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| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : pwaite's 2009 book challenge | | 149 | alcottacre, December 2009 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Best YA Science Fiction | | 120 | rojse, November 2009 | |
| Read YA Lit : What is your favorite YA title? | | 187 | fullofsound, November 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home - October 2009 | | 180 | momom248, November 2009 | |
| The Green Dragon : October 2009 stuff bought | | 68 | katylit, November 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Book Brought Home - September 2009 | | 215 | jdthloue, October 2009 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Check my books-75 Challenge | | 35 | katelisim, September 2009 | |
| Read YA Lit : Calling Fans of "Gifts" by Le Guin | | 1 | jet_doyle, July 2009 | |
| Read YA Lit : Gifts Fans: Question for you. | | 1 | jet_doyle, July 2009 | |
| FantasyFans : New To LT: Question about Le Guin's "Gifts" (May Contain Spoilers!) | | 1 | jet_doyle, July 2009 | |
| Book talk : Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin: Warning! May Contain Spoilers! | | 1 | jet_doyle, July 2009 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : AlcottAcre's 2009 Reads, Take 6 | | 363 | alcottacre, July 2009 | |
| FantasyFans : YA Fantasy | | 80 | pwaites, April 2009 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Ursula LeGuin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" | | 77 | RobertDay, January 2009 | |
| The Green Dragon : Men's fantasy books vs Women's fantasy books | | 55 | timjones, December 2008 | |
| The Green Dragon : What are you reading in November? | | 131 | hearts3134, November 2008 | |
| FantasyFans : If I liked these books, which books should I read next? | | 42 | christopherbyron, November 2008 | |
| The Green Dragon : Weekend Oct 24-26, what are your plans? | | 80 | katylit, October 2008 | |
| The Green Dragon : June's New (or Used) Books | | 137 | Busifer, July 2008 | |
| Hogwarts Express : What is everyone reading at the moment? II | | 620 | Kerian, March 2008 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Your Clunkers of 2007 | | 123 | Vonini, February 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Catalina7's Book List | | 45 | catalina7, December 2007 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : What You're Reading In The Genre Q3 07 | | 76 | CliffBurns, September 2007 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 15 September 2007 | | 181 | sorsopkel, September 2007 | |
| Awful Lit. : Jumping the Bookworm | | 41 | ambushedbyasnail, September 2007 | |
| Feminist Theory : Explicitly feminist children's and YA lit | | 21 | carlym, September 2007 | |
| Read YA Lit : January--What are you reading? | | 73 | Briarbells_101, February 2007 | |
... trilogy in stock so I'll have to get that one later.
#45 - I was very unimpressed by Unseen Academicals...
#46 - Gifts is a good start, and the rest is just as good or better. But the third one (Powers) was... disturbing. Lots of violence and abuse. adding to the thread again (sorry)
more Joanne Harris, this time Coastliners; an Ursula K. Le Guin Gifts (first in a YA trilogy); The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny (omnibus of the first 5 Amber novels which I haven't read since the 1970's) and The Floating Book : A novel of Venice ... ... a new home.
Coastliners by Joanne Harris (I have still only read one of her books but am rapidly collecting more!)
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin (I do not have enough of her books in my house so grab any omissions when I see them)
The Floating Book : A Novel of Venice by Michelle Lovric ... ... book mill and came home with a little haul..
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Lust for Life by Irving Stone
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga I completed reading Gifts: Annals of the Western Shore and none of my friends from home have read it, at all. My question is this, for those who read it: do you think Orrec really didn't use his gift of unmaking/undoing on the adder, the dog, or the Ants in the Ashbrook?
I am curious to find ... I completed reading Gifts: Annals of the Western Shore and none of my friends from home have read it, at all. My question is this, for those who read it: do you think Orrec really didn't use his gift of unmaking/undoing on the adder, the dog, or the Ants in the Ashbrook?
I am curious to find ... Today I just completed reading "Gifts: Annals of the Western Shore" and none of my friends from home have read it, at all. My question is this, for those who read it: do you think Orrec really didn't use his gift of unmaking/undoing on the adder, the dog, or the Ants in the Ashbrook?
I am ... Today I just completed reading "Gifts: Annals of the Western Shore" and none of my friends from home have read it, at all. My question is this, for those who read it: do you think Orrec really didn't use his gift of unmaking/undoing on the adder, the dog, or the Ants in the Ashbrook?
I am ... 41.Blood and Chocolate
42.Be More Chill
43.The Blue Girl
44.Evernight
45.Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore)
46.Sabriel
47.The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Book 1)
48.A Wizard Abroad
49.A Wizard Alone
50.The Wizard's Dilemma
I haven't posted in awhile so I just copied ... Stasia - Have you read Le Guin's YA trilogy Annals of the Western Shore. The first book Gifts was a really good fantasy and I'm keen to read the next two books. Powers won the Nebula Award. 53.The Princess and The Pauper Kate Brian
54.Gifts Ursula K. Le Guin
55.Eyeliner Of the Gods Kate Maxwell
56.One Bite With A Stranger Christine Warren
57.Being Kevin Brooks
58.Lucas Kevin Brooks
59.The Dare Susan Kearney
60.Highlander Unmasked Monica McCarthy
61.Full Tilt N ... ... enough to win a nebula) also from the shortlist Little brother, but not Superpowers. The earlier western shore books gifts and voices I can also recomend.
... - I've enjoyed reading a few of the books you've listed - I thought The Cabinet of Wonders was pretty good. For me Gifts was great and I've just got the next book in the series. I also really enjoyed Well Wished, have you read her The Folk Keeper, it delves more into folklore. 16. Gifts
17. The Time Thief
18. The Game (reread) ... KNOW the sex, that makes you interpret at certain text in certain ways. That's all.
Ursula K Le Guin have, in her book Gifts written a couple of passages which if they had been written by a male author would had been appalling in their misogyny. Cherryh, who writes some strong female ... ... of these threads for a while I dont think - sorry if they're there & I'm missing them!!!
I finished Ursula Le Guin's Gifts, Voices & Powers (cant find touchstones?) at the start of the month, I liked Voices the best out of those 3 & i really liked how they tied together - very interesting! ... I didnt end up going to the engagement party - I had a tummy bug too!!!
Instead I lay in bed most of the wknd reading & got thru Ursula LeGuin's Voices & started Powers (wonky touchstones) :) ... Wynne Jones, the touchstone wasn't working with her fullname).
Ursula Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore trilogy Gifts, Voices, Powers
The Borrible Trilogy by Michael De Larrabeiti.
Joan Aiken's Dido books:
http://www.librarything.com/series/Wolves%20Chronicles
The ... ... least a trilogy! - but it's possible to read them without even knowing there's another one. I never felt that the ending of Gifts begged for a sequel, and was surprised when part two appeared.
And - they're YA, pretty fast reads, if I may say so. The themes and the imagery are troubling, ... #127 Busifer - Gifts is next up on my TBR - or was til you told me its a series, I thought it was a standalone, might have to rethink the order of my TBR coz I dont like starting a series unless I have all books to hand, perhaps the local library can help. Or maybe I should just read Perdido St St ... #122,Seanie - Gifts! If you like that one there's two more in the series, and the last one begins in a sad and very horrible way... ... Ring by Cherith Baldry
The Roses of Roazon by Cherith Baldry
The Olive Readers by Christine Aziz
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Well of Tears Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Cast a Bright Shadow Book 1 of the Lionw ... What did you think of Powers, LA? Usually I like Le Guin, and I read Gifts, but the story didn't grab me and pull me into the series as A Wizard of Earthsea did, so I've been putting off the other books. ... is why threads like this can be so interesting!
and here I will confess to starting but not finishing Ursula le Guin's Gifts. I was curious about her YA stuff, as I have been of other authors, but as I started reading this books about these people and their 'gifts' all I could think of was ... ... reading' I have over the next couple of months.
I tried to do the same with Le Guin's YA trilogy that begins with Gifts and was disappointed I couldn't get into it. It featured a community of people with 'gifts' and all I could think of was the mutants of Xmen... ... good and certainly had me looking forward to getting back to it each night. Strange that I could not get into Le Guin's Gifts, the first of her YA trilogy. Oh well. ... novel, and Tales from Earthsea offers a witty corrective, as does The Other Wind. Her current series, Voices and Gifts, also features astonishing young women.
I've always enjoyed Adele Geras's novels, and they continue to focus on what it means to grow up female in different ... ... on
• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• A Girl Named Disaster by '' ''
• Sea of Trolls by '' ''
• Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Tamora Pierce
• Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
• My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow
• Does My ... ... Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas' seem to have had the most resonance. That one still haunts me.
Her recent YA books, Gifts and Voices are worth a read if you are interested in nonviolence. ... 2) by Hilari Bell
37. Charming the Prince by Teresa Medeiros
38. The Blue Sword by Robin Mckinley
39. Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K Le Guin has written a few, including the recent pair of Gifts and Voices which both are good.
Also the Moomin books by Tove Jansson is good. Wheter to call them fantasy, or YA, one could argue but I have enjoyed them both as a kid in the 60's and now as an grown up. Especially ... ... at once.
The Last Dragon by Silvana de Mari
Piratica and Piratica: Return to Parrot Island by Tanith Lee
Gifts and Voices byUrsula Le Guin
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Dragon and Herdsman by Timothy Zahn
Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Terrier by ... I wouldn't say "decline" - some of her more recent stuff (Gifts and Voices) are if not brilliant nice to read, and Changing Planes is a nice collection of stories. I also remember liking The Wind's twelve quarters, but I don't seem to rememer much of it...
But I agree if you're thinking of ...
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