I just recieved Coraline by Neil Gaiman from Bookmooch.com!
I absolutley loved the movie, it's definitely one of my favorites. i tried to read the book before seeing it, but i couldn't get ahold of it - i guess everyone else had the same idea.
usually when i see the movie first it makes it really hard for me to get into the book, seeing as i already know what's going to happen. but, hopefully, since i loved the movie so much, and it's pretty small book, i'll be able to get through it.
6.16.2009
6.12.2009
update
I just got the two newest Francesca Lia Block books which i'm super excited about!
Open letter to Quiet Light and The Waters and the Wild
right now i'm working on The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde, which is the sequel to The Big Over Easy.
I'm really enjoying it so far, it's very witty and very british and icludes a whole lot of fairy tale references (my fav!!) as well as allusions to other stories (greek myth, oscar wilde etc.)I highly reccommend this author, esspecially if you're into people like Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore.
Open letter to Quiet Light and The Waters and the Wild
right now i'm working on The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde, which is the sequel to The Big Over Easy.
I'm really enjoying it so far, it's very witty and very british and icludes a whole lot of fairy tale references (my fav!!) as well as allusions to other stories (greek myth, oscar wilde etc.)I highly reccommend this author, esspecially if you're into people like Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore.
3.23.2009
2008
*Corydon and the Fall of Atlantis - Tobias Druitt 335 pgs * * * * Second in Corydon trilogy. Corydon reluctantly sets off on another adventure with the "monsters" of Greek mythology when the Minotaur is apparently kidnaped by the people of Atlantis
*Naughty Fairy tales from A to Z - Alison Tyler 202 pgs * * * * I think the title says it all!
*Good Omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes nutter, witch - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 296 pgs * * * * * the apocalypse has never been funnier (crazy super plus: has many many Queen references!!)
*Aesop’s Fables 198 pgs * * * presents the reader with moral stories and offers ageless advice through the personification of the animal world.
*the titan’s curse - rick riordan 312 * * * * * third in Percy Jackson series. Two more demi-gods are found and artemis is kidnapped.
*quakeland - FLB 210 pgs * * * * in this intertwining series of emotionally charged stories, wistful characters weave together a dance of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, dissonance and harmony.
*the battle of the labyrinth - rick riordan 361 pgs * * * * * fourth in percy jackson series. Percy and his friends must navigate the labyrinth to find deadalus before kronos’ army does and uses it to invade camp halfblood.
*Darkest desire - Anthony Schmitz 134 pgs * * * * being an account of Wolf, his unfortunate desires, his deception by the brothers Grimm, his rescue by Devil, and the lessons gained thereby, which might benefit all creatures.
*Blood Roses - FLB 129 pgs * * * * * 9 short stories. Beautiful, subtle, mysterious
*Faces Under Water - Tanith Lee 233pgs * * * In a Parallel version of Venice, Furian Furiano finds a mask that leads him to a dangerous secret society and love. Hard to follow, most of the time I had no idea what was going on.
*Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk 260 pgs * * * * while a reporter is researching a story about sudden infant death syndrom he discovers a common link. In all the cases the parents had read their child a poem from the same book. He goes on a cross country trip to destroy all the books and find the source of power.
*Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris 292 pgs * * * a small town louisiana waitress falls in love with a vampire (they have just "come out of the coffin") and helps solve a murder mystery.
*The God of Impertinence - Sten Nadolny 211 pgs * * * the god Hephaestus has taken over the world, and Hermes, who has been chained to a cliff for 2,000 years, must stop him from destroying it, with the help of the Beautiful Helle.
*The Shadow Thieves - Anne Ursu 420 pgs * * * * 1st in Cronus Chronicles. Kids from Charlotte’s school start getting sick after her cousin moves in with her family. They discover that it’s because a demon is stealing their shadows to build an army to overthrow Hades and take over the underworld
*How to (Un)cage a girl - FLB 119 pgs * * * * love poems for girls
*American Gods - Neil Gaiman 588 pgs * * * * Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming - a battle for the very soul of America... and they are in it’s direct path.
*Siren Song - Anne Ursu 430 pgs * * * * 2nd in Cronus Chronicles.13 year old Charlotte must rescue humankind again when the evil Philonocron captures her cousin Zee, and Poseidon himself send a sea monster to eat the cruise ship on which Charlotte’s parents are trapped.
*Naughty Fairy tales from A to Z - Alison Tyler 202 pgs * * * * I think the title says it all!
*Good Omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes nutter, witch - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 296 pgs * * * * * the apocalypse has never been funnier (crazy super plus: has many many Queen references!!)
*Aesop’s Fables 198 pgs * * * presents the reader with moral stories and offers ageless advice through the personification of the animal world.
*the titan’s curse - rick riordan 312 * * * * * third in Percy Jackson series. Two more demi-gods are found and artemis is kidnapped.
*quakeland - FLB 210 pgs * * * * in this intertwining series of emotionally charged stories, wistful characters weave together a dance of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, dissonance and harmony.
*the battle of the labyrinth - rick riordan 361 pgs * * * * * fourth in percy jackson series. Percy and his friends must navigate the labyrinth to find deadalus before kronos’ army does and uses it to invade camp halfblood.
*Darkest desire - Anthony Schmitz 134 pgs * * * * being an account of Wolf, his unfortunate desires, his deception by the brothers Grimm, his rescue by Devil, and the lessons gained thereby, which might benefit all creatures.
*Blood Roses - FLB 129 pgs * * * * * 9 short stories. Beautiful, subtle, mysterious
*Faces Under Water - Tanith Lee 233pgs * * * In a Parallel version of Venice, Furian Furiano finds a mask that leads him to a dangerous secret society and love. Hard to follow, most of the time I had no idea what was going on.
*Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk 260 pgs * * * * while a reporter is researching a story about sudden infant death syndrom he discovers a common link. In all the cases the parents had read their child a poem from the same book. He goes on a cross country trip to destroy all the books and find the source of power.
*Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris 292 pgs * * * a small town louisiana waitress falls in love with a vampire (they have just "come out of the coffin") and helps solve a murder mystery.
*The God of Impertinence - Sten Nadolny 211 pgs * * * the god Hephaestus has taken over the world, and Hermes, who has been chained to a cliff for 2,000 years, must stop him from destroying it, with the help of the Beautiful Helle.
*The Shadow Thieves - Anne Ursu 420 pgs * * * * 1st in Cronus Chronicles. Kids from Charlotte’s school start getting sick after her cousin moves in with her family. They discover that it’s because a demon is stealing their shadows to build an army to overthrow Hades and take over the underworld
*How to (Un)cage a girl - FLB 119 pgs * * * * love poems for girls
*American Gods - Neil Gaiman 588 pgs * * * * Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming - a battle for the very soul of America... and they are in it’s direct path.
*Siren Song - Anne Ursu 430 pgs * * * * 2nd in Cronus Chronicles.13 year old Charlotte must rescue humankind again when the evil Philonocron captures her cousin Zee, and Poseidon himself send a sea monster to eat the cruise ship on which Charlotte’s parents are trapped.
2007
*Wicked - Gregory Maguire 406 pgs * * * * * the life and times of the wicked witch of the west
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfpca4PGqJU
*Blood and Chocolate - Annette Curtis Klause * * * * when Vivian, a werewolf, falls in love with a human boy it causes strain within the pack, but will he accept her for who she is?
*The bride finder- Susan Carroll 400 pgs * * * * romantic retelling of beauty and the beast (is actually written fairly well for a romance novel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVJbWJh2TZE
*Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Louis Carroll 150 pgs * * * * a young girl falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself in a magical world
*Through the looking glass - louis Carroll 165 pgs * * * Alice has another adventure, this time in the world on the other side of her looking glass
*Kiss my Tiara - Susan Jane Gilman 203 pgs * * * * how to rule the world as a smart mouth goddess (super double plus: mentions Gwen stefani!)
*Godless - Pete Hautman 198 pgs * * * * when 16 year old Jason and his friends create their own religion, worshiping their town’s water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of it’s own.
*Picasso at the Lapin Agile - Steve Martin 150 pgs * * * * 4 wonderfully funny plays
*The Thief and the Beanstalk - p w Catanese 272 pgs * * * retelling of jack and the beanstalk. "Everyone knows the story of jack and the beanstalk. Everyone also knows that jack’s little adventure made him a very rich man. But what they don’t know is what happened a long time after jack..."
*the Twits - roald dahl 76 pgs * * * badly treated monkies get revenge by turning the Twits upside down.
*George’s Marvelous Medicine - Roald Dahl 88 pgs * * * * George makes a new kind of medicine for his wicked old grandmother and the results are explosive
*Dreaming of Gwen Stefani - Evan Mandery 192 pgs * * * * * after Mortimer sees no doubt: behind the music on VH1, he’s convinced that he and Gwen Stefani are soulmates and devotes his life to preparing for the moment that he finally meets her.
*The Riddles of Epsilon - Christine Morton-Shaw 375 pgs * * * * after moving with her parents to a remote English island, 14 year old Jess attempts to dispel an ancient curse by solving a series of riddles, aided by Epsilon, a supernatural being.
*City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau 270 pgs * * * * in the year 241 twelve year old lina trades jobs on assignment day to be a messenger, to run to new places in her beloved but decaying city, perhaps even to glimpse unknown regions.
*Abarat - Clive Barker 388 pgs * * * * * candy, a young girl from chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures and her life is forever changed.
*The people of sparks - Jeanne DuPrau 338 pgs * * * sequel to city of ember. Having emerged from the city of ember, Lina and the others seek help from the people of Sparks
*Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince - JK Rowling * * * * * re-read
*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows - JK Rowling 759 pgs * * * * * * * * Last in the Harry Potter series finished at 1:14am Monday, August 6, 2007. Words cannot even begin to explain the amazingness of this book. Everything I love rolled into one - Harry, Fairy tales, searching for hidden treasure.... Brilliant beyond belief.
*Stardust - Neil Gaiman 248 pgs * * * * young tristran thorne ventures into Faery to retrieve a fallen star for his beloved, but nothing there is as it seems.
*Once upon a more enlightened time - James Finn garner 84 pgs * * * more politically correct fairy tales
*the analyst - john katzenbach 501 pgs * * * a psychoanalyst gets a letter on his 53d birthday from someone in his past that refers to himself as "Rumpelstiltskin". It tells him that he must figure out who the writer is in two weeks or else kill himself. If he doesn’t comply Rumpelstiltskin will start killing off his family members.
*the Lightning thief - Rick Riordan 375 pgs * * * * book one of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
*Quicksilver - Stephanie Spinner 216 pgs * * * * Hermes, prince of thieves and son of Zeus, relates why the seasons change, the history of the Trojan war, his friendship with Pegasus and many more adventures
*Swan Sister - Ellen and Terri 164 pgs * * * * a collection of retold fairy tales
*a wolf at the door - Ellen and Terri 165 pgs * * * companion book to swan sister
*Abarat: days of magic, nights of war - Clive barker 489 pgs * * * * * sequel to Abarat. Candy’s adventures in the Abarat continue as she makes a starling realization as to who she is, and the forces of night begin plans for war.
*The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde 383 pgs * * * * Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall... you know the rest. But was his fall an accident, or murder? It’s Detective Inspector Jack Spratt’s job to find out. (Plus: Monty python reference and a little bit of Greek mythology)
*Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan 279 pgs * * * * Book two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
*Corydon and the island of monsters - Tobias druitt 291 pgs * * * * * corydon, an outcast Greek boy with the leg of a goat, learns that he is part of an old prophecy and joins forces with medusa and other "monsters" known in Greek mythology in a confrontation with mortal heroes fighting for the olympian gods.
*The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett 241 pgs * * * * a talking cat, intelligent rats and a strange bot cooperate in a pied piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
*Never After - Rebecca Lickiss 261 pgs * * * * Prince Athelstan wants a bride, Lady Vevila wants adventure and the wizard Mazigian needs employment and each finds what they are looking for by finding a remote castle buried in thorns and briars where three identical princes are cursed in eternal sleep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfpca4PGqJU
*Blood and Chocolate - Annette Curtis Klause * * * * when Vivian, a werewolf, falls in love with a human boy it causes strain within the pack, but will he accept her for who she is?
*The bride finder- Susan Carroll 400 pgs * * * * romantic retelling of beauty and the beast (is actually written fairly well for a romance novel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVJbWJh2TZE
*Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Louis Carroll 150 pgs * * * * a young girl falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself in a magical world
*Through the looking glass - louis Carroll 165 pgs * * * Alice has another adventure, this time in the world on the other side of her looking glass
*Kiss my Tiara - Susan Jane Gilman 203 pgs * * * * how to rule the world as a smart mouth goddess (super double plus: mentions Gwen stefani!)
*Godless - Pete Hautman 198 pgs * * * * when 16 year old Jason and his friends create their own religion, worshiping their town’s water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of it’s own.
*Picasso at the Lapin Agile - Steve Martin 150 pgs * * * * 4 wonderfully funny plays
*The Thief and the Beanstalk - p w Catanese 272 pgs * * * retelling of jack and the beanstalk. "Everyone knows the story of jack and the beanstalk. Everyone also knows that jack’s little adventure made him a very rich man. But what they don’t know is what happened a long time after jack..."
*the Twits - roald dahl 76 pgs * * * badly treated monkies get revenge by turning the Twits upside down.
*George’s Marvelous Medicine - Roald Dahl 88 pgs * * * * George makes a new kind of medicine for his wicked old grandmother and the results are explosive
*Dreaming of Gwen Stefani - Evan Mandery 192 pgs * * * * * after Mortimer sees no doubt: behind the music on VH1, he’s convinced that he and Gwen Stefani are soulmates and devotes his life to preparing for the moment that he finally meets her.
*The Riddles of Epsilon - Christine Morton-Shaw 375 pgs * * * * after moving with her parents to a remote English island, 14 year old Jess attempts to dispel an ancient curse by solving a series of riddles, aided by Epsilon, a supernatural being.
*City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau 270 pgs * * * * in the year 241 twelve year old lina trades jobs on assignment day to be a messenger, to run to new places in her beloved but decaying city, perhaps even to glimpse unknown regions.
*Abarat - Clive Barker 388 pgs * * * * * candy, a young girl from chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures and her life is forever changed.
*The people of sparks - Jeanne DuPrau 338 pgs * * * sequel to city of ember. Having emerged from the city of ember, Lina and the others seek help from the people of Sparks
*Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince - JK Rowling * * * * * re-read
*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows - JK Rowling 759 pgs * * * * * * * * Last in the Harry Potter series finished at 1:14am Monday, August 6, 2007. Words cannot even begin to explain the amazingness of this book. Everything I love rolled into one - Harry, Fairy tales, searching for hidden treasure.... Brilliant beyond belief.
*Stardust - Neil Gaiman 248 pgs * * * * young tristran thorne ventures into Faery to retrieve a fallen star for his beloved, but nothing there is as it seems.
*Once upon a more enlightened time - James Finn garner 84 pgs * * * more politically correct fairy tales
*the analyst - john katzenbach 501 pgs * * * a psychoanalyst gets a letter on his 53d birthday from someone in his past that refers to himself as "Rumpelstiltskin". It tells him that he must figure out who the writer is in two weeks or else kill himself. If he doesn’t comply Rumpelstiltskin will start killing off his family members.
*the Lightning thief - Rick Riordan 375 pgs * * * * book one of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
*Quicksilver - Stephanie Spinner 216 pgs * * * * Hermes, prince of thieves and son of Zeus, relates why the seasons change, the history of the Trojan war, his friendship with Pegasus and many more adventures
*Swan Sister - Ellen and Terri 164 pgs * * * * a collection of retold fairy tales
*a wolf at the door - Ellen and Terri 165 pgs * * * companion book to swan sister
*Abarat: days of magic, nights of war - Clive barker 489 pgs * * * * * sequel to Abarat. Candy’s adventures in the Abarat continue as she makes a starling realization as to who she is, and the forces of night begin plans for war.
*The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde 383 pgs * * * * Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall... you know the rest. But was his fall an accident, or murder? It’s Detective Inspector Jack Spratt’s job to find out. (Plus: Monty python reference and a little bit of Greek mythology)
*Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan 279 pgs * * * * Book two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
*Corydon and the island of monsters - Tobias druitt 291 pgs * * * * * corydon, an outcast Greek boy with the leg of a goat, learns that he is part of an old prophecy and joins forces with medusa and other "monsters" known in Greek mythology in a confrontation with mortal heroes fighting for the olympian gods.
*The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett 241 pgs * * * * a talking cat, intelligent rats and a strange bot cooperate in a pied piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
*Never After - Rebecca Lickiss 261 pgs * * * * Prince Athelstan wants a bride, Lady Vevila wants adventure and the wizard Mazigian needs employment and each finds what they are looking for by finding a remote castle buried in thorns and briars where three identical princes are cursed in eternal sleep.
2006
*Angles and Demons - Dan Brown 569 pgs * * * * * A Harvard symbologist is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is a deadly vendetta against the catholic church by a centuries-old underground organization. He embarks on a frantic hunt through crypts, catacombs and cathedrals to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb.
*The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 454 pgs * * * * * Robert Langdon follows a trail of clues to discover the true nature of the holy grail
*Quiver - Stephanie Spinner 171 pgs * * * when her father commands that she produce an heir, the huntress atalanta gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece look on.
*Aimee - Mary Beth Miller 276 pgs * * * a girl is trying to cope with life after supposedly helping her best friend commit suicide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjFE8d1Q1F4
*the Mysteries - Lisa Tuttle 347 pgs * * * * a PI is hired to find a girl who has been missing for 2 years and discovers that her disappearance parallels an old Celtic myth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJlqm8CBDvQ
*Midnight Pearls - Debbie Viguie 197 pgs * * a retelling of the little mermaid
*the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime - Mark Haddon 221 pgs * * * * despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically gifted, autistic, 15 year old boy, decides to investigate the murder of neighbor’s dog and uncovers secret information about his family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uEvc4YgbxQ
*alligators in the sewer - Thomas J. Craughwell 280 pgs * * * 223 urban legends
*The Foretelling - Alice Hoffman 167 pgs * * * * * growing up the daughter of an amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.
*Phantom - Susan Kay 455 pgs * * * * * the story of the Phantom of the opera before his encounter with Christine Daae, told from the points of view of his mother, Raoul and others. Absolutely Phenomenal!
*Eragon - Christopher Paolini 497 pgs * * * * A 15 year old boy of unknown lineage, called Eragon, finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic and power, peopled with dragons, elves and monsters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmStcDo858
*the claiming of sleeping beauty - A. N. Roquelaure 253 pgs * * * erotic version of sleeping beauty, after beauty is awoken by the prince he takes her back to his kingdom where she serves as his love slave.
*Lyra’s Oxford - Philip Pullman 48 pgs * * * * a short story that takes place a few years after the his dark materials trilogy left off.
*Ruby - Francesca lia block and Carmen staton 209 pgs * * * * what a magical, mystical read! Like all of block’s other books, this modern fairy tale combines harsh reality with transcendent beauty to create an uplifting and inspiring read.
*Spinners - donna Jo napoli 197 pgs * * * elaborates on the events recounted in the fairy tale, "Rumpelstiltskin," in which a strange little man helps a millers daughter spin straw into gold on the condition that she will give him her first born child.
*Green Angel - Alice Hoffman 116 pgs * * * * green thinks she has her future figured out until a great tragedy occurs and she has to rebuild her life.
*the Great god Pan - Donna Jo Napoli 146 pgs * * * a retelling of Greek myths about Pan, the half god-half goat, and Iphigenia, daughter of king Agamemnon.
*The probable future - Alice Hoffman 322 pgs * * * three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards and reconciliation of love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqLhdmSWptg
*Psyche in a Dress - Francesca Lia block 116 pgs * * * * * I don’t know how to begin describing this book other than simply and undeniably beautiful. Greek mythology FLB style. She uses the myths of Psyche, Echo, Eurydice and Persephone and intertwines them to create one story about love and the human soul. I flew through it in a couple of hours and cried when I finished it because I didn’t want it to be over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4aJkNIscM
*Twilight - Stephenie Meyer 498 pgs * * * * * when 17 year old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
*New Moon - Stephenie Meyer 563 pgs * * * * When the Cullen family, including her beloved Edward, leave town rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost to much for 18 year old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
*Breath - Donna Jo Napoli 260 pgs * * * * elaborates on the tale of the pied piper told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.
*Pay the Piper - Jane Yolen 168 pgs * * * when Callie interviews the band Brass Rat for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, she knows where the dangerous search must begin.
*Goddess of spring - p. c. cast 360 pgs * * * * * a wonderful retelling of the Persephone myth. Lina, a baker from Tulsa is forced to switch places with the goddess Persephone and ends up falling in love with hades, the god of the underworld.
*Politically correct bedtime stories - James Finn garner 79 pgs * * * the title says it all: fairy tales retold to be PC.
*Daughters of Darkness - L. J. Smith 228 pgs * * * mystery/romance about three vampire sisters trying to escape the "night world"
*Song of the Magdalene - DJN 240 pgs * * * * the life of Mary magdalene before she met Jesus - very very sad.
*The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 454 pgs * * * * * Robert Langdon follows a trail of clues to discover the true nature of the holy grail
*Quiver - Stephanie Spinner 171 pgs * * * when her father commands that she produce an heir, the huntress atalanta gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece look on.
*Aimee - Mary Beth Miller 276 pgs * * * a girl is trying to cope with life after supposedly helping her best friend commit suicide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjFE8d1Q1F4
*the Mysteries - Lisa Tuttle 347 pgs * * * * a PI is hired to find a girl who has been missing for 2 years and discovers that her disappearance parallels an old Celtic myth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJlqm8CBDvQ
*Midnight Pearls - Debbie Viguie 197 pgs * * a retelling of the little mermaid
*the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime - Mark Haddon 221 pgs * * * * despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically gifted, autistic, 15 year old boy, decides to investigate the murder of neighbor’s dog and uncovers secret information about his family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uEvc4YgbxQ
*alligators in the sewer - Thomas J. Craughwell 280 pgs * * * 223 urban legends
*The Foretelling - Alice Hoffman 167 pgs * * * * * growing up the daughter of an amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.
*Phantom - Susan Kay 455 pgs * * * * * the story of the Phantom of the opera before his encounter with Christine Daae, told from the points of view of his mother, Raoul and others. Absolutely Phenomenal!
*Eragon - Christopher Paolini 497 pgs * * * * A 15 year old boy of unknown lineage, called Eragon, finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic and power, peopled with dragons, elves and monsters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmStcDo858
*the claiming of sleeping beauty - A. N. Roquelaure 253 pgs * * * erotic version of sleeping beauty, after beauty is awoken by the prince he takes her back to his kingdom where she serves as his love slave.
*Lyra’s Oxford - Philip Pullman 48 pgs * * * * a short story that takes place a few years after the his dark materials trilogy left off.
*Ruby - Francesca lia block and Carmen staton 209 pgs * * * * what a magical, mystical read! Like all of block’s other books, this modern fairy tale combines harsh reality with transcendent beauty to create an uplifting and inspiring read.
*Spinners - donna Jo napoli 197 pgs * * * elaborates on the events recounted in the fairy tale, "Rumpelstiltskin," in which a strange little man helps a millers daughter spin straw into gold on the condition that she will give him her first born child.
*Green Angel - Alice Hoffman 116 pgs * * * * green thinks she has her future figured out until a great tragedy occurs and she has to rebuild her life.
*the Great god Pan - Donna Jo Napoli 146 pgs * * * a retelling of Greek myths about Pan, the half god-half goat, and Iphigenia, daughter of king Agamemnon.
*The probable future - Alice Hoffman 322 pgs * * * three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards and reconciliation of love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqLhdmSWptg
*Psyche in a Dress - Francesca Lia block 116 pgs * * * * * I don’t know how to begin describing this book other than simply and undeniably beautiful. Greek mythology FLB style. She uses the myths of Psyche, Echo, Eurydice and Persephone and intertwines them to create one story about love and the human soul. I flew through it in a couple of hours and cried when I finished it because I didn’t want it to be over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4aJkNIscM
*Twilight - Stephenie Meyer 498 pgs * * * * * when 17 year old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
*New Moon - Stephenie Meyer 563 pgs * * * * When the Cullen family, including her beloved Edward, leave town rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost to much for 18 year old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
*Breath - Donna Jo Napoli 260 pgs * * * * elaborates on the tale of the pied piper told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.
*Pay the Piper - Jane Yolen 168 pgs * * * when Callie interviews the band Brass Rat for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, she knows where the dangerous search must begin.
*Goddess of spring - p. c. cast 360 pgs * * * * * a wonderful retelling of the Persephone myth. Lina, a baker from Tulsa is forced to switch places with the goddess Persephone and ends up falling in love with hades, the god of the underworld.
*Politically correct bedtime stories - James Finn garner 79 pgs * * * the title says it all: fairy tales retold to be PC.
*Daughters of Darkness - L. J. Smith 228 pgs * * * mystery/romance about three vampire sisters trying to escape the "night world"
*Song of the Magdalene - DJN 240 pgs * * * * the life of Mary magdalene before she met Jesus - very very sad.
2005
*Primavera - FLB 189 pgs. * * * * * sequel to Ecstasia. Calliope's daughter, whose voice makes flowers bloom, goes on a journey to discover herself and love.
*The Empress' New Lingerie - Hillary Rollins 156 pgs * * * Bedtime stories for grown-ups, actually pretty funny!
*Nightmares and Fairytales - Serena Valentino and FSc 160 pgs * * fairytales with a nightmarish twist.
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 216 pgs * * * * seconds before the earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, an undercover alien
*Faerie Wars - Herbie Brennan 368 pgs * * * * troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old mr. fogarty, become involved with price pyrgus malvae, who has been sent from the faery realm in order to escape the treacherous faeries of the night.
*Valiant - Holly Black 313 pgs * * * * When 17-year-old Valerie catches her boyfriend and her mother fooling around, she runs away to New York City. There she falls in with a small group of teens who live in the subway tunnel, where Valerie meets a troll and she learns that there is an entire world that she has never known existed
*City of Masks - Mary Hoffman 340 pgs * * * * * 1st in Stravaganza trilogy. while sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a parallel world that resembles Italy and becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the city's duchessa.
*Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli 186 pgs * * * * * in this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of non conformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes mica high school forever.
*Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling # 652 pgs * * * * 6th in series, Harry learns more about Voldemort’s past and the mysterious Half blood prince.
*City of Stars - Mary Hoffman 453 pgs * * * * * second in trilogy. Georgia, who loves horses, buys a figurine of a winged horse that has magical powers which transport her to 16th century Talia, similar to Italy. in the city of Remora she finds danger and intrigue as well as friendship and a chance to perfect her riding skills
*Dance Upon the Air - Nora Roberts 373 pgs * * * * first in 3 sister's island trilogy
*Zel - Donna Jo Napoli 227 pgs * * * * * based on a popular fairy tale (not telling which one!), the story is told through alternating the point of view between mother, Zel, and the prince and delves into the psychological motivation.
*Heaven and Earth - Nora Roberts 346 pgs * * * * second in three sisters island trilogy.
*Necklace of Kisses - FLB 227 pgs * * * * * 6th in Weetzie bat series, weetzie has a midlife crisis and checks into the mysterious and magical Pink Hotel.
*Face the Fire - Nora Roberts 358 pgs * * * * third in three sisters island trilogy
*City of Flowers - Mary Hoffman 478 pgs * * * * * third in Trilogy. 17 year old Sky joins the other stravaganti in Gilia, a city similar to Florence and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue.
*The Purple Emperor - Herbie Brennan 424 pgs. * * * * sequel to Faery Wars
*The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis 183 pgs * * * 4 English children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of narnia and assist Aslan to triumph over the white witch.
*the magic circle - donna Jo napoli 128 pgs * * * * after learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.
*sirena - donna Jo napoli 210 pgs * * * * the gods grant immortality to the mermaid sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan war.
*Am I Blue - Marion Dane Bauer 272 pgs * * * * a collection of short stories about growing up gay or lesbian
*The Empress' New Lingerie - Hillary Rollins 156 pgs * * * Bedtime stories for grown-ups, actually pretty funny!
*Nightmares and Fairytales - Serena Valentino and FSc 160 pgs * * fairytales with a nightmarish twist.
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 216 pgs * * * * seconds before the earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, an undercover alien
*Faerie Wars - Herbie Brennan 368 pgs * * * * troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old mr. fogarty, become involved with price pyrgus malvae, who has been sent from the faery realm in order to escape the treacherous faeries of the night.
*Valiant - Holly Black 313 pgs * * * * When 17-year-old Valerie catches her boyfriend and her mother fooling around, she runs away to New York City. There she falls in with a small group of teens who live in the subway tunnel, where Valerie meets a troll and she learns that there is an entire world that she has never known existed
*City of Masks - Mary Hoffman 340 pgs * * * * * 1st in Stravaganza trilogy. while sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a parallel world that resembles Italy and becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the city's duchessa.
*Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli 186 pgs * * * * * in this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of non conformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes mica high school forever.
*Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling # 652 pgs * * * * 6th in series, Harry learns more about Voldemort’s past and the mysterious Half blood prince.
*City of Stars - Mary Hoffman 453 pgs * * * * * second in trilogy. Georgia, who loves horses, buys a figurine of a winged horse that has magical powers which transport her to 16th century Talia, similar to Italy. in the city of Remora she finds danger and intrigue as well as friendship and a chance to perfect her riding skills
*Dance Upon the Air - Nora Roberts 373 pgs * * * * first in 3 sister's island trilogy
*Zel - Donna Jo Napoli 227 pgs * * * * * based on a popular fairy tale (not telling which one!), the story is told through alternating the point of view between mother, Zel, and the prince and delves into the psychological motivation.
*Heaven and Earth - Nora Roberts 346 pgs * * * * second in three sisters island trilogy.
*Necklace of Kisses - FLB 227 pgs * * * * * 6th in Weetzie bat series, weetzie has a midlife crisis and checks into the mysterious and magical Pink Hotel.
*Face the Fire - Nora Roberts 358 pgs * * * * third in three sisters island trilogy
*City of Flowers - Mary Hoffman 478 pgs * * * * * third in Trilogy. 17 year old Sky joins the other stravaganti in Gilia, a city similar to Florence and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue.
*The Purple Emperor - Herbie Brennan 424 pgs. * * * * sequel to Faery Wars
*The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis 183 pgs * * * 4 English children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of narnia and assist Aslan to triumph over the white witch.
*the magic circle - donna Jo napoli 128 pgs * * * * after learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.
*sirena - donna Jo napoli 210 pgs * * * * the gods grant immortality to the mermaid sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan war.
*Am I Blue - Marion Dane Bauer 272 pgs * * * * a collection of short stories about growing up gay or lesbian
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