Reading
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Grace over at the fabulous Books Without Any Pictures has lead me to a new challenge, and you all know how much I adore challenges. Found over at The Book Garden, the Tea & Books Reading Challenge easily combines two of my favorite things and I knew I would have to be a part of…
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“If the sun never set on the British Empire, it was perpetually teatime, somewhere at least.” “A History of the World in 6 Glasses” by Tom Standage This is a book that has been on my To-Be-Read list for a long time, and my roommate happened to have a copy, as it usually is with…
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“They’d probably still die. But if they could pull it off, they wouldn’t go alone.” “Resident Evil 2: Caliban Cove” by S.D. Perry I don’t know exactly what it is about these Resident Evil books that I love so much. I know it’s not the quality of the books. While they’re not terrible, they’re not…
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“So you see there is some ground for supposing that Curdie was not a miner only, but also a prince. Many such instances have been known in the world’s history.” “The Princess and the Goblin” by George MacDonald.* With a great deal of adventure, action, mystery and magic, with a young Victorian heroine even more…
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“She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees and shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.” “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane” by Katherine Howe Since I adore the concept of this…
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“We’d both read and seen enough romantic fiction to know that if the writer seems to insist on throwing two characters together, it’s their job to resist, for as long as they can, anyway. A silly reason not to love, I know…but are there any that aren’t?.” “Variable Star” by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider…
L.S. Engler 