tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324101180317602662024-03-14T13:58:45.316-04:00Talk Star Wars To MeOne Girl's Obsession With Star Wars And All Things Geek.Braebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12635513746006004736noreply@blogger.comBlogger569125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832410118031760266.post-60622248503441549382021-03-07T22:38:00.001-05:002021-03-07T22:38:45.682-05:00The Princess Is IN: Super Mario Bros. Wreath<p><span style="color: #f1c232;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2P02914FsIQ/YEWGduaW3cI/AAAAAAAAXBY/3Qs9VRfKNaEuvvPgM1dJR3aV6cxyMO-HQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Photo%2B2020-11-07%252C%2B11%2B30%2B39%2BAM%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2P02914FsIQ/YEWGduaW3cI/AAAAAAAAXBY/3Qs9VRfKNaEuvvPgM1dJR3aV6cxyMO-HQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/Photo%2B2020-11-07%252C%2B11%2B30%2B39%2BAM%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Every once and awhile, I need to craft. Something comes over me and I can't rest until I've made something fun and new. This often comes in the form of a wreath. It's easy, I can change them as much as I want to suit the time of year. I love it. But last year, the year of the Dumpster Fire; 2020, I just could not come up with anything to be excited about. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Then I found this awesome castle wood piece at the local fabric store and <i>finally</i> had an idea.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Level 1-1</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Who doesn't love Super Mario Bros.? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wNslAjMnxIg/YEWGazkTcmI/AAAAAAAAXBU/KMTI9LamKWEO5nfN7HQ5E4xGVyynG1ODwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Photo%2B2020-11-07%252C%2B11%2B30%2B03%2BAM%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wNslAjMnxIg/YEWGazkTcmI/AAAAAAAAXBU/KMTI9LamKWEO5nfN7HQ5E4xGVyynG1ODwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/Photo%2B2020-11-07%252C%2B11%2B30%2B03%2BAM%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">This entire craft was done with felt, craft paint, E600 glue, a skewer, an old crappy frame and a wooden castle.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">It's been hanging outside in lieu of wreath since the fall and it's still holding together great! I may even go back to buy some more castles and do other levels too.</span></div><span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span><br /><p></p>Braebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12635513746006004736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832410118031760266.post-22468214858815757062018-07-31T15:17:00.000-04:002018-08-01T15:19:22.649-04:00Another 52 - July Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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July has been a super hot month that has left me hanging out in a nice air conditioned apartment, reading many a book. It's been nice to have time to read again and I'm trying to take full advantage of it by reading as much as I can. Here's what I read this month:</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30360493-fairy-quest">Fairy Quest: Outlaws (Fairy Quest #1)</a></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Fairy Quest is set in the world in Fablewood, where all of the stories that have ever been told live side-by-side. But it is a sinister place indeed. Under the watchful eye of the dreaded Mister Grimm and his Think Police, the characters must keep their story straight or risk having their minds wiped inside the Mind Eraser.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Despite this, Red Riding Hood and her Wolf (Red and Mister Woof) have become friends. And they are about to risk everything to try and escape from the clutches of their oppressors and find sanctuary in a mysterious place called the Real World. Red and Woof will undertake a difficult and perilous journey through all of Fablewood, hoping against all odds that they can remain as friends forever.</span></i></div>
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This was a great comic about fairy tale characters who no longer want to follow their stories, who want to live their own lives. It's a neat idea about taking your story into your own hands. I really enjoyed what they did with the characters and really need to get my hands on the next issue.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25324952-jim-henson-s-fraggle-rock">Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock: Journey to the Everspring #2</a></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The Fraggles’ journey has led them to the mysterious Crystal Caves where creatures of all shapes and sizes await. They’ll need to rely on one another and maybe even sing a song or two if they’re going to make it through to the Everspring!</span></i></div>
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I wish these were a collection but I can only get it issue by issue, so it's hard to get a real feeling for the story when it's so spread out. This one was about overcoming fears and that it helps to be with friends. It's still always a fun, short read.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Triplet queens born on the island of Fennbirn can be many things: Elementals. Poisoners. Naturalists. If an oracle queen is born, however, one with the gift of sight, she’s immediately drowned, extinguishing her chance at ever taking the throne.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Paranoid, ruthless, and utterly mad, Elsabet’s mistrust led to the senseless slaying of three entire houses of innocent people. At least, that’s the unchallenged tale carried down from generation to generation. But what really happened? Discover the true story behind the queen who, though born with the gift of sight, could not foresee her swift and sudden fall from power . . . until it was too late.</span></i></div>
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Through out this series, they always talk about the Mad Queen, so I was excited to find this short novella about her. Then I was terribly disappointed with how the story revealed itself. I get trying to twist the story, but I really wanted what I thought the actual story. I think it would've been more amazing to see how the Queen actually went mad. I've been very disappointed with these short stories.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">It has been foretold that four noble warriors of incredible strength would be gifted with cosmic abilities at a moment of planetary alignment...which, yeah, something definitely went wrong here. Amie is a disaffected twentysomething with a lot of attitude, Kevin is a washed-up athlete way past his prime, Sandy's a mother of two teenagers, and Silas...is a goldfish. Just a normal goldfish. Are we sure we read that prophecy right?</span></i></div>
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After reading The Fraggles, I wanted to see what else Kate Leth had done and I came across this fun comic about unlikely superheroes. This is also 1 issue at a time, but it's super cute and I want more and more of it!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb & Mike Holmes</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The all-ages smash hit of the year is back with more algebraic adventures in the Land of Ooo!The all-ages hit of the year is back with a new volume collecting even more algebraic adventures! What happens when Finn the human and Jake the dog get a hold of Princess Bubblegum’s time machine and travel to go to the future? Find out in this second volume!</span></i></div>
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These are always fun and strange and that's just how I like them. This one dealt with the problems of time travel. That problem is robot revolution apparently, but it's still pretty awesome. I'm really enjoying this series and it holds up to the same fun and crazy as the tv show. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend–the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.</span></i></div>
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This was a great final book. I really enjoyed how everything came together, yet there where still so many twists and turns that I wasn't expecting. I loved all the character story arcs and would continue to read this story forever. This is the perfect example of what I want in retellings of fairy tales and I want MORE.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Paris, at the dawn of the modern age:</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia―the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Sebastian’s secret weapon (and best friend) is the brilliant dressmaker Frances―one of only two people who know the truth: sometimes this boy wears dresses. But Frances dreams of greatness, and being someone’s secret weapon means being a secret. Forever. How long can Frances defer her dreams to protect a friend? Jen Wang weaves an exuberantly romantic tale of identity, young love, art, and family. A fairy tale for any age, The Prince and the Dressmaker will steal your heart.</span></i></div>
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this was a sweet story about a boy who loved to wear dresses and the woman who loved and believed in him. I really, really enjoyed it and wish there were more stories like these. so much heart and desire and acceptance.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island-amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks-she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">What inspires the yearning for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a woman's self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kidd's ability could conjure.</span></i></div>
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I love Sue Monk Kidd and I've always wanted to read this book, but could never find a copy of it. Turns out my mom had a copy of it and gave it to me. This was a lovely story that I wasn't expecting. I shouldn't be surprised, since I've love every other book of hers that I've read. Although the story is about a woman who falls in love with a Monk, but the story of her finding and freeing herself from who she use to be is the one that I really love. I just fall into her writing and don't ever want to come back out.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The royal witches of Anglion have always been bound to serve their country. But Lady Sophia Mackenzie, whose unbound magic and near claim to the crown made her a target, was forced to flee Anglion, leaving behind a dead assassin and shattered loyalties. Now she finds herself in Illvya, where the magic is everything she’s been taught to fear and the only person she can trust is her new husband, Cameron.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Sophia and Cameron must navigate a strange world of illicit temptations, dangerous threats and political intrigue, where as a royal witch Sophia is both prized and reviled.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">As she begins to master her powers, the factions seeking to control Sophia close in, and her magical and emotional bonds with Cameron are pushed to the limit. To survive long enough to claim the future she seeks, she may have to choose between love and loyalty, and hope the price of her choice is one she can bear.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Discover the truth of Norta’s bloody past in these two revealing prequels to #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller RED QUEEN.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary—how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lie ahead for her in royal life.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Captain Farley was raised to be strong, but being tasked with planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta is a tougher job than expected. As she travels the land recruiting black market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her first attempt at an attack on the capital, she stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation—Mare Barrow.</span></i></div>
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This was 2 books in 1 and both were vastly different. The first story was amazing and I really loved following Queen Coriane and her real/imagined downward spiral. It gave a lot of depth as a background story. The second story on the other hand, was vastly different. Farley's story is annoying and filled with missives back and forth with all the credentials and classifieds and blah blah blah over and over again as they pass messages. It was hard to listen to over and over for very small messages. It made me want to switch over to another book. But I didn't and the story was okay. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Deep in the Crystal Cave the Fraggles find...Doozers?! Gobo, Red, and the rest of the gang meet a whole new, never-before-seen colony of Doozers with a bit more artistic flare than they’re used to. But will they be able to help the Fraggles get water back to Fraggle Rock?</span></i></div>
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I love the new Doozers in this issue. I think they are super cute and I love all the machines that they've made.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity. With appearances by Cinder and the rest of the Rampion crew, this is a must-have for fans of the series.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">A traffic jam turns into a battlefield as Amie, Sandy, Kevin, and Silas fight together as a team for the first time!</span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The highly anticipated second volume of the popular Twitter hit is brimming with more pages! After naming the emperor penguin she found in her refrigerator “Emperor,” high school girl Kaho is living a charming life with her new pet. Now that it’s summer, will Kaho be able to pull off the bold stunt of taking Emperor to the beach?!</span></i></i></div>
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This comic continues to bring me a lot of joy and fills my dreams of having my own penguin pet. I love that she takes him to the beach and how much joy there is in those pages.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">A New York Times bestselling author offers a brilliant reinvention of one of the best-known fairy tales of all time with Snow White as a gunslinger in the mythical Wild West.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Forget the dark, enchanted forest. Picture instead a masterfully evoked Old West where you are more likely to find coyotes as the seven dwarves. Insert into this scene a plain-spoken, appealing narrator who relates the history of our heroine’s parents—a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Although her mother’s life ended as hers began, so begins a remarkable tale: equal parts heartbreak and strength. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Filled with fascinating glimpses through the fabled looking glass and a close-up look at hard living in the gritty gun-slinging West, this is an utterly enchanting story . . . at once familiar and entirely new.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway - a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love - a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. </span></i></div>
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Another month has gone by and I am really enjoying this whole summer vacation thing. That being said, I can't wait to go back to school in the fall, but I will take the time to relax and read while I have it. Here's what I read this month:</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Freya was never meant to be queen. Twenty-third in line to the throne, she never dreamed of a life in the palace, and would much rather research in her laboratory than participate in the intrigues of the court. However, when an extravagant banquet turns deadly and the king and those closest to him are poisoned, Freya suddenly finds herself on the throne. She may have escaped the massacre, but she is far from safe. The nobles don't respect her, her councillors want to control her, and with the mystery of who killed the king still unsolved, she knows that a single mistake could cost her the kingdom-and her life. Freya is determined to survive, and that means uncovering the murderers herself. Until then, she can't trust anyone. Not her advisers. Not the king's dashing and enigmatic illegitimate son. Not even her own father, who always wanted the best for her but also wanted more power for himself. As Freya's enemies close in and her loyalties are tested, she must decide if she is ready to rule and, if so, how far she is willing to go to keep the crown.</span></i></div>
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This was a lovely book that I truly enjoyed. Only in fantasy can you find an awkward girl who loves science and has severe anxiety who becomes queen simply because she couldn't stand to be social. I love it! As soon as I finished it I went to look for the next book in the series, only to find out that it was a stand alone book! Don't see much of that these days. It's kind of nice that it can stand on it's own, although I would totally read more about this amazing woman trying to do her best to be queen and still be herself.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">True love isn’t always about the big romantic gestures. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Sometimes it’s about sympathizing with someone whose tea has gone cold or reading together and sharing a quilt. When two people move in together, it soon becomes apparent that the little things mean an awful lot. The throwaway moments in life become meaningful when you spend them in the company of someone you love. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">SOPPY is Philippa Rice’s collection of comics and illustrations based on real-life moments with her boyfriend. From grocery shopping to silly arguments and snuggling in front of the television, SOPPY captures the universal experience of sharing a life together, and celebrates the beauty of finding romance all around us.</span></i></div>
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This is a very sweet book and I see a lot of reflection of this love in my real life, which is super nice. It reminds you that love is in the little things and that we all show our love differently. I had always loved when I came across some of these comics online, so I was thrilled when I found the whole collection of them.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.</span></i></div>
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A masterfully written book that really hits you in the heart. This was one of my <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.com/2018/01/another-52-book-reading-challenge.html">LLB</a> for the year and I'm really glad that I finally decided to pick it up. It's one of those books that discuss race, gender and the terrible treatment of each in the past. For people that loved <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help?ac=1&from_search=true">The Help</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37435.The_Secret_Life_of_Bees?ac=1&from_search=true">The Secret Life of Bees</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079776-the-invention-of-wings">The Invention Of Wings</a> and other similar books that break our hearts and remind up that we need to do better.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In The Jewel and The White Rose, we follow Violet in her servitude under the Duchess of the Lake. Now we’ll hear the Duchess’s son, Garnet’s, story in this digital novella—a companion story to the New York Times bestselling Lone City trilogy.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Garnet, the son of the Duchess of the Lake, has always been a spoiled playboy. But now, for the first time, Garnet is beginning to realize the horrors that his family, and the ruling community, have perpetrated. And he just may be ready to do something about it.</span></i></div>
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Unlike the other short stories for this series, I actually really enjoyed this one. Yes, it is a reiteration of the other book, but is a totally different, unique story. I really enjoyed watching Garnet and the beginning of his transformation. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">It's ADVENTURE TIME! Join Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, and Princess Bubblegum for all-new adventures through The Land of Ooo.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The totally algebraic adventures of Finn and Jake have come to the comic book page! The Lich, a super-lame, SUPER-SCARY skeleton dude, has returned to the the Land of Ooo, and he’s bent on total destruction! Luckily, Finn and Jake are on the case...but can they succeed against their most destructive foe yet? Featuring fan-favorite characters Marceline the Vampire Queen, Princess Bubblegum, Lumpy Space Princess and the Ice King!</span></i></div>
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Adventure Time... come on and grab a friend...<br />
This was pretty much what you would expect from an Adventure Time comic. I think my favorite part was that they introduced a new princess; desert princess, who is a cupcake who had sand powers. Love it.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">IT'S ALL ABSOLUTELY FINE is a darkly comic, honest and unapologetic illustrated account of the daily struggles with mental health. Ruby Elliot, aka Rubyetc, is the talent behind the hit tumblr account, 'Rubyetc', which has over 220k followers and growing. Taking readers on a journey through the ups and downs of life, the book will encompass everything from anxiety, bipolar disorder and body image to depression and identity, shining a light on very real problems - all framed with Ruby's trademark humour and originality.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Ruby balances mental health with humour, making serious issues accessible - and very funny. With the superb talent to capture the essence of human emotion (and to make you laugh out loud), this book is as important and necessary as it is entertaining. IT'S ALL ABSOLUTELY FINE will include mostly never-before-seen material, both written and illustrated, and will be an empowering book that will make you laugh, make you think, and make things ok.</span></i></div>
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This is another of those comics that I always loved when I saw online, but wow was this book intense. I wasn't quite expecting that. Her comics can be too real and really hit you when you aren't expecting it and her writing gives you a look into her sometimes gritty reality that she tries to deal with through her humor. That be said, the humor is great, but not something to read to cheer yourself up. I made that mistake.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">What if your mother-in-law turned out to be an evil, cold-blooded witch . . . literally?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Ever since fabulously wealthy Malcolm Doran walked into her life and swept her off her feet, fledgling architect Jane Boyle has been living a fairy tale. When he proposes with a stunning diamond to seal the deal, Jane can't believe her incredible luck and decides to leave her Paris-based job to make a new start with Malcolm in New York.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">But when Malcolm introduces Jane to the esteemed Doran clan, one of Manhattan's most feared and revered families, Jane's fairy tale takes a darker turn. Soon everything she thought she knew about the world—and herself—is upended. Now Jane must struggle with newfound magical abilities and the threat of those who will stop at nothing to get them.</span></i></div>
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This is the other <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.com/2018/01/another-52-book-reading-challenge.html">LLB</a> for the month. Yes, I am trying to catch up, since I am already so far behind with these. I tried to read this book a few times and kept putting it back down in favour of something better. Finally I found a copy of the audiobook on the Library and decided to listen to it instead. MUCH better idea. That being said, it still wasn't a great book. There were so many red flags going on that it was hard not to grimace through most of it. I'm glad it ended like it did, but I'm not going to pick up the next book.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">One hundred years after falling asleep, Princess Aurora wakes up to the kiss of a handsome prince and a broken kingdom that has been dreaming of her return. All the books say that she should be living happily ever after. But as Aurora understands all too well, the truth is nothing like the fairy tale.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Her family is long dead. Her "true love" is a kind stranger. And her whole life has been planned out by political foes while she slept. Everyone expects Aurora to marry her betrothed and restore magic and peace to the kingdom before revolution tears it apart. But after a lifetime spent locked in a tower for her own safety, Aurora longs for the freedom to make her own choices. When she meets a handsome rebel, she is tempted to abandon everything for a different kind of life.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">As Aurora struggles to make sense of her new world, she begins to fear that the curse has left its mark on her, a fiery and dangerous thing that might be as wicked as the witch who once ensnared her. With her wedding day drawing near, Aurora must make the ultimate decision on how to save her kingdom: marry the prince or run.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">A Wicked Thing is a surprising, spellbinding reimagining of what happens after happily ever after.</span></i></div>
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I inhaled this book, listening to it as often as I could and finding excuses to have it on in the background. I would've gone right into the second book (yes, this one has a second book!) had I not had a few other audiobooks waiting in my auto-checkout. But I can't wait to get back into it. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">2018 marks a century since the first women won the vote in the United Kingdom, and Suffragette tells the story of their fight. This is a tale of astounding bravery, ingenuity, and strength. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">David's conversational style is accessible and his artwork full of rich detail, bringing to life the many vivid characters of the Suffragette movement - from the militant activist Rosa May Billinghurst to the world-famous Emmeline Pankhurst. Covering the whole range of suffragette experiences - from aristocrats to the middle and working classes, as well as a look at the global struggle for universal suffrage, Suffragette is a fantastic introduction to a fascinating topic.</span></i></div>
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This book was really neat; part book and part comic. History always seems to skip over these brave and crazy women that got us the vote and it was really neat to get to know more about them. Wow, some of them were super intense with their methods and suffered awful consequences. The one thing that I was sad about was that the last couple of pages were dedicated to women of colour who had helped in their own countries, but there was almost no acknowledgement of the fact that WOC fought along side these other women and were relegated to the back of the parades and congregations. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">It’s frustrating when a gadget stops working. But what if the gadget is working fine, it’s just “temporally” out of order? What would you do if you discovered your cell phone linked you to a different time? Or that your camera took pictures of the past? </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Join Seanan McGuire, Elektra Hammond, David B. Coe, Chuck Rothman, Faith Hunter, Edmund R. Schubert, Steve Ruskin, Sofie Bird, Laura Resnick, Amy Griswold, Laura Anne Gilman, Susan Jett, Gini Koch, Christopher Barili, Stephen Leigh, Juliet E. McKenna, and Jeremy Sim as they investigate how ordinary objects behaving temporally out of order can change our everyday lives.</span></i></div>
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I pick up this book because it had a Seanan McGuire story in it and not really realizing that it was a bunch of short stories. As all collections like this, they can be super hard to read. I'm not a huge fan of short stories and I find very few people can tell them well. There were only a few that I really enjoyed and they others ranged from okay to (when will this be over) terrible. The authors I did like I ended up looking up to see if I could find other books by them, so if nothing else, I did find more books to read.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Kate Leth, Megan Levens, Marissa Louise, Jen Bartel & Nate Piekos</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">A road trip story. A magical revenge fantasy. A sisters-over-misters tale of three witches out to get back what was taken fom them.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Andy, Jolene, and Claire aren't your average twenty-somethings. They're legacy witches making their way through a modern world. When a jealous nonmagical ex breaks into their home and steals a spell that could awaken potentials with magical powers, the witches plan their revenge. Traveling down the East Coast, they must retrieve their powerful stolen artifacts and strengthen their friendship... the big bad is even worse than they imagined.</span></i></div>
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I need more of this. Why isn't there more of this? This comic was so fun and fabulous that I couldn't put it down. I want more stories about these 3 women. I want novels about them; full series of them. Or at least more comics if you please.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis & Brooke A. Allen</span></div>
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I love this gaggle of girls who are ready for crazy adventures. I really wish that these comics had been out when I was younger. It's nice to see. In this volume they come across a secret cave full of magical traps and pit falls and it will take all of them working together to make it through.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Kidnapping Persephone should have been an easy task. But in the Five Hundred Kingdoms, nothing's ever simple—and the wrong blonde goddess is stolen by mistake, leaving Prince Leopold without his new bride. At least until he braves the realm of the dead to get her back...</span></i></div>
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I think I've mentioned over the last couple of years that I've been disappointing in the material that Mercedes Lackey has been putting out. But I remembered loving this series of fairy tales turned on their head and couldn't wait to read this short story about Persephone. I shouldn't gotten my hopes up. It wasn't very good. The story takes place on Olympus and in the Underworld, which was interesting, but none of the characters had any life to them. Some of the main characters are secondary characters from the book before, but I can't recall them at all. It spends half the book trying to remind you of their adventures from before (which I am still coming up blank on. 2010 was a long time ago) and doesn't really go into the story that it's in. The only flipping of the story is that these 2 other people are involved in helping and that Persephone knows who Hades actually is from the beginning. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Mary Posa hates her job. She works long hours for little pay, no insurance, and worst of all, no respect. Her co-workers are jerks and her boss doesn't appreciate her. He's also a supervillain. And her parents... well, they're the most famous superhero couple in Crepe City, along with her sister. Cursed with a conscience, Mary would give anything to be something other than a Henchgirl, but no matter what she does her plans always seem to go awry.</span></i></div>
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This was a really fun comic. Sometimes it's nice to read about the bad guy or his henchpeople. This comic takes a lot of wacky twists and turns that I wasn't expecting and has a great cast of heroes and villains. I also love all the little pop culture Easter-eggs that keep popping up. This is another series that I want more of.</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>When the water supply of Fraggle Rock mysteriously runs dry, the Fraggles have to journey deep into the caves of Fraggle Rock to find the fabled Everspring where adventure awaits and no Fraggle has gone before! It's the beloved characters of Fraggle Rock in their biggest story yet!</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Desperately seeking the cause of their slow, miserable deaths, Athena and Hermes travel the world, gathering allies and discovering enemies both new and old. Their search leads them to Cassandra—an ordinary girl who was once an extraordinary prophetess, protected and loved by a god. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">These days, Cassandra doesn’t involve herself in the business of gods—in fact, she doesn’t even know they exist. But she could be the key in a war that is only just beginning. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Because Hera, the queen of the gods, has aligned herself with other of the ancient Olympians, who are killing off rivals in an attempt to prolong their own lives. But these anti-gods have become corrupted in their desperation to survive, horrific caricatures of their former glory. Athena will need every advantage she can get, because immortals don’t just flicker out. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Every one of them dies in their own way. Some choke on feathers. Others become monsters. All of them rage against their last breath.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Three black witches, born to a descending queen. One would rise to become queen in her place. Perhaps the strongest of the three. Perhaps the cleverest. Or perhaps it would be the girl born under the best shield of luck.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Katharine, Arsinoe and Mirabella - three young queens born to fulfil their destiny - to fight to the death to win the crown. But before they were poisoner, elemental and naturalist, they were children, sisters and friends . . .</span></i></div>
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Guys, I met Ashley Eckstein! OMFG!!!</div>
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So, not too long ago, Ashley wrote a book! (You can see my review of it <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.com/2018/05/another-52-may-edition.html">here</a>)</div>
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It was not only an autobiography, but a guide to help you find and pursue your own dreams and it's chocked full of Disney and Star Wars references.</div>
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Well, <a href="http://hottopic.com/">Hot Topic</a> (who know owns <a href="http://heruniverse.com/">Her Universe</a>) decided that it would be great if she did a book tour across the US, with one stop in Canada. Toronto, my fair city, to be exact.</div>
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I had been pumped about this for months, but when the day finally arrived, I was feeling less than stellar. My anxiety was acting up and everything just seemed to be going wrong. Had I needed to do anything else that day, I probably would've bailed and stayed home in my pj's, binge watching Dear White People. But this was Ashley we were talking about. If you've been a follower of my blog for awhile now, you will know that she is <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.com/search?q=ashley+eckstein">one of my idols</a>!</div>
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2 amazing women for the price of one!</div>
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I spoke with E.K. first and told her how much I enjoyed her book (and how awesome Ashley was at narrating it) and she was so kind and funny and happy that her book was so well received.</div>
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I had just started to talk about how much fun it was to gear Ashley reading the Ahsoka novel when she turned to me and said hello. That's when E.K. noticed my Ahsoka/Plo Koon shirt from waaaay back in the day and pointed it out to Ahsley, who gasped and was suddenly ecstatic that I had been a fan for so long. I told her that I was a first day customer when HU opened and she got so emotional that she had to get up and hug me! I told her that not only am I a fan of Ahsoka, but even more so of her. That she is my idol for what she has done for the fangirls of the World. </div>
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I told her that I had bought her book when it came out and that I had already read it cover to cover and how wonderful I thought it was. She asked me what my dream was and I told her that I wanted to open the Braekery (my bakery) and that I had recently gone back to school to pursue my dreams. She told me that when I get it up and running to let her know so that she can come support me! How sweet is that? She even added me to her Instagram so that she could follow my progress!</div>
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Oh man, I'm on summer vacation and I finally have the time and energy to read again! But what am I having so much trouble reading and why are my eyes always so tired? Braeby needs glasses you say... Braeby is farsighted and shouldn't be reading or on the computer without said glasses you say...</div>
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Looking back over the last couple months I've mostly been listening to audiobooks or reading comics and there are very few actual books.<br />
On a brighter note, I picked out some cute purple frames and they should be ready any day now.<br />
FYI: I totally look like a librarian in them.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">For too long, Violet and the people of the outer circles of the Lone City have lived a life of servitude, controlled and manipulated by the royalty of the Jewel. But now, the secret society known as the Black Key is preparing to seize power and knock down the walls dividing each circle.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">This booze-soaked second volume of RAT QUEENS reveals a growing menace within the very walls of Palisade. And while Dee may have run from her past, the bloated, blood-feasting sky god N’rygoth never really lets his children stray too far.</span></i></div>
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You can't go wrong with Rat Queens. It's just too much fun! Although graphic, this book had a neat plot that I really enjoyed, especially the eldritch horror aspect. I want more of these books!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Insurrection is in the air in Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. Captain Sam Vimes of the city’s ramshackle Night Watch is used to this. It’s enough to drive a man to drink. Well, to drink more. But this time, something is different – the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant, lethal weapon that even they don’t fully understand, and they’re about to unleash a campaign of terror on the city. Time for Captain Vimes to sober up.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Fans have long wondered what happened to Ahsoka after she left the Jedi Order near the end of the Clone Wars and before she reappeared as the mysterious Rebel operative Fulcrum in Rebels. Finally her story will begin to be told.</span></i></div>
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I was really excited about this book when I came across it. I haven't been listening to many Star Wars books lately, but how can I pass up Ahsoka? I was even more excited when I realized that <a href="https://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.com/search?q=ashley+eckstein">Ashley Eckstein</a> was reprising her role as our favorite former Jedi padawan, as she narrates the entire book! YAY! (btw: she's coming to Toronto on Monday, so look forward to a post about that!)</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Ever since they were driven from their homelands by the Adversary, the non-human Fables have been living on the Farm—a vast property in upstate New York that keeps them hidden from the prying eyes of the mundane world. But now, after hundreds of years of isolation, the Farm is seething with revolution, fanned by the inflammatory rhetoric of Goldilocks and the Three Little Pigs. And when Snow White and her sister Rose Red stumble upon their plan to liberate the Homelands, the commissars of the Farm are ready to silence them—by any means necessary!</span></i></div>
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This was an interesting story, as it dealt with the Fables that couldn't pass for human and had to be kept away from downtown New York. As these animals rebel, you can see that they have a point, but are going about it in the wrong way. It was a really neat take on more fairy tales.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Sarah Andersen's hugely popular, world-famous Sarah's Scribbles comics are for those of us who boast bookstore-ready bodies and Netflix-ready hair, who are always down for all-night reading-in-bed parties and extremely exclusive after-hour one-person music festivals. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In addition to the most recent Sarah's Scribbles fan favorites and dozens of all-new comics, this volume contains illustrated personal essays on Sarah's real-life experiences with anxiety, career, relationships and other adulthood challenges that will remind readers of Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half and Jenny Lawson's Let's Pretend This Never Happened. The same uniquely frank, real, yet humorous and uplifting tone that makes Sarah's Scribbles so relatable blooms beautifully in this new longer form.</span></i></div>
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Sometimes you just need to laugh at everyday life and Sarah Scribbles is great at providing that. It's hard not to chuckle at all of life's problems when they're so relatable. I didn't realize that this was the 2nd book until after I finished it, but like most comics of this genre, it doesn't really matter. Most enjoyable.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In this New York Times bestselling mystery series, witch Katie Lightfoot bakes enchanted treats--and faces more than her fair share of toil and trouble.... </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">It's been exactly two years since Katie and her aunt and uncle opened the Honeybee Bakery, where they serve delicious--and bespelled--treats to the good people of Savannah. After a dinner celebrating the bakery's anniversary, they all take a stroll along the waterfront and meet Aunt Lucy's friend Orla, a colorful character who has been telling the fortunes of locals and tourists alike for years.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The next day, Orla meets with what seems like a terrible accident, but Katie's witchy intuition tells her it was something more sinister. Together with her trustworthy coven and her firefighter boyfriend, she'll race to find out what happened to the unfortunate fortune-teller before the piping hot trail goes cold....</span></i></div>
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I was a bit disappointed in this book. Not because of the story, that was good, but because of the language used. It uses the word G*psy. A lot. Now, people don't always know that this is considered a slur and that Romani or Traveling People tend to be preferred. Now in this case they were Irish traveling people. Now, it's not just that they used it multiple times, but they even explained like I just did about the word, yet it still gets used. I find that aggravating. It should've been corrected at the beginning and then not used again. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Are you a special snowflake? </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Do you enjoy networking to advance your career? </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared? </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">This book is for the rest of us. These comics document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas, and wondering when, exactly, this adulthood thing begins. In other words, the horrors and awkwardnesses of young modern life.</span></i></div>
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Once I had discovered that the first book I read was actually the 2nd in the series, I had to go back and find the 1st one. I was not disappointed. Now that I'm in my 30's I actually have to admit that I'm a adult, although I certainly don't feel like it most of the time. At least we can enjoy this book and make fun of ourselves. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In The Jewel, we followed Violet in her servitude under the Duchess of the Lake. Now we'll hear Raven's story and her time as a surrogate for the Countess of the Stone in this digital novella from Amy Ewing.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">When Raven is bought at the Auction, she knows immediately that things will not go well. And when she arrives at the Countess's palace, Raven quickly discovers that the Countess is much less interested in having a baby than experimenting with Raven's mind and body. Raven can only hope for an escape…and to see Violet again, all the while reminding herself that she is Raven Stirling, and she does matter.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">HarperTeen Impulse is a digital imprint focused on young adult short stories and novellas, with new releases the first Tuesday of each month.</span></i></div>
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After listening to this series, I was excited to find out that there were a few short stories out there as well. I love Raven, so I was super excited (if not morbidly curious) to read about her. But her story pretty much reflects Violet's story but from a different perspective. Literally. They are the same scenes in which both of them are present, but from a different angle. It was a bit of a let down. I wanted new content. Oh well, it was still good.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Before he was Batman, he was Bruce Wayne. A reckless boy willing to break the rules for a girl who may be his worst enemy.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">One by one, the city's elites are being executed as their mansions' security systems turn against them, trapping them like prey. Meanwhile, Bruce is turning eighteen and about to inherit his family's fortune, not to mention the keys to Wayne Enterprises and all the tech gadgetry his heart could ever desire. But after a run-in with the police, he's forced to do community service at Arkham Asylum, the infamous prison that holds the city's most brutal criminals.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Madeleine Wallace is a brilliant killer . . . and Bruce's only hope.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In Arkham, Bruce meets Madeleine, a brilliant girl with ties to the Nightwalkers. What is she hiding? And why will she speak only to Bruce? Madeleine is the mystery Bruce must unravel. But is he getting her to divulge her secrets, or is he feeding her the information she needs to bring Gotham City to its knees? Bruce will walk the dark line between trust and betrayal as the Nightwalkers circle closer.</span></i></div>
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I am totally loving this <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/177740-dc-icons">DC Icons</a> series! This one follows a young Bruce Wayne as a bit of an awkward, naive teenager. It's pretty amazing. One of the things that I love it that he actually realizes how privilaged he is as a rich, white male and does his best to make the world better. That's the Bruce I know and love. I can't wait until the Catwoman book comes out later this year!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Miles Militis is your average thirty-something male living in the 21st century. Despite the difficult life that he leads, and his frustration with the way that things are happening in the world around him, he feels powerless to influence any positive change. But when a violent windstorm strikes, everything does changejust not in a way that he ever imagined possible! Upon being swept away to an alternate planet Earth, Miles discovers that this world had taken a more idealistic approach, and improved upon things that he had wished he could change. While attempting to discover where he was and how he got there, Miles becomes embedded in seemingly unrelated events that he inevitably becomes an important part of. But there is more going on in this utopian society than anyone realizes. When the truth finally comes to light, it appears that it might be too late. In this science fiction adventure, an earthling unwittingly swept into another realm is led down a path towards a destiny that teaches him that the power to instigate change lies within ones own self.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Ashley Eckstein grew up inspired by all things Disney. She launched Her Universe, an apparel company catering to fan girls, which has become a preferred partner for Disney and their girl power initiative.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In IT'S YOUR UNIVERSE, Ashley shares her own life lessons, as well as lessons from iconic Disney characters, as a way to inspire girls to create big dreams and work to make them a reality.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Ashley tells her story of being a little girl dreaming of being on a Disney stage, voicing the first female Jedi, Ahsoka Tano, and starting Her Universe, a blockbuster clothing line and community for fangirls.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">With space for readers to make journal entries and quotes from iconic Disney characters, Ashley shows how princesses, Jedis, and super heroes were great role models for choosing her own path.</span></i></div>
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I'm not one for autobiographies usually. But this is Ashley Eckstein and I want to support pretty much anything she does. This was a cute mix of her story, reiterated with lessons learned in Disney movies, cute quotes, inspirational messages and places to fill in your own dreams. I'm pretty sure it's meant for preteens, but it was still a fun read. As stated above, she's actually on a book signing tour for this book and is coming to Toronto on Monday, so I'm going to get to meet her and have her sign my book! YAY!</div>
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Oh, and this happened this month too! Yup, I hit and continued past my challenge! Woot!</div>
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I know, I know. I haven't been posting much, but even still, I usually update my reading list. What can I say other than school was crazy these last few months and I barley had time to finish my homework, let alone blog. Even my book reading wasn't all that extensive. I mostly listened to audiobook s in transit and read comics when I was too tired to pick up an actual book. And since I didn't get March out in time, I've decided to merge it with April and see if I can remember my thoughts about those past books. Wish me luck.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Told from a female zombie’s perspective, this smart, witty detective series mixes urban fantasy and romantic dramedy.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Gwendolyn “Gwen” Dylan is a 20-something gravedigger in an eco-friendly cemetery. Once a month she must eat a human brain to keep from losing her memories, but in the process she becomes consumed with the thoughts and personality of the dead person – until she eats her next brain. She sets out to fulfill the dead person’s last request, solve a crime or right a wrong.</span></i></div>
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I picked this up because I love the show. I figured that I should check out the source material, hoping that I would love it too, since the book is usually better, right? Well, not so much in this case. I will say this and feel a little shame while doing it. I like the show better. The characters are totally different the plot is totally different. Don't get me wrong, The comic has it's charm and I want to read them, I just will also continue to enjoy the show.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky — taken by the Society to his certain death — only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Cassia's quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border. But as Cassia nears resolve and certainty about her future with Ky, an invitation for rebellion, an unexpected betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander — who may hold the key to the uprising and, still, to Cassia's heart — change the game once again. Nothing is as expected on the edge of Society, where crosses and double crosses make the path more twisted than ever.</span></i></div>
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I really enjoyed this series, but this book made me wonder if I would finish it. Although the first book was amazing, the second was lackluster. The first book was all about being duped by society and realizing that everything you know is wrong and that was fascinating. The second one is about wandering through a canyon with other characters that I didn't really like.</div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction—and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for.</i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Award-winning author Juliet Marillier “weaves magic, mythology, and folklore into every sentence on the page” (The Book Smugglers). Now she begins an all-new and enchanting series that will transport readers to a magical vision of ancient Ireland....</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Oran, crown prince of Dalriada, has waited anxiously for the arrival of his future bride, Lady Flidais. He knows her only from a portrait and sweetly poetic correspondence that have convinced him Flidais is his destined true love. But Oran discovers letters can lie. For although his intended exactly resembles her portrait, her brutality upon arrival proves she is nothing like the sensitive woman of the letters.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">With the strategic marriage imminent, Oran sees no way out of his dilemma. Word has spread that Blackthorn possesses a remarkable gift for solving knotty problems, so the prince asks her for help. To save Oran from his treacherous nuptials, Blackthorn and Grim will need all their resources: courage, ingenuity, leaps of deduction, and more than a little magic.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">"Ah, life- the thing that happens to us while we're off somewhere else blowing on dandelions & wishing ourselves into the pages of our favorite fairy tales."</span></i></div>
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I read this in one sitting. It was horrible and beautiful and filled with so many feelings that it broke my heart and mended it over and over again. Worth reading, but do so with caution if sensitive to such matters.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher, Jared K. Fletcher, Maris Wicks & Babs Tarr</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Barbara Gordon is no stranger to dusting herself off when disaster strikes, so when a fire destroys everything she owns, she spots the opportunity for a new lease on life – and seizes it! Following the rest of Gotham City’s young adults to the hip border district of Burnside, Barbara sets about building an all-new Batgirl…and discovers new threats preying on her peers! As the new hero of Burnside, Batgirl gets started by facing twin sister assassins on motorcycles!</span></i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">The nightmare-inducing brute known as Mirror is destroying the lives of Gotham City citizens seemingly at random. Will Barbara be able to survive her explosive confrontation with this new villain, as well as facing dark secrets from her past? A new chapter in the riveting adventures of Batgirl continue in stunning fashion, with script by fan-favorite Gail Simone and stellar art by superstar Ardian Syaf!</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">This volume collects issues 1-6 of Batgirl, part of the DC Comics—The New 52 event.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Kurtis J. Wiebe & Roc Upchurch</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Who are the Rat Queens? </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">They're a pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire and they're in the business of killing all the god's creatures for profit. Meet Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric and Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">This modern spin on an old school genre is a violent, monster-killing epic that is like Buffy meets Tank Girl in a Lord of the Rings world on crack! </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Collecting Rat Queens #1-5!</span></i></div>
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This was a ridiculously fun read about a band of asshole adventurers who never really get anything right and tend to cause more problems then they solve. Reminds me of playing D&D. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15713902-the-assassin-and-the-underworld">The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass 0.4)</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>When the King of the Assassins gives Celaena Sardothien a special assignment that will help fight slavery in the kingdom, she jumps at the chance to strike a blow against an evil practice. The mission is a dark and deadly affair which takes Celaena from the rooftops of the city to the bottom of the sewer--and she doesn't like what she finds there.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13589174-reached">Reached (Matched #3)</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>Cassia's journey began with an error, a momentary glitch in the otherwise perfect facade of the Society. After crossing canyons to break free, she waits, silk and paper smuggled against her skin, ready for the final chapter.</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">One young woman has raged against those who threaten to keep away what matters most—family, love, choice. Her quiet revolution is about to explode into full-scale rebellion.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">With exquisite prose, the emotionally gripping conclusion to the international bestselling Matched trilogy returns Cassia, Ky, and Xander to the Society to save the one thing they have been denied for so long: the power to choose.</i></div>
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After the let down of the second book, I wasn't sure what to expect from the last book in this series. I ended up really enjoying the last book as it filled almost all my needs for a dystopian novel series. The only thing that I didn't like was that everyone seemed to be in love with everyone else and that was kind of annoying. I mean, I know their teenagers and everything, but still.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile (Fables #1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Bill Willingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha, Craig Hamilton & James Jean</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf (Bigby Wolf), to determine if the killer is Bluebeard, Rose's ex-lover and notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk-climber.</span></i></div>
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I've heard and seen a lot about these book over the years and I was glad that I got the chance to finally read them. It's certainly an odd series, but enjoyable. It's a neat twist to fairy tales and I love that. Instead of rewriting them, they have been imagined well after their fairy tales end, relocated to modern day earth. What a great spin!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">She will become one of the world’s greatest heroes: WONDER WOMAN. But first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning. . . .</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity finally comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law—risking exile—to save a mere mortal. Even worse, Alia Keralis is no ordinary girl and with this single brave act, Diana may have doomed the world.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Alia just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. She doesn’t know she is being hunted. When a bomb detonates aboard her ship, Alia is rescued by a mysterious girl of extraordinary strength and forced to confront a horrible truth: Alia is a Warbringer—a direct descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Together, Diana and Alia will face an army of enemies—mortal and divine—determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer. If they have any hope of saving both their worlds, they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The first in an alternate fantasy series where vampires, werewolves, and goblins rule London. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Queen Victoria rules with an immortal fist. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The undead matriarch presides over a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground and mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. It's a world where the nobility are infected with the Plague (side-effects include undeath), Hysteria is the popular affliction of the day, and leeches are considered a delicacy. And a world where technology lives side by side with magic. The year is 2012 and Pax Britannia still reigns.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Xandra Vardan is a member of the elite Royal Guard, and it is her duty to protect the Aristocracy. But when her sister goes missing, Xandra will set out on a path that undermines everything she believed in and uncover a conspiracy that threatens to topple the empire. And she is the key -- the prize -- in a very dangerous struggle.</span></i></div>
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This was a really strange book. I'll be honest, I bought it because the cover art is amazing and I wanted to read about Vampire Queen Vic. Well, she is hardly in it and the steampunk world is weird. It's modern day steampunk. As in, if steampunk had taken hold and progressed to this day and age. Yeah, weird. Some things are the same, and others have changed drastically. So, not being a huge steampunk fan, it's hard for me to decide if I like it or it's necessary or not, and it's a fine line. I kept thinking about putting it down (as I have done with a lot of other books lately) but decided to persevere. I'm glad I did. I ended up getting really into it and loving the characters and weird plot lines. I actually think I will pick up the rest, just for fun.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Celaena Sardothien is the assassin with everything: a place to call her own, the love of handsome Sam, and, best of all, freedom. Yet, she won’t be truly free until she is far away from her old master, Arobynn Hamel; Celaena must take one last daring assignment that will liberate her forever. But having it all, means you have a lot to lose . . .</span></i></div>
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This is the end of the short stories and I find myself tired of reading them. Don't get me wrong, they were good. I just wish they were all in one volume and I could've read them all together. It ends as you know it must if you've read the other books. That kind of sucks to know the ending and still not want it to happen.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda, Rus Wooton & Jennifer M. Smith</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers. Collects MONSTRESS #1-6</span></i></div>
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This was a really neat comic that I found. It's messed up and weird, but fascinating and the art in incredible. I really want to know more about the world that it takes place in and how everything came to be. I'd actually love for this to be in book form and not just comic form.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomachache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom the reddest rose and control the fiercest of lions.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">But becoming the Queen Crowned isn’t solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister has to fight for it. And it’s not just a game of win or lose...it’s life or death. The night the sisters turn sixteen, the battle begins.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Marguerite Bennett, Marguerite Sauvage, Ming Doyle, Laura Braga, Maria Laura Sanapo, Marc Deering, Stephen Mooney, Ted Naifeh, Garry Brown, Mirka Andolfo, Bilquis Evely & Sandy Jarrell</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In these stories from issues #1-6 of the hit series, learn the story behind this alternate reality where the Second World War is fought by superpowered women on the front lines and behind the scenes! It all begins with the stories of Batwoman, Wonder Woman and Supergirl.</span></i></div>
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I've wanted to read this comic since it came out and I'm glad that I finally got my hands on it. It was pretty much everything I was hoping it would be and more! The only part I was disappointed in was the Harley/Ivy story that didn't quite make sense. But I loved the rest and I want to read more of them.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Firstborns rule society. Secondborns are the property of the government. Thirdborns are not tolerated. Long live the Fates Republic.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Roselle St. Sismode’s eighteenth birthday arrives with harsh realizations: she’s to become a soldier for the Fate of Swords military arm of the Republic during the bloodiest rebellion in history, and her elite firstborn mother is happy to see her go.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Televised since her early childhood, Roselle’s privileged upbringing has earned her the resentment of her secondborn peers. Now her decision to spare an enemy on the battlefield marks her as a traitor to the state.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">But Roselle finds an ally—and more—in fellow secondborn conscript Hawthorne Trugrave. As the consequences of her actions ripple throughout the Fates Republic, can Roselle create a destiny of her own? Or will her Fate override everything she fights for—even love?</span></i></div>
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To be honest, for an 11 hour book, I can barley recall what happened in this book, The only thing that really springs to mind was that the main character was all over the place, never staying consistent. It was frustrating. And for being such a loyally bred soldier, she doesn't seem to have very much loyalty. I'm not sure I'll read the next one.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Anne Bishop</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">After the Elders cleansed and reclaimed many human towns, Lakeside Courtyard has emerged relatively unscathed, though Simon Wolfgard, its wolf-shifter leader, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn must work with the human pack to maintain the fragile peace. But all their efforts are threatened when Lieutenant Montgomery's shady brother arrives, looking for a free ride and easy pickings.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">With the humans on guard against one of their own, tensions rise, drawing the attention of the Elders, who are curious about the effect such an insignificant predator can have on a pack. But Meg knows the dangers, for she has seen in the cards how it will all end: with her standing beside a grave. . . .</span></i></div>
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I love this series and I'm glad that it continually gets better. Although I'm never one for books with shady relatives that show up and cause mischief, this book was still really, really good. I can't wait until the next book, with different characters comes out in paperback.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The Jewel means wealth. The Jewel means beauty. The Jewel means royalty.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">But for girls like Violet, the Jewel means servitude.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Not just any kind of servitude. Violet, born and raised in the Marsh, has been trained as a surrogate for the royalty—because in the Jewel the only thing more important than opulence is offspring.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Purchased at the surrogacy auction by the Duchess of the Lake and greeted with a slap to the face, Violet (now known only as #197) quickly learns of the brutal truths that lie beneath the Jewel's glittering facade: the cruelty, backstabbing, and hidden violence that have become the royal way of life.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Violet must accept the ugly realities of her existence . . . and try to stay alive. But then a forbidden romance erupts between Violet and a handsome gentleman hired as a companion to the Duchess's petulant niece. Though his presence makes life in the Jewel a bit brighter, the consequences of their illicit relationship will cost them both more than they bargained for.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Debut author Amy Ewing expertly crafts an enchanting story full of riches, rivalries, and riveting twists and turns that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.</span></i></div>
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I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about another YA dystopia novel, but like always, I seem to really love them. This definitely had a Handmade's Tale feel to it, mixed with your regular YA dystopia. But I fell in love with the characters and the rebellion and I want to read them all right now. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Welcome to Gotham Academy, the most prestigious school in Gotham City. Only the best and brightest students may enter its halls, study in its classrooms, explore its secret passages, summon its terrifying spirits...</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Okay, so Gotham Academy isn't like other schools. But Olive Silverlock isn't like other students. After a mysterious incident over summer break, she's back at school with a bad case of amnesia, an even worse attitude...and an unexplained fear of bats.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Olive's supposed to show new student Maps Mizoguchi the ropes. Problem: Maps is the kid sister of Kyle, Olive's ex. Then there's the ghost haunting the campus...and the secret society conducting bizarre rituals. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Can Olive and Maps ace the biggest challenge of their lives? Or are they about to get schooled?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Collects Gotham Academy #1-6</span></i></div>
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This was a weird mix of school high-jinx and Gotham history mixed into one. I wasn't sure how it all connected, but I found myself really enjoying it anyway. Maps is adorable and quickly became a favorite for me. Can't wait to see what happens to this group of spunky kids.</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>The killer housewife is back! The Schuller family has moved to Cocoa Beach, Florida, where life carries on as usual. Josie continues to juggle Tupperware parties, her kids, and a few human heads. However, when someone from her past tails her on a hit, she may be in for more than she bargained for.</i></span></div>
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Like the first one, this was another great read about a housewife/assassin. Her and her family have finally started a new life but old habits are hard to break and people are not always who they seem to be. I hope there are more of these in the future.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">When you listen to this audiobook, you will make many assumptions.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">You will assume you are listening to a story about a jealous ex-wife.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement – a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Assume nothing. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage - and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.</span></i></div>
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Wow, this was a great book. I wasn't quite sure what I was getting into and didn't really know if I would like it or not. It's really not my genre after all. But this book kept me on the edge of of seat, brought up memories I don't like to think about and kept me guessing the whole time. I don't think all of the twists are necessary, but they are amazing. Worth reading.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Told from a female zombie’s perspective, this smart, witty detective series mixes urban fantasy and romantic dramedy.Gwendolyn “Gwen” Dylan is a 20-something gravedigger in an eco-friendly cemetery. Once a month she must eat a human brain to keep from losing her memories, but in the process she becomes consumed with the thoughts and personality of the dead person – until she eats her next brain. She sets out to fulfill the dead person’s last request, solve a crime or right a wrong.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In uVAMPIRE, Gwen dines on the grey matter of a person who knew her as a child – and things quickly get complicated. Meanwhile, ghost-girl Ellie learns a few tricks from Amon the mummy; Spot the were-terrier goes to the comics shop and meets someone from Gwen’s past, the mad scientist Galatea engages in a bit of grave-robbing; and the monster-hunters tackle the town’s vampire problem once and for all.</span></i></div>
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There is not a lot that happens plot wise in this book, but it was still good. There was a lot more background info on the secondary characters and I really liked that. Beyond that, there wasn't much to write home about.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Coyote shifter Mercy Thompson knows that life with her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, will never be boring, but even their wedding doesn't go as planned. Nevertheless, a ten-day honeymoon camping on the banks of the Columbia River, alone, just the two of them, should make up for it. But the trip - and the pimped-out trailer they're using - is courtesy of the fae. And nothing from the fae comes without strings attached...</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Being a different breed of shapeshifter - a walker - Mercy can see ghosts, but the spirit of her long-gone father has never visited her. Until now. An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River - and innocent people are dying. As other walkers make their presence know to Mercy, she must reconnect with her heritage to exorcise the world of the legend known as the river devil...</span></i></div>
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I still love this series. It's funny because that still surprises me. I always worry that they won't be good anymore, but they always are. I shouldn't be surprised. This is the first one that takes place outside the tri-state area and it's a nice change in pace. I also love the river demon and how weird and creep it is. Worth reading.</div>
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February...ugh....</div>
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As much as I love Valentine's Day and any excuse for a long weekend, my February was not fun at all. I was excited when we had an early thaw of all that damn snow, but I didn't like that all that damn snow melted and flooded our apartment! Since then it's been non-stop stress of stopping the water, cleaning and dealing with our landlord and all the contractors who seem to need to come in and out of our apartment. </div>
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Thank goodness books can transport me out of this world in into somewhere where \i don't have to deal with real life.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18333581-the-assassin-and-the-healer">The Assassin and the Healer (Throne of Glass 0.2)</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>Meet the Assassin: beautiful, defiant, destined for greatness. Celaena Sardothien has challenged her master. Now she must pay the price. Her journey to the Red Desert will be an arduous one, but it may change the fate of her cursed world forever...</i></span></div>
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Since reading <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2017/11/newfangled-52-november-edition.html">Tower Of Dawn</a>, I've been wondering about the story behind Yrene Towers and Celaena. Of course, I was hoping that it would be one of these short stories and I'm so glad that it was. Although it didn't provide much more information than I already knew, it was still neat to see these two characters interacting.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">At the Bureau of Special Investigations, agents encounter all sorts of paranormal evils. So for Agent Brynner Carson, driving a stake through a rampaging three-week-old corpse is par for the course. Except this cadaver is different. It’s talking—and it has a message about his father, Heinrich.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The reanimated stiff delivers an ultimatum written in bloody hieroglyphics, and BSI Senior Analyst Grace Roberts is called in to translate. It seems that Heinrich Carson stole the heart of Ra-Ame, the long-dead god of the Re-Animus. She wants it back. The only problem is Heinrich took the secret of its location to his grave.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">With the arrival of Ra-Ame looming and her undead army wreaking havoc, Brynner and Grace must race to find the key to stopping her. It’s a race they can’t afford to lose, but then again, it’s just another day on the job . . .</span></i></div>
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I'm a big fan of the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/121152-grimm-agency">Grimm Agency</a> books, so I was pretty excited when I found out that she had written another books along the same lines. Well, I thought it was along the same lines, but it turned out not to be. It lacked the fun and silliness that I love about the other series. This was much more serious and took place in an alternate earth than the other series. This book was much more about the romance, which was okay, but I was never sold on the two of them being together. It was okay, but not what I wanted it to be. I think if I had come on it and not known the author I probably would've liked it better.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.</span></i></div>
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I really enjoyed this book. After reading so many post apocalyptic books that have characters that come from bad areas of the world and need to fight for freedom, it was an interesting switch up to have the main character come from one of the good areas, not seeing the flaws of society and thinking that life is what it's suppose to be.<br />
Coming from a white, middle class family, I can relate to this. It took me a long time to see that there were a lot of flaws in our own society and I know that I'm privileged enough not to see some of the really terrible things that happen around me.<br />
This book certainly gave me a lot to think about.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night... The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity—and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance. Sounds pretty simple, right? It would be, if it weren't for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos supermodels, and the trained monster-hunter sent by the Price family's old enemies, the Covenant of St. George. When a Price girl meets a Covenant boy, high stakes, high heels, and a lot of collateral damage are almost guaranteed. To complicate matters further, local cryptids are disappearing, strange lizard-men are appearing in the sewers, and someone's spreading rumors about a dragon sleeping underneath the city...</span></i></div>
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I finally got my hands on the first few books of InCryptid. I've been looking everywhere for them but could only ever find the later books in the series. I finally broke down and ordered them like I did with the October Daye novels.</div>
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Although the first one isn't the greatest book I've read by her, it was still a lot of fun and I think this series will only get better. There were a lot of great cryptids in this book, but I think my favorite were the mice who celebrated everything. They were so cute.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The Silent Assassins of the Red Desert aren’t much for conversation, and Celaena Sardothien wouldn’t have it any other way. She’s not there to chatter, she’s there to hone her craft as the world’s most feared killer for hire. When the quiet is shattered by forces who want to destroy the Silent Assassins, Celaena must find a way to stop them, or she’ll be lucky to leave the desert alive.</span></i></div>
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Although I'm pretty sure that this book came first, it bears a striking resemblance to <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2017/11/newfangled-52-november-edition.html">Nevernight</a>, to the point I wondered if one was based off the other. It made it a little hard to read because I just kept comparing them and trying to decide who did it better. I never did decide. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.</span></i></div>
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This was my <a href="https://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2018/01/another-52-book-reading-challenge.html">LLB</a> for this month. I've wanted to read this book ever since I heard Sue Monk Kidd talk about it <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2014/03/an-evening-with-sue-monk-kidd.html">in person</a>. Like all of her books, this one hits hard and makes you really think and feel deeply. My heart continually broke while reading this and that just made me cheer harder for the characters that I loved so intently.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Bertie Shakespeare Smith is not an actress, yet she lives in a theater.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">She's not an orphan, but she has no parents.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">She knows every part, but she has no lines of her own.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">That is, until now.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">NATE. Dashing pirate. Will do anything to protect Bertie.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">COBWEB, MOTH, MUSTARDSEED, and PEASEBLOSSOM. Four tiny and incredibly annoying fairies. BERTIE'S sidekicks.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">ARIEL. Seductive air spirit and Bertie's weakness. The symbol of impending doom.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">BERTIE. Our heroine.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Welcome to the Théâtre Illuminata, where the actors of every play ever written can be found behind the curtain. They were born to play their parts, and are bound to the Théâtre by The Book, an ancient and magical tome of scripts. Bertie is not one of them, but they are her family, and she is about to lose them all and the only home she has ever known.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Lisa Mantchev has written a debut novel that is dramatic, romantic, and witty, with an irresistible and irreverent cast of characters who are sure to enchant the audience.</span></i></div>
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This was the first book I ever "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6822459-braeby?shelf=to-read">wanted to read</a>" on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a>. When I was ordering some books for Adam for Valentines Day, I decided to get myself something too. I figured I should actually start reading some of the books on my want to read list. So I ordered the first one there.<br />
This was a very cute story that all takes place at a magical theatre. Her memories are all written like a script and performed on stage. It a cute little added bonus. I grew up in theatre so I found it full of that magic that I once felt. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother—but she’s also a ruthless, efficient killer for hire! A brand-new original comedy series that combines the wholesome imagery of early 1960s domestic bliss with a tightening web of murder, paranoia, and cold-blooded survival.</span></i></div>
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Happy Valentines to all my fellow geeks out there!</div>
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I just love <a href="https://katiecandrawblog.wordpress.com/">Katie Cook's</a> Star Wars art (all of her art, really)</div>
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January has been a crazy month of stress, studying and exams. That being said, it didn't give me a lot of time to read much non-school related books. Probably why most of my books this month were audiobooks. </div>
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I did really well on my exams, if you're wondering, but if you're reading this, you're probably much more interested in my books,</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Words of Radiance, from an epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson at the top of his game.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.</span></i></div>
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Amazing, outstanding, incredible! I wan't to read and read and read this series and wish that it never ended. But like all great epics, I'll probably be waiting a few more years for the next book to come out and then all the next books after that. That's okay. I waited for Wheel Of Time and I'll wait for The Stormlight Archives as well. This train might not be moving very fast, but I really do recommend jumping on board if you want a fantastic series to read.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross—a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn’t ask Rose what she thought of the idea.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">They have names for her all over the country: the Girl in the Diner. The Phantom Prom Date. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown. Mostly she just goes by “Rose,” a hitchhiking ghost girl with her thumb out and her eyes fixed on the horizon, trying to outrace a man who never sleeps, never stops, and never gives up on the idea of claiming what’s his. She’s the angel of the overpass, she’s the darling of the truck stops, and she’s going to figure out a way to win her freedom. After all, it’s not like it can kill her.</span></i></div>
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This was outside what I usually read. I've never been one to pick up ghost stories, but I love Seanan McGuire and when I came across this I just couldn't pass it by. And I'm glad I didn't because it had me entranced from beginning to end. I'm glad she's doing a sequel and I can't wait to read it.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa's new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.</span></i></div>
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I had heard a lot of great things about this book, so I was super excited to get it for Christmas. Although it was very good, I wanted more from it. I'm not sure of what, just more. The story didn't leave me entranced and that was what I really wanted because I love Russian folk tales (or at least the ones that I know) and I love when authors re-imagine them. I guess I find that stories that take place over many years lose something when they don't devote time to the here and now. Knowing a history is good, but I want to really get into the characters and how they feel. This book did have that at some parts, but I would've like some more. I will be reading the next book though. I do want to know what happens.</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>On a remote island in a tropical sea, Celaena Sardothien, feared assassin, has come for retribution. She’s been sent by the Assassin’s Guild to collect on a debt they are owed by the Lord of the Pirates. But when Celaena learns that the agreed payment is not in money, but in slaves, her mission suddenly changes—and she will risk everything to right the wrong she’s been sent to bring abou</i></span><span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>t.</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard's bestselling Red Queen series, allegiances are tested on every side. And when the Lightning Girl's spark is gone, who will light the way for the rebellion?</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her lethal mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven Calore continues weaving his dead mother's web in an attempt to maintain control over his country—and his prisoner.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">As Mare bears the weight of Silent Stone in the palace, her once-ragtag band of newbloods and Reds continue organizing, training, and expanding. They prepare for war, no longer able to linger in the shadows. And Cal, the exiled prince with his own claim on Mare's heart, will stop at nothing to bring her back.</i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson's ZOO is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride from "One of the best of the best."</span></i></div>
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I've been watching this on Netflix and it's awesome. So when I came across this in the Little Library, I knew I had to read it. It became my first <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2018/01/another-52-book-reading-challenge.html">LLB</a> of the year. Sadly the book did not live up to the TV show. I was so bored with it right away that I switched over to the audiobook to try and make it easier. It didn't really. The killed off one of my favorite characters right away and the main character was completely ruined. In fact, they ruined the Chloe as well. She went from being pretty awesome in the show to being a wide eyes, useless woman, who's only importance was that she became a mom and they totally ignored that she was a super awesome researcher and had her do almost nothing. It was quite aggravating. I was glad when it was done. I'll go back and watch the show instead.</div>
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This wasn't the best short story that I've read my Seanan McGuire, but it was still interesting. I think if it were longer and I had a better chance to get to know the characters that it would've had a bigger impact on me. As it was, I don't really feel one way or another about this story.</div>
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I have fallen in love with this series and I want an entire line of books to read about every single character and what was behind their doors and if they get to go back and all the new students and on and on and on forever. This was not a prequel like the second book was, but took place after the first. I am in love with the world of Confection and I think my new goal in life is to become The Baker there. (Is it because I'm a culinary student? you decide) The way she talks about baking and sugared trees and gingerbread molding makes me want to buy multiple copies of this book so that I can highlight my favorite quotes and cross-stitch them onto pillows or some such.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries. From the Brothers Grimm to the Countess d’Aulnoy, from Charles Perrault to Hans Christian Anderson, storytellers have crafted all sorts of tales that have always found a place in our hearts.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Packed with award-winning authors, this “fresh, diverse” (Library Journal) anthology explores an array of fairy tales in startling and innovative ways, in genres and settings both traditional and unusual, including science fiction, western, and post-apocalyptic as well as traditional fantasy and contemporary horror.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">From the woods to the stars, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales takes readers on a journey at once unexpected and familiar, as a diverse group of writers explore some of our most beloved tales in new ways across genres and styles.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Contains stories by: Charlie Jane Anders, Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, Max Gladstone, Theodora Goss, Daryl Gregory, Kat Howard, Stephen Graham Jones, Margo Lanagan, Marjorie Liu, Seanan McGuire, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, Sofia Samatar, Karin Tidbeck, Catherynne M. Valente, and Genevieve Valentine.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Kahlen is a Siren, bound to serve the Ocean by luring humans to watery graves with her voice, which is deadly to any human who hears it. Akinli is human—a kind, handsome boy who's everything Kahlen ever dreamed of. Falling in love puts them both in danger . . . but Kahlen can't bear to stay away. Will she risk everything to follow her heart?</span></i></div>
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This definitely had a Little Mermaid vibe to it that I absolutely loved. Much like <a href="https://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/search?q=the+selection">The Selection</a>, these characters swept me up in their stories and didn't let go. I would be very happy if this was turned into a series or at least had some short stories about the other characters. I also really loved the nod to Prince Maxon with Akinli's last name. Very cute little add in.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story—a story that has never been told... until now. </span></i></div>
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More retelling of fairy tales? Who me? You can guess that I love the Lunar Chronicles for this very reason. It was neat to go behind the scenes and see what makes Levana who she really is. In the beginning you really want to feel bad for her, but as time goes by, you just can't justify what she's doing and you want to yell at yourself for ever being sympathetic at all. So good.</div>
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Another year, <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/search/label/52%20book%20challenge">another book challenge</a>.</div>
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Yes, I'm starting all over again from book 1 and working my way back up to 52.</div>
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Although it hurts my soul a bit to delete all the books from last years list, I feel I am up to the challenge to start again from scratch.</div>
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I've signed up both <a href="http://www.read52booksin52weeks.com/2017/12/im-participating-in-2018.html">here</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/7501-2018-reading-challenge">here</a> for the challenge and you can too</div>
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Or if you're more interested in just following what I read, I will continue to update every month on what I've read and you can look to the bottom right of my blog (you may have to scroll down) where I will be keeping a list of what books I've finished, links to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6822459-braeby-braeby?shelf=read">Goodreads</a> and a bar of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/7501-2018-reading-challenge">my challenge progress.</a><br />
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I didn't read quite as much last year as I did the year before, but with school happening, I'm just happy to have time to read at all.<br />
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I managed to clear out most of my To Be Read (TBR) and Recommended By Adam (RBA) books over the last few years, so my choice of extra challenge is going to be Little Library Books (LLB).<br />
In case you don't know what that is, a Little Library or a Wee-Free Library are tiny neighborhood boxes that people put on their front lawns and fill with books to take and bring back. I have quite a few in my neighborhood and try to keep them as stocked as I empty them.<br />
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But I have accumulated too many and they need to be read and returned to their homes.<br />
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So here is a list of the 12 books that I've chosen<br />
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1. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079776-the-invention-of-wings"><strike>The Invention of Wings</strike></a> - Sue Monk Kidd<br />
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2. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13528317-zoo"><strike>Zoo (Zoo #1)</strike></a> - James Patterson<br />
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3. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22750073-the-windup-girl">The Windup Girl (The Windup Universe #1)</a> - Paolo Bacigalupi<br />
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4. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22812825-a-reunion-of-ghosts">A Reunion Of Ghosts </a>- Judith Claire Mitchell<br />
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5. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6723239-best-friends-forever">Best Friends Forever </a>- Jennifer Weiner<br />
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6. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99561.Looking_for_Alaska">Looking for Alaska</a> - John Green<br />
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7. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1046180.The_Knight_and_the_Rose">The Knight and the Rose</a> - Isolde Martyn<br />
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8. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10161216-mr-churchill-s-secretary"><strike>Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery #1)</strike></a> - Susan Elia MacNeal<br />
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9. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6837103-the-kitchen-house"><strike>The Kitchen House</strike></a> - Kathleen Grissom<br />
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10. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16217687-666-park-avenue"><strike>666 Park Avenue (666 Park Avenue #1)</strike></a> - Gabriella Pierce<br />
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11. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28503688-the-little-paris-bookshop">The Little Paris Bookshop</a> - Nina George<br />
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12. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20454071-the-casual-vacancy">The Casual Vacancy</a> - J.K. Rowling<br />
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Happy Reading!<br />
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Christmas has come and gone and this year is finally winding down. This year has had it's ups and downs in life as well as in books. Some were really great and others not so much. But in the end, I managed to read 96 books this year,</div>
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Not quite as many as last year, but still pretty good.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24533547-the-favourite">The Favourite (The Selection #3.5)</a></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">While America Singer's heart was torn between Aspen and Prince Maxon, her friend Marlee knew exactly what she wanted—and paid the price.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Revisit the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series in this digital original novella. Told from Marlee's point of view, this all-new 64-page story returns to the fateful Halloween when Marlee and Carter were discovered, and reveals how that night—and Prince Maxon—changed their lives forever.</span></i></div>
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The great thing about having an online library card is that I can finally read all those short stories that all my favorite authors write. That includes all of The Selection short stories (that all somehow seem to be exactly 64 pages). This one was probably my favorite, because who doesn't love Marlee? I'm still glad she managed to find her happily ever after.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Your blood-red skies are filled with smoke. Your bleach-white histories with lies. You walk sleeping. Wake senseless. Breathing deep of toxic blooms and forgetting all that has gone before.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">I remember when two brothers waged bloody war over the right to sit in their father’s empty chair. I remember when orphaned twins faced each other across a field of crimson and steel, the fate of the Shima Shōgunate hanging in the poisoned sky between them.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">I remember when a blind boy stood before a court of storms and talons, armed only with a thin sword and a muttered prophecy and a desperate dream of saving the world.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">I remember when the skies above Shima were not red, but blue. Filled with thundeabler tigers.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">And I remember why.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Let me tell you, monkey-child.</span></i></div>
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This short story takes place before the Lotus Wars series and I wasn't sure I was going to like it. But the more I read of it, the more I enjoyed it. The character's are not as lovable as the original series, but then again I didn't have 3 books to fall in love with them either. It is interesting to see how the world ended up as it did, due to choices that these characters made eons before the books.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170039-the-guard">The Guard (The Selection #2.5)</a></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Before America Singer met Prince Maxon . . . </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">She was in love with a boy named Aspen Leger.</span></i></div>
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This story was okay. I never really liked Aspen all that much, so I didn't feel like I got much out of it. It's pretty much just a retelling of the story but from an observers perspective. Not nearly as interesting, but an okay story none the less.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Before thirty-five girls were chosen to compete in the Selection...</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the White Rose. But now an even greater evil threatens the world. All the great battles that have gone before will seem a skirmishes when the Dominator rises from the grave.</span></i></div>
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This was my <a href="https://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2017/01/newfangled-52-book-challenge.html">RBA</a> for the month. It wasn't nearly as good as the second book was and it took me forever to read. There was a lot of boring parts, but the few interesting parts made up for it. I really like Croaker's relationship with The Lady and could read about it all day. She totally made the book for me. I like to read more about her. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Sixth of the Dusk, set in a never-before-seen world, showcases a society on the brink of technological change. On the deadly island of Patji, where birds grant people magical talents and predators can sense the thoughts of their prey, a solitary trapper discovers that the island is not the only thing out to kill him. When he begins to see his own corpse at every turn, does this spell danger for his entire culture?</span></i></div>
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This was another interesting short story by Brandon Sanderson. I have absolutely no idea how all his books fit into one big Universe, but I will gladly keep reading until I find out. This was a neat concept about times changing, especially with technology, and how it is beginning to upset the balance of the World. Quite neat indeed.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">As the right hand woman at the Fairy Godfather’s Grimm Agency, Marissa Locks has a grip on all things magical. If only she could get control of her own not-so-charmed life…</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">For most people, waking up after a night of partying next to a dragon, sporting a tattoo with a mind of its own, would be a new low. For Marissa, only the tattoo is new—and, unfortunately, it’s not the weirdest part of her day. The Agency has been called in to stop a string of messy murders, a problem that’s turning into a disaster of biblical proportions, and Marissa’s been assigned to the case.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">One of the archangels from Paradisia is attempting to switch teams, and he’s willing to use as many souls as it takes to pay his way. With Grimm contractually bound to clean up the chaos, Marissa must find a way to keep the former cherub from completing his rampage. But between fighting an angel gone bad and battling the magical compulsions of her new Fae tattoo, Marissa’s definitely facing the worst hangover in history…</span></i></div>
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I loved these books, so I was super hyped to find out that there was another one, even if it was a short story that takes place in between books. I would gladly keep reading stories about Marissa and her friends. They have the perfect about of humor, action and sass that I like in an urban fiction story. </div>
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Not too shabby if I do say so myself. And I didn't do too badly with my <a href="https://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2017/01/newfangled-52-book-challenge.html">RBA</a> (Recommended By Adam) </div>
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1.<strike> </strike><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22055283-half-the-world"><strike>Half the World (Shattered Sea #2)</strike> </a>- Joe Abercrombie</div>
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2. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7923006-the-kingdom-of-gods">The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance #3)</a> - N.K. Jemisin </div>
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3. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10790290-theft-of-swords"><strike>Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations #1-2)</strike></a> - Michael J. Sullivan<br />
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4. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140671.The_Black_Company"><strike>The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company #1)</strike></a> - Glen Cook</div>
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5. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131107-the-black-prism" style="text-decoration-line: line-through;"><strike>The Black Prism (Lightbringer #1)</strike></a> - Brent Weeks</div>
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6. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11968799-deathless"><strike>Deathless (Leningrad Diptych #1)</strike></a> - Catherynne M. Valente </div>
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7. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/865293.The_Lies_of_Locke_Lamora"><strike>The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard #1)</strike></a> - Scott Lynch</div>
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8. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400881.Shadows_Linger"><strike>Shadows Linger (The Chronicles of the Black Company #2)</strike></a> - Glen Cook</div>
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9. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12820465-empire-in-black-and-gold"><strike>Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt #1)</strike></a> - Adrian Tchaikovsky</div>
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10. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4947316-victory-of-eagles"><strike>Victory of Eagles (Temeraire #5)</strike></a> - Naomi Novik</div>
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11. <strike><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833422.Equal_Rites">Equal Rites (Discworld #3</a>)</strike> - Terry Pratchett</div>
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12.<strike> </strike><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400906.The_White_Rose"><strike>The White Rose (The Chronicles of the Black Company #3</strike>)</a> - Glen Cook</div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7923006-the-kingdom-of-gods">The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance Trilogy #3)</a></div>
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by N.K. Jemisin</div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34002132-oathbringer">Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive #3)</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34069813-the-bear-and-the-nightingale">The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy #1)</a></div>
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I almost managed to finish <i>Oathbringer</i> before the end of the year, but there just wasn't enough time. <i>Ascent of Women</i> is going slow, since it's super depressing, although quite interesting at the same time. <i>A Fine Balance</i> is on a hiatus until I can get my e-reader to work again. But there are always more books to read, and I'm going to do just that.</div>
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Braebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12635513746006004736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832410118031760266.post-47064089967886032222017-12-23T19:17:00.000-05:002017-12-23T19:17:18.846-05:00Mistletoe Kisses<div style="text-align: center;">
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What's that? Mistletoe you say.... Why yes... yes it is!</div>
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Fall is giving into Winter and I am finally back at school after a 5 week strike. Although I didn't blog in that time, I did find myself lost in books instead of being lost in the gloom of possibly losing my semester.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Things are starting to look up for October "Toby" Daye. She's training her squire, doing her job, and has finally allowed herself to grow closer to the local King of Cats. It seems like her life may finally be settling down...at least until dead changelings start appearing in the alleys of San Francisco, killed by an overdose of goblin fruit.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Toby's efforts to take the problem to the Queen of the Mists are met with harsh reprisals, leaving her under sentence of exile from her home and everyone she loves. Now Toby must find a way to reverse the Queens decree, get the goblin fruit off the streets--and, oh, yes, save her own life, since more than a few of her problems have once again followed her home. And then there's the question of the Queen herself, who seems increasingly unlikely to have a valid claim to the throne....</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">To find the answers, October and her friends will have to travel from the legendary Library of Stars into the hidden depths of the Kingdom of the Mists--and they'll have to do it fast, because time is running out. In faerie, some fates are worse than death.</span></i></div>
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This might actually be my favorite book of this series so far, which is saying something when I've loved all the other books. Something that starts with wanting to rid the streets of a bad faerie drug takes a drastic turn which I totally wasn't expecting. This book was Epic. I can't wait to see what happens next!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In 1959, Faerie came for a little changeling girl named October Daye and presented her with the Choice that her mother had been struggling to prevent her from ever needing to make. But how did Faerie find her? Where did the channel of October's destiny diverge? To know the answer, you must look to the water, and to the woman who many refer to as "the sea witch."</span></i></div>
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This was a sweet short story that tells why October is the way she is and how she ends up as she is. It was nice to have the Luidaeg's point of view for once and see how much she's always cared about October. I hope to find more of these short stories.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveshipsrare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied hera legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">But the fate of the Vestrit familyand the shipmay ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will....</span></i></div>
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This was one of the first books that I borrowed from the library website and boy did I have trouble with it. It kept getting returned and renewing it was difficult, but I managed to get through it. When Adam recommended it to me, he warned me that things go wrong for everyone and keep going wrong. He was right. Things constantly turn out for the worst and it was hard on my already heavy heart. That being said, it was still a good book and I'm planning on reading the rest of the series.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose, reincarnation of a centuries-dead heroine. Yet now some of the Company have discovered that the mute girl they rescued and sheltered is truly the White Rose reborn. Now there may be a path to the light, even for such as they. If they can survive it.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">From New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire, a haunting urban fantasy short story in the Carniepunk anthology—for fans of all things circus, supernatural, and mysterious…</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">It’s been seventeen years since the last time Ada’s carnival passed through her father’s hometown in Alabama—and no one is expecting the reception she gets.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Don't miss this digital original novella set in the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series. This prequel story takes place before the events of The Selection and is told from the point of view of Prince Maxon's mother, Amberly. Discover a whole new Selection with this inside look at how Maxon's parents met—and how an ordinary girl named Amberly became a beloved queen.</span></i></div>
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One of the great things about borrowing from the library is that I now have access to all sorts of short stories that intertwine with book series that I've already read. These stories give a little extra look at the side characters who don't always get a lot of screen time. This was a sweet little story about the Queen Amberly, when she was just another girl in a different Selection.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">R is having a no-life crisis—he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he’d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">First as his captive, then his reluctant guest, Julie is a blast of living color in R’s gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. He doesn't want to eat this girl—although she looks delicious—he wants to protect her. But their unlikely bond will cause ripples they can’t imagine, and their hopeless world won’t change without a fight.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since the glass castle shattered, since his men were slaughtered, since the King of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body broken.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">His only shot at recovery lies with the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme in Antica—the stronghold of the southern continent's mighty empire. And with war looming over Dorian and Aelin back home, their survival might lie with Chaol and Nesryn convincing its rulers to ally with them.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Noon Onyx is back! In this long-awaited fourth installment, Jill Archer returns readers to the dangerous world of Halja, where demons, angels, and humans coexist in an uneasy state of détente. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Maegester-in-Training Noon Onyx feels like she’s done it all – mastered fiery magic, become an adept fighter, learned the law, killed countless demons, and survived having her heart broken by both love and an arrow, but now she’ll face her greatest challenge yet…</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Far to the north lies an outpost famous for its unrest – Rockthorn Gorge. The town’s patron has specifically requested Noon’s help. Her assignment? Help the neophyte demon lord build his fiefdom and keep what’s his. The problem? Lord Aristos – Noon’s new employer – is her erstwhile lover, Ari Carmine, the aforementioned heart breaker. And the number one thing he wants is her.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">When Rockthorn Gorge’s viaduct is destroyed by Displodo, an enigmatic bomber, killing a dozen settlers and wounding scores more, Noon sets off early to aid in the search and rescue. Ari is listed among the missing and the suspects are legion. But Noon’s search is just the beginning. Her journey forces Noon to confront not only those she loves, but also enemies hell-bent on destroying them.</span></i></div>
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I really loved this series when it came out, so when I found out that there was another book in ebook form, I grabbed out my e-reader, accidentally broke it, so grabbed out my <i>other</i> e-reader and managed to finally read it. Let's just say that I've changed a lot since reading the other books and I'm able to pick out the problems with this series much easier now. I'm really tired of abusive relationships being passed off as 'he just loves too much'. Frankly, she was much better off with her friends.</div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting people like her with budding powers. The downtrodden in Yeddaw have no champion, and Lift knows she must seize this awesome responsibility.</i></div>
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I was really excited when Oathbringer came out, but as I began listening to it, they recommended that I read this short story first so I can understand some character's motives better. Since it was only 6 hours long, it was an easy enough request. This was a great little story about a young girl who has recently become "Awesome" (gotten Knight's Radiant powers) and her quest to take down The Darkness and eat as many pancakes as possible. Lofty goals indeed.</div>
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This spooky month is coming to a close and I have been busy with the season.<br />
While I should have been reading, I was preparing for midterm (that didn't happen thanks to the college strike), trying to keep on track with my studies and spending some much needed time with my sweetheart. With all that in mind, I still managed to get a few books read.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Being a superheroine is hard. Working for one is even harder.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Evie Tanaka is the put-upon personal assistant to Aveda Jupiter, her childhood best friend and San Francisco's most beloved superheroine. She's great at her job—blending into the background, handling her boss's epic diva tantrums, and getting demon blood out of leather pants.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">But everything changes when Evie's forced to pose as her glamorous boss for one night, and her darkest comes out: she has powers, too. Now it's up to her to contend with murderous cupcakes, nosy gossip bloggers, and supernatural karaoke battles—all while juggling unexpected romance and Aveda's increasingly outrageous demands. And when a larger threat emerges, Evie must finally take charge and become a superheroine in her own right... or see her city fall to a full-on demonic invasion.</span></i></div>
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This was a fun book about what it's like to be a sidekick (while hiding your very own kick ass powers) It's nice to see books, especially heroines that are Asian, and they talk about that in the book too, how representation matters so much and how they were inspired by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105619/">The Heroic Trio</a>.<br />
I really enjoyed how the 2 main characters were contrasted, one who always wanted the spotlight and to prove to everyone that she was a hero, and a reluctant hero who just wanted to stay out of the limelight and was afraid of losing control and hurting the people she loves. I'm looking forward to reading the next book, except that they changed the size of the book and now they won't match!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military service–and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. For Britain, conditions are grimmer still: Napoleon’s resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleon’s prime objective: the occupation of London.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Separated by their own government and threatened at every turn by Napoleon’s forces, Laurence and Temeraire must struggle to find each other amid the turmoil of war and to aid the resistance against the invasion before Napoleon’s foothold on England’s shores can become a stranglehold.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">If only they can be reunited, master and dragon might rally Britain’s scattered forces and take the fight to the enemy as never before–for king and country, and for their own liberty. But can the French aggressors be well and truly routed, or will a treacherous alliance deliver Britain into the hands of her would- be conquerors?</span></i></div>
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This was my first <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2017/01/newfangled-52-book-challenge.html">RBA</a> book of the month. I decided since I haven't been totally sold on this series, that I would listen to it instead of trying to read it. I think it was a good choice. It was very easy to listen to, which was nice. This book actually took place on their home turf and wasn't about them flying off to unknown destinations where half the book is them traveling. That was also appreciated. I would say it's probably my favorite book of the series so far.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Vaelin Al Sorna, warrior of the Sixth Order, called Darkblade, called Hope Killer. The greatest warrior of his day, and witness to the greatest defeat of his nation: King Janus' vision of a Greater Unified Realm drowned in the blood of brave men fighting for a cause Vaelin alone knows was forged from a lie. Sick at heart, he comes home, determined to kill no more. Named Tower Lord of the Northern Reaches by King Janus's grateful heir, he can perhaps find peace in a colder, more remote land far from the intrigues of a troubled Realm.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">But those gifted with the blood-song are never destined to live a quiet life. Many died in King Janus' wars, but many survived, and Vaelin is a target, not just for those seeking revenge but for those who know what he can do. The Faith has been sundered, and many have no doubt who their leader should be. The new King is weak, but his sister is strong. The blood-song is powerful, rich in warning and guidance in times of trouble, but is only a fraction of the power available to others who understand more of its mysteries. Something moves against the Realm, something that commands mighty forces, and Vaelin will find to his great regret that when faced with annihilation, even the most reluctant hand must eventually draw a sword.</span></i></div>
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This has been my go-between audiobook for most of this year. I would listen to it while I was waiting for my new Audible credit to come in if I had finished my other book too soon. It's not that it wasn't interesting, it had it's moments, but the guy who read it didn't have a lot of emotional range to his reading. A quiet conversation and an epic battle were read with the same pitch, making them hard to get emotionally involved in. I'm glad I managed to finish it though and I'm almost interested in what happens in the last book, but I doubt that I will pick it up any time soon.</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">Jillian was her father’s perfect daughter—adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices.</i></div>
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I really fell in love with these characters when I read the <a href="https://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2017/09/newfangled-52-september-edition.html">first book</a> last month. I thought that it was going to be a continuation of their story after the last book, but it's actually a prequel, telling the story about their trip through their magical door and the events that lead up to them being placed into the Home for Wayward Children. It was amazing. I loved it a lot. Not as much as the first, perhaps, but almost as much. I can't wait for the 3rd one to come out.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace and prosperity for decades: bastions of civilization and sophistication. That peace is about to end.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In far-off corners, an ancient Empire has been conquering city after city with its highly trained armies and sophisticated warmaking . . . And now it's set its sights on a new prize.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Only the ageing Stenwold Maker, spymaster, artificer and statesman, can see the threat. It falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of his people - as soon a tide will sweep down over the Lowlands and burn away everything in its path.</span></i></div>
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This was my 2nd <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2017/01/newfangled-52-book-challenge.html">RBA</a> book for the month. I realized I was falling behind a bit, so thought that maybe I would read 2 this month. I've been putting off this one, knowing that it was the longest book on my list, but I'm glad that I picked it up. It was really good. Although I don't understand the origins of the human/insect hybrid people, the idea and ideology behind it are quite fascinating. It took me a bit to get into it, but once I did, it was hard to put down. I did have to keep taking frequent breaks since the book itself was heavy and it would start making my arm go numb. Adam just got the 2nd book to this series and I'm looking forward to him finishing it, so that I can read it.</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged; petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral; while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous with the years, has been horrifying, enchanting, obsessing, even corrupting readers for more than a hundred years.</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">Taking the reader in and out of London drawing rooms, to the heights of aestheticism, and to the depths of decadence, The Picture of Dorian Gray is not only a melodrama about moral corruption. Laced with bon mots and vivid depictions of upper-class refinement, it is also a fascinating look at the milieu of Wilde’s fin-de-siècle world and a manifesto of the creed Art for Art’s Sake.”</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">The ever-quotable Wilde, who once delighted London with his scintillating plays, scandalized readers with this, his only novel. Upon publication, Dorian was condemned as dangerous, poisonous, stupid, vulgar, and immoral, and Wilde as a driveling pedant.” The novel, in fact, was used against Wilde at his much-publicized trials for gross indecency,” which led to his imprisonment and exile on the European continent. Even so, The Picture of Dorian Gray firmly established Wilde as one of the great voices of the Aesthetic movement, and endures as a classic that is as timeless as its hero.</i></div>
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I've always heard great things about this book and thought that it might make a good Halloween read. In a way it did. It certainly had a bit of a horror feel to it in the supernatural portrait sense, but beyond that, it was mostly him sitting around dinner parties talking to other bored socialites and describing his collections of art and music in depth to a point where I just skimmed a few chapters. They allude to his depravity, but never go into it and you never really know what he's done to make everyone hate him so much. But much like the other books that have inspired cult classics, this one did not really live up to the hype that I had heard about it.<br />
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If Studio Ghibli is your bread and butter, check out these sweet outfits</div>
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But since it's not, I have to manage to do it myself. At least there are geeky products out there that make the painstaking process of applying make-up more fun.</div>
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This collection at least lets us pretend that we're Sailor Scouts with these awesome applicators</div>
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I am all about having my hair wild and crazy colours, probably because of shows like Jem when I was little. The idea of actually having Jem colours to put in my hair would've blown child me's mind. Who am I kidding, it still does<br />
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This <i>truly outrageous</i> collection was only available for a limited time, but luckily you can still find it on <a href="https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.TRS0&_nkw=Sephora+Jem+and+The+Holograms+Makeup+Collection&_sacat=0">ebay</a> (<i>truly</i> expensive, but worth it?)</div>
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Today seems like a Disney kinda day. Maybe I'm feeling nostalgic, but I just want to sit in front of the TV and pop VHS after VHS into the VCR and watch my childhood again.</div>
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These collections have taken things that I loved as a kid (and now) and made them into something that I can wear! And that is AWESOME in my book.</div>
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Given the opportunity, I would live in those onesies (although they don't seem to be online yet?)</div>
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Just as important to my childhood was My Little Pony. When my niece was little and really into the new series, I started watching it so I could talk to her about it, and then fell in love with these crazy, fun ponies.</div>
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In case you are wondering, which I was, this last one is Tempest Shadow, the possible baddie in the new movie. Guess I'll just have to go watch it to find out for sure.</div>
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Being back to school again after soooo many years is super weird. I was expecting armloads of textbooks, but in fact, the ones I do have are online! Things may have changed in my life, but the feeling of a good book in my hand, isn't one of them. Despite no having my time filled with <a href="http://thebraekery.blogspot.ca/2017/04/whole-new-look.html">baking labs and theory classes</a>, I managed to still get a few books read.</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>It’s been almost a year since October “Toby” Daye averted a war, gave up a county, and suffered personal losses that have left her wishing for a good day’s sleep. She’s tried to focus on her responsibilities—training Quentin, upholding her position as Sylvester’s knight, and paying the bills—but she can’t help feeling like her world is crumbling around her, and her increasingly reckless behavior is beginning to worry even her staunchest supporters.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>To make matters worse, Toby’s just been asked to find another missing child…only this time it’s the changeling daughter of her fellow knight, Etienne, who didn’t even know he was a father until the girl went missing. Her name is Chelsea. She’s a teleporter, like her father. She’s also the kind of changeling the old stories warn about, the ones with all the strength and none of the control. She’s opening doors that were never meant to be opened, releasing dangers that were sealed away centuries before—and there’s a good chance she could destroy Faerie if she isn’t stopped.</i></span></div>
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It's amazing that she can write so many book on magical children getting abducted but still make every one unique and fun. Toby is always a character that I enjoy reading about and I hope to continue doing so for quite some time. Oh, and if I didn't already love Seanan McGuire enough, I found this<a href="https://linssweater.tumblr.com/post/161790821326/this-thread-omg"> amazing set of tweets</a> on Tumblr that made me squeal with joy.</div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">Meet little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Over one hundred years since their first appearance in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures-in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their Wild Wood-continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow up. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame to his son, The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of animal cunning and human camaraderie.</i></div>
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I finally finished reading this and I only have a few questions.... Are these animals the same size as humans? What is the size relation between human sized animals and regular animals? And are the regular sized animals smart like the human animals? How do all the animals have houses and clothes and food from the store when they don't have jobs? Do they buy from humans? How deep do the burrows have to be to accommodate human sized animals? How does anyone confuse Mr. Toad for a human washer woman? How does Toad get to go home after escaping prison and not have the police come there to look for him? I'm sooo confused...</div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction...</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London. Their mission: Retrieve a particularly dangerous book. The problem: By the time they arrive, it's already been stolen. </i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">London's underground factions are prepared to fight to the death to find the tome before Irene and Kai do, a problem compounded by the fact that this world is chaos-infested—the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic to run rampant. To make matters worse, Kai is hiding something—secrets that could be just as volatile as the chaos-filled world itself.</i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Rhapsody, a young woman trained as a Namer, can attune herself to the vibrations of all things, tap the power of true names, and rename people, changing their basic identities. Her magic lies in music: "Music is nothing more than the maps through the vibrations that make up all the world. If you have the right map, it will take you wherever you want to go," she tells her adoptive brothers. They are "the Brother," a professional assassin able to sense and track the heartbeats of all natives of the doomed Island of Seren, their homeland, and his giant sidekick Grunthor, a green-skinned Sergeant Major who enjoys making jokes, using edged weapons, and honing his cannibalistic palate. Inadvertently, Rhapsody has renamed the Brother Achmed the Snake, breaking his enslavement to Tsoltan the F'dor (a fire-born demon). Tsoltan sends minions in pursuit to rebind Achmed. The three escape into the roots of a World Tree, Sagia, emerging transformed into another country and century. But have they truly escaped the F'dor's evil? And how does all this relate to the prologue's story of Gwydion and Emily, two young lovers brought together across history and then separated by the mysterious Meridion?</span></i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation—the Unified Pacific—in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of powerful geomancer Wardens who have no idea of the depth of her power—or that she is the only woman to possess such skills. </i></div>
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<i style="color: #bf9000;">When assassins kill the Wardens, Ingrid and her mentor are protected by her incredible magic. But the pair is far from safe. Without its full force of guardian geomancers, the city is on the brink of a cataclysmic earthquake that will expose Earth’s powers to masterminds determined to control the energy for their own dark ends. The danger escalates when Chinese refugees, preparing to fight the encroaching American and Japanese, fracture the uneasy alliance between the Pacific allies, transforming the city into a veritable powder keg. And the slightest tremor will set it off. . . . </i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">No one knows where the Tufa came from or how they ended up in the mountains of east Tennessee. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history. But there are clues in their music, hidden in the songs they have passed down for generations.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Private Bronwyn Hyatt, a true daughter of the Tufa, has returned from Iraq, wounded in body and spirit, but her troubles are far from over. Cryptic omens warn of impending tragedy, while a restless "haint" has followed her home from the war. Worse yet, Bronwyn has lost touch with herself and with the music that was once a part of her life. With death stalking her family, will she ever again join in the song of her people and let it lift her onto the night winds?</span></i></div>
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I know, it's been forever since I've been on here, but due to being back to school, I just don't have as much time as I want to devote to things. I will keep trying to post when I can.</div>
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I've been promising the Her Universe Fashion Show highlights for awhile now, and I've finally been able to collect all the info I needed. So here it is in all it's glory! </div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Grace Johnston is “a wearable artist/designer/photographer/traveler/never-ending do-er of many things” currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Originally from a tiny town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, from the earliest age she spent her spare time creating and imagining endless worlds and possibilities. Both of her parents are writers and artists themselves, so the doors to a creative universe were always open to Grace. When she discovered her mom’s sewing machine at the age of twelve and realized she could make whatever she wanted, she was hooked. “I’ve never found anything I love quite as much as sitting down in front of a sewing machine and making something extraordinary,” she says. “From there I just couldn’t stop, I had so many ideas in my head. I just kept working and sewing and messing up and trying again and getting better and better. The things I made got more complex and challenging and weird as the years went on. And that’s how I came to love fashion. It gave me the power to physically bring my dreams to life.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Working in fashion for over a decade now, Grace started off in high school transforming old thrift store clothing into crazy new creations. Her sewing foundations were established by working in a costume shop after school, where she learned the basics of hand sewing and using store-bought patterns. She received her Bachelor’s degree in 2010 from the School of the Art Institute, where she majored in Sculpture and minored in Fashion Design. She has since worked in theater companies across America and with fashion design companies around the world. She works independently to create custom, one-of-a-kind fashion pieces for herself and for private clients. “I would call myself more of a wearable artist than strictly a fashion designer,” she says. “I am, above all, inspired by non-traditional materials and sculptural forms. I believe the body is a foundation that garments can be built upon, and I am constantly inspired to see how the body can be transformed through the shapes and forms that garments can take. I prefer to choose my materials from thrift shops and hardware stores instead of fabric shops. I find so much excitement in imagining new possibilities for trash, discarded materials, and things that you would never imagine could become a beautiful garment.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Rebecca Jordan, originally from central California, now lives in Simi Valley. She is married with a 4-year old daughter. She works as a professional prop maker at a large prop studio in Southern California and is surrounded by geekiness every day. She describes her job as “amazing.” She has been costuming since she was 18-years old and says, “I started getting more into geek fashion when noticing there wasn’t a lot of options for dressing nice and geeky.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Her fashion has been limited to what she has done for herself and through private commissions for the last nine years. She adds that that has all changed with her new job, though, and her focus on props has consumed her time recently. “I do love designing and making dresses,” she notes with a smile. “I try to represent my geek inspiration for fashion through subtlety. I like to think you can keep something simple and still have it read very well. I love designing things I think would work great on all ages as well as all body types, too. I always lean towards natural fabrics and believing that it’s what is inside that counts in a garment. If you don’t have a good foundation the rest of the clothing will fall apart.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Amanda Avery is a North Carolinian who transplanted to Southern California 5 years ago. She says she is just one of those people that can’t keep their hands out of creative things. She attended fashion school for three semesters and has worked as a costume seamstress for one year.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Recalling her early interest in fashion design, she says, “When I was a little girl my mom bought me a diary; a few years ago the ‘teenage tomboy me’ was shocked to find that diary and discover that it was full of nothing but little drawings of shoes and purses. I guess it’s always been in me to some extent. I taught myself how to sew when I was 11 or 12-years old and just kept going from there.” She has submitted designs every year for The Her Universe Fashion Show and relates that the contest gives her life. Every single year, she and her friends enter, show each other their drawings and their excitement is palpable. “Fashion is really about wearing your heart on your sleeve,” she continues. “Being on the outside the way you feel on the inside. As fangirls, we want the same things as everyone. We just want to show the world what we’re passionate about and how we feel!”</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Athena Eager, from Glendale, Arizona, may be new to designing fashion, but not to the sewing and creating process. She has designed and sewn her own outfits and costumes for several years – everything from dresses and gowns, pants, jackets, coats and corsets. Her experience and interest in sewing and garment construction started with her mother, a home taught seamstress who made many of the garments she wore as a child and several of the outfits she owns now. “For much of my life, my interest has been as a hobby,” says Athena. “I sewed off-and-on through my teenager years, usually dresses and skirts, and whenever I had a chance as I grew older. What I would create varied including historic period garb, uniforms, dresses, skirts, pants, cloaks and capes, jackets, petticoats and corsets.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">She only considered fashion as a career when she took a step back a few years ago and realized she would be quite happy designing and sewing whenever she could for as long as she could and then explored what opportunities were available. “I discovered that my local college had an entire program and enrolled right away. I am now completing my second year, with one more semester remaining. I have maintained a 4.0 grade point average and have gained invaluable sewing, tailoring, and designing knowledge. I entered fashion design school because I love to sew but had little idea of what options were available or what fashion design actually entailed. I am completing the designs of my first line at this time.” Athena has found that inspiration can come from anywhere, including her design this year for The Her Universe Fashion Show. “The initial idea for ‘Here Comes the Rain’ struck while I was shopping for school supplies and found a wool that looked remarkably like the Matrix Rain. It was too perfect a bit of inspiration not to try to incorporate it into a geek couture garment.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i>Lydia Tachkov is an assistant designer living in San Francisco, California. She has an A.A in fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and was a finalist in the Her Universe Fashion Show 2016. She currently works as an assistant designer for the children’s wear brand, Gymboree. Her specialty in the company is wovens, which is primarily where she says her personal designs are. She learned about anime and manga when she was 9-years old and has been a fan every since. “I started cosplaying when I was 14, which drove me to learn how to sew,” she says. “ I realized that not only did I love the characters and being them, but that I loved figuring out how to put their outfits together and felt myself drawn to certain characters based off of their designs! My passion for sewing and cosplay is what started my love for fashion and couture and is the reason why I decided to pursue a career in it!”</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i>Much of Lydia’s past work has been inspired by nature and organic forms. She has extensive experience in making silk flowers by hand, tambour bead work, silk dyeing and hand embroidery. “I love using a combination of heavier structures and light, elegant fabrics for the contrast,” she adds. “I primarily drape my garments and love creating asymmetrical pieces. My work can be described as a flower burst because I love incorporating silk fabrics in whatever way I can. I feel drawn to them and love the process of making them.”</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Hailey Jensen, from the Bay area, is a self-taught seamstress & watercolor painter, with a love for books, movies & TV shows. She has been drawing since she could hold a pencil & designing costumes inspired by her favorite characters since the fourth grade. Four years ago, after watching Project Runway for ages, she decided to seriously try her hand with a sewing machine. “My first real project was some Halloween costumes for me & my family,” she recalls. “We dressed as Merida & her parents from the movie Brave. I’ve been making our Halloween costumes ever since, as well as a few fancy gowns & some casual everyday clothes. It’s honestly become an addiction!”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">As a self-taught seamstress, Hailey says she learned most everything she knows from You Tube & hours of research online. Within four years she’s made over seventeen costumes, a few fancy gowns, sundresses & separates. Two of her self-designed costumes were even featured in an HBO compiled Game of Thrones ‘Fan Compendium’ book. “It’s so important to celebrate things that we are passionate about,” she says proudly. “ I know I was one of those girls shopping in the guys sections for cool t-shirts, and the more geek couture spreads, the more fashion becomes available for everyone to be able to wear and share their love of their fandom.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Judith Armas Orellana is a costume designer born and raised in Lima-Peru and currently living in Los Angeles. Whether watching Disney with her mother or Steven Seagal with her father, films were her first love but Star Wars was always her favorite. She decided to go to college to learn more about the entertainment world but it wasn´t until her first internship that she found her one true love: costume design. And after working in several movies and commercials under the wing of a great costume designer who taught her how to be passionate for her work, she decided to extend her horizons and applied for a Theater Costume Design degree at FIDM for which she moved to LA. Her schooling had her specializing in period construction and costume design as well as for film and television.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">She says that “Costume design is my life, as simple and complex as that.” Today she works as a freelance costume designer (costumes upon request) and a stock costumer at Eastern Costume (a period based rental warehouse for film and television).</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Elissa Alcala has a BFA in Fashion design from Parsons School of Design. Originally from the Lone Star State, she moved to Los Angeles soon after graduating and is now a member of local 705, the costumers union. She works with designers to help make their visions a reality, insure their finished ideas look their best on the actors and help keep the continuity. “I have always been making costumes and clothing for myself,” she says. “It has been my dream to become a costume designer so it was only natural that I went to fashion design school to study techniques and design. The rest is history.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Elissa admits that she tends to be inspired by the odd, unusual and things most people overlook in life. “I LOVE fine details and meticulous design aspects. They drive most people crazy but I live for them. My fabrics usually reflect a hard and soft aspect. I am a dreamer with big ambitious goals that I am determined to achieve. I love designing and am a huge nerd. I’m a cancer survivor with a new vigor of living life to the fullest. Being a nerd is a part of who you are. Getting to wear clothing that looks amazing and shows off your nerdiness in a fashionable way makes you feel great and confident about yourself.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Kristi Siedow-Thompson is a fashion design student living in New York City. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in May. Kristi spent the last 10 years working in the graphic design industry as a corporate design director, branding manager, and print, web, and app designer. In 2015 she was a finalist in the Her Universe fashion show with her Star Wars inspired dress. As a result of this experience she realized she wanted to pursue fashion as a career. “I have always sewed on the side as my mother is a seamstress by trade,” she reveals. “I always made my own Halloween costumes and prom dresses. As an adult, my clients include aerial dancers, burlesque dancers, drag queens, cosplayers, and theater groups.” In 2015 Kristi costumed New York Deaf Theater’s fall production, Captive Audience. She also was a finalist for the Fort Collins ArtWear runway show that same fall. She was also a FIT Women’s Wear Finalist for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation’s Design for Disability Gala this past May creating three custom gowns for women in wheelchairs that have adaptable features.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">“Geek couture is where it’s AT for the future of women’s clothing,” Kristi says emphatically. “In the last 5 years, women have been more accepted into ‘Nerd-dom’ and we finally have the clothing to celebrate our love of fandoms big and small. Geek Couture is only going to grow.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i>Aside from her family and friends, art has been the most constant thing in Candice Stephenson’s life. She says it’s the language she uses to understand and explore the world around her. Originally from Kansas City, she moved to LA to pursue her dream of being a professional artist and has been working professionally in computer animation for close to 10 years now. Candice has taken an interest in everything from traditional painting and sculpture to cosplay and practical effects in her time outside of work. She says, “I love anything that give me the chance to create, and anyone who knows me will tell you that I always have a project …or five, at any given time. The more skills I can employ and the more immersive the final product is the better. And I think this is why fashion design appeals to me; creating something that works with the person wearing it and that others can interact with is so fulfilling to create.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i>Designing was kind of an organic process for Candice. With her goal of being an art major as early as junior high, she started with character design, which led to costume design and making Halloween costumes. Then a friend, seeing a picture of her Halloween costume, introduced her to cosplay, which led to fashion design. Cosplay helped her learn sewing and construction skills. “Once I had those skills,” she says, “it was like the world of fashion design opened up to me; I actually understood the engineering behind pattern construction, so designing garments was something that seemed doable. Geek couture has been challenging the fashion industry for the last few years, specifically in terms of identity and access. To me, one of the underlying ideals I’ve noticed among my geeky circles is this idea of inclusion; that no matter who you are or what you look like, you can play with us.”</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Ericka Angiuli is from Anaheim, California and comes from a very large and “very loud Italian family…yet I’m extremely shy and fairly quiet!” She loves pizza, animals, tea, and all things nerdy. The majority of her past work is in ready-to-wear fashion. She says that as much as she loves making one-of-a-kind pieces, she really enjoys making clothing that everyone can wear. She has competed in the past two Her Universe Fashion Shows.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">“I was a strange child and would only wear purple clothes, “she recalls. “It was my favorite color and I refused to wear anything that didn’t have purple on it. I also loved to mix prints. Kids R Us was my personal paradise with their bike shorts and oversized 90’s t-shirts. My grandma always thought I was crazy, but let me wear what I wanted to.” Growing up, her Grandmother was interested in the arts and took Ericka to the theatre. She was enamored by it, and hoped to be an actor someday. In Junior High school, she auditioned to be in drama and didn’t get in. Her alternative? Ericka’s high school offered Fashion Design, so she took it with the hope of making costumes for the theatre department. During the same time, she began doing extra work for film and television. Her first day on set she fell in love with the wardrobe department, and knew from that day forward, her future would involve fashion. “Geek couture has grown so much since the first Her Universe Fashion Show,” she says. “To me, it’s taking on a completely different name. It’s now more than having a comic based tee shirt made for girls; it’s providing girls/women with an opportunity to showcase a new kind of fashion. Geek couture is shedding a light on this by giving a platform to show young girls that you can be a scientist and a fashion designer at the same time.”</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Chatam Smith, from Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Southern Virginia where he spent most of his childhood at the beach running around with his three siblings. He says that his entire life has been surrounded by creativity. He started sketching his first designs after watching the very first episode of Project Runway when he was 11-years old. “I was in theater all through middle and high school, which is where my creative talents began to shine,” he recalls. “From directing to costuming, I loved working in all the production aspects of the theater. I loved being behind-the-scenes to bring works of art to life.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Through his experience and friends he was introduced to conventions and the cosplay community. “I hit the ground running with cosplay, taking every opportunity I had to work on costumes for the next convention. I quickly gained traction with my sewing skills, and from my meager beginnings I’ve managed to win several craftsmanship-based awards.” Chatam is currently the craftsmanship contest coordinator and judge for a local convention (Nekocon), and has judged craftsmanship competitions at several conventions up and down the east coast including Katsucon and AnimeNext. “My goal throughout my cosplay endeavors has been to move away from cosplay/costuming and work more toward fashion.” he adds. “Being entirely self-taught each new project comes with a laundry list of new challenges and chances to learn. I’m often inspired by a combination of everyday life and the fantastical realms of sci-fi and fantasy.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Texas-born, Indiana-raised, and now living in Florida, Kelsey Michele is and has always been an artist and a nerd at heart. Professionally, she works as a designer in the theme park industry, and though her job has her mainly focusing on sets, props, and attractions, she has occasionally designed costumes and uniforms for characters and employees based around historical, modern, and fantasy themes. Drawing was her passion from a very young age, often drawing fantasy creatures like centaurs and fairies. Throughout her teen years, her love of anime, cartoons, and superheroes was expressed through her art. It was only during college that she started to explore the worlds of fashion and costuming more thoroughly. “Being at an art school, you could pretty much throw a paintbrush and hit a cosplayer,” she says. “That’s where I first started to learn how to sew again and grew to love giving 3D, physical manifestations to the designs I was doodling between classes.” Being mostly self-taught in sewing, she is always looking to expand her skills by taking on harder, more involved projects. “When I’m not drawing, patterning, sewing, or hot gluing my fingers together, I’m playing video or tabletop games with friends or visiting theme parks. I’ve always worn my nerdom on my sleeve, even when I have to make the sleeve myself!”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Kelsey has designed a number of “geek couture” outfits over the years for fun, a few of which have been fully realized as actual garments either by fans of her work online, by friends, or herself. “As I’ve gotten more into cosplay, I’ve taken to designing original costumes based on characters or extrapolating on existing designs with more historical or fashionable details,” she says. “Fashion can be many things, but whether it’s functional or simply fabulous, it should work to express something about the wearer. As a nerd with a penchant for good design and wish for more inclusion of feminine pursuits in comic books, gaming, and everything else the geek world contains, it’s an important way to carve out a space for others like me to support each other and celebrate all that we love about these characters and stories.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Harmony Leiker, from Los Angeles, California, spends her days massaging puppies for a living. This is her third year as a finalist in The Her Universe Fashion Show. She loves the art of handmade and says the fashion show has completely changed her. “I’m more confident. I experiment more and I’ve met the most amazing people.” Teaching herself to sew when she was very young she relates that she used to be a costumer, but left the industry many years ago. Now, she mostly creates for herself and endlessly comes up with ideas for the fashion show. “Detail is the name of the game,” she says describing her work. “I like to make things that are pretty from a distance and stunning up close. I do a lot of hand construction and I’m something of a perfectionist. I am inspired by my favorite fandoms, history and fine art.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Her entry this year for The Princess Bride is no exception to her previous work. “Since the film is centered around the telling of a story, the dress itself tells the tale of The Princess Bride through images. I still remember when The Princess Bride opened in theaters. It has been my favorite film since that moment twenty years ago.” Harmony is thrilled that so much attention is being given now to geek couture. “Isn’t it amazing to watch this industry grow?! More and more I see people like myself proudly showing off what they love on their clothes. It’s not going anywhere and I’m so pleased. A few days ago on KROQ, Kevin Smith was talking about The Her Universe Fashion Show! I couldn’t believe it! I’m so proud to be here as the geek side of fashion begins its renaissance.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Lindsay Meesak Orndorff lives in Orange County, California and has a career in another area she is passionate about – video games. By day she is a mild mannered visual effects artist and by night she splits her time with sewing classes, Japanese lessons, and Yoga. She says, “I’m lucky enough to have a completely supportive spouse who puts up with all my ‘creative projects.’ And I have two cats who love to help me work on sewing projects!”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Lindsay’s love for fashion stemmed from her love of “geeky” fandoms and her desire to create things she really wanted to wear. Her past work has stemmed from her fandoms; starting out in cosplay, she was introduced to her love of sewing and fabrication. “I’ve done everything from sewing simple tops to creating large gowns,” she relates. “I’ve also created armor, and wings, and everything in between!” She says she truly became inspired when she started making clothing and dresses that she considered geek chic. “At the time, I didn’t feel like fashion was for me, and wanted to explore what that meant.” She has made personal items for herself and was a finalist in the very first Her Universe Fashion Show. “Being a part of the show has been huge for me because not only have I seen geek fashion rise to the forefront, but I’ve met some amazing designers along the way.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Judith Ann Grivich, from the San Francisco Bay area, describes her past work as “Pretty princess dresses and bad-ass-warriors. Nothing is safe.” During the day, she is vice president at a bank. At night, she is hunched over a sewing machine or crouched in the garage laying fiberglass. She’s driven to create, and always seeks to challenge her current skills with more over-the-top creations.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Judith credits her grandmother for introducing her to sewing. “My grandmother was a single mother and sewed for craft fairs for additional income. She gave me my first sewing machine (From Fisher Price and sewed yarn!) and taught me how to make clothes for my Barbies. I’ve been making clothing ever since. I majored in theatre, worked in the costume shop, and eventually started attending cons in 1999. The only reason my friend got me to go to my first convention was that she mentioned that we would wear costumes.” Today, Judith sees geek fashion as an important part of the future of fashion. “Consumers are demanding more choice and more opportunities to present their personal sense of style than ever before,” she explains. “Fashion is no longer about selling a uniform ‘look’ every season to a captive audience.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Lauren Andrews is a self-described “comic book reading, doll collecting, cat lady from Studio City, California. I have a bit of an obsession with high zany shoes, though I’m totally clumsy and likely to fall while wearing them, “she adds. A graduate of FIDM with degrees in costume and fashion design Lauren used to design bagged Halloween costumes for places like Walmart and Party City. “If you ever run across a sexy Washington crossing the Delaware costume – that’s my fault,” she says with a laugh. Most recently she has been illustrating other people’s designs and creating designs and wigs for short films and local clubs. “I really just love fabric and turning something flat and rectangular into something with shape and life. It’s a really special experience.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">“I’m not really happy unless I’m waist deep in creative projects,” she continues, “which usually results in collections of strange things lying around on the kitchen table scaring guests away. I’m a girly girl with a flair for the extreme. The probability I’ll be found spending my weekend drinking tea vs. riding roller coasters is about the same. I’m shy most of the time, but I feel more outgoing when I’m in or around outlandish clothing. I refer to my personal esthetic as ‘kitchen sink,’ it’s when you add everything, including the kitchen sink, and don’t hold anything back. (It’s also a delicious mantra to try with ice cream sundaes!)”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Rose Ivy is a seamstress and costume maker from Claremont, California. She was a part of the Her Universe Fashion Show last year and had her first opportunity to put her work on the runway with her Star Wars General Hux design inspired by femme fatales of the 1940’s. She has been designing and sketching fashion ideas for the past few years as well as designing and creating inspired cosplay. She is currently working at a sewing studio where she creates custom garments as well as tailoring and re-purposing clothes.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">“I am often tasked with making window displays for the sewing studio I work at (Cut Sew Stitch),” says Rose, “so I drape and make patterns on the mannequins we have available. I work in muslin and throughout the year we accessorize the dresses in different ways. I wanted different silhouettes that were timeless and flattering to the various mannequin sizes we have on display because I believe fashion is for everyone regardless of body type or size.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i>Britley Morgan Smith is a designer/cosplayer from Anaheim, California. She has been interested in costume design since she was a child. Admittedly raised in an incredibly nerdy home, especially focused on Star Wars, Padme Amidala and Princess Leia Organa captured her imagination and never let go. She became obsessed with their looks and their spirits. “I decided that I wanted to become someone who created designs for characters as iconic as they were and have been working toward that goal ever since,” she says. “I spent all of my electives in high school taking art and graphic design classes through concurrent enrollment. I then went to the Art Institute of Orange County in their Fashion Design program, graduating in 3 years with my BFA.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i>During her time in school, she interned at Shakespeare Orange County as a costume designer/costume manager and spent her first two years after school working for Creative Costuming and Designs as a digital pattern-maker for color guard, band, and dance costumes. She currently works as a design assistant for Michael Nicholas Designs making digital patterns for furniture, designing their brand image, and being in charge of their product photography. “I have also been cosplaying since I was in high school and during the past couple years have been working as a freelancer, creating commissions for cosplays,” she adds. “Wearing geek fashion is like wearing a badge of honor, and as geek culture becomes more and more widespread, it is moving up the chain into higher markets. Even Rodarte had a runway collection which featured scenes from Star Wars printed on their dresses. I look forward to the future and being able to draw strength from the characters I love by wearing them as inspiration.”</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Rachel Roth, from San Jose California, was practically raised on comic books and video games. As she got older she discovered her interest in sewing and eventually that led to cosplay. It quickly took over her life and ten years later she is still cosplaying strong and running her own geek fashion store. “I first started sewing with my grandma and was making my own clothing,” Rachel says. “Once I began cosplaying with my friends is when sewing really took off for me. So as soon as I graduated from high school I knew I had to go to fashion school ASAP.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">She graduated from FIDM with a fashion design degree and then created her own geek clothing store, Unicorn Sushi, and took on costume commissions on the side. For a year she worked at Sarah Seven as one of the main hand seamstresses doing lace detailing on their wedding dresses. When it comes to her own designs, Rachel says she works with different types of fabric, combining soft feminine detailing with harsher bolder designs. She loves mixing different types of fabric texture as well as playing with different shapes in a garment and creating new silhouettes out of them. You can see this in her geek couture design for The Her Universe Fashion Show this year. “My design is inspired from my favorite spunky Jedi, Ahsoka Tano. I took a lot of inspiration from her last look in The Clone Wars.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Costume designer and creator, Tanya Apuya, is originally from San Pedro, California but now resides in West Hollywood. Most of Tanya’s previous experience has been in costume design and fabrication. After studying design in college she went on to work in a costume shop building various garments for a multitude of shows and musicals. Since she was a child she has loved expressing herself through fashion. Forced into a mandatory uniform while attending a Catholic school, she expressed herself in little bouts of “fashion rebellion” – accessorizing her uniform in ways that was uniquely her and yet still adhering to the dress code.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">This kind of creativity and her love to tell a good story led her to theater and costume design. “I love expressing who a person is through their clothing,” she says, “what they value and what they want from life. Even their plans for the day can all be spoken loud-and-clear by what they choose to put on their bodies without saying a word.” Her design this year for The Her Universe Fashion Show is a special one. “As we learn in Lilo and Stitch, ‘ohana’ means family, and family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. As a tribute to my own ohana, I wanted to combine the rich history and traditions from my immigrant family from the Philippines alongside those of Hawaiian culture into a modernized couture gown.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Sam Skyler, from Wilton, California, grew up in a very creative environment and knew from an early age she wanted to be artist. “Being a professional artist, I feel very fortunate to have collaborated with many different teams and companies on a variety of projects, which helped shape the artist I am today,” she says. “Because I am truly passionate about nerd culture, a few years ago I started getting into cosplay, which is where my love of nerd culture, art, fashion and community were brought together. It’s been and continues to be a remarkable journey!”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Sam entered the fashion world around the same time she entered the first Her Universe Fashion Show in 2014. “That’s when I started cosplaying too, where I found my art and design background very helpful in constructing costumes. I feel fortunate to have won awards through my cosplay work, such as winning best in show at the WonderCon & SDCC Masquerades in 2015 as well as working with companies to help promote their video games as their characters. Cosplay has opened many doors in my professional and personal life, and I’m truly amazed by the passionate, hardworking and kind people I have been so fortunate to meet!” In all the pieces that Sam creates, she says she tries her absolute best to capture elements of a story or character that feel very inspiring. She has a strong enthusiasm for storytelling and being creative. Her design for this year’s fashion show has a personal element to it. “Moana is a character that I was instantly drawn to and could identify with in many ways,” she reveals. “I’m half Pacific Islander, so I was very excited to see this culture so beautifully represented and shared on the big screen for everyone to enjoy!”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Lynne Marie Martens is a self described “California girl, Anglophile, geek, nerd, cosplayer and writer.” She has a MFA in Costume Design from the CalArts and continues to design and sew for theatre, film, and web media world. She has been sewing for twenty years and has been doing costume work for the past decade. Lynne Marie was one of the finalists in last year’s Her Universe Fashion Show and was even featured in a New York Times article on the event.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Her favorite fandoms are Doctor Who, Star Wars, Orphan Black, Marvel, Harry Potter, Disney and the Whedonverse. Regarding her chosen design for this year’s fashion show, she says, “Beauty and the Beast has been my favorite Disney movie since it was first released. I identified so much with Belle in being a bit of a social outcast for being book-smart. I identified with the Beast, wondering if anyone would see me for who I really was and love me. I know every word of that movie and it won’t ever leave me. “</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Caroline Liu is currently a technical writer in Dallas, Texas. She attended UT Dallas and received her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering before deciding that she wanted a more flexible job that allows her to develop her interests in costuming and fashion. Aside from cosplay, her hobbies include rock hunting, gardening, and video games, and she says she is very much looking forward to adopting a cat of her very own one day! As a technical writer, how did she get into fashion design? “My college friends were holding a Japanese fashion show in 2016,” Caroline answers, “and were looking for models as well as people who own pieces of certain fashion subtypes (ex: traditional fashion, Lolita, Mori Kei, uniforms). I signed up as a model for traditional and visual Kei fashions, but when we were notified that there wasn’t enough visual Kei clothing to go around, I quickly designed and made my own outfit within a week.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">While Caroline has predominantly made cosplay costumes, many of them are patterned from scratch without using commercially available patterns. “I do a lot of flat patterning, as well as draping on my body. Lately, I’ve used many textured fabrics or layering to add visual interest to otherwise plain designs. I like putting my own designer touches in my costumes, and am inspired and influenced by the opulent shine of burlesque costumes and the structured, sharp edges of military uniforms. Fashion throughout time has been a reflection of culture. As geek and nerd culture permeate into the mainstream, people like to outwardly show their fandom through everyday wear, akin to how sports fans love to wear jerseys of their favorite players, or how fashionistas like to carry a branded handbag by their favorite design house. Geek couture is another way to show a person’s love of a series or character that is important and meaningful to them.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Adria Renee is a student, geek, and self-taught designer and artist from San Diego, California. Although she has had no professional experience in fashion design she has been a finalist in the past two years Her Universe Fashion Show. She says, “I have been sewing just over two years and in that time I’ve had great opportunities to learn and grow as a designer and seamstress in amateur capacities.” Her past work has been largely costume and cosplay based–working to create replicas of costumes from some of her favorite movies, shows, and comics, and building historical ensembles. She has recently begun working on bringing some of her various vintage-inspired geek designs to life and branched into making regular fashion items for herself and others.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Adria relates that she has always been into fashion and costuming but that Her Universe gave her the first challenge to try her hand at designing and executing an original piece. “I grew up in a very artsy household surrounded by creative women who always found ways to make the best of what they had to work with–so that’s what I have always done as well,” she says. Prior to her first show, she had only put together humble costumes for her high school drama class, tore up and modified thrift store finds to update her wardrobe, and worked on a few Halloween costumes and cosplay for herself. “Since challenging myself to design for the show, however, I’ve continually pushed myself to keep up with more fashion (even if more geek inspired) designing and have started making everyday vintage-inspired fashion items for myself. Whether your clothing is your armor or your ice breaker, there is no better way to share who you are and what you love than with geek couture!”</span></i><br />
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August was a blur, wasn't it? I blinked and it was over. Somehow I managed to actually get a few books read while it all rushed by. Here are the books that I read this month:</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those don't.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">As the kingdoms of Erilea fracture around her, enemies must become allies if Aelin is to keep those she loves from falling to the dark forces poised to claim her world. With war looming on all horizons, the only chance for salvation lies in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Aelin's journey from assassin to queen has entranced millions across the globe, and this fifth installment will leave fans breathless. Will Aelin succeed in keeping her world from splintering, or will it all come crashing down?</span></i></div>
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I went into this book thinking that it was the last one in the series. Boy was I surprised when it left off on a bit of a cliff hanger. I then discovered that there will be at least 2 more books in this series with the next one coming out in a few more days! Woohoo! I really like this series and I want to know what's going to happen next.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.</span></i></div>
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This was my <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/2017/01/newfangled-52-book-challenge.html">RBA</a> book of the month and I really enjoyed it. It was really refreshing to have a cast made up almost entirely of POC characters. I wish more writers would do this. I also really enjoy the style of magic, which is based on colours. I think colour magic might be my favorite type of magic (other than <a href="http://talkstarwarstome.blogspot.ca/search?q=baking+magic">baking magic</a>, of course). I really enjoyed the characters and the plots of this book and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.</span></i></div>
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Everyone is abuzz with The Handmaid's Tale TV series, and I'll admit I was intrigued by all the talk. I don't have cable, so I can't watch the show, so I decided to listen to it instead. That and I like to have the book under my belt before seeing a recreation of it. </div>
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The story, although simplistic on the surface, has a deep undercurrent as you delve into what happened through Ofglen's memories. Even though this was written in the '80s, it still feels very current, as if this could happen at any time. Sometimes the best dystopian novels are the simplest ones. I'll let you know if the book was better.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">After a catastrophic spill turns the country into a vast chemical wasteland, those who could afford it retreated to fortresses - self-contained communities run by powerful corporations. But for Mari Thistle, life on the outside - in the Red Zone - is a constant struggle. To protect her family, Mari teams up with the mysterious Thorne Goodman. Together, they'll face an evil plot in both the underworld of the Red Zone and the society inside the fortresses that could destroy those on the outside...for good.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers--chosen male descendants of the original ten--are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires.The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly--they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others.Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing.GATHER THE DAUGHTERS is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.</span></i></div>
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I guess I really wanted dystopian audiobooks this month. This book straddles the line between not real and too real. It was thoroughly disturbing while also being whimsical and innocent, which I think might make it more disturbing. The terrible things that happen are never spoken aloud or even put into words, so it took me a little while to understand what they were referring to. There were many parts that made me want to cry or to stop listening, but the story of these girls begs to be listened to and acknowledged. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Evie Manieri's Blood's Pride is the first book of The Shattered Kingdoms, an engaging, action-packed, and "highly imaginative" (Kirkus Reviews) series of fantasy novels with epic scope and "the perfect mix of romance, family ties, betrayals, and agonizing dilemmas" (RT Book Reviews).</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Rising from their sea-torn ships like vengeful, pale phantoms, the Norlanders laid waste to the Shadar under cover of darkness. They forced the once-peaceful fisher folk into slavery and forged an alliance with their former trading partners, the desert-dwelling Nomas tribe, cutting off any hope of salvation.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Now, two decades after the invasion, a rebellion gathers strength in the dark corridors of the city. A small faction of Shadari have hired the Mongrel, an infamous mercenary, to aid their fledgling uprising—but with her own shadowy ties to the region, she is a frighteningly volatile ally. Has she really come to lead a revolution, or for a more sinister purpose all her own?</span></i></div>
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I really wanted this book to be good. I mean, just look at that cover! It's not often that you see a badassed chick covered in that many scars. I wanted to know her story....<br />
I still want to know her story....<br />
This book had so many plots that it was hard to get into any of them. I feel like this one book could've been stretched into at least 3 books and I would've read them all. There was major character development, but you knew so little about the characters that it didn't really make any difference to how I felt about them. In fact, I didn't care about any of them at all. Too bad. It makes me not want to read any more of the series. </div>
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Braebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12635513746006004736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832410118031760266.post-59713434893313116562017-08-10T11:16:00.000-04:002017-08-10T11:16:02.571-04:00Thursday Threads - Star Wars Work Wear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With a tag line like<i> Corporate doesn't have to be boring.... </i>you have already won my heart.</div>
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That's right, <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/star-wars-her-universe/?cpg=edm_102508104&e=YnJhZV9icmFlQGhvdG1haWwuY29t&msg_id=102508104&et_rid=530809332&linkid=102508104_feature2_swheruniverse&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email_102508104">Think Geek</a> and <a href="http://www.heruniverse.com/">Her Universe</a> have teamed up and made a Star Wars Office collection! Be still my heart! Although I no longer work in a corporate office, I would love to get my hands on every piece of this new line</div>
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Although, I don't know any office that would let you get away with wearing leggings, even Darth Vader ones, and I feel like the R2-D2 print might be too obvious, they are still really cool.</div>
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Although I didn't make it to SDCC again this year (someday....) I am excited to see all the awesome stuff that came out of it.<br />
As per usual, Her Universe debuted lots of fun new outfits and they are finally available online!</div>
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I'm loving this rain coat! It's so hard to find a good geek coat in adult sizes</div>
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What a cute jacket! Although I kinda wish the logo on the back was bejeweled </div>
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I'm i love with this Cap shirt! Look at all the star decals</div>
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I'm loving these design back tank tops. I want all of them!</div>
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Especially this one</div>
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<i>Summer Reading had me a blast.....</i></div>
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Sorry, I take back the bad <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0DfsCzfq4">Grease</a> reference but for some reason I couldn't get it out of my head </div>
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How is your summer going? Mine is filled with long walks in the sun, sunburns and heat stroke, catching <a href="http://www.pokemongo.com/en-ca/">Pokemon</a>, summer weddings and, of course, reading.</div>
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This is what I read so far this summer:</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Marla Mason has been a mercenary, chief sorcerer and protector of an entire city, and an occult detective, and now she's a goddess of Death... but only part-time. She gets to spend six months a year living as a mortal woman on Earth, and she's decided to devote those months to hunting monsters for fun and personal redemption. Armed with axe and dagger, with the living severed head of her worst enemy in a birdcage for a traveling companion, she sets off by motorcycle into the American Southwest on a journey of self-discovery and other-destruction.</span></i></div>
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I love how this series keeps surprising me and keeps making me want to listen book after book. Some series get tiring after awhile, but I find that I continue to enjoy this more as time goes by. I mean, I never really thought that the whole Goddess of Death thing would become as big of a plot as it has and watching Marla trying to "Do Better" is rather amusing to watch. I can't wait to find out what antics she gets up to next.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">When a destitute young woman hires two thieves to help save her remote village from nocturnal attacks, they are drawn into the schemes of the wizard Esrahaddon. While Royce struggles to breech the secrets of an ancient elven tower, Hadrian attempts to rally the villagers to defend themselves against the unseen killer. What begins with the simple theft of a sword places the two thieves at the center of a firestorm — that could change the future of Elan.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king’s long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Three orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner’s motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword’s point—he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage’s rivals have their own agendas as well.</span></i></div>
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Ever pick up a book on a recommendation based on something you've already read? That was the case with this book. It had been recommended to me through <a href="http://www.audible.com/">Audible</a>, and I threw it in my wishlist. It came up on sale for a few bucks and I decided to pick it up and listen to it while I waited for my next credit to come in. I should've just gone back to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22588083-tower-lord">Tower Lord</a> (my in-between audiobook). This was YA but meant more for boys of a younger age. I can see that it would've been something I's have enjoyed when I was a teenager, but I feel too old for it now. The twist was so obvious that I was almost surprised that it was real. Maybe I've just read too much fantasy over the years to not see it immediately. I don't think that I will be getting the next books unless they somehow end up offering them for free.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication. In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans – a single mother disconcerted by her daughter’s menacing “smart” toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a ‘pacification unit’ go haywire – but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.</span></i></div>
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While passing one of the little libraries in my neighborhood, I saw this peaking out. Now my first thought was that it was the novel that inspired <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754438/">Robotropolis</a>, an amazingly bad movie that you have to watch if you ever come across it. Then I remembered that the cover was plastered all over the subways when it came out and the rating for it were really good. I can see why. It was a fun read. I enjoyed the multiple perspectives this showed from people around the world, who made a difference in the war in their own ways and not just one hero's story. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath that she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend; a fiction-writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world; a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words...and she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?</span></i></div>
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This book reminded me why I love fantasy so much. It's so much easier to dive into a world that is so unlike our own. And with fanfiction, we can make our favorite characters do as we please. </div>
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This book was harder than I thought it would be to read. It hit me in places I didn't realize were vulnerable. It was hard to escape into when I so badly wanted to escape from the feelings it was making me have, yet it was so good, I couldn't put it down. </div>
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I'm really curious to pick up Carry On and hear the whole story that Cath wrote. I think it's great that Rainbow Rowell actually wrote the whole thing and published it for this reason. That's pretty cool.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25807040-summer-with-my-sisters">Summer with My Sisters</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Holly Chamberlin</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Bestselling author Holly Chamberlin’s heartfelt novel, set in a beautiful Maine beach town, tells of three sisters—and one summer filled with revelations…</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real life in the big city. Fate had different ideas, and at twenty-five, Poppy has been called back to care for her two younger sisters following their father’s death.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Sixteen-year-old Daisy resents Poppy’s long absence and chafes under her sometimes fumbling efforts to be a parent. Violet, now thirteen, is a virtual stranger to her oldest sister. Once a happy, united family, the Higginses seem adrift, and Poppy longs to escape her responsibilities. But when Daisy befriends Evie, an enigmatic newcomer to Yorktide, the young woman will be an unlikely catalyst in the sisters’ journey back to each other. For as Poppy discovers the deep loss in Evie’s life, she awakens to the truth about her own, and about the town, and the people, she’s tried to leave behind.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Filled with the candid warmth of real sisterhood, Summer with My Sisters explores the many forms a family can take, and the unspoken ties that endure, season after season…</span></i></div>
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After Fangirl, I needed a bit of a fluff book and this was perfect. It was a great example of a book that starts out with imperfect relationships and ends with a happily ever after for everyone. Just what I needed. None of the problems were overly intense as if knowing that I needed something easy. Not to underplay the seriousness of the issues they were dealing with; homelessness, the loss of loved ones, anxiety attacks, prescription drug addiction, are all super serious, but the book handled them with ease and not a lot of intense emotion.</div>
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