This review has spoilers for both this book and Camber of Culdi. I’m sorry, but as book two in a trilogy, it really can’t be helped much. The fact that Camber becomes a saint in this book is a spoiler, but the title gives it away, and as these books are prequels of sorts to the other trilogies, it’s not much of a spoiler, as some of the other titles in the other trilogies give away the fact that Camber is a major player in Gwynedd’s […]
Christianity and Magic? It’s An Interesting Combination
When I was a young kid there was an amazing used bookstore in town. The bookstore smelled of used books, books were stacked waist high in spots, and the shelves were so close together, and so tall that to see the top shelf, you had to press your back against the next shelf and crane your head way back. Books were a dollar a piece, and if you brought books to trade you could get store credit, so you didn’t have to pay anything at […]
How to Write a Knitting Pattern That Looks Professional
This amazing little book is designed to help a beginner knit designer write a professional pattern that others can use. It’s not designed to be super in depth, and doesn’t cover a lot of things a more advanced designer would need to know, such as grading (designing a pattern to fit different sizes) or how to create ideas. It doesn’t cover marketing, or the actual designing of a pattern. I bought this book because I have designed a shawl/wrap and want to write the pattern […]
… and Then the Murders Began.
“The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years — if it ever did end — began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.”* And then the murders began. There’s a meme going around Facebook where you add “then the murders began” to the opening line of a famous story. Stephen King’s It doesn’t really change much when you add that line, because, you see, that is when […]
If Wishes Were Dragons Some People Would Fly Between
Dragonsdawn is the ninth book in the Dragonriders of Pern series but takes place approximately 2,500 years before Dragonflight, the first book in the series. I discovered Anne McCaffrey in an English textbook sample my dad brought home from school when I was about 13. There was an excerpt from Dragonsinger in there and I fell in love. I devoured every Pern book our local library had over the next few months and set out to collect the ones they didn’t have. I purchased […]
Cannonball Read Review #3: In the Hand of the Goddess
I review Tamora Pierce’s In the Hand of the Goddess over on my blog. This is the second novel in the Song of the Lioness quartet, one of my all-time favorite book series. I don’t gush in this review like I did in my review of Alanna: The First Adventure, because I’ve already said how much I love these books and why.