Welcome to the Theatre Illuminata, where the actors backstage and the characters onstage are one and the same, where you can find Ophelia, Macbeth, Tatania, Peter Pan, and many others, where The Book holds the characters and the Theatre together, and where seventeen year-old Beatrice Shakespear Smith lives. Bertie has lived at the Theatre Illumiata for her entire life, painting the stage which is her bedroom, dying her hair all the colors of the rainbow, playing with fairies, pirates, and all the other characters, and causing mischief and mayhem. Now, if she doesn't do something, Bertie may lose her home and friends forever. I, as always, loved Bertie and her fairy sidekicks, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, and Peaseblossom, adored the Theatre Illuminata, and devoured Eyes Like Stars. Gorgeous, funny, and simply wonderful, Eyes Like Stars is such a good book. Fans of Lesley Livingston's Wondrous Strange will love Lisa Mantchev's debut novel.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Eyes Like Stars
Lisa Mantchev
Welcome to the Theatre Illuminata, where the actors backstage and the characters onstage are one and the same, where you can find Ophelia, Macbeth, Tatania, Peter Pan, and many others, where The Book holds the characters and the Theatre together, and where seventeen year-old Beatrice Shakespear Smith lives. Bertie has lived at the Theatre Illumiata for her entire life, painting the stage which is her bedroom, dying her hair all the colors of the rainbow, playing with fairies, pirates, and all the other characters, and causing mischief and mayhem. Now, if she doesn't do something, Bertie may lose her home and friends forever. I, as always, loved Bertie and her fairy sidekicks, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, and Peaseblossom, adored the Theatre Illuminata, and devoured Eyes Like Stars. Gorgeous, funny, and simply wonderful, Eyes Like Stars is such a good book. Fans of Lesley Livingston's Wondrous Strange will love Lisa Mantchev's debut novel.
Welcome to the Theatre Illuminata, where the actors backstage and the characters onstage are one and the same, where you can find Ophelia, Macbeth, Tatania, Peter Pan, and many others, where The Book holds the characters and the Theatre together, and where seventeen year-old Beatrice Shakespear Smith lives. Bertie has lived at the Theatre Illumiata for her entire life, painting the stage which is her bedroom, dying her hair all the colors of the rainbow, playing with fairies, pirates, and all the other characters, and causing mischief and mayhem. Now, if she doesn't do something, Bertie may lose her home and friends forever. I, as always, loved Bertie and her fairy sidekicks, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, and Peaseblossom, adored the Theatre Illuminata, and devoured Eyes Like Stars. Gorgeous, funny, and simply wonderful, Eyes Like Stars is such a good book. Fans of Lesley Livingston's Wondrous Strange will love Lisa Mantchev's debut novel.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monstrous Regiment
By Terry Pratchett
A Novel of Discworld
On the Discworld, the small country of Borogravia is at war. Again. Borogravia has a long history of making war on pretty much everyone around it, a ruler who no one is sure is even alive, and a god who has Abominated practically everything and who may be either insane or dead.Polly Perks has decided to disguise herself as a boy and join the army to find her brother, who joined up and then disappeared. She joins the Ins-and-Outs, and quickly discovers not only does her regiment include a vampire, an Igor, and a troll, along with humans, but she may not be the only one with a secret. They are shipped out to the front immediately with no training and bad, secondhand weapons and armor. Now they must rely on each other, the fat, famous, and possibly insane or demonic Sargent Jackrum, and sheer luck to survive. SUCH a good book. SOOO funny. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! I laughed hysterically right through it. I absolutly love Terry Pratchett's books, and this one is no exeption.
A Novel of Discworld
On the Discworld, the small country of Borogravia is at war. Again. Borogravia has a long history of making war on pretty much everyone around it, a ruler who no one is sure is even alive, and a god who has Abominated practically everything and who may be either insane or dead.Polly Perks has decided to disguise herself as a boy and join the army to find her brother, who joined up and then disappeared. She joins the Ins-and-Outs, and quickly discovers not only does her regiment include a vampire, an Igor, and a troll, along with humans, but she may not be the only one with a secret. They are shipped out to the front immediately with no training and bad, secondhand weapons and armor. Now they must rely on each other, the fat, famous, and possibly insane or demonic Sargent Jackrum, and sheer luck to survive. SUCH a good book. SOOO funny. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! I laughed hysterically right through it. I absolutly love Terry Pratchett's books, and this one is no exeption.
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