Rereading A College of Magics
Caroline Stevermer, A College of Magics I love this book to pieces. The copy I have is falling to pieces, and I may soon have to replace it with a hardback to go with its sequel, A Scholar of Magics....
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I’ve been on a Miss Marple binge, but now I’m satiated before the end. It started when I opened a random Miss Marple (8, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, because I couldn’t remember ever having...
View ArticleRereading Elemental Masters (1)
I’ve been rereading the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey (and have now also read all but one of the new books in the series) and I intend to write at least a little bit about each one. Too...
View ArticleRereading Elemental Masters (2)
I wanted to say which one of the series is my favourite, but (a) I can’t decide, every time I choose one there’s another that I remember more fondly; (b) I don’t actually like rating things; and (c) it...
View ArticleRereading Elemental Masters (3)
I must either do the rest of this quickly before it all fades from my mind because I’ve got lots of new books to read on holiday (Hild! and the makings of a Willa Cather binge if it turns out to be as...
View ArticleRereading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Not such a reading binge as Miss Marple or the Elemental Masters, though we had a film binge: all the films in the course of a couple of months, two a...
View Article2014 reading roundup
Preliminary disclaimer: I dislike end-of-year overviews. At least I dislike the circumstance that from, well, the end of November until the beginning of January everything is end-of-year overviews....
View ArticleTante Mathilde – disappointing sequel
Paul Biegel, Tante Mathilde en de Sterren van de Grote Beer I’ve looked for this sequel to De brieven van de generaal ever since Secunda had it from the library about ten years ago — first for her...
View ArticleRereading Elemental Masters (4)
Three books this time because I seem to be on a binge. 6. Unnatural Issue This is the one I always dread because of the very disgusting villain. Isn’t there another way for villains to be bad than to...
View Article2020 reading notes, week 1
Sara had a splendid idea, and this is my modified version of it: I’m starting now, January 1, and updating the post whenever I finish reading something (fiction or nonfiction, any length, new or...
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