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- j - Now write a fanfic based on that. :)
- j - *snicker*
- jun - That new cover looks like “Jason Isaacs and Tom Baker as Nico and Philip!”
- j - The new covers appeal to me more than the old ones, I will say that. Which might color the reading experience a...
- jun - Yeah, I have a couple other books by her, as well. It’s rather disheartening to hear that they’re...
adventure Archive
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Conspiracy 365: January (Gabrielle Lord)
Posted on January 2, 2012 | 1 CommentThe Plot A few months ago, Callum Ormond lost his father to a mysterious virus. His whole family is still reeling from this sudden and unexpected death. Then, on December 31st, he receives a strange... -
The Body at the Tower (Y.S. Lee)
Posted on June 2, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe Plot Mary Quinn was rescued at the age of twelve from the hangman’s noose by an enterprising group of women. Now educated and grown, she has been recruited by those same women to join... -
J’s Take on A Spy in the House by Y. S. Lee
Posted on May 7, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe basic premise of A Spy in the House is that it’s er.. Victorian? London and this girl is plucked from prison where she’s about to be hanged for theft, and brought to a school.... -
A Spy in the House (Y.S. Lee)
Posted on May 1, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe Plot The orphaned Mary Lang’s nascent crime spree was halted abruptly when she was caught in the act. Sentenced to hang for her behavior, the twelve year old was instead spirited away to Miss... -
The Laughing Cavalier by Baroness Orczy: B
Posted on June 22, 2010 | 2 CommentsFrom the back cover: The year is 1623, the place Haarlem in the Netherlands. Diogenes—the first Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel’s ancestor—and his friends Pythagoras and Socrates defend justice and the royalist cause. The...