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My favorite romances were If you Dare by Kresley Cole and The Hollow by Nora Roberts. ... of boys trying to deal with a dead man who won't stay dead and discover his secret for making gold at the same time.
25. The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart ****1/2
Even better than The Crystal Cave. Stewart's writing is so lyrical, there were many times when I would read a simple single ... ... Embrace by Sandra Brown
49. Serving Crazy with Curry by Amulya Mallai
50. Three Wishes by Barbara Delinsky
51. The Hollow by Nora Roberts
52. Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
53. The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
54. The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden
55. ... ... the Gods by Nora Roberts
39. Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts
40. Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts
41. The Hollow by Nora Roberts
42. Deirdre by W.B. Yeats
Favorite Book of the Month: Valley of Silence At the moment, I am reading The Power Makers by Maury Klein and The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart. Enjoying them both! I was thrown for a loop recently while reading The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart, about Merlin and Arthur, and Stewart several times referred to the fields of corn in the English countryside. All that research she did and she had no idea that corn didn't get introduced to Europe until after the Am ... ... another shiny book will catch my eye.
At the moment I'm reading:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke
The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart, about Merlin and Arthur
Monster of God by David Quammen, non-fiction
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, short stories on audio
and ... 37.the light fantastic by terry pratchett
38.the hollow bynora roberts
39.ignorance by milan kundera
40.the final warning by james patterson
41.sundays at tiffiney's by james patterson
42.blaze by stephen king
43.equal rites byterry pratchett I'm taking a little break from The Hollow Hills, which I do enjoy but for some reason takes a lot of effort, and have started Ella Minnow Pea. Can a book with such a dire message be called fun? It is, and takes a lot of effort in a different way (all those big new words!) ... I did like the switch in POV at the end of the story and the revelation that comes with it.
Now mainly reading The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart. #48 sandragon - I loved Mary Stewart's Merlin books, especially the first two - The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills. Unfortunately, the last two aren't as good. ... of God by David Quammen, nonfiction about maneating beasts and their relationships with humanity in history and today, or The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart, second in her books about Merlin.
I'm also listening to Inkspell by Cornelia Funke and reading the first Harry Potter with my 7yo. Have you read Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy: The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment?
I also found Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon an interesting interpretation of the Arthurian legend. I read another of her books (don't remember the title) and didn' ... ... The Once and Future King, Le Morte D'Arthur, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Idylls of the King and The Hollow Hills.
Of course, I was spurred on by having gone to see Camelot with my high school buddies. I used to know ALL the words to ALL the songs. If you hear ... I'd second any of the Stewart books. I agree with katylit - she defines Merlin for me. And Hollow Hills is one of my perenial re-reads. I think it holds up admirably. 2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899).
So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ... ... they enjoyed the movie.
2. Burr by Gore Vidal Also read most of his AMerican historical novels and loved them.
3. The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart the 2nd book in her Merlin trilogy the other two are The Crystal Cave The Last Enchantment all good reads. The Hollow Hills - Mary Stewart The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
keep going please...see how long is a piece of string ... Vidal, owned by 413, and reviewed by 10. Almost as popular as Lincoln: a novel owned by 429, and reviewed by 7.
6. The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart, owned by 819, reviewed by 4. We own this, but only my wife has read this Arthurian Saga.
7. Evening in Byzantium by Irwin Shaw ... ... Future King. Mary Stewart wrote a trilogy about the Arthurian legend, starting with The Crystal Cave, moving on to The Hollow Hills and concluding with The Last Enchantment.
I have just now read Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy plus one. Somehow I missed them when I was first ... Shepard of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Alive by Piers Paul Read
Into Thin Air by Jon Kraukauer
Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado ... McCrumb
The Bachelors of Broken Hill by Arthur Upfield
The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein
The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
... L'Engle. Maybe I missed it, but has nobody mentioned the Earthsea books? And Mary Stewart's Arthur series (The Hollow Hills, etc.) are excellent. My favorite are the Mary Stewart books : The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment. There is a fourth book, The Wicked Day, but I've not read it so I don't know whether it's any good or not. I'm currently reading Murder After Hours (aka The Hollow) by Agatha Christie, but I just finished reading Ophelia by Lisa Klein which I adored. I have to go back and re-read Hamlet now, though! Yes, The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills. I haven't gotten ahold of The Last Enchantment yet. "Dry" is not the right word, but she is quite sparing with the fantastic elements; the strength of the books is historical realism. ... novels I like best by Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset, and Mary Stewart's Merlin novels The Crystal Cave The Hollow Hills The Last Enchantment The Wicked Day (though that one is really a Mordred novel), which are I guess more 'realistic?' tellings, with some reference to ...
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