| May 2009 recommendation thread [message #15596] |
Fri, 01 May 2009 18:28  |
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 Maren
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Happy May Day! Here is the recommendation thread for this month. Any books recommended here will automatically be added to our LibraryThing catalog as well.
[Updated on: Tue, 02 June 2009 17:29]
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| Re: Current recommendation thread [message #15647 is a reply to message #15596 ] |
Sat, 02 May 2009 17:59  |
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Beauty/Anna
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Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George. I just finished reading it to my sisters today. The Dragon and Human characters are fantastic.
[Updated on: Sat, 02 May 2009 18:00]
"You are your best resource for success"
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| Re: Current recommendation thread [message #16575 is a reply to message #15596 ] |
Wed, 27 May 2009 23:20 |
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L.R.K.
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Diana Wynne Jones: "Dark Lord of Derkholm" - Delightful! (of course)
Gillian Avery: "A Likely Lad" - It's 1901 and eleven years old Willy Overs is stunned to learn that his father expects him to leave school shortly and start work at the Northern Star insurance company.
"He had never in his life thought about what might happen to him when he left school. Indeed, he had always had a vague idea that growing up, going into long trousers, earning his living, was a thing that might happen to other people, but certainly not to him. And now here was his father speaking as though all these things were not only inevitable but about to happen tomorrow."
Diane Duane: "The Book of Night with Moon" - Feline fantasy
George Eliot: "The Lifted Veil & Brother Jacob" - Two stories: one serious, one humourous
Berlie Doherty: "The Famous Adventures of Jack" - "One day a girl was walking through the forest and she came upon an old woman sweeping leaves outside the door of a cottage.
'Excuse me,' the girl said. The old woman stopped and the leaves scuttled like mice back to their heap outside her door.
'Is this where Jack lives?' the girl said.
'They're all called Jack around here,' the old woman said. 'Cousin Jack, Great Grandfather Jack, Uncle Jack, son Jack, and some is daft and some is dead and some is disappeared. And some is lazy and good-for-nothing and waste-of-a-wishbone like my very own son. But they're all called Jack.' She gave the leaves a last little stir with her broom. 'You'd better come in.'
Stories about various Jacks - but also a story about Jill.
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Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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