Date Finished:  7/4/2007
Pages:  309
Category:  fantasy, ya
Rated:  A
Cover:  paperback
From:  my collection
Reason for Reading:  in preparation for book 7

I'm just not going to bother writing anything about it.  I love it and that is that.  *squee*

Date Finished: 1/15/2007
Pages: 676
Category: Fiction
Rated: A
Cover: Quality Paperback
From: my collection
Reason for Reading: buddy read Reading Cove

This book is fascinating.  A story within a story within a story is told in such a manner that all stories meld together to form one.  It is basically the quest of three different historians to find the truth about "Dracula" or Vlad Tepes and the problems they encounter.  Kostova melds fiction with history elegantly and makes me want to learn more about the subject matter (which is rare for me).  She makes me want to travel to Europe and explore until I have unveiled all the mysteries myself.  A brilliantly written book!

Date Finished: 1/7/2007
Pages: 156
Category: Graphic Novel
Rated: B
Cover: Hardback
From: borrowed from Heather
Reason for Reading: because I love Elfquest

This one again left me confused.  The Palace was moving here and there, Rayek just seemed drunk with power.  There were a few things resolved from the last book though, so that was nice.  It was still left too open ended though.  Trinket the troll is quite adorable!

"So says the chief of dreamberries."

"Ooohh!  My ears...all plugged up!"

Date Finished: 1/7/2007
Pages: 132
Category: Graphic Novel
Rated: B
Cover: Hardback
From: borrowed from Heather
Reason for Reading: because I love Elfquest

Again, I just love Elfquest.  There was quite a bit of death in this one.  This one wasn't really "questy" so much as leading up to what might be a huge quest.  I don't think Rayek is going to be too thrilled in the next book.  Changes are afoot I feel.

"Mother-mother highthing spank Sharpdark highthing good."

"You know, if I had a stick covered with fire-ants I'd shove it right u..."

I've been sick this week and did a bit of reading.

From the Publisher

THE STOLEN CHILD is the story of Henry Day, a seven-year-old kidnapped by a strange group living in the dark forest near his home. He is stolen by changelings--ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by encroaching modern life. They give Henry a new name, Aniday, and the gift of agelessness--now and forever, he will be seven years old. In keeping with tradition, the group has left another child in Henry's place. This changeling boy, who has morphed himself into Henry's duplicate, must adjust to a completely new way of life and hide his true identity from the Day family. But he can't hide his extraordinary talent for the piano (a skill the real Henry never displayed), and his near-perfect performances prompt his father to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. As he grows older the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place, of a German piano teacher and his prodigy. Both Henry and Aniday search obsessively for who they were before they changed places in the world.

Narrated in the alternating voices of Henry Day and his double, THE STOLEN CHILD is a classic tale of the search for identity and leaving childhood. With just the right mix of fantasy and realism, Keith Donohue creates a literary fable of remarkable depth and strange delights. The result is a bedtime story for adults, which will appeal to readers charmed and captivated by such recent bestsellers as Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, and The Confessions of Max Tivoli and by the classics of Tolkien and J. M. Barrie.

My take
An entertaining story of a two changlings.  Narrated from both points of view keeps the story moving very quickly.  It is also interesting to see the child stay a child, yet grow into an adult.  Very enjoyable.

*heart*  Evil Winnowill is defeated...or is she?  Blue Mountain collapses.

I'm a huge ElfQuest fan, but the beginning of this one was slow.  Still, ElfQuest = *heart*