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So it's a good thing my Easter books arrived to cheer me with thoughts of next month. I finally caved and bought a copy of The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart because it kept showing up every time I checked my Amazon.com recommendations. Behold, the power of marketing! (Though I probably wouldn't have caved if I hadn't noticed it's over 500 pages long. I love long stories. If Stewart can keep up the whimsy for the entire book, it'll have been a worthwhile investment.)
I also purchased Robin McKinley's Dragonhaven. I don't have the thing for McKinley that I once did, but I've been meaning to read this one and see what her foray into a first-person male teenage narrator sounds like. That a large subset of McKinley fandom bemoans this novel's lack of lyricism is, in my eyes, something of a plus -- her lyrical prose can get downright inscrutable, IMO.
Random searching landed me with a copy each of The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C. Hines (Cinderella teams up with Sleeping Beauty, a martial arts master, and Snow White, a mirror-wielding sorceress, to rescue her prince after he's kidnapped by one of her stepsisters) and Airborn by Kenneth Oppel (sold to me as "Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines, but with a lower body count"). Both are the starts of series, so I'm hoping they're as entertaining as they sound.
Finally, I was greatly amused to see that Jim Butcher's Death Masks arrived packaged in its own plastic sleeve inside the box, as if someone were afraid it might contaminate the other books. Heh.
Only 23 days of Lent and 7 ofHellHoly Week to go ...
I also purchased Robin McKinley's Dragonhaven. I don't have the thing for McKinley that I once did, but I've been meaning to read this one and see what her foray into a first-person male teenage narrator sounds like. That a large subset of McKinley fandom bemoans this novel's lack of lyricism is, in my eyes, something of a plus -- her lyrical prose can get downright inscrutable, IMO.
Random searching landed me with a copy each of The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C. Hines (Cinderella teams up with Sleeping Beauty, a martial arts master, and Snow White, a mirror-wielding sorceress, to rescue her prince after he's kidnapped by one of her stepsisters) and Airborn by Kenneth Oppel (sold to me as "Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines, but with a lower body count"). Both are the starts of series, so I'm hoping they're as entertaining as they sound.
Finally, I was greatly amused to see that Jim Butcher's Death Masks arrived packaged in its own plastic sleeve inside the box, as if someone were afraid it might contaminate the other books. Heh.
Only 23 days of Lent and 7 of