Grace's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:38:47 -0800 60 Grace's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[King of Thorns (Broken Empire #2)]]> 17999884 597 Mark Lawrence 0007439024 Grace 5 4.13 2012 King of Thorns (Broken Empire #2)
author: Mark Lawrence
name: Grace
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2014/08/05
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]]> <![CDATA[Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War, #1)]]> 18191460 First in a brand new series from the author of The Broken Empire Trilogy.

The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire dread her like no other. For all her reign she has fought the long war, contested in secret, against the powers that stand behind nations, for higher stakes than land or gold. Her greatest weapon is The Silent Sister—unseen by most and unspoken of by all.

The Red Queen’s grandson, Prince Jalan Kendeth—drinker, gambler, seducer of women—is one who can see The Silent Sister. Tenth in line for the throne and content with his role as a minor royal, he pretends that the hideous crone is not there. But war is coming. Witnesses claim an undead army is on the march, and the Red Queen has called on her family to defend the realm. Jal thinks it’s all a rumor—nothing that will affect him.

But he is wrong…]]> 367 Mark Lawrence 1101630930 Grace 4 4.13 2014 Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War, #1)
author: Mark Lawrence
name: Grace
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> An Enchantment of Ravens 34997533 A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts—even as she falls in love with a faerie prince—in this gorgeous debut novel.

Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron—Rook, the autumn prince—she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes—a weakness that could cost him his life.

Furious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. Waylaid by the Wild Hunt’s ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love—and that love violates the fair folks’ ruthless laws. Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel.]]> 303 Margaret Rogerson Grace 4 3.81 2017 An Enchantment of Ravens
author: Margaret Rogerson
name: Grace
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Immortal Reign (Falling Kingdoms, #6)]]> 34948555 As two lethal elemental gods set out to destroy Mytica, sworn enemies must become allies in the final fight to save the kingdoms.?

Jonas continues to willfully defy his destiny, but the consequences of plotting his own course are drastic. As the fight for Mytica rages on, he must decide just how much more he's willing to sacrifice.?

Lucia knows there's something special about her daughter and she'll do anything to protect her, even if that means facing Kyan alone.

Amara is called back home to Kraeshia. Grandma Cortas has her own plans for Mytica's future. She promises Amara ?power, revenge, and dominance if she agrees to be part of her scheme.

Magnus and Cleo's love will be put to the ultimate test. Dark magic is causing widespread destruction throughout the kingdom. Enemies across the sea are advancing. And unrest is stirring throughout the land. Is their love strong enough to withstand the outside forces tearing them apart?]]> 377 Morgan Rhodes 0698185609 Grace 3 4.33 2018 Immortal Reign (Falling Kingdoms, #6)
author: Morgan Rhodes
name: Grace
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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]]> Sorcery of Thorns 43368595 From the New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens comes an imaginative fantasy about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom.

All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.

Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.

As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.]]> 465 Margaret Rogerson 1481497634 Grace 3 cliche, but a fast read 4.08 2019 Sorcery of Thorns
author: Margaret Rogerson
name: Grace
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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cliche, but a fast read
]]> <![CDATA[The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)]]> 25021443 342 Maggie Stiefvater 0545860350 Grace 4 4.29 2016 The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
author: Maggie Stiefvater
name: Grace
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2016/05/01
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]]> <![CDATA[Falling Kingdoms (Falling Kingdoms, #1)]]> 13613142
A princess raised in luxury must embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long thought extinct.

Enraged at injustice, a rebel lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country impoverished--and finds himself the leader of a people's revolution centuries in the making.

A girl adopted at birth into a royal family discovers the truth about her past--and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield.

Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, a firstborn son begins to realize that the heart can be more lethal than the sword...

The only outcome that's certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed?

"Falling Kingdoms will gut you emotionally. It will make you ache, cry, and beg for the sequel as you turn the last page. I absolutely loved it."--Julie Kagawa, New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Queen

"This triple-layered tale of bloodshed, heartbreak, and tangled court intrigue kept me turning pages very late into the night."--Lesley Livingston, award-winning author of Wondrous Strange]]> 400 Morgan Rhodes 1101590769 Grace 4 3.64 2012 Falling Kingdoms (Falling Kingdoms, #1)
author: Morgan Rhodes
name: Grace
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove, #1)]]> 42608037 For her sixteenth birthday, Louise le Blanc’s mother gave her three things: a sacrificial altar, a ritual knife, and a wicked scar.

Lou’s death would have ended the ancient war between the Church and witches, but Lou refuses to become a martyr. Forsaking her coven, she escapes to the gloomy city of Cesarine and hides her magic as a thief in the criminal underworld. But life in Cesarine has its own dangers. Huntsmen roam the city revered as holy men. Witches burn without trial. And the Archbishop, the Church’s austere patriarch, revels in violence.

As a huntsman, Reid Diggory lives by one verse:?thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

He's devoted his entire life to eradicating the occult and making his surrogate father, the Archbishop, proud. Finally given the chance to capture a witch of his own, Reid is devastated when a foul-mouthed thief thwarts him—and doubly devastated when she too disappears. Hell-bent on bringing her to justice, Reid vows she won't escape again. But when Lou tricks him into public scandal trying to avoid capture, the two are forced into an impossible situation—marriage.

Marriage to a huntsman could provide real protection from the witches—if Lou can convince Reid she isn’t one herself. The secret proves difficult to keep as Lou begins practicing magic in secret within the heart of the Church, determined to prepare for her mother’s inevitable return. As time passes, however, Lou discovers yet another danger lurking: her own growing feelings for her husband. But Reid is still dangerous. He’s just as likely to tie her to the?stake as?defend her if he learns her true identity. With enemies closing in—and more than her own life at stake—Lou must decide who she can trust before it's too late…and she's not the only one with a secret.]]> 518 Shelby Mahurin 0062878042 Grace 2 4.01 2019 Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove, #1)
author: Shelby Mahurin
name: Grace
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2020/02/08
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This book just doesn’t make much sense. Not the characters, not the plot, not the humor.
]]> <![CDATA[???????? ????????????????? ??????? 20 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #20)]]> 17843093 162 Koji Kumeta 6163132769 Grace 4 3.89 2007 ???????? ????????????????? ??????? 20 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #20)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 人间失格 12324755 168 Osamu Dazai 7546302390 Grace 4 3.97 人间失格
author: Osamu Dazai
name: Grace
average rating: 3.97
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 22 9158087 159 Koji Kumeta 4063843440 Grace 4 3.76 2010 さよなら絶望先生 22
author: Koji Kumeta
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average rating: 3.76
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 15 5283083 159 Koji Kumeta 4063840492 Grace 4 3.70 2008 さよなら絶望先生 15
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 11 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #11)]]> 11706578 176 Koji Kumeta 1935429817 Grace 4 3.92 2007 Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 11 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #11)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 6 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #6)]]> 7149375 ?
Those suffering from this peculiar condition, according to Zetsubou-sensei, blame themselves for everything that goes on around them. But as Zetsubou-sensei explores this affliction, he realizes that he himself is a victim! Luckily, the sensei has a foolproof plan for putting an end to Delusional Self-Blaming Disorder—which happens to involve a long rope dangling from a tree. Could this be the end of Zetsubou-sensei?
?]]> 176 Koji Kumeta 0345518128 Grace 4 4.04 2006 Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 6 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #6)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 25 12379867 159 Koji Kumeta 4063844838 Grace 4 3.73 2011 さよなら絶望先生 25
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 23 12379869 159 Koji Kumeta 4063843963 Grace 4 3.73 2010 さよなら絶望先生 23
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 10 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #10)]]> 11706577 176 Koji Kumeta 1935429809 Grace 4 3.90 2007 Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 10 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #10)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.90
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rating: 4
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]]> Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei 24 12379868 159 Koji Kumeta 4063844439 Grace 4 3.73 2011 Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei 24
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 12 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #12)]]> 11288841 176 Koji Kumeta 1935429825 Grace 4 3.87 2008 Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 12 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #12)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 8 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #8)]]> 7956771 ?
November means that it’s time for the Shichigosan holiday, a rite of passage for all Japanese children. Of course, Zetsubou-sensei is quick to point out that rites of passage don’t end with childhood. There are many different rites of passage in the world. For instance, a manga assistant’s rite of passage is spilling coffee on the storyboards for the first time. And we mustn’t forget the important rite of passage that any true Zetsubou fan must undergo. What is it, you ask? Why, buying a copy of Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei volume 8, of course!
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Includes special extras after the story!]]> 176 Koji Kumeta 0345522273 Grace 4 4.04 2007 Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 8 (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #8)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle]]> 40511119 A brilliantly original high concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent:?Gosford Park?meets Agatha Christie's?Murder on the Orient Express

'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.'

It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.

But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.?

The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...

]]> 447 Stuart Turton 1443457477 Grace 3 3.92 2018 The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
author: Stuart Turton
name: Grace
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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]]> Carry On (Simon Snow, #1) 25658618
That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.

Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here -- it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.

Carry On - The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters.]]> 384 Rainbow Rowell 146685054X Grace 5 3.93 2015 Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
author: Rainbow Rowell
name: Grace
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 18300267 The traditional favorite Jane Austen novel—her enduring story of pride and prejudice

When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr. Darcy she is repelled by his overbearing pride, and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy's friend, the affable Mr. Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, and love—Jane Austen's classic romance novel.]]> 443 Jane Austen 0099589338 Grace 5 favorites, physical-copies 4.43 1813 Pride and Prejudice
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]]> Lord Arthur Savile's Crime 24874326
Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Wilde's works available in Penguin Classics are De Profundis and Other Prison Writings, The Complete Short Fiction, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose.]]> 50 Oscar Wilde 0141397780 Grace 5 physical-copies 3.86 1963 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Grace
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1963
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tell-Tale Heart (Penguin Little Black Classics, #31)]]> 24874303
Librarian's note: this entry is for the story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." Collections of short stories and other writings by the author can be found elsewhere on 欧宝娱乐.]]> 48 Edgar Allan Poe 0141397268 Grace 4 physical-copies 3.96 1843 The Tell-Tale Heart (Penguin Little Black Classics, #31)
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Grace
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1843
rating: 4
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date added: 2021/09/15
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]]> <![CDATA[SPY×FAMILY 6 (Spy x Family, #6)]]> 56128047 207 Tatsuya Endo Grace 4 4.17 2020 SPY×FAMILY 6 (Spy x Family, #6)
author: Tatsuya Endo
name: Grace
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[SPY×FAMILY 5 (Spy x Family, #5)]]> 54870478 0 Tatsuya Endo Grace 4 4.25 2020 SPY×FAMILY 5 (Spy x Family, #5)
author: Tatsuya Endo
name: Grace
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[SPY×FAMILY 4 (Spy x Family, #4)]]> 49252628 191 Tatsuya Endo Grace 4 4.75 2020 SPY×FAMILY 4 (Spy x Family, #4)
author: Tatsuya Endo
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average rating: 4.75
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]]> Spy x Family, Vol. 3 56095504 200 Tatsuya Endo 1974724298 Grace 4 4.54 2020 Spy x Family, Vol. 3
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name: Grace
average rating: 4.54
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]]> SPY×FAMILY 2 52950513 194 Tatsuya Endo 4088821203 Grace 4 4.56 2019 SPY×FAMILY 2
author: Tatsuya Endo
name: Grace
average rating: 4.56
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]]> SPY×FAMILY 1 52961491 212 Tatsuya Endo Grace 4 4.45 2019 SPY×FAMILY 1
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]]> Northanger Abbey 414332 here.

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the joys of Gothic romances, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's house, Northanger Abbey. There, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue, Catherine comes to imagine terrible crimes committed by General Tilney, risking the loss of Henry's affection, and has to learn the difference between fiction and reality, false friends and true. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's works.]]> 254 Jane Austen 0141439793 Grace 4 3.78 1817 Northanger Abbey
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]]> <![CDATA[うらみちお兄さん 1 (Uramichi Oniisan, #1)]]> 37907260 132 Gaku Kuze Grace 4 3.60 2017 うらみちお兄さん 1 (Uramichi Oniisan, #1)
author: Gaku Kuze
name: Grace
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tower of Swallows (The Witcher, #4)]]> 29340636 The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to Baptism of Fire, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games.

The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Her crimes have made her famous. There is only one place left to run. The tower of the swallow is waiting...]]> 439 Andrzej Sapkowski Grace 4 4.25 1997 The Tower of Swallows (The Witcher, #4)
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average rating: 4.25
book published: 1997
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]]> Anna Karenina 153
Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.]]> 838 Leo Tolstoy 0140449175 Grace 4 physical-copies 4.21 1878 Anna Karenina
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name: Grace
average rating: 4.21
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]]> Normal People 37539458
Sally Rooney's second novel is a deeply political novel, just as it's also a novel about love. It's about how difficult it is to speak to what you feel and how difficult it is to change. It's wry and seductive; perceptive and bold. It will make you cry and you will know yourself through it.]]> 269 Sally Rooney 0571334660 Grace 4 3.59 2018 Normal People
author: Sally Rooney
name: Grace
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Meek One (Penguin Little Black Classics, #44)]]> 24874310
In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881).

Dostoyevsky's works available in Penguin Classics are Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Double, The Gambler and Other Stories, The Grand Inquisitor, Notes From The Underground, Netochka Nezvanova, The House of The Dead, The Brothers Karamazov and The Village of Stepanchikovo.]]> 57 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0141397489 Grace 3 physical-copies 3.83 1876 The Meek One (Penguin Little Black Classics, #44)
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Grace
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1876
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)]]> 2495567 My name is Kvothe.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me.

So begins a tale unequaled in fantasy literature--the story of a hero told in his own voice. It is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.

]]> 722 Patrick Rothfuss 0756404746 Grace 3 4.43 2007 The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
author: Patrick Rothfuss
name: Grace
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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I rolled my eyes so often at this book that I could barely keep reading it. Kvothe annoyed me so much and the way of narrating didn't work for me. I am being really generous giving it 3 stars. The DISAPPOINTMENT...
]]> Recursion 52922101 Memory makes reality.

That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.

That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.

As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.

But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?

At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it—and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.]]> 432 Blake Crouch 1509866671 Grace 2 4.18 2019 Recursion
author: Blake Crouch
name: Grace
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2019
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[うらみちお兄さん 3 (Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, #3)]]> 45717924 136 Gaku Kuze Grace 4 4.50 2019 うらみちお兄さん 3 (Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, #3)
author: Gaku Kuze
name: Grace
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[うらみちお兄さん 2 (Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, #2)]]> 39894651 他者を知って己を知る、それが大人だよ词!

教育番组「ママンとトゥギャザー」の体操のお兄さん?表田里道(31)。
ある时はミノムシに扮し、ある时は过酷なロケをこなしたりと体を张りながら子どもたちに説く。
社会とは、大人とは、そして人生とは……。

うらみちお兄さんと愉快な仲间たちが赠る哀しみの人生賛歌、
今回も大量の描き下ろしを加えて、大人になった“よい子"たちにお届けします!闭闭> 136 Gaku Kuze Grace 4 4.50 2018 うらみちお兄さん 2 (Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, #2)
author: Gaku Kuze
name: Grace
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Yellow Wall-Paper (Penguin Little Black Classics, #42)]]> 24874307 'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.'

Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do.

Also contains The Rocking-Chair and Old Water.]]> 54 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 0141397411 Grace 4 physical-copies 4.07 1892 The Yellow Wall-Paper (Penguin Little Black Classics, #42)
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
name: Grace
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1892
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Durarara!!, Vol. 2 (Durarara!! light novel, #2)]]> 26119788
Ikebukuro, Tokyo. A place where the clumsy and inept at love gather. A high school girl worried about her status. A third-rate magazine reporter covering the Ikebukuro beat. A teacher suspected of sexual harassment. A thug wearing a yellow bandanna, who is said to be the toughest around. A young man who deals in all manner of sensitive information. And a headless rider on a coal-black motorcycle. As these individuals and more are drawn into a whirl of unlucky incidents, Ikebukuro itself will begin to crumble...]]> 204 Ryohgo Narita Grace 3 4.20 2005 Durarara!!, Vol. 2 (Durarara!! light novel, #2)
author: Ryohgo Narita
name: Grace
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Durarara!!, Vol. 1 (Durarara!! light novel, #1)]]> 25793514
The Ikebukuro district in Tokyo is full of interesting people. A boy longing for the extraordinary. A hotheaded punk. An airheaded pseudo-stalker. An information broker who works for kicks. An underground doctor who specializes in truly desperate patients. A high school student infatuated with a monster. And a headless rider on a pitch-black motorcycle. Their story may not be a heartwarming one, but as it turns out, even weirdos like these sometimes fall in love.]]> 196 Ryohgo Narita Grace 3 4.23 2004 Durarara!!, Vol. 1 (Durarara!! light novel, #1)
author: Ryohgo Narita
name: Grace
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 2020/05/29
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]]> 编舟记 35994543 256 Shion Miura Grace 3 4.03 2011 编舟记
author: Shion Miura
name: Grace
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 30 18997003 162 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2012 さよなら絶望先生 30
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 29 18997004 160 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2012 さよなら絶望先生 29
author: Koji Kumeta
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book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[さよなら絶望先生（２８） (週刊少年マガジンコミックス) (Japanese Edition)]]> 18997002 160 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 3.83 2012 さよなら絶望先生（２８） (週刊少年マガジンコミックス) (Japanese Edition)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 27 25651742 144 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 3.00 2011 さよなら絶望先生 27
author: Koji Kumeta
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 26 18996999 160 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2011 さよなら絶望先生 26
author: Koji Kumeta
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[かくしごと 3 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #3)]]> 51746266 152 Koji Kumeta 406393148X Grace 4 3.00 2017 かくしごと 3 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #3)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.00
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[かくしごと 2 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #2)]]> 32707676 172 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2016 かくしごと 2 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #2)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[かくしごと 4 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #4)]]> 51894066 152 Koji Kumeta 4063932095 Grace 4 3.33 2017 かくしごと 4 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #4)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[かくしごと 1 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #1)]]> 31118441 188 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2016 かくしごと 1 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #1)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 21 25651694 159 Koji Kumeta 4063843076 Grace 4 4.00 2010 さよなら絶望先生 21
author: Koji Kumeta
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 19 18996996 159 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2009 さよなら絶望先生 19
author: Koji Kumeta
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 18 18996991 159 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2009 さよなら絶望先生 18
author: Koji Kumeta
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average rating: 4.00
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rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 17 19040017 159 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 3.50 2009 さよなら絶望先生 17
author: Koji Kumeta
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average rating: 3.50
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rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 16 18996990 159 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 3.50 2009 さよなら絶望先生 16
author: Koji Kumeta
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average rating: 3.50
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rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 14 18996988 163 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2008 さよなら絶望先生 14
author: Koji Kumeta
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 13 18996987 159 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2008 さよなら絶望先生 13
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[かくしごと 7 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #7)]]> 44531079 156 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 3.80 2018 かくしごと 7 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #7)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[かくしごと 6 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #6)]]> 44530880 140 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 3.83 2018 かくしごと 6 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #6)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)]]> 18924205
But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered from his injuries.

While war rages across all of the lands, the future of magic is under threat and those sorcerers who survive are determined to protect it. It's an impossible situation in which to find one girl - Ciri, the heiress to the throne of Cintra, has vanished - until a rumor places her in the Niflgaard court, preparing to marry the Emperor.

Injured or not, Geralt has a rescue mission on his hands.

This is the third of the Witcher novels by Andrzej Sapkowski.]]> 378 Andrzej Sapkowski Grace 4 4.33 1996 Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)
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name: Grace
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 9 18996978 159 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2007 さよなら絶望先生 9
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> Cinder (Lunar Chronicles, #1) 12066190 The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series!

A wicked mash-up of fairy tale and 罢别谤尘颈苍补迟辞谤—set in a Star Wars kind of world—Marissa Meyer's Cinder is a fresh and fiercely ingenious futuristic retelling of Cinderella

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . .

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.]]> 8 Marissa Meyer 1427215006 Grace 3 3.97 2012 Cinder (Lunar Chronicles, #1)
author: Marissa Meyer
name: Grace
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 7 18996974 160 Koji Kumeta 406363793X Grace 4 3.50 2007 さよなら絶望先生 7
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[かくしごと 5 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #5)]]> 39901421 164 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2017 かくしごと 5 (Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, #5)
author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 5 18996972 160 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 4.00 2006 さよなら絶望先生 5
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rating: 4
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rating: 4
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rating: 4
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author: Koji Kumeta
name: Grace
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 4
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]]> さよなら絶望先生 １ 18913881 160 Koji Kumeta Grace 4 3.50 2005 さよなら絶望先生 １
author: Koji Kumeta
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average rating: 3.50
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rating: 4
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]]> The Shadows Between Us 51974936
1) Woo the Shadow King.
2) Marry him.
3) Kill him and take his kingdom for herself.

No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King’s power. Some say he can command the shadows that swirl around him to do his bidding. Others say they speak to him, whispering the thoughts of his enemies. Regardless, Alessandra knows what she deserves, and she’s going to do everything within her power to get it.

But Alessandra’s not the only one trying to kill the king. As attempts on his life are made, she finds herself trying to keep him alive long enough for him to make her his queen—all while struggling not to lose her heart. After all, who better for a Shadow King than a cunning, villainous queen?]]> 326 Tricia Levenseller 1250761239 Grace 1 3.98 2020 The Shadows Between Us
author: Tricia Levenseller
name: Grace
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2020
rating: 1
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I don't hate it. It is just simply bad.
]]> The Kiss Quotient 40514344
A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases--a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.

It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice--with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan--from foreplay to more-than-missionary position...

Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but to crave all the other things he's making her feel. Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...]]> 10 Helen Hoang Grace 2 3.73 2018 The Kiss Quotient
author: Helen Hoang
name: Grace
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2018
rating: 2
read at: 2018/07/12
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]]> <![CDATA[The Time of Contempt (The Witcher #2)]]> 18924206 Blood of Elves, in the series that inspired The Witcher video games.

Geralt is a guardian of the innocent; protector of those in need; a defender, in dark times, against some of the most frightening creatures of myth and legend. His task, now, is to protect Ciri. A child of prophecy, she will have the power to change the world for good or for ill -- but only if she lives to use it.

A coup threatens the Wizard's Guild.
War breaks out across the lands.
A serious injury leaves Geralt fighting for his life...
... and Ciri, in whose hands the world's fate rests, has vanished...]]> 337 Andrzej Sapkowski 0316219142 Grace 4 4.22 1995 The Time of Contempt (The Witcher #2)
author: Andrzej Sapkowski
name: Grace
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)]]> 40891244
HARPER's life has never been easy, but she's learned to be tough enough to survive the streets of Washington, D.C. When she is sucked into Rhen's world, nothing is as it seems. Piwerful forces are standing against Emberfall ... and it will take more than a broken curse to save it from utter ruin.]]> 504 Brigid Kemmerer 1408884615 Grace 3 physical-copies 4.07 2019 A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)
author: Brigid Kemmerer
name: Grace
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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date added: 2020/02/02
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It was a lot of fun until I reached the part where the author starts to build up plots for the following books. Not a fan of the last chunk of the book, especially the ending that implies things I don’t want to see in the second book.
]]> The Will and the Wilds 44646004 A spellbinding story of truce and trickery from the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Paper Magician series.

Enna knows to fear the mystings that roam the wildwood near her home. When one tries to kill her to obtain an enchanted stone, Enna takes a huge fighting back with a mysting of her own.

Maekallus’s help isn’t free. His price? A kiss. One with the power to steal her soul. But their deal leaves Maekallus bound to the mortal realm, which begins eating him alive. Only Enna’s kiss, given willingly, can save him from immediate destruction. It’s a temporary salvation for Maekallus and a lingering doom for Enna. Part of her soul now burns bright inside Maekallus, making him feel for the first time.

Enna shares Maekallus’s suffering, but her small sacrifice won’t last long. If she and Maekallus can’t break the spell binding him to the mortal realm, Maekallus will be consumed completely—and Enna’s soul with him.]]> 267 Charlie N. Holmberg 1542005019 Grace 4 3.93 2020 The Will and the Wilds
author: Charlie N. Holmberg
name: Grace
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood of Elves (The Witcher #1)]]> 35673872 Andrzej Sapkowski’s New York Times bestselling Witcher series has inspired the hit Netflix show and multiple blockbuster video games, and has transported millions of fans around the globe to an epic, unforgettable world of magic and adventure. Now, for the first time, enjoy the full series in stunning new hardcover editions, featuring cover art by 8 different award-winning artists!

For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But that peace has now come to an end.

Geralt of Rivia, the hunter known as the Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. The one who has the power to change the world for good—or for evil.

As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is pursued for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt’s responsibility to protect them all. And the Witcher never accepts defeat.

Join Geralt of Rivia; his beloved ward and the child of prophecy, Ciri; and his ally and love, the powerful sorceress Yennefer as they battle monsters, demons, and prejudices alike in Blood of Elves, the first novel of The Witcher Saga.


Witcher story collections
The Last Wish
Sword of Destiny

Witcher novels
Blood of Elves
The Time of Contempt
Baptism of Fire
The Tower of Swallows
Lady of the Lake
Season of Storms?(stand alone)

Hussite Trilogy
The Tower of Fools
Warriors of God
Light Perpetual

Translated from original Polish by Danusia Stok]]> 324 Andrzej Sapkowski Grace 5 4.07 1994 Blood of Elves (The Witcher #1)
author: Andrzej Sapkowski
name: Grace
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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Needless to say, I am obsessed!
]]> <![CDATA[Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)]]> 29486636
Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are unremittingly vile, vicious grotesques, others are the victims of sin, evil or simple naivety.

In this collection of short stories, following the adventures of the hit collection The Last Wish, join Geralt as he battles monsters, demons and prejudices alike ...]]> 374 Andrzej Sapkowski 1473211549 Grace 5 physical-copies, favorites Reading those last couple of pages while listening to 'The Fields of Ard Skellige' made me kinda emotional...]]> 4.22 1992 Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)
author: Andrzej Sapkowski
name: Grace
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1992
rating: 5
read at: 2019/12/26
date added: 2019/12/26
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Damn, this is good. I love it more than The Last Wish.
Reading those last couple of pages while listening to 'The Fields of Ard Skellige' made me kinda emotional...
]]> The Humans 16130537
He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, and the wars they witness on the news, and is totally baffled by concepts such as love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he has been led to believe. He drinks wine, reads Emily Dickinson, listens to Talking Heads, and begins to bond with the family he lives with, in disguise. In picking up the pieces of the professor's shattered personal life, the narrator sees hope and redemption in the humans' imperfections and begins to question the very mission that brought him there--a mission that involves not only thwarting human progress...but murder.]]> 285 Matt Haig 1476727910 Grace 1 dnf 4.05 2013 The Humans
author: Matt Haig
name: Grace
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2013
rating: 1
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30 mins into the audiobook is more than enough for me to wish I have never started it.
]]> Starsight (Skyward, #2) 45159464 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.

All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true--he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.

Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars--and it was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.

But Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself--and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.]]> 480 Brandon Sanderson 147321792X Grace 5 I really miss the characters from the 1st book, but things have gone crazier in this one and M-bot and doomslug are with us, so what can I complain?]]> 4.47 2019 Starsight (Skyward, #2)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Grace
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2019/12/15
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4.5
I really miss the characters from the 1st book, but things have gone crazier in this one and M-bot and doomslug are with us, so what can I complain?
]]> <![CDATA[The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)]]> 2892159
As guardian of the innocent, Geralt meets incestuous kings with undead daughters, vengeful djinns, shrieking harpies, lovelorn vampires and despondent ghouls. Many are pernicious, some are merely, and none are quite as they appear.

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.]]> 280 Andrzej Sapkowski Grace 4 physical-copies 4.02 1993 The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
author: Andrzej Sapkowski
name: Grace
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2019/12/06
date added: 2019/12/06
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Different from what I expected, but still good. The Lesser Evil is absolutely my favourite.
]]> <![CDATA[The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)]]> 44636582 'HE WILL BE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CROWN AND THE RUINATION OF THE THRONE.'

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked King Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.

Now, as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is left reeling from Cardan's betrayal. She bides her time, determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose life is in peril. Jude must return to the treacherous Faerie Court and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan.

But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing, and she becomes ensnared in the conflict's bloody politics. When a terrible curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing Jude to choose between her ambition and her humanity...]]> 312 Holly Black 1471407578 Grace 2 *facepalm* 4.38 2019 The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
author: Holly Black
name: Grace
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2019/11/24
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*facepalm*
]]> <![CDATA[The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)]]> 39086641 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07BB2GVJX


You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.

The first lesson is to make yourself strong.

After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her, even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.

When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.]]> 337 Holly Black Grace 3 4.45 2019 The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
author: Holly Black
name: Grace
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2019/11/23
date added: 2019/11/23
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]]> <![CDATA[Godsgrave (The Nevernight Chronicle, #2)]]> 36481352 455 Jay Kristoff 0008180067 Grace 4 physical-copies 4.43 2017 Godsgrave (The Nevernight Chronicle, #2)
author: Jay Kristoff
name: Grace
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2019/11/17
date added: 2019/11/17
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]]> How Do You Like Me Now? 37670368 'Turning thirty is like playing musical chairs. The music stops, and everyone just marries whoever they happen to be sitting on.'

Who the f*ck is Tori Bailey?

There's no doubt that Tori is winning the game of life. A straight-talking, bestselling author, she's inspired millions of women around the world with her self-help memoir. And she has the perfect relationship to boot.

But Tori Bailey has been living a lie.

Her long-term boyfriend won't even talk about marriage, but everyone around her is getting engaged and having babies. And when her best friend Dee - her plus one, the only person who understands the madness - falls in love, suddenly Tori's in terrifying danger of being left behind.

When the world tells you to be one thing and turning thirty brings with it a loud ticking clock, it takes courage to walk your own path.

It's time for Tori to practice what she's preached, but the question is: is she brave enough?

The debut adult novel by bestselling author Holly Bourne is a blisteringly funny, honest and moving exploration of love, friendship and navigating the emotional rollercoaster of your thirties.]]> 294 Holly Bourne Grace 4 3.87 2018 How Do You Like Me Now?
author: Holly Bourne
name: Grace
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2019/11/03
date added: 2019/11/03
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]]> <![CDATA[The Liar's Key (The Red Queen's War, #2)]]> 26405215
After harrowing adventure and near-death, Prince Jalan Kendeth and the Viking Snorri ver Snagason find themselves in possession of Loki's Key, an artefact capable of opening any door and sought by the most dangerous beings in the Broken Empire - including The Dead King. Jal wants only to return home to his wine, women, and song, but Snorri has his own purpose for the key: to find the very door into death, throw it wide, and bring his family back into the land of the living. And as Snorri prepares for his quest to find death's door, Jal's grandmother, the Red Queen, continues to manipulate kings and pawns toward an endgame of her own design....]]> 20 Mark Lawrence 1490684298 Grace 4 3.83 2015 The Liar's Key (The Red Queen's War, #2)
author: Mark Lawrence
name: Grace
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2019/08/03
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]]> The Only Story 40060720 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.

First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.

As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.

Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of Britain's greatest mappers of the human heart.]]> 213 Julian Barnes 1784708313 Grace 4 physical-copies 3.64 2018 The Only Story
author: Julian Barnes
name: Grace
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2019/07/20
date added: 2019/07/20
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]]> A Gentleman in Moscow 37847017 The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.]]> 462 Towles Amor 0143132466 Grace 3 physical-copies 4.39 2016 A Gentleman in Moscow
author: Towles Amor
name: Grace
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2019/06/08
date added: 2019/06/08
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]]> Daisy Jones & The Six 44285440 368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798630 Grace 5 favorites I have always hoped that I know the language of music, that I can turn my feelings and emotions into melodies. I have always envied the musicians because they make releasing their emotions a career. But I had never thought how pouring oneself into one's music can mess up both their career and their personal life.
This book tells that side of the story, the talented musicians who wrote their love and hate into lyrics and melodies, and how that did not help them overcoming their issues but intensified them. This book actually helps me understand music better.
I love that the story is told in retrospect. I love the characters, love how almost everyone has a say in what happened. And I love that there is no "villain" in this story, that sometimes, things just don't work out for a group of good people.
If they are really making this book into a show, I hope they will do the songs justice. ]]> 3.99 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: Grace
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2019/03/23
date added: 2019/03/25
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I love watching documentaries about my favorite bands making albums and hearing the stories behind the songs. That's why the book grabbed my full attention at the very beginning.
I have always hoped that I know the language of music, that I can turn my feelings and emotions into melodies. I have always envied the musicians because they make releasing their emotions a career. But I had never thought how pouring oneself into one's music can mess up both their career and their personal life.
This book tells that side of the story, the talented musicians who wrote their love and hate into lyrics and melodies, and how that did not help them overcoming their issues but intensified them. This book actually helps me understand music better.
I love that the story is told in retrospect. I love the characters, love how almost everyone has a say in what happened. And I love that there is no "villain" in this story, that sometimes, things just don't work out for a group of good people.
If they are really making this book into a show, I hope they will do the songs justice.
]]> <![CDATA[Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)]]> 12279616
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle. Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.]]> 372 Ernest Cline 0099560437 Grace 4 4.21 2011 Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
author: Ernest Cline
name: Grace
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2014/09/26
date added: 2019/03/17
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]]> Vicious (Villains, #1) 13638125 A masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers.

Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.

Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?

In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.

Listening Length: 9 hours and 55 minutes]]> 368 Victoria E. Schwab 0765335344 Grace 4 Kinda hope Christopher Nolan would adapt this into a movie.]]> 4.24 2013 Vicious (Villains, #1)
author: Victoria E. Schwab
name: Grace
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2014/05/29
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5 stars!
Kinda hope Christopher Nolan would adapt this into a movie.
]]> War and Peace 416057
"Backgrounds and Sources" includes the publication history of War and Peace, selections from Tolstoy's letters and diaries as well as three drafts of his introduction to the novel that elucidate its evolution, and an 1868 article by Tolstoy in which he reacts to his critics.

"Criticism" includes twenty essays, seven of them new, that provide diverse perspectives on the novel by Nikolai Strakhov, V. I. Lenin, Henry James, Isaiah Berlin, D. S. Mirsky, Kathryn Feuer, Lydia Ginzburg, Richard Gustafson, Gary Saul Morson, and Caryl Emerson, among others.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.]]> 1200 Leo Tolstoy 039396647X Grace 5 favorites 4.30 1869 War and Peace
author: Leo Tolstoy
name: Grace
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1869
rating: 5
read at: 2016/07/27
date added: 2019/03/17
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I've spent 6 weeks reading this book, thinking about it whenever my mind is free, writing down many quotes, and taking 12 lengthy notes. If I was not graduating this year, I would say this is my biggest achievement in 2016. This book definitely worth the efforts, and I am sure that I will repeat the whole process some time in the future. I am lost for words for how great this book is and how much I love it. It has easily become THE favorite book of mine of all time.
]]> <![CDATA[Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1)]]> 34503674
WINNER OF THE THE AUREALIS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL

Mia Corvere is only ten years old when she is given her first lesson in death.
Destined to destroy empires, the child raised in shadows made a promise on the day she lost everything: to avenge herself on those that shattered her world.
But the chance to strike against such powerful enemies will be fleeting, and Mia must become a weapon without equal. Before she seeks vengeance, she must seek training among the infamous assassins of the Red Church of Itreya.
Inside the Church's halls, Mia must prove herself against the deadliest of opponents and survive the tutelage of murderers, liars and daemons at the heart of a murder cult.
The Church is no ordinary school. But Mia is no ordinary student.
The Red Church is no ordinary school, but Mia is no ordinary student.
The shadows love her.
And they drink her fear.]]> 463 Jay Kristoff 0008179980 Grace 4 physical-copies 4.24 2016 Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1)
author: Jay Kristoff
name: Grace
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2019/03/16
date added: 2019/03/16
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]]> The Magus 162853 The Magus is a feast for the mind and the senses.]]> 672 John Fowles Grace 0 to-read, physical-copies 3.95 1965 The Magus
author: John Fowles
name: Grace
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1965
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/03/10
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]]> Vengeful (Villains, #2) 41568127 A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions—V. E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to?Vicious.

Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Sydney and Serena Clarke. Great partnerships, now soured on the vine.

But Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death, she’s finally gained the control she’s always sought—and will use her newfound power to bring the city of Merit to its knees. She’ll do whatever it takes, collecting her own sidekicks, and leveraging the two most infamous EOs, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, against each other once more.

With Marcella’s rise, new enmities create opportunity—and the stage of Merit City will once again be set for a final, terrible reckoning.]]> 482 Victoria E. Schwab Grace 5 4.10 2018 Vengeful (Villains, #2)
author: Victoria E. Schwab
name: Grace
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2019/03/02
date added: 2019/03/02
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]]> Miss Brill 24874362
Three sharp and powerful short stories from Katherine Mansfield, one of the genre's all-time masters.]]> 53 Katherine Mansfield 0141398655 Grace 5 physical-copies This is amazing! 3.58 1920 Miss Brill
author: Katherine Mansfield
name: Grace
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1920
rating: 5
read at: 2015/08/19
date added: 2019/02/26
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This is amazing!
]]> <![CDATA[His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials, #1-3)]]> 11476291 Northern Lights introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. In The Subtle Knife she is joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As Lyra learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds and leads to a thrilling conclusion in The Amber Spyglass.
The epic story Pullman tells is not only a spellbinding adventure featuring armoured polar bears, magical devices, witches and daemons, it is also an audacious and profound re-imagining of Milton's Paradise Lost. An utterly entrancing blend of metaphysical speculation and bravura storytelling, HIS DARK MATERIALS is a monumental and enduring achievement.]]> 1102 Philip Pullman 1841593427 Grace 0 to-read, physical-copies 4.51 2000 His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials, #1-3)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Grace
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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