Title: Pride Author: Ibi Zoboi Publisher: Balzer & Bray Paperback: 285 pages Source: Own Summary: (taken from Goodreads): Buy from the Book Depository Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street. Zuri Benitez… Continue reading Book Review: Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Title: Peter and the Sword of Mercy Authors: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Series: Peter and the Starcatchers, Book 4 Publisher: Disney Hyperion Hardcover: 515 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository The year is 1902 – it’s been twenty-three years since Peter and the Lost Boys returned from Rundoon. Since then,… Continue reading Book Review: Peter and the Sword of Mercy by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Title: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale Author: Jane Yolen Publisher: Tachyon Publications Paperback: 240 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository Fantasy legend Jane Yolen (The Emerald Circus, The Devil’s Arithmetic) delights with this effortlessly wide-ranging offering of fractured fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets, holding them to… Continue reading Book Review: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
Title: Bitter Greens Author: Kate Forsyth Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Hardcover: 496 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of love French novelist Charlotte-Rose… Continue reading Book Review: Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
Title: Winter Rose Author: Patricia McKillip Series: Winter Rose, Book 1 Publisher: Ace Paperback: 262 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours… Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse.… Continue reading Book Review: Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
Title: Snow & Rose Author: Emily Winfield Martin Illustrator: Emily Winfield Martin Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Hardcover: 224 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Snow and Rose didn’t know they were in a fairy tale. People never do…. Once, they lived in a big house with spectacular gardens and an army of servants. Once,… Continue reading Book Review: Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
Title: The Sleeper and the Spindle Author: Neil Gaiman Illustrator: Chris Riddell Publisher: Bloomsbury Hardcover: 71 Source: Chicago Public Library, Overdrive Summary: (taken from Goodreads) A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell – weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of… Continue reading Book Review: The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
Title: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice Author: Laurie R. King Publisher: Bantam Series: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 Paperback: 341 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious… Continue reading Book Review: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
This meme was created by Pen to Paper. Each week we will share a book that has been recently added to our wishlist or has been on it for ages. I’m taking this loosely and sharing books that I can’t wait to read. I recently finished The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and was thrilled to learn that… Continue reading Wishlist Wednesday #7: A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King
Title: Hook’s Tale: Being an Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself Author: John Pielmeier Publisher: Scribner Hardcover: 288 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Long defamed as a vicious pirate, Captain James Cook (a.k.a Hook) was in fact a dazzling wordsmith who left behind a vibrant, wildly entertaining, and entirely truthful memoir. His chronicle offers a… Continue reading Book Review: Hook’s Tale by John Pielmeier
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