http://www.bookshopgirl.net Llew's Reviews Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:42:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Preparing For Christmas Season In The Harried Book World: Book #6 "Rural Mississippi just after the Second World War is a hard and muddy place. Hillary Jordan's novel Mudbound evokes the era brilliantly--returning soldiers trying to find their way after the brutality of the war, some facing the continuing brutality of ... http://www.bookshopgirl.net/2008/08/26/mudbound-by-hillary-jordan/ Preparing For Christmas Season In The Harried Book World: Book #5 Although this is a pick for September's Indie Bound's Indie Next list the blurbs for next month aren't up on-line yet. Thus, you will have to make do with the book description for now: "Hector Carpentier, a medical student, lives ... http://www.bookshopgirl.net/2008/08/24/the-black-tower-by-louis-bayard/ Preparing For Christmas Season In The Harried Book World: Book #4 "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a gem. Just after WWII a writer is contacted by a fan on the island of Guernsey. As events unfold and she goes to Guernsey, she learns of the misery, bravery ... http://www.bookshopgirl.net/2008/08/24/the-guernsey-literary-and-potato-peel-pie-society-by-annie-fiery-barrows/ Preparing For Christmas Season In The Harried Book World: Book #3 "What a wonderfully complicated and rich novel! Set in past and present Salem Massachusetts, the story takes off immediately, interspersing splendid detail about the history of lace makers as well as the famous witch trials, with the modern story ... http://www.bookshopgirl.net/2008/08/24/the-lace-reader-by-brunonia-barry/ Preparing For Christmas Season In The Harried Book World: Book #2 "This is an unusual story about the power of love to transcend physical limitations and to transform ugliness into beauty. It's all in the eyes of the beholder, as we are often told. This book makes you believe that simple ... http://www.bookshopgirl.net/2008/08/20/the-gargoyle-by-andrew-davidson/ Preparing For Christmas Season In The Harried Book World: Book #1 Evidently the dust jacket to this book features a book description that gives away a major plot point that doesn't occur until halfway through the book. Shame on you dust jacket! Fortunately, I don't read dust jackets prior to reading books! ... http://www.bookshopgirl.net/2008/08/20/the-story-of-edgar-sawtelle-by-david-wroblewski/ I have been in reader HEAVEN! All of my favorite YA series have had another book come out. Septimus Heap has Queste out. After I finish devouring that, I get to hop on to Libba Bray's third book wrapping up The Great & Terrible Beauty trilogy. Then, it's on ... http://www.bookshopgirl.net/2008/05/25/fablehaven-grip-of-the-shadow-plague/ In my regular blog, I detailed how due to Stephenie Meyer and "Twilight" series is gracing the top of all the best seller lists, I had bought myself a dream journal. On her website she tells how she came up with the plot for the story from an intense dream ... http://www.bookshopgirl.net/2008/05/25/the-host-by-stephenie-meyer/ Versus Shortly after I read Marr's first book a friend commented about what a shame it was that one was getting all the shelf space in large bookstores and so lauded when Cassandra Clare's City of Ashes series was being overlooked. My first chapter into Clare's work and I immediately ... http://www.bookshopgirl.net/2008/05/25/author-death-match-melissa-marr-versus-cassandra-clare/ versus In this corner weighing in at 645 pages, I have a set of books set of books which are urban faeire tales with Seelie folk walking around with glamours to shield us mere mortal from their cruel beauty. And in the other corner weighing in at 653 pages, I ... http://www.bookshopgirl.net/2008/05/25/author-death-match-holly-black-versus-melissa-marr/