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Sep. 15th, 2011 02:55 pmBook #63 -- Emily Rodda, The Key To Rondo
, 368 pages.
The old music box has been passed down in Leo's family for generations. All the children learn the rules: Wind the box three times only. Never shut the box when the music is playing. Never move the box before the music stops. When Leo inherits the box he intends to keep the rules as his grand-aunt did before him. His adventurous cousin Mimi, however, has different ideas. When Mimi breaks the rules of the box she unleashes a terrible power that threatens to consume not just the world in the box, but Leo and Mimi as well.
Book #64 -- Chris Platt, Star Gazer
, 144 pages.
Jordan McKenzie has just moved to rural Michigan from California, and she is enraptured by the big draft horses used by the local Mennonites. Jordan desperately wants a horse of her own, but her mother is reluctant, until the day Jordan accompanies a friend to the auction and makes an unplanned purchase - a lame draft mare destined for the slaughterhouse. Now Jordan has to nurse the mare back to health, and convince her mother, and the whole town, that she's not just a clueless city girl.
Book #65 -- Warren Fahy, Fragment: A Novel
, 528 pages.
Hender's Island is a no-mans-land - an impenetrable fortress out of the way of the major shipping lanes and untouched by man for centuries. Botanist Nell Duckworth hitches a ride with an adventure reality show, hoping to discover new plant species on an island ecosystem isolated from the rest of the world. What they find, however, goes beyond what anyone could have imagined. Turns out Hender's Island has been isolated for a lot longer than anyone though - long enough for evolution to take a completely different path. And the creatures
of Hender's Island are hungry.
Book #66 -- Sam Bourne, Righteous Men
, 416 pages.
Mediocre murder mystery/religious conspiracy story.
Book #67 -- David Gregory, The Next Level: A Parable of Finding Your Place in Life
, 119 pages.
An interesting parable about different ways of looking at live by comparing the universe to a global corporation. Some of the insights were actually rather good and well articulated, unfortunately the end conclusion is far too religious for my tastes.
Book #68 -- Marcus Sedgwick, My Swordhand Is Singing
, 224 pages.
A vampire story the way vampire stories *should* be.
Progress toward goals: 257/365 = 70.4%
Books: 68/100 = 68.0%
Pages: 21268/30000 = 70.9%
2011 Books
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, 368 pages.The old music box has been passed down in Leo's family for generations. All the children learn the rules: Wind the box three times only. Never shut the box when the music is playing. Never move the box before the music stops. When Leo inherits the box he intends to keep the rules as his grand-aunt did before him. His adventurous cousin Mimi, however, has different ideas. When Mimi breaks the rules of the box she unleashes a terrible power that threatens to consume not just the world in the box, but Leo and Mimi as well.
Book #64 -- Chris Platt, Star Gazer
, 144 pages.Jordan McKenzie has just moved to rural Michigan from California, and she is enraptured by the big draft horses used by the local Mennonites. Jordan desperately wants a horse of her own, but her mother is reluctant, until the day Jordan accompanies a friend to the auction and makes an unplanned purchase - a lame draft mare destined for the slaughterhouse. Now Jordan has to nurse the mare back to health, and convince her mother, and the whole town, that she's not just a clueless city girl.
Book #65 -- Warren Fahy, Fragment: A Novel
, 528 pages.Hender's Island is a no-mans-land - an impenetrable fortress out of the way of the major shipping lanes and untouched by man for centuries. Botanist Nell Duckworth hitches a ride with an adventure reality show, hoping to discover new plant species on an island ecosystem isolated from the rest of the world. What they find, however, goes beyond what anyone could have imagined. Turns out Hender's Island has been isolated for a lot longer than anyone though - long enough for evolution to take a completely different path. And the creatures
of Hender's Island are hungry.
Book #66 -- Sam Bourne, Righteous Men
, 416 pages.Mediocre murder mystery/religious conspiracy story.
Book #67 -- David Gregory, The Next Level: A Parable of Finding Your Place in Life
, 119 pages.An interesting parable about different ways of looking at live by comparing the universe to a global corporation. Some of the insights were actually rather good and well articulated, unfortunately the end conclusion is far too religious for my tastes.
Book #68 -- Marcus Sedgwick, My Swordhand Is Singing
, 224 pages.A vampire story the way vampire stories *should* be.
Progress toward goals: 257/365 = 70.4%
Books: 68/100 = 68.0%
Pages: 21268/30000 = 70.9%
2011 Books
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