Showing posts with label Kristen Cashore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kristen Cashore. Show all posts

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Monday Tomorrow

Fire by Kristen Cashore
Published by: Dial
Publication Date: October 5th, 2009
Format: Hardcover, 480 Pages
To Buy

The official patter:
"She is the last of her kind...

It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves. This is where Fire lives, a girl whose beauty is impossibly irresistible and who can control the minds of everyone around her.

Exquisitely romantic, this companion to the highly praised Graceling has an entirely new cast of characters, save for one person who plays a pivotal role in both books. You don't need to have read Graceling to love Fire. But if you haven't, you'll be dying to read it next."

This sort of sequel to Gracling, prequel or companion book would better sum it up, is finally released tomorrow, which you would probably notice from the widget in my sidebar, and almost every other bloggers sidebar. Everyone is ecstatic about this book, making it the must have book of October. See I would say fall, but there was Catching Fire, and I have a feeling that's even why the book release was bumped from September to October. By now everyone has finished Catching Fire and really needs a good YA fix, enter Fire right on cue. I would go into more verbosity, but I know you've been waiting, I know you know all about it, so why bother when I could be reading it? I was lucky enough to snag an ARC the other day...who really would sell there copy to Half-Priced Books? Really I want to know so I can see what else that might be willing to part with!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Contest Winner Announced!

Thank you all for entering my 50/50 Competition and answering my curiosity about what books remind you of summer. I large number of you chose Harry Potter, (though this could have been due to my mentioning it, but I'm still going to declare Harry a winner anyway) followed closely by Sarah Dessen, Kristen Cashore, Stephenie Meyer and Suzanne Collins. The books ranged from historical to sci-fi to classics, but our winner had a soft spot for....one of the authors already mentioned...cryptic much?

I just love that due to when books are read, or where they are read, they become associated with a certain time or place, one book might remind you of a cold winters day, another might remind you of hiding in your room late at night reading past when you should have gone to bed, while another might remind you of a perfect day. Summertime reminds me of many books, heavily of Harry Potter because of reading it out on the porch in the overwhelming heat because it was the quietest place I could find and I had to read it immediately. But I am also reminded of the first time I read George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice, I try not to read overly cold books when it is cold, that would be sadistic. But there is also A.S. Byatt's Possession, which I remember being a summer read I was not overly fond of, but still distinctly summer. Finally there is the Lloyd Alexander Westmark series, just as good, if not better then Prydain, everyone should read it!

But enough about me reminiscing, the winner of my lovely prize pack is.....2point0blog! Who loved the Olympic feel of The Hunger Games! And I'm sure everyone remembers Catching Fire is released today!

I would also like to give a runner up prize to Brimful Curiosities, if only because her book was The Land Remembers by Ben Logan and my parents published that book!

Thank you all for the wonderful turnout for this competition, the first, but by no means the last! I already have some interesting prizes for the coming months, one is a biography about I man I truly admire for his dark sense of humor and his artistic abilities. Another, which I will be announcing soon, perhaps even before the week is out, has to due with an author I recently mentioned in my "Tuesday Tomorrow" post and who I'm lucky enough to hear speak in the coming weeks! Road trip for book talks, is there anything better? Well...maybe contests....

Older Posts Home