![]() ![]() Young Conn (he could be anywhere in age from 12 to 14 - he's not really sure) lives on the streets in the scruffy Twilight region of the city of Wellmet, making a living as a thief. Conn's life changes forever the night that he picks the pocket of a grouchy wizard named Nevery, and ends up becoming a Wizards's Apprentice. The Magic Thief is a middle grade fantasy title, perfect for readers at the slightly younger end of the spectrum (say, 8-10 year olds), though with plenty to make older readers smile, too. I read it in one sitting, and closed the book with a sigh of satisfaction. I've hastened to request the sequel from the library, because The Magic Thief is delightful. But the upside of having waited is that now the second book in the series is already waiting for me. I've been meaning to read Sarah Prineas' The Magic Thief since my friend's son recommended it to me last summer. ![]()
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![]() I spent many years putting myself in imaginary situations and playing all sorts of people I had absolutely nothing in common with and would never normally be cast as. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn’t normally have access to them-in prisons, hospitals, young offender’s units, youth clubs and housing estates. As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. How did you decide to write a young adult novel, and on this staggeringly difficult subject?Ī. Your author’s bio on “Before I Die” says intriguingly little about your background-only that you live in London and that you were trained in the theater. Downham answered a few questions about the book by e-mail. In his review, John Burnham Schwartz praises the novel’s “stark interior poetry,” and calls it “unforgettable.” Jenny Downham’s first novel plainly announces its theme in its title: “Before I Die.” The narrator, 16-year-old Tessa, has recently learned that the leukemia she has been living with for four years is now terminal, and the question is: What now? She decides to make a top-10 list of things she wants to do in the time she has left, and enlists her most reliably irresponsible friend, Zoey, to help. ![]() ![]() ![]() As indicated by my review title, nearly all the expletives have been omitted. I love the first two movies in this franchise so much! So how can a book that essentially follows the movie scene for scene be disappointing? Let me explain how. ![]() This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more? It's a small point but I do find that marines fearing imminent death would probably lose their composure and swear. It's an 18 rated movie/story and removing that language is as laughable as the ITV late 1980s dub. I'm not a prude and can accept bad language in context but the fact that a line like "F**k that" has been replaced with "Forget that" gets quite distracting over time. My only real disappointment is that the language seems to have been sanitised. If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?Ī great book. I'd not heard William Hope (AKA Gorman in the movie) before and was pleasantly surprised by the tone and pace he reads at. Have you listened to any of William Hope’s other performances? How does this one compare? What other book might you compare Aliens to, and why?Īlien obviously because it has the same writer and is the first part of the story. I read the book many years ago and was delighted to see it being released in audio book form. ![]() Where does Aliens rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?ĭefinitely one of the better ones. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now someone, claiming to be al-Jahiz, is stirring up trouble across Cairo. One of only a handful of female agents working for the Ministry, she is also one of the agencies most productive agents, who easily navigates the dangerous potentials ever-present in circumstances involving magic (which NEVER acts/reacts as one would think or hope). The Ministry’s youngest agent is Fatma el-Sha’arawi. The ministry is charged with investigating disturbances of a paranormal nature and keeping the peace between magic users and non-magic users. The Egyptian government, as the locus of the magical in the world, set up the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities. ![]() ![]() For the intervening four decades the world has had to learn how to live with, or attempt to ignore, the magical beings that now populate our world. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds was sealed. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. ![]() |