2021: #61 – The Age of Miracles (Karen Thompson Walker)

I suspect that reading this book now hits a lot differently than reading it when it first came out. I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown. Julia and her family are enjoying a normal Saturday when strange news starts being reported. After a few days, the “what”

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2020: #17 – Winter (Marissa Meyer)

Blogger note: Book #16 was a reread of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the final book in Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles series, which is a fun series. The primary character in each book is very loosely based on a fairy tale character. First we had Cinder (Cinderella), then Scarlet (Little Red Riding Hood) and Cress (Rapunzel). Princess Winter of Luna is

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2020: #15 – Cress (Marissa Meyer)

Blogger note: Book #14 was a reread of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie. Cress is the 3rd book in Meyer’s fun Lunar Chronicles series. The primary character in each book is very loosely based on a fairy tale character. First we had Cinder (Cinderella), then Scarlet (Little Red Riding Hood) and now Cress, who represents Rapunzel. Like Rapunzel, Cress is trapped in

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2016: Scarlet (Marissa Meyer)

I picked this up rather quickly after finishing Cinder, because I enjoyed Cinder so much. Unfortunately, I didn’t think Scarlet was as strong of a story. I think the main thing Scarlet has going against it is that there are two focuses to the story. First, you have the further adventures of Cinder and Kai, moving the overarching plot forward. Second, you have the new

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