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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 [...]
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the series [...]
The Bellmaker
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. [...]
Martin the Warrior
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Salamandastron
Martin the Warrior marks something of a turning point for the Redwall series: Jacques, for the first time, seems mindful that he is really and truly working with canon and not simply a series of novels tenuously connected by a shared world [...]
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