Posted by Alison on 20 April 2011 · 1 Comment
This isn’t technically my first e-book, since I’ve read two Cory Doctorow novels and Dracula on my computer, but it is the first e-book I’ve read portably, in this case using the Kindle app for my Android phone. I had originally downloaded the app to try to read Pride and Prejudice, but gave up on … Read more
Posted by Alison on 8 April 2011 · Leave a Comment
My main reaction to this book is this: WHAT. I picked it up knowing absolutely nothing about it except that it had a neat cover and a strange title. The “jacket” copy (I grabbed the audio version) was interesting enough, with its promises of a kid living underground and busting out and discovering new and … Read more
Posted by Alison on 30 March 2011 · Leave a Comment
Okay, so, we’ve already established that I heart Bartimaeus. I find him delightful and wonderful and lovely and all sorts of other good adjectives. But it turns out that I like him a heck of a lot more when compared to lesser beings rather than when he’s just being awesome all the time. It’s kind … Read more
Category 2010s, 7-8, Audio, Bartimaeus Trilogy, Fantasy, Fiction, Reviews, Stroud, Jonathan, What's in a Name?, Young Adult · Tagged with magic
Posted by Alison on 11 March 2011 · Leave a Comment
Eep! Oh, hey again, Bartimaeus, back so soon? I suppose that’s what happens when your story is so good… Soooooo in this book, we’ve popped forward in time a bit again. Nathaniel is as insufferable as ever, Bartimaeus is sick of suffering him, and Kitty is a burgeoning magician. Wait, what? Yeah. Story-wise… hold on, … Read more
Posted by Alison on 9 March 2011 · Leave a Comment
Hullo again, Bartimaeus! You are my good friend. Let us hang out. This book picks up a couple of years after the Amulet Incident, with our hero Nathaniel/John Mandrake using his saving-the-prime-minister karma to move himself up in government. Yes, that’s right, our idealistic young magician has grown up into an ambitious but uninspired slightly-less-young … Read more
Category 2000s, 9-10, A to Z, Audio, Bartimaeus Trilogy, Fantasy, Fiction, Reviews, Stroud, Jonathan, Young Adult
Posted by Alison on 15 February 2011 · 1 Comment
Sooooooooooo. This book. I wanted to like it a lot — there’s Norse mythology and bards and Beowulf and a titch of magic and adventures and Adventures and seafaring and it’s all fairly exciting. I think I just read this at the wrong time. See, the book I finished right before this was The Amulet … Read more
Posted by Alison on 11 February 2011 · 4 Comments
Dude. Why had I never heard of this series until my former supervisor mentioned it to me? Where has Bartimaeus been all my life??? I know what the problem is, actually — this book came out in 2003, which is pretty well smack-dab in the middle of Harry Potter Mania, and therefore I couldn’t possibly … Read more
Category 2000s, 9-10, A to Z, Audio, Bartimaeus Trilogy, Fantasy, Fiction, Reviews, Stroud, Jonathan, Young Adult · Tagged with magic
Posted by Alison on 25 January 2011 · 2 Comments
If you know me, you know why I got interested in this book in the first place. And then I started seeing rave reviews of it everywhere, which made me want it even more — but so did a lot of people, clearly, because it took forever for this to get to the library for … Read more
Posted by Alison on 18 January 2011 · 1 Comment
Okay, so. We already know that I adore John Green. I laughed and cried through Looking for Alaska, I was delightfully baffled by An Abundance of Katherines and his story in Let it Snow, and Paper Towns had me itching for a road trip. And then Will Grayson, Will Grayson came out, like, heading toward … Read more
Posted by Alison on 20 December 2010 · Leave a Comment
Oh. Em. Gee. This is another of the books I’ve read recently only because they were due back at the library. After things got very wonky in the last book, I was not sure I was going to like this next one. But I did. Things? Still wonky. L still doesn’t trust Light, which is … Read more
Category 2000s, 7-8, Death Note, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic, Manga, Ohba, Tsugumi, Reviews, Support Your Local Library, Young Adult · Tagged with books made into movies, in translation
