The third book in Mercedes Lackey’s Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series, Fortune’s Fool is an enjoyable if eclectic remix of a number of fairy tales. Lackey takes a wide assortment of elements drawn from Russian, eastern and northern European, Japanese, and Middle Eastern folk and fairy tales, and mixes them up, higgledy-piggledy… and it works surprisingly well.
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth, died March 8 at the age of 91. Juster, an architect, began the classic children’s novel while… Read more »
The Blue Hills by Elizabeth Goudge Series: Torminster Saga #3 Published by Buccaneer Books on originally published in 1942 Genres: Historical Fiction Pages: 157 Format: Hardcover Source: my personal collection Add to Goodreads Also in this series: A City of Bells Also by this author: The Little White Horse, A… January 31, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews, Treasures from the Hoard 5 ★★★★★
East by Edith Pattou Series: East #1 Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on September 1st 2003 Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, MG Books, YA (Young Adult) Format: Kindle or ebook, Paperback Source: purchased Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Rose has always been different…. January 2, 2019 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 7
Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George Series: Princesses of Westfalin #1 Published by Bloomsbury USA Children’s on January 20, 2009 Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, YA (Young Adult) Format: Hardcover Source: the library Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble Add to Goodreads Also by this author:… October 11, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews, From the Vault 5 ★★★★½
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Trump lawyers threaten Simon & Schuster over imminent publication of Omorosa Manigault-Newman tell-all book (Publishers Weekly) ‘Spotify for Cookbooks’ Prepares to Launch (Publishers Weekly) Snakes… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Harlequin Launches Hanover Square Press, an imprint for “general fiction, narrative history, journalism, and memoir.” (Publishers Weekly) “Hachette’s New Clothes” explores Hachette’s acquisition of ebook… Read more »
Original Ideas? If there are only a limited number of basic plots, as many people claim, how does a writer make a book original, fresh, and interesting? Almost any plot line you can come up with has been done before. Heck, even fairy tales riff off each other — “Beauty… Read more »
From a High Tower Series: Elemental Masters #11 on June 2, 2015 Format: eARC Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Serpent’s Shadow, The Gates of Sleep, Phoenix and Ashes, Home from the Sea, Steadfast, Elemental Magic:, Blood Red, A Study in Sable From a High Tower is newest… May 27, 2015 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 10 ★★★
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Books for People Who Love ______. (I chose Fairy Tales.) I tried to put these in order, but I just couldn’t. However, pulling this post together made me realize how many… Read more »
