Despite its jokey title and a few quips, this is NOT a funny book. So if you are looking for Brysonian humor, you will be disappointed. It is, however, very interesting. Bill […]
THE BODY: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson, narrated by the author
PRINCESS OF THE SILVER WOODS (TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES #3) by Jessica Day George
This is the final volume of the TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES series. Like Volume 2, which was a blend of the 12 dancing princesses fairy tale with Cinderella, this is a blend of […]
Jessica Day George’s PRINCESS OF GLASS (not exactly the Cinderella Story)
To say that Jessica Day George’s PRINCESS OF GLASS is yet another retelling of the Cinderella fairytale would be to mislead the reader, as neither Cinderella (named Eleanora/Ellen in this volume) nor […]
Jessica Day George’s PRINCESS OF THE MIDNIGHT BALL
I loved this retelling of the TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES. Jessica Day George adds some features that fill in the spaces and add logical sense to the gaps in the tale. We learn […]
PRIESTESS OF AVALON (AVALON #4) by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana L. Paxson
While THE MISTS OF AVALON, the first volume in this series was set in Britain in the five hundreds CE, when the Romans left, the Anglo-Saxons arrived and Christianity was ascendant, PRIESTESS […]
LADY OF AVALON (AVALON #3) by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana L. Paxson
This novel is three stories in one, and serves to bridge the time period between FOREST HOUSE which takes place from 86 to 96 CE, to 452 CE when Viviane takes over […]
THE FOREST HOUSE (AVALON #2) by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana L. Paxson
It is around 86 CE. Eilan, a 14-year-old grand-daughter of Ardanos, the Arch-Druid of Britannia, can already see visions and hears the call of the Goddess. All might have gone smoothly with […]
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s THE MISTS OF AVALON (AVALON #1)
To many, three is a sacred number. It is the sign of the Trinity. Three Norns twine the threads of Fate. And in this re-telling of the King Arthur Legend (told from […]
Heather Dixon’s ENTWINED
ENTWINED is author Heather Dixon’s retelling of the twelve dancing princesses set in a castle in the nineteenth century. At the beginning, the eleven sisters are faced with a double tragedy, the […]
THE LAND BEYOND THE SEA by Sharon Kay Penman
Although this novel got off to a slow start, I loved discovering the courage, heroism and leadership of a couple of characters I had never heard of before. King Baldwin IV of […]
