All posts tagged protagonists who make mistakes

Chalice by Robin McKinley

I liked it. It’s my first hardcover purchase in who knows how long (I am cheap and proud to admit that I use libraries and second hand books and all of that to get my reader’s appetite fulfilled) and I’m glad I made it. I’ll read it again.

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

Last night I finished House of Many Ways, Diana Wynne Jones’s most recent book and the third book set in the world of Howl’s Moving Castle after Castle in the Air. I read both Howl’s and Castle in college, and I am a huge fan of the Miyazaki film adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle, despite [...]

It’s startling what a little caffeine will do to me.

By a little I mean the hastily chugged remains of this morning’s second cup of coffee, still sitting on the counter. It was cold. It went down easily. (Coffee and I are rather unhappily codependent unless flavoring — pumpkin spice, toffee nut — are involved. Alas, going to Starbucks hurts, so unhappily codependent we remain.) [...]

Robin Hobb.

I am so vulnerable to this woman and her books. I told myself, “No, you will not get sucked into reading Shaman’s Crossing. No. NO!” And ha. I have been. I’m not past the point of no return (the point at which I cannot — cannot — turn aside from reading a novel until it’s [...]

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