Me finishing A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab: A One Act Play *Enter ME, moving to sit in a chair, reading the book*Silence, save for the soft sound of the final page turning over to reveal nothing more than an Acknowledgments pageME: ...ME: *shrieks and dives across the room for the third book, …
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Book Review | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
I admit it. Even I was initially intimidated by the length of this book. And I'm that person who read Harry Potter at age eight, who's devoured books in a single day, who has a reading list that numbers in the triple-digits. But seeing Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell for the first time in a …
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Book Review | The Two Towers (SPOILERS)
I'm back with more Middle-Earth fangirling! Let's do this. (Again, as with my first LOTR review, this is also a review of the audio by Rob Inglis.) Also, there are... I guess, spoilers... in this review, both for this and also for the first book, The Fellowship of the Ring. If you somehow haven't read …
Book Review | The Fellowship of the Ring
I first read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings years ago, after I discovered the films. That was probably more than a decade ago (which sounds strange to say!), and this summer I finally picked them for a second time. Well, I say "picked them up." That implies I used my eyes to read …
Book Review | The Storm Runner (ARC)
I got an advance reader's copy (ARC) of The Storm Runner. As this means the version I read is just a proof and not the final version, I won't quote directly and will keep my comments general. In the newest publication by imprint Rick Riordan Presents, J. C. Cervantes' book The Storm Runner, young New …