But in any event, here's what I found in my blog hunting this week (and please let me know if I missed your post!)
The Reviews
13 Gifts, by Wendy Mass, at Becky's Book Reviews
The Castle Behind Thorns, by Merrie Haskell, at Charlotte's Library
The Court of the Stone Children, by Eleanor Cameron, at Tor
The Eighth Day, by Dianne E. Salerni, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The False Prince, by Jennifer Nielsen, at Mister K Reads
The Flame of Olympus, by Kate Hearn, at Never Ending Stories
Ghost Hawk, by Susan Cooper, at Mister K Reads
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, by Sheila Turnage, at Bookends
A Hero for WondLa, by Tony DiTerlizzi, at The Overstuffed Bookcase
The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw, by Christopher Healy, at Book Nut
The Inventor's Secret, by Andrea Cremer, at Fantasy Book Critic
The Key to Kashdune, by Claudia White, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia
The Last Present, by Wendy Mass, at Becky's Book Reviews
The Mark of the Dragonfly, by Jaleigh Johnson, at Leeanna.me
Minion, by John David Anderson, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile
The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier, at Sharon the Librarian
Nightingale's Nest, by Nicky Loftin, at Librarian of Snark
Ordinary Magic, by Caitlen Rubino-Bradway, at Pages Unbound
The Princess and the Goblin, by George MacDonald, at alibrarymama
Princess of the Wild Swans, by Diane Zahler, at Tales of the Marvelous
The School For Good and Evil, by Soman Chainani, at A Journey Through Pages
Seven Stories Up, by Laurel Snyder, at Charlotte's Library
Sky Raiders, by Brandon Mull, at Log Cabin Library
A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd, at Hope Is the Word
A Tale Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz, at Wandering Librarians
The Thickety: A Path Begins, by J.A. White, at BooksForKidsBlog
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt, at alibrarymama
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin, at Wandering Librarians
Winter of the Robots, by Kurtis Scaletta, at Mister K Reads
Short looks at some Scholastic titles as Teen Librarian's Toolbox
And short looks at several MG fantasy books at Random Musings of a Bibliophile
Authors and Interviews
S.E. Grove (The Glass Sentence) at The (YA) Bookcase
Heather Mackey (Dreamwood) at Fearless Fifteeners
Sarah Mlynowski at The Children's Book Review
Emily Raabe (Lost Children of the Far Islands) at Word Spelunking
Christopher Healy (The Hero's Guide to Being and Outlaw) at Priscilla Gilman
I didn't see anything to put in my usual "more good stuff" section, but in the spirit of the solstice, here's what the interior of a house contemporaneous with Stonehenge might well have look liked (a nice counter to fantasy stereotypes of dark, fetid hovels):
You can read more at the BBC here.
And now I will go start chopping wood for the on-coming winter.
Oh, how I remember the much-loathed chore... EVERY weekend morning, gloves and long-sleeves and boots, stacking and hauling and sweating and twitching at ginormous spiders; pitch glueing my glove fingers together, twigs caught in my socks.
ReplyDeleteSplit wood still smells so good, though.
During the school year it's ALWAYS dark when I wake up, so I find summer confusing. Last week it was light at 5:30; why isn't it now? I can understand your feeling that we are slipping slowly towards winter!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this round-up! I reviewed Ben Hatke's ZITA THE SPACEGIRL this week: http://ceceliabedelia.blogspot.com/2014/06/zita-spacegirl.html.
ReplyDeleteIt might not be a dark, fetid hovel, but I will still take my cozy apartment over it any day. I am a woman of modern comforts.
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