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.