Primavera
10 best books like Primavera (Francesca Lia Block): A Stir of Bones, Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Weather Stations, Better Than Running at Night, Evidence of Angels, Hannah's Garden, Girls, Girls, Girls, Soonchild, Dreamscapes: Creating Magical Angel, Faery & Mermaid Worlds in Watercolor, The One-Armed Queen
| Author | Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
A Stir of Bones is the stand-alone prequel to acclaimed fantasist Nina Hoffman's award-winning adult novels A Red Heart of Memories and Past the Size of Dreaming. It is every bit as remarkable, warm, and heartwrenching.
Fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom seems to have a charmed life -- she's...
| Author | Sharyn November |
| ISBN | 0142405493 |
This is going to be a bit of a cheat review because I’ve acknowledged to myself that the only reason I checked out this anthology was to read the Joss and Mavkel story The Real Thing by Alison Goodman. I may choose to keep renewing this thing like a jerk so I can keep it and read the Kelly Link or Tamora Pierce...
Ten beautifully written stories set in an alternate world where the personification of weather turns storms into Storms with a malevolent penchant for hunting down and wiping out frail humans.
Yes, the books have a sci-fi twist, but the reader never feels like the world inhabited is really...
| Author | Hillary Frank |
| ISBN | 0618250735 |
Having left behind the melodrama of her solitary high school days—and the beheaded martyrs in her paintings—Ellie arrives at the New England College of Art and Design. Looking forward to the opportunity to recreate herself and her art, she begins her first day by dirty dancing with the Devil. Then...
| Author | Suza Scalora |
| ISBN | 0061243434 |
I don’t normally review non-fiction, but when emailed by Suza Scalora asking if I would like to review Evidence of Angels, I thought I would give it a go. As I have an idea for my own fictional story regarding angels, Evidence of Angels is classed as research.
This review is going to be a little...
| Author | Midori Snyder |
| ISBN | 0142401358 |
Seventeen-year-old Cassie Brittman is looking forward to her violin recital and the prom-- until the hospital calls and she learns that her grandfather, noted mystical painter Daniel Brittman, is dying. Cassie, her mother, Anne, and Anne's new boyfriend travel to the family farm and immediately...
| Author | Jonah Black |
| ISBN | 0064407985 |
Student Name: Date Submitted: 4/30/19
Book Title: The Black Book: Girls, Girls, Girls Lexile: N/A
Personal Response:
I liked the plot of the book a lot. The book had me a little confused when Jonah would go into his fantasy vs reality, but as I read on, I tend to understand that situation...
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 1406329916 |
So many people really like this book and perhaps it didn't help my copy being in black and white ( many reviews mention a change of colour as the story progresses which sounds like a nice idea ) but I found this story confusing.
Soonchild is an unborn child who is due to be born but is suspected to be...
| Author | Stephanie Pui-Mun Law |
| ISBN | 1581809646 |
Bring a Fantasy World of Enchanting Beings to Life!
Angels, faeries and mermaids have engaged the imaginations and enchanted the brushes of artists for centuries. Now you can evoke the spirit of these mythical creatures and create fantastic works of ethereal art in watercolor. Step by inspired...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0765343592 |
In a land of magic, the great warrior Queen known as White Jenna has found a frail, one-armed child on the battlefield. She adopts the child and names her Scillia. As is custom with the Hames of the Dales, Scillia will be next in line for the throne. A great honor.
But Jem—Jenna's natural-born...
| Author | Catherine Chidgey |
| ISBN | 0676976972 |
From the writer described as “the most fabulous New Zealand writer alive” (Listener NZ) comes a masterful novel, with the power of Patrick Suskind’s Perfume.
Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1898 is a frontier, where the progress of the modern world has not yet won the battle against the voodoo...
| Author | Jamaal May |
| ISBN | 1938584244 |
Praise for Jamaal May:
"Linguistically acrobatic [and] beautifully crafted. . . . [Jamaal May's] poems, exquisitely balanced by a sharp intelligence mixed with earnestness, makes his debut a marvel."—Publishers Weekly
Following Jamaal May's award-winning debut collection,...
| Author | Alice Notley |
| ISBN | 0143108166 |
An important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending book-length poems of great ambition and adventurousness....
| Author | Suniti Namjoshi |
| ISBN | 1853816604 |
Namjoshi has a lot of wit and weaves these feminist cover versions in a genuine fashion. But where these original fables, myths, and folktales have had hundreds of years to mature, through countless re-tellings and revisions, the immediacy of Namjoshi´s style doesnßt adequately capture their...
Since childhood, Harriet has dreamed of exploring forests with Stig Hemming, the boy lost to her in the frayed bonds of an old family friendship. Years later, in the wake of losing her mother, Harriet finally meets Stig only to discover a frightened young man clawing to regain a life no longer his.
The...
Jury selection for Sunburst Award short-list
Aurora Award Finalist for Best Collection
CBC Bookies Award Finalist for Best Collection
Chimerascope - a story of many parts
A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish.
A geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-old...
| Author | Patricia Storace |
| ISBN | 0375408061 |
From the author of the classic travel memoir Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece, a stunningly original novel of heartrending lyricism about four women who invite us to enter into a new and powerful imagination of the divine: what if "a woman's point of view" were also God's?
In the prologue,...
| Author | Aya Shouoto |
| ISBN | 4048543229 |
So Volume 2 was more fleshed out in terms of the plot so I'm not as confused anymore. The artwork was once again, very very good and I just can't wait to get physical copies because they will look so adorable in my room. We learn the purpose of the blue rose, which really tore me up because he was actually one...
| Author | Spica Aoki |
| ISBN | 4253273017 |
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Nina immigrated to the small country of Ruberia in Europe where there are legends of werewolves and roses. There she realizes everyone lives an extremely rich lifestyle... and when she is bit by a wolfboy called...
Penguin Revolution: Volume 7
| Author | Sakura Tsukuba |
| ISBN | 1401220932 |
Originally, I read this manga waaaay back in 2009 (my gosh, it's been eight years??) but lately I saw an author I follow on Instagram post a photo of it and it made me want to re-read it, seeing as originally, I gave it 10 stars on My Anime List.
My second read followed the same path of enjoyment until...
