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By: NextRead » Thoughts and Links: Sunday 11 July Edition

NextRead » Thoughts and Links: Sunday 11 July Edition — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:08:41 +0000

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By: Moth

Moth — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:38:46 +0000

My mom read Mara when she was in junior high and she bought herself a copy a few years ago on Amazon. She loaned it to me when I was in high school, and I loved it. She still hasn’t gotten her copy back from me.

Also, Fables is totally a must-read. Bigby and Snow? So wonderful!

This was a great list.

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By: Angie

Angie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:34:09 +0000

Thea, the question is: do you have a copy of THE QUEEN OF ATTOLIA for when you finish THE THIEF? Things are only getting going at the end of THIEF so this is basically a prerequisite.

Nice list! I have MARA now and will be getting to it soon. Very excited about that one. My library has THE MAGICIANS AND MRS. QUENT so I’ll be picking that up soon. And I just won a copy of EVERNIGHT so I’m interested to see what it’s like. Yay for Marillier!

By: Kerry D.

Kerry D. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:36:58 +0000

I too love Mara, Daughter of the Nile and it lives happily down in my library, safe in the knowledge it has a home forever.

I am currently reading the Obernewtyn Chronicles and loving the series. I just finished The Keeping Place as an ebook and was a bit startled both by how long it took me and how much was packed into it. Then I saw it in a bookshop – 700 pages! No wonder it took a while. I have the next two (or one depending on where you are) to read and I’m trying to space them until until the end of the series comes out next year.

By: alana

alana — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:39:23 +0000

I just put a hold on The Magicians and Mrs Quent at my library and I’m like the seventh hold on it, so it looks like good news travels fast!

What about The Weavers of Saramyr by Chris Wooding? I don’t know if you guys have reviewed it, but I think it’s greatly underappreciated. I haven’t had a chance to read the entire trilogy, but I thought the story was unique and super interesting.

By: orannia

orannia — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:47:47 +0000

I loved Mara Daughter of the Nile. When I library sold their copy I bought it, so yes I have an old library-bound version. IIRC my mother read it!

I still haven’t read The Magicians and Mrs Quent. My library doesn’t have it…maybe I should suggest it and share the love?

I just finished reading the seventh Weather Warden book. I loved the first few but really struggled with Gale Force. I think it’s me rather than the book. It just feels like Jo is always being stalked/attacked/killed. I just want her to have a break. I do love the world though, and Lewis, so I’m going to give Cape Storm a go

By: Diana Peterfreund

Diana Peterfreund — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:07:30 +0000

I haven’t heard of most of these, but there are a few on my TBR pile (Pfeffer, Mariller, Shusterman, Beckett). I do love the Gray books, though. I got the second last weekend and even met Claudia (I’m doing a giveaway of Evernight on my blog next week.) The Obernewtyn books and the Orphans of Chaos look especially up my alley.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:13:52 +0000

Thea – The individual copies of the Wraeththu books are out of print but the omnibus edition is still in print (in the US – the UK has new revised editions of the individual books that are rather expensive).

I looked for both Mara, Daughter of the Nile and Orphans of Chaos at Borders yesterday but couldn’t find either. They had both of the other books in the Chronicles of Chaos series but of course not the first one.

By: Karen Mahoney

Karen Mahoney — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:22:13 +0000

ARGH!! Stop doing this to me, reminding me of all the amazing books I still have to read. You know, it’s thanks to you guys that I have Orphans of Chaos on my TBR pile. Oh, and both of Susan Beth Pfeffer’s. I also need to read more FABLES, but I was reading that anyway – I’m only on Vol. 3. *sigh*

I really, REALLY want to read The Magicians and Mrs. Quent, but I can’t afford any more hardbacks, or even trade paperbacks.

Great list!