Posted on November 11th, 2009 by !!Not so Evil Twin!!
These books are Awesome. They are fantasy, history and science fiction all in one!!
“A thrilling Celtic Fantasy that wreaks havoc with history.”
The story follows Australian-born Tory when her car breaks down outside a stone circle. Deciding on a whim to sleep inside the circle, Tory wakes fourteen hundred years before. Carrying items such as a CD player [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Mr Symonds
This is the second in the Hunger Games trilogy and it is as great as the first! For those late to the scene, the Hunger Games are a set of colosseum-like challenges set in an arena for the benefit of wealthy spectators in the Capitol of this dystopian world. Katniss and Peeta, the heroes from [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2009 by Mr Symonds
It has been a weekend of graphic novels. For some reason, there just happened to be three all lined up in my bag on Friday afternoon so I was compelled to finish them.
Skim is the most problematic. It describes a young girl’s journey through a high school year and is full of questions about [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2009 by Mr Symonds
Arrival is the latest in a line of teen-action books that have graced our shelves. It is fast-paced and concerns a small group of teens who have ended up in a small purpose-built town in the Australian bush. The mystery involves the town’s purpose : why is it there? what do the strange officials do? [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Mr Symonds
Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, heavily influenced by Victorian England aesthetics and techologies. More on this can be read here. It is a fascinating set of worlds which share a common kind of look and feel. World Shaker is the most recent example of the genre I have read and is highly recommended.
This [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2009 by Mr Symonds
It is the English Head of Department’s fault. The book, Gone, was sitting on her desk and I happened to ask her what she had thought of it. I knew another English teacher had raved about it so I was curious. The she told me that she was considering it for inclusion in the Year [...]
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