I adore Laini Taylor’s work, her unerring ability to evoke such magic using mere words. Those same words become powerful tools indeed under her skilled hand… I have many words to use in a possible review for her lastest novel. Instead I will use only these 15… Ethereal, Magical, Enchanting, Breathtaking, Magnifique. READ IT, LOVE [...]
My entire life I have been entranced with all things Arthurian. This, as with my obsession for faerie tales, is due in no small part to the early influences of my Granny Annie and the books she read to me/placed in my hands when I was a child. I still remember vividly being curled at [...]
Adrian Stirling’s second novel, The Comet Box, is secretly a time machine. The very act of reading it will transport you instantly back to 1986. The sights, sounds and scents of a typical Australian summer are but a page turn away…except for one thing. Most of us (I hope) did not have the added emotional [...]
Meg Rosoff 9780141329338 United Book Distributors 29 Mar 2010 Listening recently to my dear friend Nicole talk about her love for Meg Rosoff’s- How I Live Now, I decided a revisit of the novel was in order, since it had been some years since I read it. I will not be reviewing How I Live [...]
Recently, my dear friend Nicole of The Uncommon Nonsense recommended I read My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece- Annabel Pitcher. So I did. She warned me it would make me cry. She warned me it would break my heart. She warned me I would struggle to cope with the subject matter, as a human and [...]
The cover text for this delightful collection reads “Tales of enchantment from six writers of modern fantasy, gathered by Isobelle Carmody and Nan McNab” Tales of enchantment, indeed. Possibly no better description for this collection, for I certainly found myself to be enchanted, enthralled, enamoured and absorbed. My adoration of all things fairytale and fairytale [...]
Have you ever been so drawn to someone, that even the knowledge that they will never love you as much as you love them, cannot deter you from being irrevocably drawn to them? The knowledge that the only possible result for you, will amount to a world of pain from which you might never recover, [...]
There is a sentence my children use amongst themselves in our house. The sentence is, ‘Its okay, its a Melina book.’ Allow me to elucidate. Those of you who visit the BookGryffin often, are well versed in my love and loyalty for any and all words penned by Melina Marchetta. One of my goals for [...]
I have just returned from a wondrous and magical journey to The Kingdom Of Silk. Glenda Millard’s beautiful novels The Naming Of Tiskin Silk and Plum Puddings And Paper Moons, kept me so entranced that I read them both twice, back to back and then read them aloud to my children. I have often said [...]
I think we will all agree, this young lady is ON FIRE! Tegan brings us another review. She has gotten SO great at this I am considering letting her take over the Blog all together…. I have never read any were-wolf books before, and after reading this, any other were-wolf book would have to be [...]
