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This one was the perfect prelude to my book-buying ban, designed as it was to read books from your shelves!
The idea was to make sure a certain percentage of your reads came from your shelves. I set myself a target of 33.33%, which I managed to exceed!
End of Challenge Rate: 38.46%
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A few weeks ago I announced that I was going to put myself on a book-acquiring ban. Well it was with a slight shock yesterday that I realised that it was upon me. December the first is here!
You can check out the full rules here, but simply put, for the next three months, I can only bring in ...
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Running a little late, but the current weekly geeks is canvassing the blogosphere for the top ten books published in 2009 .
This is a guest post by Jackie of Literary Escapism who has graciously offered to organize the Book Blogger Top 10 again this year.
For the second year in a row, ...
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When fifteen-year-old David Case stops his baby brother from falling out of his bedroom window, he has little idea how much it is going to effect his life for the next few months.
He starts to fixate on fate, and soon comes to believe, it has it in for him (and he may well be right). He ...
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While reflecting on the type of house in the area in which she lives our narrator, Kristina, also reveals a lot about the pervading feeling about this book.
“…built the traditional way, logs spaced slightly apart to let the air in. Happiness trickled away easily between the logs”
Set in a ...
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Okay, this one should be fun… *Installs flaming barrier*
My top ten Harry Potter & Discworld characters posts, went down well, and a lot of fun was had debating the choices. So I thought with the release of the 2nd Twilight film (New Moon for those living under a rock) I’d ...
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Twilight
See my reviews of books 1 and 2 .
Just a warning, as this is the final book in the trilogy, there will inevitably be some spoilers, just so you know.
After the events of the previous book, the five Midnighters are licking their wounds, their bonds of friendship stretched – if not ...
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Well I talked about it a couple of months ago , and I thought it was about time to open the sign-ups. Of course, back then it was going to be the first ever challenge I hosted but of course I’m also hosting the YA Dystopian Challenge as well, (which finishes in December).
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I’ve managed to actually post a fair bit this week, so here’s what you might have missed.
Articles
A Necessary Step
Weekly Geeks: Bookish Podcasts
Sunday Salon: Preparing for the Ban
Reviews:
Fables #1 Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
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The 2009 Virtual Advent Tour website , went live earlier this morning, and you can sign-up to take part, right now !
Each day anyone who wants to participate takes turns sharing a treat with our friends here in blogland. For example it could be something about your family traditions, ...
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With my decision to instigate a book buying ban starting in December I really should be focus on reading my remaining library books I have out on loan, so I can concentrate on have a real go at reducing my TBR pile over the following three months.
But, I’m probably going to spend most ...
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The Kiss of Death is the companion/follow-up vampire novel to My Swordhand is Singing . If you haven’t read the first novel then whilst doing so, will help you enjoy this one even more, but The Kiss of Death works perfectly well as a standalone as well, so doing doing so is not necessary.
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This weeks Weekly Geeks is asking us to look at our favourite bookish podcasts.
Dewey worded it this way, "find and review a link to a book podcast." I’m modifying this just a bit and am asking you to share with us a podcast you love, preferably book related, but not ...
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Harry Potter
The above photo was taken in July this year, and in all honesty things have only got worse, it contained 146 books at the time and is probably touching 175 now. So I’m going to have to do something about it!
Not to mention that there are some fantastic books in there I really want to ...
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I really would not know how to describe this one, so I am going to resort to using the publishers blurb.
The gothic setting of a lonely castle in the middle of thick, dense woods contrasts with the contemporaneity of the characters who inhabit it: a dissolute, rich and aimless young man ...
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bartsbookshelf.co.uk - 17 days ago
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There’s an elephant in this room, and it
is one that it is impossible for this book...
to get away from. Teenagers. Going to a magical boarding school. Complete with quirky teachers. And a weird game involving magic… I don’t know if it’s in the ...
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Review: The Magicians by Lev Grossman
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Fyrefly's Book Blog
found this 17 days agofound this
This series seems fairly popular across the blogosphere, will plenty of bloggers I like and respect (and more importantly, have similar tastes to my own) really liking it.
So even though it took me a while to get around to reading it, I knew it was one that I had to get!
It arrived ...
