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Review: The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King

Title: The Drawing of the Three (Goodreads) Author:  Stephen King Rating: ~ Blurb from Goodreads ~ After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of The Gunslinger, Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World’s Western Sea—each leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, […]
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Posted on October 29, 2012
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Review: Dodger, Terry Pratchett

Title: Dodger (Goodreads) Author:   Terry Pratchett Rating: Dodger is a tosher – a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn’t. But when he rescues a young girl from a beating, suddenly everybody wants to know him. And Dodger’s tale of skulduggery, dark plans and […]
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Posted on October 22, 2012
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Tour: Review: The Enchanted, K.B. Hoyle

Welcome to The Oaken Bookcase’s stop on The Enchanted blog tour! You can find the links to many more opinions and features on the book below my review. Title: The Enchanted (Goodreads) Author:   K.B. Hoyle (@kbhoyle_author) Rating: Darcy Pennington’s course was plotted out for her long before she ever stepped foot in Alitheia. Finally willing to go along […]
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Posted on October 18, 2012
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Review: The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt, Greg Hildebrandt Jr

Title: The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt (Goodreads) Author:  Greg Hildebrandt Jr Rating: The million- selling Lord of the Rings calendars created during the ’70s by renowned fantasy artists Greg and Tim Hildebrandt are now considered artistic masterpieces. This coffee table art book, “The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt,” collects all that fantastic art, while […]
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Posted on October 17, 2012
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Review: Quintana of Charyn, Melina Marchetta

Title: Quintana of Charyn (Goodreads) Author:  Melina Marchetta (@MMarchetta1) Rating: Separated from the girl he loves and has sworn to protect, Froi must travel through Charyn to search for Quintana, the mother of Charyn’s unborn king, and protect her against those who will do anything to gain power. But what happens when loyalty to family and country conflict? […]
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Posted on October 15, 2012
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Review: Froi of the Exiles, Melina Marchetta

Title: Froi of the Exiles (Goodreads) Author:  Melina Marchetta (@MMarchetta1) Rating: Three years after the curse on Lumatere was lifted, Froi has found his home… Or so he believes. Fiercely loyal to the Queen and Finnikin, Froi has been trained roughly and lovingly by the Guard sworn to protect the royal family, and has learned to control his […]
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Posted on October 5, 2012
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Tour: Roots of Insight, Breeanna Putroff – Review and Giveaway

Welcome to The Oaken Bookcase’s stop on the Roots of Insight blog tour! There’s a giveaway and links to the other stops on the tour below my review. Title: Roots of Insight (Goodreads) Author:  Breeanna Putroff (@BPuttroff) Rating: Quinn Robbins has just returned from spending ten days in Eirentheos, a world she had never known existed. Trying to […]
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Posted on October 3, 2012
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Review: Seeds of Discovery, Breeanna Putroff

Title: Seeds of Discovery (Goodreads) Author:  Breeanna Putroff (@BPuttroff) Rating: Quinn Robbins’ life was everything she thought a teenager’s should be. She has good friends, a family that she loves, good grades, and an after-school job she enjoys. And, she’s just been asked out by Zander Cunningham, a popular football player and great guy. But one day when […]
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Posted on October 2, 2012
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Review: A Corner of White, Jaclyn Moriarty

Title: A Corner of White (Goodreads) Author:  Jaclyn Moriarty Rating: Madeleine Tully lives in Cambridge, England, the World – a city of spires, Isaac Newton and Auntie’s Tea Shop. Elliot Baranski lives in Bonfire, the Farms, the Kingdom of Cello – where seasons roam, the Butterfly Child sleeps in a glass jar, and bells warn of attacks […]
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Posted on September 27, 2012
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Review: The Gunslinger, Stephen King

Title: The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1) (Goodreads) Author:  Stephen King Rating: ~ Blurb from Goodreads ~ In The Gunslinger King introduces his most enigmatic hero, Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting, solitary figure at first, on a mysterious quest through a desolate world that eerily mirrors our own. Pursuing the man in black, […]
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Posted on September 20, 2012
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