The July 2014 Flights of Fantasy group reads and my early decision on reading them. I meant to have this posted early last week for those who are joining in on the reads. 🙁 YA/MG: Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy #1) Decision: Maybe The war begins… Darrow is a… Read more »
This was adorable! I quite enjoyed every minute of this read – and I’ve been a very fussy reader lately. Cimorene is curious about everything – except those things deemed appropriate for princesses. After being told by her parents she was going to be married off to someone she… Read more »
The May 2014 Flights of Fantasy group reads and my early decision on reading them: YA/MG Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1) Decision: Yes Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart – and bored. So bored that she runs away to… Read more »
Dorothy thinks she’s lost forever when a tornado whirls her and her dog, Toto, into a magical world. To get home, she must find the wonderful wizard in the Emerald City of Oz. On the way she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. But the Wicked… Read more »
The April 2014 Flights of Fantasy group reads and my early decision on reading them: YA/MG Seraphina (Seraphina #1) Decision: Maybe In her New York Times bestselling and Morris Award-winning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternative-medieval world to fantasy and science-fiction readers of all ages…. Read more »
There are no heroes. Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man… Read more »
The March 2014 Flights of Fantasy group reads and my early decision on reading them: YA/MG The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1) Decision: Yes Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to… Read more »
I’ve heard of this book (and Diana Wynne Jones) before but I’d never read any of her work. Jones was on Mt. TBR but I pushed Howl’s Moving Castle up because it was picked to be a book club group read. WOW! I really loved this book. It’s a quite… Read more »
The February Flights of Fantasy group reads and my early decision on reading them: Fantasy Gardens of the Moon (The Malazan Book of the Fallen #1) Decision: Might Read. Ordered a copy from the library…we’ll see if it ever comes. The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry… Read more »
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, completed in the winter of 1949 & published in 1950, tells the story of four ordinary children: Peter, Susan, Edmund & Lucy Pevensie. They discover a wardrobe in Prof. Digory Kirke’s house that leads to the magical land of Narnia, which is currently… Read more »
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