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HYR Track of the Cat* (Anna Pigeon, Book 1) by Nevada Barr
*A work friend recommended it to me. It's on my tbr list.
Wow is good? I'm looking forward to this one, because of your recommendation, thanks!HVR Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
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HYR The Wretched of Muirwood* (Legends of Muirwood, Book 1) by Jeff Wheeler
?*This book was a cheapie that I downloaded to my Kindle. I didn't expect much, but I found it surprisingly good. More traditional fantasy than urban fantasy. I have already downloaded the second and third books in the trilogy to my Kindle and hope to get to them in future months.
(Sunrise and Savage Drift, it's the third & last Monument 14 book just came in from the library for me, Kathleen!)Nope, I HNR.
HYR The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains: A Tale of Travel and Darkness with Pictures of All Kinds by Neil Gaiman & illustrated by Eddie Campbell
?I'm just about to start it.
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HYR Bitter Spirits* (Roaring Twenties, Book 1) by Jenn Bennett
?*First book in an Urban Fantasy series set in the 1920's. I just started it yesterday.
No, but just from that I'm going to try to find it and read it!HYR The Diviners by Libba Bray
, which is also the first in an UF series set in the 1920's? I think #2 is due out this fall...
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Also, I finished Bitter Spirits and it is paranormal romance rather than urban fantasy. I assumed it was urban fantasy because Jenn Bennett's last series fell into that genre. It was very good, but is perhaps not what interests you.
HYR Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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No, I haven't read it (yet), nor have I seen the movie, which is unusual for me. It's on my 'list.'HYR The Martian by Andy Weir
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HYR Slayers (Slayers, Book 1) by C.J. Hill
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HYR Shattered* (Iron Druid, Book 7) by Kevin Hearne
?*Your thoughts on where Kevin Hearne is taking this series.
I answered this days ago, but my response went away.I HNR Shattered, but I have read the first 4 books in the series. I like them, I just fell out of the Atticus habit, for a bit. I intend to go back.
HYR Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
, which implies reading the other seven books that came before it in the Outlander series?Also, what do you think of Shattered?
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Loved Shattered, but Kevin Hearne introduced a new major character who enables the reader to examine Atticus' actions from a different perspective. Any more would be a spoiler.
HYR Y is for Yorick: A Slightly Irreverent Shakespearean ABC Book for Grown-Ups by Jennifer Adams
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I HNR Y is for Yorick: A Slightly Irreverent Shakespearean ABC Book for Grown-Ups, but it looks like a hoot.(Save Outlander for summer or an extended break, IMO...)
HYR The Native Star by M.K. Hobson
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HYR The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, Book 3) by Deborah Harkness
? It is next up on my tbr pile.
I started the first book and it didn't do anything for me, then, so no. Do you read these? (One of my friends loves them!)HYR And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
?It's next up -- from the library-- for me.
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HNR And Then There Were None, although I do enjoy movies and series made from Agatha Christie's books.
HYR Agents of Artifice (Magic: The Gathering: Planeswalker, Book 1) by Ari Marmell
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I've so far read 47 pages of And Then There Were None, and don't recommend it. If you've seen the movies, you've got it... I'm continuing to read it, but unhappily. (It's for my real- life book club.)Agents of Artifice sounds neat! I don't play Magic the Gathering, but apparently that's not a barrier to enjoying this novel. As Richard said here in his review, "Agents of Artifice is a book made of win and awesome and you should all go buy it." HNR.
HYR The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
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HNR. I read the author's Beastly and hated it a lot. From looking at some of the reviews here, I'd have similar problems with this one.HYR Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
? Or any other novels that are rewrites of "Beauty and the Beast?"
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HYR Whirlwind by Mark Del Franco
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I've read one or two in the Connor Gray series by Mark Del Franco and I own more. (I liked them plenty, I just am behind...) I've also read the first two in another series by him about a young woman PI.I was going to say I haven't heard of this, but I've put it on my TBR list... Have you read it? HNR.
I love that whole sub-genre of books like Speak, Cut, Sold and others.
HYR Ellen Hopkins novels in poetry, that have many, many pages, but actually read very fast like Identical? Like Speak, Ellen Hopkins' books are often on banned & challenged lists, which I have found interests kids in that age group.
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I have not read any of the Ellen Hopkins poetry novels, but many of my students enjoy them.
HYR Darla's Story* (Ashfall, #.5) by Mike Mullin
*This is a great little short story that adds a lot to understanding Darla's behavior in the first book.
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HYR Shattering Glass* by Gail Giles
?*We will be reading this book in about month in our English 10 classes.
HNR, but it looks very good. And like you will have a lot of discussion about it.HYR Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
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HNR. And probably won't, unless & until I am teaching young men --and young ladies-- who need this kind of novel. Unless you think this not usually interested in sports reader should read it?(I've read a lot of Chris Crutcher & Walter Dean Myers & other writers who write YA for boys about sports like Ron Koertge, who writes novels about sports in poetry.)
HYR Stotan! by Chris Crutcher
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We formed novel groups last month in our English class. One group read The Contender. Basically, the main theme is not everyone will be a champion, but what's important is the journey and reaching your personal best. Other good themes in the book too.
HYR Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
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Oh yes, it's a favorite of mine.HYR Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
? I particularly like his war books. He's got others about World War II...
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HYR A Lesson Before Dying* by Ernest J. Gaines
?*It is the class novel in English 11 for December. I have seen the movie, but this will be my first time to read the book.
HNR. Kathleen, based on what others have written here about this book, I think I'd really like A Lesson Before Dying. Thank you.HYR Walter Dean Myers books about the Civil War and the Draft RiotsRiot
, World War I
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?* I have recommended before a graphic novel also called The Harlem Hellfighters, by Max Brooks.
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HYR The Clockwork Dagger* by Beth Cato
? *It is next up in my tbr pile.
HNR. This look like one I'd like, Kathleen!HYR Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
?About message #340, keep in mind that both Max Brooks and Walter Dean Myers have written books called
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HYR Midway Relics and Dying Breeds* by Seanan McGuire
?* A Seanan McGuire standalone.
HNR. And it's one of the METAtropolis: Cascadia shared universe stories. I just read the collection. They were first 'published' by Audible.com and read by Star Trek actors! Thanks!HYR The Princess Bride by William Goldman
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No, but I want to read Serenity: Leaves on the Wind. I've read several other "Serenity" and "Firefly" novels & graphic novels.HYR Pirate King by Laurie R. King
-- or any of the books in this series?
HNR I tried reading one of them, but I couldn't get into the writer's style.HYR The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
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HYR Mindwar by Andrew Klavan
?**This is the book I switched two after getting bored with A Great and Terrible Beauty. I am halfway through Mindwar and so far it is excellent.
No, I haven't. It looks good.HYR In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang
?It's a graphic novel about a girl gamer who discovers who gold farmers are...
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HYR The Diviners by Libba Bray