Jul. 12th, 2010

starlady: (but it does move)
Rutkoski, Marie. The Celestial Globe. New York: Farrar Strauss & Girroux, 2010.

So I really liked the first book about Petra Kronos, The Cabinet of Wonders, and I think I actually liked this the second book even more. Thanks again to [personal profile] shveta_writes for recommending them to me!

Petra and Neel's accomplishments in the first book are revealed to have in fact made their families' situations far more precarious; Roma in Bohemia are being rounded up and imprisoned on the orders of Prince Rodolfo, and Petra's cousins only just manage to flee to the south of the realm before the prince's foulest servants, the Gristleki or Grey Men, come for her and her father. In the confusion of their attack Petra is separated from her father and brought to London by her erstwhile protector John Dee, while her friend Tomik stumbles onto the seacoast of Bohemia Expandno, I'm not kidding )
starlady: A typewriter.  (tool of the trade)
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I Write Like by Mémoires.


On a whim, I entered the prologue of The Flying Empire, and got…

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I Write Like by Mémoires.