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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis and tells of the first adventure of the Pevensie children in Narnia. With the increased bombing by the Germans the four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are sent away to the countryside in order…
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The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman has got to be one of the more unusual books about King Arthur that I have ever read. The book is about a young man named Collum who comes from one of the small isles next to Briton and wishes to become a knight of the round table under…
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A world where everything is controlled by the government. In Misguided Trust by Lauren Wagner that is the world in which Sara lives in a government run town. More specifically, the government controls the water supply as supposedly all water is potentially poisonous and has to be run through a bunch of purification filters before…
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Death Du Jour is the second Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. It opens with Tempe traveling to Montreal for spring break to work on an excavation of a catholic nun being nominated for sainthood. However, she gets slightly busy when she is also called in to work on an arson case with several dead…
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The Borrowers is the first book in the series of the same name by Mary Norton and is a bit of a classic kids series. One day young Kate is practicing her sewing with her older relative Mrs. May when they start talking about small things that have a tendency to go missing about the…
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The Riddle-Master of Hed is the first book in the Riddle Master trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip. It tells the story of young Morgon, the land ruler of the island of Hed, and a young man who had studied at the college for riddles in Caithnard on the nearby mainland. One day it is revealed…
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Sometimes I forget that the prettiest things can still have a bloody history. In the book Blood For Pearls by Peter Von Perle we see exactly how that can be the case. It tells the story of what was known as the Pearl Coast, an island known as Cubagua island and the site of a…
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The Sinner is book three in the Rizzoli and Isles series by Tess Gerritsen and with it we move away from the villain first introduced in The Surgeon. It opens with Rizzoli investigating a murder of two nuns in the chapel of the local convent. Dr. Isles is the ME assigned to the case and…
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The Castle In The Weeds by M.w Morganson is a somewhat typical but also somewhat odd tale of growing up. It follows a group of five friends in the small town of Westborough where everything is ruled by Baron Malsham and his fertilizer factory. A place where everything fun and adventurous is outlawed. Having received…
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It is the beginning of the month so it is time for me to discuss some great books I have read. However, I am mixing things up a little bit from now on so instead of discussing great books I have read in the last month I am discussing great books that fit a certain…
The Draconic Bibliophile
