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Airborn -- Kenneth Oppel

Audio. Full cast audio. Fun YA tale in a early 20th century counterpart with flying ships.

Posted to Finis - What I Just Finished Reading (Forum) by Jon on 06-28-2008
Melting Stones -- Tamora Pierce

Audio. Full Cast Audio. Evvy, from the next generation of Winding Circle magelets, travels with Briar Rose to the Battle Islands and has to deal with an immanent volcano explosion. Afraid it was too over the top (the running around inside the earth) for an eleven year old. It was one thing for the original...

Posted to Finis - What I Just Finished Reading (Forum) by Jon on 06-13-2008
Hat Full of Sky -- Terry Pratchett

Tiffany, the wee big hag, is back with the Nac Mac Feegle and Granny Weatherwax. Two years have passed since Wee Free Men and it is time for Tiffany to get some apprenticing. She is sent off to a witch who is one person in two bodies and ends up being invaded by a hiver, a non-corporeal being made up...

Posted to Finis - What I Just Finished Reading (Forum) by Jon on 06-01-2008
Tris's Book -- Tamara Pierce

Audio. Full Cast Audio. Next little tale in the Circle of Magic in which the kids/protomages begin to learn the necessity of control. Something that was surprising, though, was the mortality rate and brutality that surfaces. Not all rainbow bubbles and practical tricks. From School Library Journal Grade...

Posted to Finis - What I Just Finished Reading (Forum) by Jon on 05-24-2008
Coroline -- Neil Gaiman

Audio. Creep fairy tale about a girl who visits the world next door and is detained by her "other mother"--her mother with black button eyes. Wonder how kids sleep after reading this...

Posted to Finis - What I Just Finished Reading (Forum) by Jon on 05-17-2008
Sandry's Book -- Tamora Pierce

Audio. Full cast audio. Gathering of four special, but isolated, children to the Winding Circle Temple to learn how to control their magics and become family. Younger target audience than Harry Potter or Bartimaeus.

Posted to Finis - What I Just Finished Reading (Forum) by Jon on 04-29-2008
Ptolemey's Gate -- Jonathan Stroud

Last volume of the Bartimaeus trilogy. Nathaniel, Kitty, and Bartimaeus repel an attempted break through into the world of existence by a whole buncha demons. Since these three don't particularly get along with each other, entertaining prickliness ensues. Stroud kills quite a few characters for a...

Posted to Finis - What I Just Finished Reading (Forum) by Jon on 04-14-2008
The Thief Lord -- Cornelia Funke

Audio. Read by Simon Jones. Odd that the reader of both this and my previous audiobook, The Golem's Eye, were the same. Made for some peculiar cross-wiring in the story. Tale of a band of orphans in fact or by choice banding together and creating family in Venice. Has a fantasy element in the last...

Posted to Finis - What I Just Finished Reading (Forum) by Jon on 04-10-2008
The Golem's Eye -- Jonathan Stroud

Audio. Read by Simon Jones. Second adventure, bringing Kitty Jones into the mix. Nathaniel becomes more magician snooty, Bartimaeus stays mouthy, and Gladstone's tomb causes lotsa problems.

Posted to Finis - What I Just Finished Reading (Forum) by Jon on 04-07-2008
The Samarkand Amulet -- Jonathan Stroud

Audio. First book of the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Young adult. Mouthy demon helps oppressed boy escape from life under a mediocre master, and, oh, saves the magical British Empire as well. Clearly piggy-backing on Harry Potter, still kinda fun in a popcorn adventure sort of way. He (Stroud) really needed...

Posted to Finis - What I Just Finished Reading (Forum) by Jon on 03-27-2008

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