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Rocket Emporium
Oct. 5th, 2009 04:24 pmThe Enchantment Emporium, by Tanya Huff
I was in the middle of Rocket Boys (which is very good! see below) and I kept sneaking off to read this instead, so I just gave in to it. Tanya Huff is one of my favorite authors and this was a wonderful book. Not quite as goofy as the Summoner series, not as angsty as the Blood series - right in between - a lovely piece of funny, sharp urban fantasy with a dash of (unconventional) love story thrown in. I'm tempted to claim it's her best yet.
(192/275)
Rocket Boys, by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
Sweet, touching, occasionally hilarious memoir of growing up in a small coal town with big science dreams. Plus, stuff blows up. I saw and enjoyed the movie October Sky (based on this book) and I was still really glad to have read the book as well - it's like the movie version had all the rough edges filed off, and the rough edges make the story so much richer... very glad I finally got around to trying this one again! (I first tried it right after the movie came out... AGES ago... and I just never got around to coming back to it until now.)
(193/275)
I was in the middle of Rocket Boys (which is very good! see below) and I kept sneaking off to read this instead, so I just gave in to it. Tanya Huff is one of my favorite authors and this was a wonderful book. Not quite as goofy as the Summoner series, not as angsty as the Blood series - right in between - a lovely piece of funny, sharp urban fantasy with a dash of (unconventional) love story thrown in. I'm tempted to claim it's her best yet.
(192/275)
Rocket Boys, by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
Sweet, touching, occasionally hilarious memoir of growing up in a small coal town with big science dreams. Plus, stuff blows up. I saw and enjoyed the movie October Sky (based on this book) and I was still really glad to have read the book as well - it's like the movie version had all the rough edges filed off, and the rough edges make the story so much richer... very glad I finally got around to trying this one again! (I first tried it right after the movie came out... AGES ago... and I just never got around to coming back to it until now.)
(193/275)
