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The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan is the final book in The Trials of Apollo series. In it both Apollo and Meg have to confront their own past. Apollo by finally facing the Python and Meg by facing Nero. It starts out by going full circle with the two of them traveling back to…
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This next book is one that I picked up from the local library because I thought it sounded interesting. The Night Tiger is by Yangsze Choo and is based in Malaya, what is now Malaysia, in the 1930’s. It tells the story of Ren, a young boy of about ten who is trying desperately to…
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Today’s book is one that I have been meaning to read for years and finally got around to reading. It is a book that was written by an author that I have long been a fan of and have read several of their other works. Beauty by Robin McKinley is a retelling of the classic…
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When it was time to start this book I was a little sad as it was the last book in the series. The Dragonslayer’s Return is the third and final book in The Spearwielder’s Tale trilogy by R. A. Salvatore. It chronicles the third trip Gary Leger takes to Faerie. The story opens with Gary…
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It is time to return once again to the land of the peculiar. This time I am going over Hollow City, the second book in Ransom Riggs series Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children. Having narrowly escaped the hollows and wights in their own loop the children now have to travel to London during the time of…
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Today’s book is one that I really would have sworn that I had already read. It happens to be a book that my family has owned for most of my life and it is by one of my favorite authors, Anne McCaffrey. We don’t have all three of the books in the series though, so…
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Gunslinger Girl is the debut novel of Lyndsay Ely. It is the story of Serendipity Jones, commonly called Pity, as she tries to find herself in the relatively lawless Wild West. The thing is that it is not the Wild West we are familiar with as this is a new wild west that is based…
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The Tyrant’s Tomb is the fourth book in The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan. In this story we learn about the events at Camp Jupiter when Apollo arrives with Jason’s coffin. Apollo has to face even more of his demons throughout this adventure as he must confront another source of prophecy that he had…
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Today’s book is one that was both hilarious and heartwarming with a rather nice side note of slightly heartbreaking as well. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie was an incredible read. It tells the story of Junior, a teenage boy on the Spokane Indian reservation as he deals with the…
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White Mulberry is the debut novel of Rosa Kwon Easton. It tells the story of Miyoung, a young Korean woman born in the 1920’s who lived under Japanese occupation. Starting when she was a child it covers her move to adulthood and the challenges she faces in doing so. At the same time it also…
The Draconic Bibliophile
