Tag Archives: RIP-worthy

Silver is for Secrets, by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Thistle

Senior year is over, and Stacey and her friends have rented a beach cabin for the summer. It’s supposed to be a vacation, but the nightmares start all over again, this time about a stranger, a girl who then shows … Continue reading →

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White is for Magic, by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Thistle

A year later, and it’s happening again. Stacey is having dream premonitions. But this time, two things have changed. She’s not the only one having these dreams, and it’s her own death that she’s dreaming about. Okay I’m even more … Continue reading →

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Blue is for Nightmares, by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Thistle

Stacey practices Wicca and has the ability to see the future through her dreams. Unfortunately she’s having nightmares about her best friend and roommate, Drea. Stacey doesn’t want to relive her past, when ignoring these types of dreams led to … Continue reading →

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Puppet Master, by Joanne Owen

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Thistle

I hardly know how to describe this book. It takes place in late 1890s Prague. Milena is a little girl who lost both her parents three years earlier. Her father died; her mother disappeared. Milena now lives with her grandmother … Continue reading →

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (graphic novel), by Oscar Wilde

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Thistle

This is the graphic novel adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It’s adapted by I.N.J. Culbard (illustrator) and Ian Edginton (text). It follows the exact same plot as the original book, so my summary is for … Continue reading →

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The Metamorphosis (graphic novel), by Franz Kafka

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Thistle

My long-time readers know that I love Kafka. The Metamorphosis is probably my all-time favorite novella. After loving the brilliant adaptation of The Trial to graphic novel last fall, I knew I had to get my hands on this GN … Continue reading →

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The Haunted Hotel, by Wilkie Collins

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Thistle

Lord Montbarry decides to leave his fiance, Agnes Lockwood, in order to marry the mysterious Countess Narona. Agnes is devastated but forgiving, while the rest of society looks on the whole affair as a scandal. They all believe the Countess … Continue reading →

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Readathon: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Thistle

A mysterious man sneaks into a certain house and kills all the family members except the youngest – an 18m old toddler whose name is never known – who manages to escape into a nearby graveyard. The ghosts there adopt … Continue reading →

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Readathon: The Dreaming (vol 1), by Queenie Chan

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Thistle

Twin sisters Amber and Jeanie arrive at an exclusive boarding school in the Australian outback, where their first impressions are not great. There are secrets in the air, and they’re not allowed to claim twinhood because the woman in charge … Continue reading →

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Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Thistle

When the unnamed narrator of this story meets Maxim de Winter, whose wife drowned and left him a widower a year previously, she doesn’t imagine that he will ask her to marry him and take her back to his home, … Continue reading →

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