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I'm really enjoying this series. Grier Woolworth, adopted daughter of Dame Maud Woolworth (deceased, probably murdered), spent five years imprisoned by the High Society and struggles to catch up with all the changes in her life. But, her best friends were also affected by her imprisonment, even if less obviously so. I will keep reading this series. So much to enjoy here!

Bessie Bess is proving to be a headstrong young woman sensible of her own worth who never lets the eerie, strange, or uncomfortable giver her much pause. She lives in a world where brownies assist in household work and the magical realm is just over the hill. This may just be my favorite, so far, of the author's works.

This moment resonates with me: “We can’t run from the difficult questions, or reality will chew us up,” Vasiht’h said. “But we also have to recognize that the difficult questions should never get kneejerk answers.”

I adore M.C.A. Hogarth's stories of Jahir and Vasiht'h. The warmth and joy of the love expressed between these two heart-matched platonic friends and the love they hold for their friends and family is just unmatched in my reading experience. Vasiht'h, accompanied by Jahir, has just visited the temple on his home world to pick up his temple children. Telepathy is, as expected, very handy for parents with infants.

I'm enjoying this, although it's a much darker story that The Dreamhealers series. Very dark, with disturbing happenings.

Anything I could say about the story right now, except that it's wonderful, would be spoilery. Go forth ye who love good stories, and get reading the lovely Dreamhealers series.

I'm zipping through this. It's a thoroughly enjoyable YA werewolf story about a teen who is in the foster system, where she's been bounced from home to home. Now, she's finally found a home that might be her forever home. Or, is it all too good to be true?

Help me! I'm reading too many books! This never used to worry me when I had physical copies. One might be beside the bed, another in the bathroom, and another I carried with me. But, with ebooks, it's too easy for the in-process books to get pushed aside. Still, this book is really intriguing!

Okay, I'm in Chapter 33. However, since the OverDrive app my library uses numbers pages based on my screen size, which page in the book I'm on is beyond me.

I borrowed this book electronically about a week ago. My reading was interrupted when my ebook reader and phone were both stolen. Now that I've replaced my phone, I've got access to the book again, but I'm going to have to page through the book until I find the page I'm on.

I have finally managed to check this out of the library again. Rothfuss' writing is so wonderful. I loved The Name of the Wind, and I'm loving this.

The Oz books are among my favorites and I've been reading this aloud to my stepson, Fritz. Having grown up watching the movie on television, I forget, between readings, just how different the book is. Some of the most exciting scenes, such as the encounter with the Kalidahs, never made it into the movie. Definitely worth reading, or rereading, I feel.

The narrator continues, "But I don't believe for a moment in this idea of girls building themselves on heroines in fiction. These are matters of elective affinity, and unless some bullying critic or preacher sends us astray, we take each to our own novelist as the souls in the Swedenborgian system take to their hells.

We learn, in this passage, of Adeline, that "she was always reading Mrs. Humphry Ward and that the narrator's cousin, Melville, "regarded this as the most heinous offence" because "she makes them good and serious in the wrong way, he says." It's clear from the entire passage that the narrator thinks Melville is a bit of a dolt, in this regard, at least.

I've been reading this on my Kindle and I'm about 1/3 of the way through. I just read a passage that I found absolutely fascinating, not for the fantastic, but for the glimpse into late Victorian life and, in particular, reading during that time.

It's amazing to me how different this story feels from Blade Runner. Much slower, certainly, but it is in the world-building that I'm most aware of the ways in which the book was adapted for the movie.

I've finished reading The Man in the High Castle and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and started Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Although I read this last when I was in high school, it's not at all familiar, now.

Okay, I'm really only reading one book at the moment, Wizard's Eleven, but I don't want to remove the others from the Currently Reading category as I havent finished with them.

Originally borrowed this from the El Paso library, while visiting. I need to remember to check the local Tucson library for a copy.

Returned this to the library; I just wasn't prioritizing this.

My husband and I were both trying to read this in the three weeks allotted us by the library. Why, oh why, didn't I insist on us both placing the book on hold. By the time we got our turn, there were sixty more holds on this title. I wasn't able to finish, and now I'll have to wait until my turn comes around again. *sigh*