The BookFetish Blog

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling. Released in the States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone I’m not including a link here- if you can’t find or haven’t heard of Harry Potter, well, there’s really no hope now, is there? I remember when I first entered the world of Harry Potter. […]

The story of Queen Bouidca, Warrior Queen by Alan Gold http://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Queen-Story-Boudica-Celtic/dp/0451215257/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264897772&sr=8-2 Appropriately listening to Big Wolf Pappa’s “Warrior Queen” while writing this post. Warrior Queen is a fictionalized retelling of the story of Britain’s Celtic Queen, Boudica. Full disclaimer time. My knowledge of the expansion of the Roman Empire into Africa, the Middle East, and […]

I can’t really count this book in the 52 in 52 tally because I started it before I began my little adventure. But, I just now finished it, and I enjoyed it. Thought I would write about it anyway. The Magicians by Lev Grossman: http://www.amazon.com/Magicians-Novel-Lev-Grossman/dp/0670020559/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263768099&sr=1-1 What if Narnia and Hogwarts were real? Or even magic […]

Melissa Marr’s Fragile Eternity is a continuation of the Faery saga that begins in Wicked Lovely. http://www.amazon.com/Fragile-Eternity-Melissa-Marr/dp/006121471X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263701188&sr=8-1 I first happened upon these books because of the cover art. Intense colors, intriguing pictures. So I picked up first Wicked Lovely and then Ink Exchange. Like the Twilight series, these are geared towards young adults, but I […]

Al Gore’s The Assault on Reason http://books.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?WRD=the+assault+on+reason+how+the+politics+of+blind&box=The%20Assau&pos=1 I’m not sure what Al Gore wanted to provoke in people reading this book. I’ll summarize my reaction in one word: Angry. This book made me angry. Angry at the Bush Administration, all over again. At our Congress. At a handful of our judges. At those appointed by […]