Greetings all!
Sorry to be ghost-y for so long. My computer pretty much rolled over and died just before the holidays, but a very cool friend gave us a new one!
I got some fantastic books for Christmas and just wanted to pass them along as suggestions:
The Knights of the Silver Dragon Series -
I met the author (Matt Forbeck) of the first book, Secret of the Spirit Keeper, at GenCon last year. He was very cool and the series is just too neat! Its the first series of Dungeons and Dragons Adventure books put out there as childrens/young readers' books. I can't reccomend them enough. The characters are wonderfully developed with issues many kids can relate to and the adventures are fantastic. I wish they'd been around when I was a young reader! (Maybe I'd be more into reading fantasy novels today!)
Abarat by Clive Barker-
I didn't know this was considered a young adult book. I saw Clive Barker in an interview on a DVD where he described this new series. He said he was supposed to be doing a series of erotica paintings for a show. Instead, all these characters started coming out. Then this world developed. Then he was like, "huh, I should write a book about this". I bring this one to the gym with me and read while I'm on the treadmill. I'm completely sucked in. The illustrations are really unique and fit with the tone of the book perfectly. I have the first two (I don't believe he's put more out, but its possible).
So those are the series I got from my wonderful hubby. What have you found lately? Have you read these? Share!
Sorry to be ghost-y for so long. My computer pretty much rolled over and died just before the holidays, but a very cool friend gave us a new one!
I got some fantastic books for Christmas and just wanted to pass them along as suggestions:
The Knights of the Silver Dragon Series -
I met the author (Matt Forbeck) of the first book, Secret of the Spirit Keeper, at GenCon last year. He was very cool and the series is just too neat! Its the first series of Dungeons and Dragons Adventure books put out there as childrens/young readers' books. I can't reccomend them enough. The characters are wonderfully developed with issues many kids can relate to and the adventures are fantastic. I wish they'd been around when I was a young reader! (Maybe I'd be more into reading fantasy novels today!)
Abarat by Clive Barker-
I didn't know this was considered a young adult book. I saw Clive Barker in an interview on a DVD where he described this new series. He said he was supposed to be doing a series of erotica paintings for a show. Instead, all these characters started coming out. Then this world developed. Then he was like, "huh, I should write a book about this". I bring this one to the gym with me and read while I'm on the treadmill. I'm completely sucked in. The illustrations are really unique and fit with the tone of the book perfectly. I have the first two (I don't believe he's put more out, but its possible).
So those are the series I got from my wonderful hubby. What have you found lately? Have you read these? Share!
