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And the winner is…

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Okay, I couldn’t pick just one.
The two winners of the book are…
Drum roll please…
Tammy (with her Bellmoss creature–nice use of puma)…
And Kate (with her monster, Clairabell)!
Both Tammy and Kate will receive a copy of Andrew’s On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness.
Oh, and Aaron is my honorable mention winner, with his two-headed dog, [...]

IT’S CONTEST TIME!

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Okay, so I have an extra copy of Andrew Peterson’s On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. And I wanted to come up with some clever way to give it away. So here’s my idea.
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness is full of scary, fantastical creatures–toothy cows, horned hounds and [...]

On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, by Andrew Peterson

It’s 2 in the morning, but my mind is racing. Snow swirls outside my window, and it would be the perfect time to crawl under my quilts. But I can’t. My mind is filled a fantastic land called Skree.
I don’t read many fantasy books. My bookshelves contain few otherworldly volumes, besides The Chronicles of Narnia [...]

It was the best of books, it was the worst of books…

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For those of you not quite as into reading as I am, I promise, this is the last post of the 2007 books. I just wanted to do a quick best of/worst of for the books I read in 2007. Drumroll please…
BEST:
5. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Okay, this book was kind of weird, [...]

Books for 2007: 67-77

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67. The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
68. Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn
69. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
70. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
71. The Know It All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, by A. J. Jacobs
72. I Feel Bad About My [...]

Books for 2007: 56-66

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56. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
57. ‘Tis, by Frank McCourt
58. Dwelling Places, by Vinita Hampton Wright
59. Winkie, by Clifford Chase
60. The Undertaking, by Thomas Lynch
61. Running with Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs
62. Fred Factor, by Mark Sanborn
63. The Sweet Potato Queens’ First Big-Ass Novel: Stuff [...]

Books for 2007: 45-55

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45. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseine
46. The Perks of Being a Wallfower, by Stephen Chbosky
47. My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
48. The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler
49. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen [...]

Books for 2007: 34-44

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34. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
35. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
36. Keeping Faith, by Jodi Piccoult
37. Grace (Eventually), by Anne Lamott
38. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd [...]

Books for 2007: 23-33

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23. Garlic and Sapphires, by Ruth Reichl
24. Plain Truth, by Jodi Piccoult
25. Black and Blue, by Anna Quindlen
26. The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kinsolver
27. Circle of Friends, by Maeve Binchy [...]

Books for 2007: 12-22

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12. Midwives, by Chris Bohjaliam
13. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
14. Gods in Alabama, by Joshilyn Jackson
15. Bridge to Teribithia, by Katherine Peterson
16. Forever in Blue, by Ann Brashares
17. [...]