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I want to start this by saying that today’s book made me jealous. It’s about a guy who falls asleep while reading in the woods behind his house and wakes up in the land of Faerie. I used to read in the woods behind my house, how come that never happened to me? If only,…
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I recently received a book for the holidays that is probably the weirdest conglomeration of themes that I have come across recently. It felt like it was a combination of Christian, LGBTQ+, and horror, which I have to admit was a very unusual combination to read. The book in question is Hell Followed With Us…
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I have previously talked about this particular author’s ability to create an incredibly detailed world. Having read another of the books in the Kingsbridge series I can definitively say that Ken Follett continues in the next book. The Armor of Light is the fourth book, not counting the prequel, in the series that are based…
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If you ever wanted to read an epic of world-building that is on the same scale as anything by Tolkien than I know the perfect book. A Column of Fire is the third book in the wildly popular Kingsbridge series by celebrated author Ken Follett. It tells the story of Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald,…
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Have you ever come across a book by one of your favorite authors that you realize you have never read before? I recently did just that when I started reading To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey, the first book in the Talents series. She has been one of my favorite authors since I was a…
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The Hidden Oracle by noted author Rick Riordan is the first book in the series, The Trials of Apollo. This is the third series in the universe first created in the popular series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It chronicles the trials and tribulations of the sun god, Apollo, after being turned mortal as a…
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The Dragons of Autumn Twilight is the first book in the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It focuses on a group of adventurers who come together to help find holy items and use them to restore the faith in various deities. Many of this group had ventured together before though they had…
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The Associate by John Grisham is yet another spellbinding legal thriller from the author of numerous other legal thrillers. It focuses on young Kyle McAvoy, a man who is due to graduate from law school in the next few months and trying to decide what to do afterwards. During his last semester he is approached…
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I recently found this particular book at the local library after searching for a copy for several years in order to read it. The book in question, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, which is often considered a modern classic. It tells the story of Randle P. McMurphy as he faces life…
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The book Déjà Dead, by Kathy Reichs, is the first book in the celebrated Temperance Brennan series. It starts out in Montreal as Dr. Brennan works on a murder case of a young woman who was dismembered and buried in trash bags. The story quickly starts spiraling deeper though as Dr. Brennan becomes convinced it…
The Draconic Bibliophile
