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Book Details Young Adult Fantasy Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there […]Continue reading “March Book Madness! Day 10, Gregory Maguire’s Egg and Spoon (2014) 3.5/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .”

Book Details Philosophy and Religion The Bhagavad Gita is the most famous poem in all of Hindu literature and part of the Mahabharata, the ancient Indian epic masterpiece. The Gita (in Sanskrit, “Song of the Lord”) consists of a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Prince Arjuna on the morning of a climactic battle. Krishna provides Arjuna with the spiritual means […]Continue reading “March Book Madness! Day 8, The Bhagavad Gita, Translated By Eknath Easwaran — So Many Thoughts. . .”

Book Details Young Adult Fantasy Seventeen-year-old Smitha has the wealth, status, and beauty that make her the envy of her town—until she rejects a strange man’s marriage proposal and disastrous consequences follow. Smitha becomes cursed, and frost begins to encompass everything she touches. Banished to the hills, hunted by villagers, and chilled to the very […]Continue reading “March Book Madness! Day 7, Charlie N. Holmberg’s Followed By Frost (2015) 4/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .”

Original Book Cover Book Details Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf—the same creature who attacked her as […]Continue reading “March Book Madness! Day 6, Joanna Ruth Meyer’s Echo North (2019) 5/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .”