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Book Reviews, Harkness, Deborah
Book Review: Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
Title: Shadow of Night Author: Deborah Harkness Published: 2012 Publisher: Penguin Books Pages: 592 From: Walmart The “paranormal romance” is now a thing, founded in the burst of popularity in young adult books based on magic, vampirism and the supernatural. Look at Barnes and Noble, the largest book store chain in America: they even have […]
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Book Review: Anthem by Ayn Rand
Title: Anthem Author: Ayn Rand Published: 1938, 1946 Publisher: Cassell, Pamphleteers, Inc. Pages: 64 From: Barnes and Noble There is something about a story that is short, thoughtful and just plain scary. Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, succeeds at telling a story that, if looked at in the right light, is […]
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1000 Word Story 2
The light begins to peek through my curtains. A hint of what is to come. Slowly I begin to stir. Shadows begin to dance on the walls of my room. A prism shines fragmented rainbows across the brown shaggy rug, up the wooden walls and onto the white patterned roof. The curtains glow orange as […]
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1000 Word Story
The smooth walls makes a hideous noise as my fingernail scratches down their side. Another day has passed. Another day of darkness. Another day of solitude. Another day of nonexistence. The walls were gray … or were they green? Its been so long since the light has touched them one wonders if the walls themselves […]
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Book Review: In The Woods by Tana French
Title: In the Woods Author: Tana French Series: Dublin Murder Squad #1 Published: 2007 Publisher: Viking Adult Pages: 464 From: Barnes and Noble Rating: 9/10 It started with a murder, and ended with a murder. Tana French’s debut novel In the Woods took crime novels to a whole new level with the twists and turns […]
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Book Reviews, Harkness, Deborah
Book Review: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Title: A Discovery of Witches Author: Deborah Harkness Published: 2011 Publisher: Penguin Books Pages: 592 From: Walmart Rating: 8/10 In 2011 Deborah Harkness, a historian, delved into the fantastic with a story of witches, vampires, daemons, and their lives mixing with humans and each other. This story was entitled A Discovery of Witches (2011), and […]
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Book Review: Daughter of the Sun by Barbara Wood
Title: Daughter of the Sun Author: Barbara Wood Published: 2007 Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Pages: 480 From: Barnes and Noble Rating: 7/10 Barbara Wood does it again. In the novel that precedes Woman of a Thousand Secrets, Wood takes history and makes it into a great soap opera beach read entitled Daughter of the Sun […]
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Book Review: Woman of a Thousand Secrets by Barbara Wood
Title: Woman of a Thousand Secrets Author: Barbara Wood Published: 2008 Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Pages: 496 From: Barnes and Noble Rating: 7/10 Barbara Wood’s novel Woman of a Thousand Secrets (2008) is similar to a soap opera. It contains murder, love, sex, ambition, and action, all wrapped up into one novel about a young […]
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Book Review: Entwined by Heather Dixon
Title: Entwined Author: Heather Dixon Published: 2011 Publisher: Greenwillow Books Pages: 480 From: Barnes and Noble Rating: 7/10 Everyone loves fairy tales, especially those that are given neat and interesting twists on the original. Heather Dixon succeeds in twisting the fairy tale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses into a young adult action love story called […]
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Book Review: His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
Title: His Dark Materials trilogy Author: Philip Pullman Published: 1995, 1997, 2000 Publisher: Scholastic Pages: 432, 352, 544 From: Barnes and Noble Rating: 9/10 Controversial books are always good reads. Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, containing The Golden Compass (Northern Lights in the UK) (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000), […]
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