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Keris Stainton (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today’s giveaway is Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan. To be in with a chance of winning, please leave a comment with your name and email address (though not your postal address, thank you, I’ll email you for that if you win). UK only for this one, I’m afraid. (There’ll be another international comp next week.) All the competitions will [...]
educating alice (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Leviathan was my first encounter with Scott Westerfeld, but is sure not to be my last. A longtime steampunk fan, I greatly enjoyed the characters and the story he spins in this vividly rendered alternative world. I then gave it to one of 4th grade science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts; here is his review: This book [...]
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Book Details Paperback, 448 pages 2007, Simon Pulse ISBN: 0689865384 Synopsis Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld ( Midnighters ) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties"...
forces of geek (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... hybrids to counter German zeppelins. This is why I am totally digging Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. Leviathan is a young adult, science fiction re-imagining of World War I. Yeah, that's right. And in it, WWI is totally fought by giant, genetically-modified, flying whale-and-other-animal hybrids that are basically living zeppelins that people strap themselves to and then drop bombs...
Bookfoolery and Babble (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... - Christian theme or elements NF - Nonfiction GN - Graphic Novel CH - Children's 168. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld (YA/Sci-fi) - The second in the Uglies series. Tally is now a Pretty but before undergoing the surgery, she wrote herself a note to remind herself that there's more to being a Pretty than meets the eye. With her new love Zane, she undergoes an experiment that has surprising...
Stomping on Yeti (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... by End of 2009. Right now the current favorites are Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker and Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan. If you would like to see something else covered, now's your chance to vote. I'm not sure if I can create a Top 10 list or not but I should be able to provide my favorite/recommended reads of 2009. I also plan on completing a year end review similar to what I did for...
Blue Rose Girls (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... and in the afternoon I walked the floor for a bit saying hi to authors such as Lisa Yee, G. Neri , Scott Westerfeld , Justine Labarbalestier , E.B. Lewis , and more. I helped out for our Jerry Pinkney signing in the afternoon, then escaped to the hotel for a quick nap. That night Assistant Editor Connie Hsu and I took "our" authors to dinner at another amazing restaurant...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event at J. Kaye's Book Blog to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Books Abandoned Ulysses by James Joyce Books I Completed This Week What Your Mother Never Told You by Richard M. Dudum Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris Uglies by Scott Westerfeld...
