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[meganbmoore]

 Some "possibly to check out later" results of a brief random fit of restlessness and access to amazon.com, pretty much to remind myself to check them out at some point, though any opinions are always welcome(why do you think I always post book lists?)  Mostly upcoming YA fantasy.

Fate - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Golden - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Abhorsen Trilogy Box Set - Garth Nix
The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan
Magic Lost, Trouble Found (Raine Benares, Book 1) - Lisa Shearin
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception - Maggie Stiefvater
Book of Shadows: Book One (Sweep) - Cate Tiernan
In the Serpent's Coils (Hallowmere) - Tiffany Trent

*also notes that the MMPBs of the second and third of Michelle Sagara's Elentra books just came out*

Also, has anyone seen Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day?  it's one of those I meant to catch in theaters but never did, and I don't remember anyone ever commenting on it.

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[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Yep...and at the same time, they were at the back of the last book for a good reason: you don't HAVE to read them to make sense of what's going on. If you're the nerdy sort who loves digging in deep to the history and languages and family trees, they're there and you can have fun with them, and they add more depth and enjoyment to it all -- but if that's not your sort of thing, you can just wade into the text and anything that's truly essential is explained there. And this is one of the many things that a lot of the bad Tolkien imitators don't seem to get -- they seem to think that people are reading for world-building and that means they have to have lots of made-up words and complicated genealogies and timelines, and then they try to smack you in the face with MY WURLDBILDING, LET ME SHOW YOU IT.