Book Reviews and a Little More…
I don’t know what I expected when I picked this up, but it certainly wasn’t what I got! I was unsure when I started because the writing is very formal (like Laurence himself), but by the time the dragon hatched and started talking, I was in! To say that Laurence is a reluctant dragon aviator is a huge understatement. He had his life all mapped
Read more
This book had some red flags for me. First, it starts out with some folklore. I really just have no patience for folklore. My eyes glaze over and I start skimming. But I hung in and kept going! Second, the genre lies somewhere between fantasy and historical fiction and magical realism, and magical realism and I have never gotten along well. Nonetheless, I stuck with
Read more
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley.” It’s been a long time since I read a true fantasy novel. I had heard a lot of buzz about Uprooted over the last year, and all of it was positive. It was one of the few fantasy novels that I’d see people recommend over and over. And
Read more
Book #66 was Bridge of Birds: A Novel of China That Never Was, by Barry Hughart. This is a book that Scott brought into the relationship. It was something he read in college and thought I should read, so I added it to the queue. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised by it. I was expecting some sort of obtuse, hard-to-read, Chinese fable
Read more