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Trying to figure out who you are. A bit of a noble goal that also happens to be the primary them of Taran Wanderer, book four of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. The hero of the series, young Taran, has realized that he is in love with the princess Eilonwy and would like to…
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a complex and multi-layered novel. It tells the story of Dagny Taggert, a young woman who is the vice-president of operations for Taggert Transcontinental which is the family train company. She is an efficient and capable person in a world that seems to be run by inefficient and incapable…
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The Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza Knight is an interesting piece of historical fiction. It tells the story of Nancy Mitford, a socialite in 1930’s and 40’s London, and Lucy St. Clair, a modern day book curator who travels to London to work. Nancy Mitford’s story starts in the early 30’s and covers how she works…
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Deadly Décisions is the third Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. This time around she is getting involved in the biker gang scene when she is asked to identify the remains of identical twin bikers, something that is rather difficult, and becomes determined to help as the explosion that caused their deaths also killed a…
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The end to yet another great series. Gregor and the Code of Claw is the fifth and final book in The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. The story opens directly after the end of the previous book, Gregor and the Marks of Secret, as Gregor deals with warning Regalia for the coming war with the…
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The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory is the first book in The Plantagenet and Tudor series. It tells the story of Jacquetta, the young daughter of a French nobleman whose family has given shelter to the maid Joan. When Joan is turned over to the English, Jacquetta also finds herself with the English…
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The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson. It is an intriguing mix of science fiction and fantasy that ended up being hilarious. The story opens with a man waking up in an unknown location with absolutely no memory. In fact the only thing he seems to have is fragments of a…
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We are entering the last month of the year and it is time for my monthly themed recommendation list and this time I am covering books that take place on Mars. That may sound like an odd one but that really is my only requirement for this particular list. Each book I am going to…
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Perelandra is the second book in the Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis and it continues the story of Ransom. It opens with Lewis traveling to visit Ransom only to arrive and find Ransom preparing to leave. He has received word that he is to travel to the world known as Perelandra, what we call…
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Time for a little dimension hopping. In Circles of Seven, book three of the Dragons In Our Midst series by Bryan Davis, Billy and Bonnie do just that. The book opens with them traveling to England where they meet up with some contacts of Professor Hamilton in order to continue working on fulfilling Merlin’s prophecies.…
The Draconic Bibliophile
