It’s Thanksgiving weekend and what better way to celebrate than to host share some of our recent favourite reads with our readers?
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We are giving away today to one lucky winner:
ONE copy of The Changeling Sea by Patricia A. McKillip (reviewed here by Thea)
ONE copy of We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (reviewed here by Ana)
ONE copy of The Lost Conspiracy/Gullstruck Island by Frances Hardinge (joint review here)
The contest will run until Friday November 30 at 12:01am PST, and is open TO EVERYBODY. To enter, use the form below. Good luck!
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I recently read and loved The Lazarus Machine by Paul Crilley. It’s a fun steampunk adventure!
I recently read “The Night Circus” and really enjoyed it!
I recently read The Vet’s Daughter, which was delightful and uncanny.
The Night Circus is a good book!
I’ve just finished The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip. As “new fans” of McKillip you might want to try The Forests of Serre; it’s a retelling of The Firebird and I think it’s pretty much genius.
I recently finished Posion Princess by Kresley Cole- quite serious, loved the premise of post-apocalyptic teenagers as tarot cards.
Desperately want to read The Changeling Sea after the review
I recently read “How to Save a Life” by Sara Zarr. It was really good!
Out of this months books so far, my favorite is Home Front Girl, by Joan Wehlen Morrison–it’s the actually diary of a high school girl growing up in Chicago in the late thirties/early fourties.
I just read and loved Quicksilver by RJ Anderson.
The last book I read that I unreservedly loved and rave at to everyone I meet in an attempt to make them read it was Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson (the Bloggess), which is hysterically funny, and insightful and brave and amazing. I also re-read Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, and loved it more the second time.
The last book I read and adored was Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor..everyone must read it!
The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson! I loved it MUCH more than his other recent novella, Legion.
Recent in terms of having read recently:
“Ja, damals…” by Else Hueck-Dehio (the book itself is from 1957), this is just fabulously written, it’s witty, and smart, and fun and just great for a bit of nostalgia over the past.
For something written a bit more recent I would have to put down “The Cat, The Professor and the Poison: A Cats in Trouble Mystery” (Leann Sweeney, 2010 <- the year we make contact :D), a mellow mystery with cats, or, more to the point, a cat loving lead.
Loved it, but still have to get the other two.
I'm about to start "The Night Circus", there's a particular quote that drew me right in when I picked it up in the bookstore:
I just read The Crown of Embers and loved it. Great heroine, great side characters, and some awesome political maneuvering.
I just finished Sapphire Blue, the second in the trilogy from Kerstin Gier. Time travel, mystery, intrigue and ghosts, too!
Right now I’m reading The Hobbit and loving it! Thanks for the giveaway
I recently read Vessels by Sara Beth Durst
Last night I finished The Brides of Rollrock Island, which was almost perfect. It was beautiful and tragic and REAL, despite being about women who emerge from the bodies of seals.
I recently finished Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones. It’s a strange book (described as a “science-fiction fantasy, a thriller, and a touching dog story”) but excellent. It’s now my second favourite DWJ. Top spot still belongs to Howl’s Moving Castle.
Ahh! I’ve been on SUCH an amazing reading kick lately. Currently I’m absolutely loving A Face Like Glass, and my most recent love was The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There.
Ohhhh The Rook was such a complete joy to read, definitely one of my 2012 favourites.
Recently on a middle grade kick and read Jellicoe Road and Kneebone Boy. Right now I am working on a collection of short stories from Boardertown.
The latest book I really, really loved was A.S. King’s Please Ignore Vera Dietz. I can’t believe I waited so long to read it (I think I was already inundated with dead-best-friend stories), but it was still a perfect read when I got to it. Raw and emotionally complicated and funny in all the best ways.
Oooh, a few great books recently: A Dream Apart by Rudolf Kerkhoven (also his The Year We Finally Solved Everything is great too); Cracked up to Be and This is not a Test by Courtney Summers; The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter; So many more to read
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Oh, and I read Feed by M T Anderson again recently and loved it just as much as the first time!
Recently I read and loved The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams: beautifully written, it made me cry a lot.
Hmm I’ve read a lot of good books recently. I just finished Graceling by Kristin Cashore, and it was fantastic!! I’m reading Fire now.
I recently read Trapped by Kevin Hearne and loved it! The whole Iron Druid Chronicles series is just absolutely excellent
I just finished The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers! He crafted a world not unlike that of Oz, with the weird and unequivocal places of Bookholm, and I look forward to the sequel
A recent book that was absolutely amazing would have to be Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst. I couldn’t believe how much I fell in love with that book.
Hm…I’ve finished a few books, but I’ve got say…Francis Hardinge’s A Face Like Glass. The woman writes with water.
I am reading Farthing by Jo Walton right now and loving it!
I finished After Dark by Haruki Murakami by recommendation. I usually avoid first-person narratives, so I was a bit skeptical. Reading it described what it was like being in a dream, if that makes any sense. Surreal. I love it.
I haven’t read any super good books recently. The last book I’ve read and loved was The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielson. The sequel comes out next year and I cannot wait!
I’ve recently finished Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor and it was heartbreakingly beautiful. I can’t wait for the next book!
I just finished “The Siren Depths”, the third book in Martha Wells’ Raksura trilogy. It was awesome, as are all of her books. Also found a book I had read as a teen by Sally Watson, about a bunch of kids in Israel right after the Second World War and during the founding of Israel as a country. “To Build a Land.” I loved (and still love) Sally Watson’s books – most of ‘em are about England and Scotland during the 17th and 18th centuries, with a few ventures into colonial and Revolutionay America, so this book was a bit off her normal subject. But good. Makes me appreciate again how fortunate we Americans are, to have grown up in a land not wracked by war.
The last book that I read and adored was Catherynne M. Valente’s The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There.
Still can’t get over how good Seraphina was earlier this year. More recently, I adored Lovely, Dark & Deep by Amy McNamara and am oddly fascinated with Tonya Hurley’s The Blessed so far. We’ll see how that one turns out!
The help. What a great book. Thanks for the giveaway
The help. What a great book. Thanks for the giveaway.
Finished Blood Red Road yesterday and now I can’t wait to get Rebel Heart.
I read and absolutely loved The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There.
I recently read ‘The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls’ because of the recommendation on this site. I loved it! I couldn’t put it down.
I recently read Code Name Verity and loved it. I’ve also been listening to the Night Huntress series and they’re tons of fun and make for a great commute.
I loved The DIVINERS.
I reread the Name of the Wind recently, and that was awesome.
I’ve picked up the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews and read them all within a few weeks
I recently read and loved The Hunger Games. Going to start on another two in the series soon.
oh, there have been so many fabulous books in my life recently! In the past few months, I have read and loved and highly recommend, “Please Ignore Vera Dietz,” “Jellicoe Road,” “Small Damages,” “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led The Revels There,” “The Sky Is Everywhere,” “I Am Legend,” and “This is not a Test.”
I read Riveted by Meljean Brook a couple of months ago and it’s easily one of the best books I’ve read this year.