I've Got to Stop Reading Book Blogs (yeahrightsure!)

I suspect this is the last "porn" for some time.  And there's some blame among them!!

I'm handing out points!  (sorry no Oscars or Emmy's!)..

For The Sea Trolls and The Land of Silver Apples (since they are a series), the Points go to two people:  Darla d & Fuzzycricket.  Just what I needed another series!  I'm glad at least 2 books are out but geeezzzz maurice! 

And two get blamed for Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story too:  they would be Kailana and Stephanie!  Now generally, I am not a lover or "retold fairy tales" but too many reviews on this one sound really good.  When I read that there was a tie-in of the tale of The Cottingley Fairies, (a true story of two cousins in 1917 England who took photographs of themselves with fairies in their garden.) well, that did it!  I love the old movie out about the Cottingley Fairies so, hopefully this will give me some of that too.

(thanks ladies!)

The Lightening Key is one of those books I mentioned that I have been reading the series. (so the blame is on me!)  Got to love the covers to this series of books by Jon Berkeley. The previous books are: The Palace of Laughter & The Tigers Egg.  This particular group of books is a Julie Andrews Collection and the cover art on all of them has been Brandon Dorman.

The Thirteenth Child is my fault too.. it's by Patricia C Wrede.  Ms. Wrede was co-author to a trilogy (along with Caroline Stevermer) that I very much enjoyed: Sorcery and Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and the Mislaid Magician. And this book of hers sounded really good (and I'm betting it will be a series!)

Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the seventh son of a seventh son. 

This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent... and she's supposed to bring doom to everyone around her.  Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that protects settlers from the beasts of the wilderness.

Eff and Lan do not know what awaits them in such an unknown place.  There are steam dragons that hover in the sky, and strange creatures that could undermine the homesteaders very existence.  Eff is allowed to learn magic with the other students... but there's always the threat of it going horribly wrong.  As a thirteenth child, Eff always feels one short step away from complete ruin.

As Eff and Lan grow older, they face challenges they never could have dreamed of.  And then their magic is put to the test in a standoff that will alter their lives forever.

Yep,.. The Thirteenth Child is my own choosing... it just sounds like something I will really enjoy! (I hope.. I hope)  However.. if anyone else wants the points for these books, just let me know!