I’ve made no secret that I’m a Brandon Sanderson fan. His writing reminds me why I fell in love with fantasy, but without the tropes and clichés that often plague the genre. (Plus, he’s local, and we share our alma mater, but that’s neither here nor there). Fresh off the success of finishing Robert Jordan’s […]
Archives for 2013
Review | Crewel by Gennifer Albin
2013-03-01 · by ·
When Adelice’s parents discover she has the magical weaving gift that enables women to weave the fabric of reality, they do all in their power to train her to hide it. At age sixteen, all young women in Arras are tested for their weaving abilities. If the girls pass their tests, they are swept away […]
Review | Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
2013-02-28 · by ·
Clara Wintermute is fascinated by the stringed puppet show she sees performed on a street corner. She pleads with her father to hire the small show to be the entertainment for her birthday party. Despite his concerns about the dirty, lower-class, expert puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, he consents. Clara is excited to meet the two orphaned […]
Review | The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick
2013-02-27 · by ·
There’s a good chance that you know Philip K. Dick, if not by name, then by the movies his books and stories have spawned. He’s that rare author with as many ten of his stories or novels adapted for the big screen, albeit posthumously. Think Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford, an adaptation of Dick’s brilliant Do androids dream […]
Review | Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
2013-02-26 · by ·
Scarlet’s Grand-mère suddenly went missing and the police have abandoned the search for her. Convinced that she was kidnapped, Scarlet is desperate to follow any lead she can find as to the whereabouts of her grandma, even if it means teaming up with a mysterious and dangerous man nicknamed Wolf. Meanwhile, the ruthless Lunar Queen […]
Review | The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
2013-02-20 · by ·
I’ve not read many books by Brandon Sanderson that weigh in at less than several hundred pages, so when I saw the thin spine of The Emperor’s Soul sitting on the shelf at Weller Book Works next to Sanderson’s thicker novels, I was immediately curious. From the back of the book: When Shai is caught […]
AOTB is taking the April Blogging from A to Z Challenge
2013-02-19 · by ·
Hold on to your hats! This April, Attack of the Books! is taking the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. What is the Blogging from A to Z Challenge? The brainchild of Arlee Bird, at Tossing it Out, the A to Z Challenges to post the letter of the alphabet every day during the month of April, with […]
Presidential Picture Books
2013-02-15 · by ·
Unless you work in retail, most of you will have this next Monday off of work in honor of the men who have led our country. The books on this list are primarily fact, rather than story driven: lots and lots of interesting facts about the men who have lived in the White House. Your […]
Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln!
2013-02-12 · by ·
Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Might I suggest a book on the man who may have been our greatest president? It might be said of Abraham Lincoln, born on this day in 1809, that if he had not existed, we would have needed to invent him. With very rare exception, no person in American political history […]
Review | More by I.C. Springman and Brian Lies
2013-02-11 · by ·
Description: A bird collects various objects to put in his nest. This book teaches young readers about quantity. Story: I think this story has a great message about how we accumulate stuff we really don’t need. I like the illustration at the end where the bird has found what is really enough for him and […]
