The Boy I Love
by Marion Husband
English
276 pages
Accent Press
ISBN: 1-905170-00-9
First line: Hiding in Adam’s pantry, Paul remembered how he was once forced to eat marmalade at school, a whole pot of marmalade, Jenkins twisting his arms up his back as Nichols held his nose and clattered the spoon past his teeth.
Back cover blurb:
A tangled web [...]
Posted on November 12th, 2007 by Love
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Kydd
by Julian Stockwin
For the Seafaring Challenge.
English
440 pages
Coronet Books
ISBN: 0-340-79474-7
First line: ‘The Honourable Member for Molton.’
Back cover blurb:
Guns. Guts. Courage. Discipline. Death.
The year is 1793. Europe is ablaze with war and men are urgently needed to man the ships. Press-ganged off the streets of Guildford, young wig-maker Thomas Paine Kydd must learn the harsh realities [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: Adventure, C, English, Historical, Seafaring Challenge | 2 Comments »
Bush-Whacked
by Leland Gregory
English
248 pages
Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0-7407-5471-8
Back cover blurb:
From the best-selling author of America’s Dumbest Criminals, What’s the Number for 911? and Hey, Idiot! comes a hysterical collection of perplexing quotes and wacky anecdotes devoted to the governmental goofs of the Bush administration.
With his expert nose for nuttiness, Leland Gregory has captured the Bush [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2007 by Love
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Geography Club
by Brent Hartinger
English
226 pages
Harper Tempest
ISBN: 0-06-001223-4
First line: I was deep behind enemy lines, in the very heart of the opposing camp.
Back cover blurb:
I knew that any wrong action, however slight, could reveal my true identity…
Russel is still going on dates with girls. Kevin would do anything to prevent his teammates on the baseball [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2007 by Love
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Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
by Diana Gabaldon
English
504 pages
Century
ISBN: 978-1-844-13201-0
First line: To the best of Lord John Grey’s knowledge, stepmothers as depicted in fiction tended to be venal, evil, cunning, homicidal, and occasionally cannibalistic.
Back cover blurb:
It’s 1758 and Europe is in turmoil — the Seven Years War is taking hold and London [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2007 by Love
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Brothers
by Ted van Lieshout
Original title: Gebr
English
155 pages
Collins Flamingo
ISBN: 0-00-711231-9
First line: This isn’t the beginning.
Back cover blurb:
Can you still be a brother when your brother is dead? Luke often wonders. His brother Marius has died, leaving Luke alone with their parents. When their mother decides to burn Marius’s belongings in a ceremonial bonfire, [...]
Posted on November 6th, 2007 by Love
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The challenges never end, seemingly. This is a little one, though, and one I believe I can combine with one or two of the others I’m participating in.
Russian Reading Challenge
This challenge is a twelve month challenge, but the minimum number of books to read is only four. Why? Many Russian novels are quite [...]
Posted on November 4th, 2007 by Love
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
English
236 pages
Penguin Popular Classics
ISBN: 0-14-062075-3
First line: No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.
Back cover blurb:
Northanger Abbey is Jane Austen’s amusing and bitingly satirical pastiche of the ‘Gothic’ romances popular in her day.
Catherine Morland, an unremarkable tomboy as a [...]
Posted on November 4th, 2007 by Love
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Boy, do I blog tonight! But, but, but — it’s another challenge!
This one is straight-forward enough: simply pick twelve young adult books and read them at your own convenience during 2008.
I’ll probably edit my list as I go, especially considering that I don’t even know if one of the books I picked will actually [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by Love
Filed under: YA Challenge 2008 | 6 Comments »
Oh dear. Whilst looking around I Heart Paperbacks, I discovered that there is a new book out in the Lord John series by Diana Gabaldon. I did not know this before! Also found out that another one will be out soon — November I saw somewhere, but January seems more likely.
Either way, upon finding out, [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by Love
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