book, because I was opening the [...]
Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, Uncategorized, tagged Baltimore, creepy, diaries, fairy tales, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, vampires, World Wars on April 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I read about Baltimore on Jenclair’s blog untold ages ago, and I put it on my list, but I didn’t leave myself a little note explaining what it was about. This is something I do now, but I didn’t always, and so when I would be at the library looking at my list of books, [...]
Well Wished, Franny Billingsley
Posted in 2 Stars, Reread, Uncategorized, tagged fantasy, for young people, Franny Billingsley, Well Wished on April 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Don’t you love it when you re-encounter a book you’d completely forgotten about? I found Well Wished at the book fair, and as soon as I opened it I felt like I had been flashed straight back to second grade. I read Well Wished for the first time in the library of my elementary school, [...]
If you like John Bellairs, you may profit from my guilt (scroll down for new posts)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 13, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Update: Okay! I am sending books to mindy, Colleen, Kate, Darby, Anastasia, and Stacie. I’ve emailed y’all, but leave another comment if you didn’t get my email.
I’ve heard some good things about John Bellairs, but when I tried one of his books once, I didn’t finish it because I wasn’t hugely in love with it. [...]
Victory of Eagles, Naomi Novik
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about in a book, Uncategorized, tagged alternate history, dragons, fantasy, Naomi Novik, Temeraire, Victory of Eagles on September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For some reason I had it in my head that this was going to be the last of the Temeraire series. Not really sure why I thought that – evidently Ms. Novik plans to have probably nine of them before she’s done. She must have many, many facts in her brain to want to write [...]
