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After winning the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen might have hoped for a quieter life, but you don’t defy the Capitol never mind as publicly as she and Peeta Mellark did and get away with it.
At first she thinks she might just have to do as she is told, but when Katniss learns of possible [...]

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.
Last year when I was really starting to find my feet in the book blogosphere, this book was starting to get some serious coverage, and very complimentary comments, and these only gained momentum, for it’s US release date last October.
Well here in the UK, [...]

It was the winner of the 1998 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (Children) so it should not come as a surprise that I am reading these books as part of the Mythopoeic Reading Challenge.
They won the award as a trilogy so only counts as one book towards that challenge, and so short are the individual books (around [...]

photo credit: Ian-S
Possessing Rayne, officially completes the [intlink id="926" type="post"]R.I.P III Challenge[/intlink] for me. However, as I’ve had such a blast reading books in this genre (and at this time of year as well!) I’m going to keep on going for a little while longer!
I was handed this book by a friend last time [...]

Fantastic news from jkrowling.com.

The Children’s High Level Group to publish “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” on 4th December 2008
There was understandable disappointment among Harry Potter fans when only one copy of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” was offered to the public last December. I am therefore delighted to announce that, thanks to the [...]

3. Later, take whichever questions you like from your comments and use them in a post about each book. I’ll probably turn mine into a sort of interview-review. Link to each blogger next to that blogger’s question(s).
Before we start, here’s the book’s synopsis:
Gwyna is just a small girl, a mouse, when she is bound in [...]

ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, [...]

The world he creates is completely emersive and you almost absorb his words rather than read them, you care deeply about his “good” characters and hate deeply, at least initially his “bad” ones. Why the quote marks, around “bad” and “good”? well you really need to read the books to know why, without me spoiling it, but suffice it to say, the line between good and bad is down to your point of view.