In 2009, you cannot write a book about young magicians without knowing that your book will be held up against the Harry Potter series and probably discarded. Since J.K. Rowling dropped her cultural bomb on us all those years ago, we’ve already seen a glut of second-rate wizardry series, just as Stephenie Meyer’s already-execrable Twilight [...]
I’ve read Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell once before; at the time, I focused on two major points. The first was the oft-repeated canard that the book was some clever hybrid of Harry Potter and Jane Austen; as the world was swept up in a fever pitch of Harry Potter mania at the time, [...]
I seem determined lately to cover books I discovered in the sixth grade. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, while better as a single volume, was originally marketed—still is—as a series of four books for young adults. I chose the fourth and final book in the series, Talking to Dragons, as the subject of a book report. [...]
¶ Twilight
Every year or so, I usually try to read a really awful book as part of my ongoing reading project. Back in 2006, I read James Frey’s excremental A Million Little Pieces; in 2008, I read Dan Brown’s unholy The Da Vinci Code. This year I read Twilight. I do this for a number of [...]
¶ Brisingr
It may interest you to read my review of the previous book in this series, Eldest. You might recall that I’ve been reading Christopher Paolini’s mediocre Eragon series (first and second books) as a sort of guilty pleasure, having hooked myself into finding out how the damn thing ends. I read the second part in [...]
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Martin the Warrior The next book in my continuing re-reading of the Redwall series is The Bellmaker. It’s one of the rarer Redwall books that reuses almost an entire cast of characters from a particular snapshot in the history of Redwall Abbey. In [...]
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