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A really good anthology! Emmalita and andtheIToldYouSos were not kidding.

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Eds. Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington

August 18, 2022 by narfna 4 Comments

This is one of the best anthologies I’ve ever read. If you like Arthuriana, this is a must read. If you like anthologies just for the variety, this collection is a winner. I don’t think I will ever give an anthology five stars, because I’ve yet to find one where I like every story, but this one comes pretty close. There were only two stories in here I didn’t like. What makes Sword Stone Table so great is that the authors chosen really had their creativity flowing. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Short Stories Tagged With: #fantasy, arthuriana, Eds. Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, Jenn Northington, king arthur, LGBTQIA, read harder challenge 2022, retellings, sff, short stories, Swapna Krishna

narfna's CBR14 Review No:130 · Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories · Tags: #fantasy, arthuriana, Eds. Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, Jenn Northington, king arthur, LGBTQIA, read harder challenge 2022, retellings, sff, short stories, Swapna Krishna ·
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World War II meets King Arthur’s Court

The Metropolitans by Carol Goodman

August 2, 2021 by chelz.hawk 1 Comment

Set in WWII New York, four kids find themselves at the MET on a cold Sunday afternoon, each dealing with a hand far heavier than any teen should be dealt. Walt was sent to live with family in the US to keep out of Hitler’s grasp. Kiko is a young Chinese girl who looks too much like the enemy to ever be trusted. Madge has been separated from her siblings as a result of her father’s overwhelming grief over her mother’s passing and all she […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Carol Goodman, king arthur, Nazis, new york, spies, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, WWII

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Carol Goodman, king arthur, Nazis, new york, spies, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, WWII ·
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There was a game he could see and another he couldn’t, and he would play them both.

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington

July 3, 2021 by Emmalita 7 Comments

My formative King Arthur works were the 1963 Disney movie The Sword in the Stone, and 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail. When I discovered Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, as a preteen, my life as a reader of fantasy and romance was set. I’m a King Arthur enthusiast, but not a purist (except for Antoine Fuqua’s 2004 King Arthur – great cast, beautiful visuals, terrible movie that should never have been marketed as “historically accurate”). Hearing that a work is a retelling of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: advance reader copy, Alex Segura, Alexander Chee, Anthology, Anthony Rapp, arthurian legends, ausma zehanat khan, Daniel M. Lavery, Jessica Plummer, ken liu, king arthur, Maria Dahvana Headley, NetGalley, nisi shawl, Preeti Chhibber, roshani chokshi, S. Zainab Williams, Sarah Maclean, silvia moreno-garcia, Sive Doyle, Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, trans author, waubgeshig rice

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:65 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: advance reader copy, Alex Segura, Alexander Chee, Anthology, Anthony Rapp, arthurian legends, ausma zehanat khan, Daniel M. Lavery, Jessica Plummer, ken liu, king arthur, Maria Dahvana Headley, NetGalley, nisi shawl, Preeti Chhibber, roshani chokshi, S. Zainab Williams, Sarah Maclean, silvia moreno-garcia, Sive Doyle, Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, trans author, waubgeshig rice ·
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green face of a witch starring up from the sea

Power of the Greenwitch, lost beneath the sea…

Greenwich by Susan Cooper

April 6, 2021 by cosbrarian 3 Comments

In 2020, I started an occasional readathon I participate in – The Dark is Rising readathon, which is a seasonal reread of my favorite book series! Basically, we read the series on its own timeline, taking on each book in the season it’s set. And so I reread the first book in 2020 summer (Over Sea and Under Stone) and reviewed it here, and then I am pretty sure I reread the second book at Christmas (The Dark is Rising) but forgot to review it. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: king arthur, middle grade, sea witch, Series, Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising, wild magic, witches

cosbrarian's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: king arthur, middle grade, sea witch, Series, Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising, wild magic, witches ·
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cbr12bingo – Red!

Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch

September 7, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Every entry into Rivers of London starts with a splash; we are always diving head-first, sometimes literally, into rivers of blood. Every delightful cover, all done by Patrick Knowles, is a map with a big, red, bloody “X” marking the spot. Every cover is a map, every map is filled with teensy tiny detail, and every seemingly unrelated sketch or nursery rhyme lyric builds together into the marvelous mess that is London. I love his minute details; I feel like I’m looking at a Where’s Waldo illustration for […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: archaeology, architecture, Arthurian legend, Ben Aaronovitch, bingo 2020, black dog of newgate, british folklore, Camelot, cbr12bingo, demi monde, folklore, king arthur, londinium, London, magic, merlin, murder, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, police procedural, puncinello, Red, red square, Rivers of London, Rivers of London 7

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:98 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: archaeology, architecture, Arthurian legend, Ben Aaronovitch, bingo 2020, black dog of newgate, british folklore, Camelot, cbr12bingo, demi monde, folklore, king arthur, londinium, London, magic, merlin, murder, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, police procedural, puncinello, Red, red square, Rivers of London, Rivers of London 7 ·
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“In the name of King Arthur, and of the old world before the dark came.”

Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper

August 14, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

CBRBingo11 – Back to School! I’ve read this book about 800 times. The first time I read it was with my fifth grade class, and I’ll forever thank Mrs Cook for introducing us to this wonderful story. I blasted through the rest of the five-book “sequence” after that and it remains my favorite middle grade series (before middle grade was a thing). This year I am participating once again in the Dark is Rising readathon  and so it also made sense for this to be […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, adventure, cbrbingo11, cornwall, king arthur, middle grade, Susan Cooper

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:56 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, adventure, cbrbingo11, cornwall, king arthur, middle grade, Susan Cooper ·
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