As I mentioned earlier this month, I read quite a few books over the break. Here are a few:<\/p>\n
The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass<\/i> by Phillip Pullman<\/b><\/p>\n
The initial book, ‘The Golden Compass’ is set it a world that is similar to, but yet unlike our own, where a person’s soul resides in their animal familiar–a d\u00c3\u00a6mon.<\/p>\n
Read More about The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen<\/i> by Garth Nix<\/b><\/p>\n The stories are set in two connected worlds. There is the world that feels to me a bit like England before WWII, and the magical world, whose entrance is guarded by a military conversant in weaponry both modern and medieval.<\/p>\n Read more about Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Paper Mage<\/i> by Leah R. Cutter<\/b><\/p>\n Xiao Yen, hero of Paper Mage<\/i> is a dutiful daughter, dutiful niece, and practicing paper mage. The book is set in the Tang Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom (China about the time of the European Middle Ages), and the magic is quite unlike any I have previously read.<\/p>\n Read more about Paper Mage<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n The Onion Girl<\/i> by Charles de Lint<\/b><\/p>\n Onion Girl is Jilly Coppercorn’s story, and delves into her past, and that is the reason that I hesitated for so long to read this book, for Jilly Coppercorn does not have a pleasant past, and so I knew that at least parts of this book were going to be hard to read, but probably no more so than some of his short stories. Regardless, sometimes you need to build yourself up to reading a book that you know is going to be painful in places.<\/p>\n Read More about The Onion Girl<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Lord of Castle Black<\/i>, Book Two of The Viscount of Adrilankha, by Steven Brust<\/b><\/p>\n I knew that it was going to be a good book when I was laughing out loud reading the first page of the introduction. <\/p>\n