Reviews
Princess Alethea’s Magical Elixir – Friday, February 5, 2010
Princess Alethea’s new reviews are now up at Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show! This month I discuss:
Title: The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Author: Sarah Addison Allen
EAN: 9780553807219
I fell in love with Sarah Addison Allen over a crotchety old woman and an apple tree. The woman was named Evanelle, and if she knocked on your [...]
Books on the Bed: The Man Who Took the Indoors Out – Friday, January 15, 2010
Title: The Man Who Took the Indoors Out
Author: Arnold Lobel
Pub Date: 1974
Status: Out of Print
Number nine on the list of My 21 Most Influential Books, The Man Who Took the Indoors Out is incredibly difficult to find, and is not even listed on Caldecott Medal winner Arnold Lobel’s Wikipedia page. This obscure little picture book [...]
Books on the Bed: Ronia the Robber’s Daughter – Friday, January 8, 2010
(Books on the Bed: Novels and stories I read as a child that still remain in my collection. Recommended reading for all ages. If you can find them.)
The first box I packed during my half-move from Tennessee was for my friend Ariell. She was the first person on Awesome Porch who I ever saw crack [...]
Princess Alethea’s Magical Elixir – Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Princess Alethea’s new book reviews are now up at Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. This month I discuss:
Title: Quatrain
Author: Sharon Shinn
EAN: 9780441017584
My friend Gayle held this book tight to her chest on the day she gave it to me. “I know you really like Sharon Shinn,” she said, “but I have to say, it’s [...]
Princess Alethea’s Magical Elixir – Tuesday, October 6, 2009
The new Princess Alethea’s Magical Elixir reviews are up over at Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show! This month I discuss:
Title: Rogue Angel: Destiny (audiobook)
Author: Alex Archer
Publisher: GraphicAudio
EAN: 9781599502052
Title: Bad Moon Rising
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
EAN: 9780312369491
Title: Ophelia Joins the Group Maidens Who Don’t Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook
Author: Sarah Schmelling
Publisher: Plume
EAN: [...]
Books On the Bed: They Call Me Boober Fraggle – Thursday, August 27, 2009
I was thinking about it the other day — I can’t actually remember a time when I didn’t know how to read. I knew the alphabet at eighteen months. At three, I was reading the TV Guide. Mom got me into Kindergarten at four, where a teacher’s assistant told my father, “Alethea can spell words [...]
