Title: Six of Crows Author: Leigh Bardugo Publisher: Henry Holt and Company Publication Date: September 29, 2015 Page Count: 462 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Fiction, High Fantasy Time Period: Location: Ketterdam Welcome to Ketterdam, where the streets are dark and the deeds are darker. When Kaz is offered a an irresistible amount of money to steal something from the impenetrable walls of the Ice Court, he knows he will need to assemble the perfect crew to do so. A crew that will be willing to follow him to certain death and those he will know will have his back when things go awry. The inner circle of misfits include a trigger happy gambling addict, a runaway with a past no one knows about, a knife wielding Wraith with ninja quietness, a Heartrender, a convict, and Kaz himself. According to the man who hired Kaz and his team, the fate of the world as they know it rests on their success. Can they manage the heist without killing thems...
Title: Boneshaker Series: Clockwork Century Author: Cherie Priest Publisher: TorBooks Publication Date: September 2009 Page Count: 416 Genre: Science Fiction, Steampunk Time Period: 1880s Location: Seattle, Washington (Alternate Historical) In an alternate historical 1860's Seattle, Leviticus Blue, an inventor, built a commissioned machine to drill through the ice in search of gold. Something went terribly wrong in 1863 and the Boneshaker tore from Blue's basement, wreaking havoc on the city before returning home again. Not only did the Boneshaker destroy the land, it also released a deadly gas, Blight, that will either kill the person who breathes it in or turn them into a "rotter" (aka, zombie). The city was evacuated and a 2-square-mile, 200-foot-high wall was erected to contain the gas. Sixteen years later, his widow, Briar, has been trying unsuccessfully to live down the life that Blue has left her with - the shame and gui...
When I was a child, I would read anything and everything around. I would pull everything I could find off the shelf and read it. No matter what it was; funny, scary, happy, sad. It didn't matter. I just wanted to read. When I was a child, ebooks weren't a thing, neither were devices as they are now. There weren't tablets, phones, computers, or anything like that. I remember getting super excited when I found a typewriter at a garage sale so I could finally type my own stories instead of handwriting them! :) Over the years, I clearly started picking books based on what my interests were and started including ebooks and audio books. I remember when I first had a teacher who had books on tape in the classroom and I hated them! Now I rather enjoy them, which has come as such a surprise to me (although I am rather picky on narrators, for sure!). I found LeGuin's article rather interesting. I completely agree with her ending statement that "if a book told you somethin...
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