[identity profile] checkers65477.livejournal.com
Ooh, take a lood at a great review of Moira's Pen from Tor's Natalie Zutter:

Engaging in Fiction: Megan Whalen Turner Explores New Corners of Her World in Moira's Pen by Natalie Zutter

Some of her comments:

Turner packs so much into these last few pages that it made my head spin, and I had to reread.

Moira’s Pen isn’t an epilogue; if anything, it’s more of a prologue, a potential new beginning—whether for novels or stories, it’s too soon to say. But I’m so excited that the path has been revealed.


Oh, and she mentions screaming at the end of the book, with which we can all sympathize.
[identity profile] checkers65477.livejournal.com
There was an article in School Library Journal a month or two ago that I thought you all might find interesting. It's written by Jonathan Hunt, librarian and great fan of Megan's books. In writing about possible Printz award winners this year, he throws in a couple of references to Return of the Thief. Go Team Gen!

Read more... )
[identity profile] chicleeblair.livejournal.com
Someone in comments wanted an #ownvoices review, and aside from getting long, I wanted to post this where I can link back to it.

Under here! )

More thoughts to come, probably.
[identity profile] freenarnian.livejournal.com


Excited to see The Thief featured in Book Page's July issue. Sharing because I thought the reviewer did a great job of recommending it without giving too much away (a notoriously tricky task)!



Who else is enjoying/looking forward to rereading the series before Return of the Thief arrives in October?
[identity profile] eachase.livejournal.com
Does anyone else here blatantly exploit their role at work to spread the fandom?

I'm lucky enough to be on the social media team at the Frisco Public Library (Texas) and we've been doing more book reviews this year. So there was an obvious choice for me.

Because I become incoherent with adoration when trying to convince others to read these books, though, instead of trying to write my own review, I decided use some of the very best things professional reviews have said about them instead.

If there's a way to link to a specific Facebook post, I don't know about it, and it hasn't gone up on Twitter yet (it should later today). But if you're on either of those platforms and search for the #FPLRecommends, you should find it easily. The caption is, "The word "series" doesn't do these books justice. Think "epic.""

In retrospect, I should have used a larger font size and I wish I had a musical soundtrack behind it, but maybe that can be a project that leads to an improved video. Anyone here want to help? (My skills are more along ideation and stats than content creation.)

Edited to add a direct link to the Tweet: https://twitter.com/friscolibrary/status/972162601449910281
[identity profile] checkers65477.livejournal.com
I don't remember seeing this when it was posted back in May, but here is a terrific review of the series, or at least the part of the series blogger Natalie Zutter has read.

This phrase struck a chord: "On a reread, the brutality of the amputation itself—a point of no return for the rest of the series, mere pages into the second book—made my stomach drop in a way that was wholly familiar. A mix of sick dread and macabre excitement..."

That's exactly how that part made me feel.

I hope she *finally* read KoA and the other books.
[identity profile] checkers65477.livejournal.com
Excellent, and amazingly spoiler-free, review of TaT and the rest of the series.
[identity profile] styromgalleries.livejournal.com
Hello Sounis! Long time no see. I finally read Thick as Thieves last week, then it took me another week to get my thoughts together to share with you. Spoilers abound!

Read more... )
[identity profile] checkers65477.livejournal.com
Here are links to more professional reviews of Thick as Thieves--all are excellent, and all but one (Kirkus, but they are notoriously tough) are starred reviews.

Be aware there are LOTS of spoilers in these reviews! Maybe wait to read them after you've read the book.

Which comes out in TWENTY SIX DAYS.

Publisher's Weekly

Kirkus

Booklist

Horn Book (they don't post the actual reviews online, generally, but this page mentions the starred review)

Congrats, Megan!
[identity profile] ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com
“I could run away and make myself a free man.”
“Oh, I’d find you.”
-The Queen of Attolia

I asked our authoress if it was okay for me to write a spoiler free review, and she gleefully gave me permission to “torture” you all! Thank you so much, Megan! XD

Now, for the real trick… How to review a QT book without giving anything away. This is a no spoiler review as it says on the tin. I’m sworn to secrecy.

However, I will be talking openly about the information revealed in the summaries published online (I have to have something to work with), so if you don’t want to know even that about the new book, beware of small spoilers. I wrote this to be as general as possible and nothing specific is revealed.


We're Thick as Thieves )


[identity profile] checkers65477.livejournal.com
Cross-posting this from Tumblr. A great review from someone who recently read The Thief. See the original post here: http://lazybarbarians.tumblr.com/post/156852883847/the-thief-by-megan-whalen-turner

Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] sounistumblr at The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner

lazybarbarians:

Kalinara: So it was my turn to pick the book again, and I decided to step away from Star Wars for a bit. I did however keep things in the Young Adult field by choosing The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner.

The Thief is one of those books that is very hard to review, because it’s very easy to say too much about this very simple story. Fortunately, we have a cut tag.

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Here's a very cool thing that's happening, that'll affect lots of children:

These results are jaw-dropping for less than 3 days...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readingrainbow/bring-reading-rainbow-back-for-every-child-everywh

In the video, Levar Burton talks about doing new videos with new books. Wouldn't it rock [& knit] socks, if some of mwt's books got covered & discovered?
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Y'all know how much I enjoy it when authors enjoy each other's work. Over on the Bujold list, Lois just posted a link to some of her book reviews over on Goodreads. In addition to A Certain Author, lots of other authors popular hereabouts come in for sagacious appreciation. Since good things [and, apparently, good reads ;)] are made to be shared, here y'all go:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/7672661
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A Bujold listie posted her first story here:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1049450/chapters/2099148

It's set during Hurricane Sandy, but the leads are fannish, so there're lots of Bujold & Pratchett moments. It's so immediately immersive, I read the whole thing while in the middle of rereading a Jennifer Crusie novel. There're family, friends, loyalty, and a tinge of O. Henry-ish magic. It's in chapters for easy reading, & I recommend it gleefully, acquisitively, & other fun filkferengi things.

:)
[identity profile] aged-crone.livejournal.com
Kirkus Reviews is online. I haven't looked at many of the recent reviews. The fun is that they have their old reviews online. And even more fun: you can post comments to them! (You have to have a Facebook account, unfortunately).

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/

Search for your book, and if it doesn't come up (which it won't for the older books unless they've been reissued recently) then click on the Refine Results - Release Date - All link. Although their reviewers loved some of the books I do, they're really snippy about some that I also love. Here's your chance to argue with them!
[identity profile] shelver506.livejournal.com
Hey all!

Just thought I'd let you know, I was invited by a blogger friend of mine to do a guest review on her site. Of course, what was the very first book I thought of? Well, Queen of Attolia, actually, but it seemed silly to review QoA without reviewing The Thief. So that's what I did!

Here's the link if you all want to see: Guest Post: "The Thief" by Megan Whalen Turner.

I figure the more attention the post gets, the better chance that we can indoctrinate others into MWT rabid fandom. Bwahahahaha!!!

Also, the blogger in question (Auggie) is awfully nice, and I'm sure she'd love a bump in her stats.

Thanks!

Shelver
[identity profile] 1221bookworm.livejournal.com
Do you ever feel like you scraped the bottom of the book barrel, and you can't find anything new?  After finishing the Legend of Eli Monpress, we haven't been able to find anything Really good.  And we are in desperate need of those kind of books right now.  Our father is having surgery soon, and so we are looking for books that we can read in the waiting room.  Since we don't know how much brain power we'll have, we're not looking for anything to heavy. 
Here are some of the books we like:
QT (of course!! :)
Crown Duel by Sherwood Snith
Farsala Trilogy by Hilari Bell
Truth Series by Dawn Cook
Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron

We don't like books that are too graphic (cue Eragon eye roll), or have excessive "content" (if you know what I mean ...)

We've seen a lot of books, and we might have overlooked some good ones, so please let us know what you like so much about them.  

Thank you,
Books, and Bookworm (the Book sisters)

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