Month: August 2021

Book Blogger Hop #34

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Click the image above to know what this is about! It’s fun!

This week question:

How young do you think children should be when they start reading? (submitted by Julie @ JadeSky)

My answer:

I don’t think there is a minimum age. I’m not one of those “oh my God, everyone should read!!” even if I would like for people to read more, but I think if you force reading upon children than they won’t read if they aren’t into reading a lot.

I’ve never read as a child, I hated the books that the teacher first and the professor then, gave me as assigned and never enjoyed and understood them. After I’ve finished high school or rather as soon as my professor stopped assigning us books to read, I start to read like books were my reason to live, I even read books that my English teacher assigned us to read twice (but not in the same school year as she forced me to read that book, which was 1984). So for me it wasn’t about books, genre or that particular title, it was the concept you must read this book because I (the teacher) say so.

I’m even reading the Betrothed again by Alessandro Manzoni which is a must read in second grade of high school (I think it compares to 10th grade) here in Italy so you see it isn’t about reading. Yes children need to read to learn to read of course so if they want to read since 1st grade good, if not, let them be. I may wrote a lot of incoherent stuff and not express myself well enough…

Descendant of the Crane

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Descendant of the Crane
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Albert Whitman & Company
April 9th 2019
Hardcover
416
English
June 14, 2021 June 22, 2021
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Princess Hesina of Yan has always been eager to shirk the responsibilities of the crown, but when her beloved father is murdered, she’s thrust into power, suddenly the queen of an unstable kingdom. Determined to find her father’s killer, Hesina does something desperate: she engages the aid of a soothsayer—a treasonous act, punishable by death... because in Yan, magic was outlawed centuries ago.

Using the information illicitly provided by the sooth, and uncertain if she can trust even her family, Hesina turns to Akira—a brilliant investigator who’s also a convicted criminal with secrets of his own. With the future of her kingdom at stake, can Hesina find justice for her father? Or will the cost be too high?

In this shimmering Chinese-inspired fantasy, debut author Joan He introduces a determined and vulnerable young heroine struggling to do right in a world brimming with deception.

About the book

Princess Hesina must take over the reins of her father’s kingdom when he suddenly dies. But Hesina saw that gas come out of her father’s body as the doctor performs an autopsy, so it can’t be natural death. Hesina wants the truth, but she must also reign, quell the revolts against soothsayers, banished and exterminated individuals throughout the kingdom, as well as avoid war with her neighbouring kingdom.

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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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Redhook
September 10th 2019
Hardcover
374
English
June 5, 2021 June 13, 2021
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In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.

Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.

About the book

1900s, early years, there is a special house in Vermont with so many treasures that they don’t seem of this world. January’s father works for Mr. Locke, a somewhat eccentric collector and she lives in his house. At the age of seven, January finds a door that leads to a parallel world. Our world is full of these doors and January quickly realises that these doors can explain her birth. In fact she is orphaned of a mother or so she thinks. When she finds a little book she realises that she has to find out the truth especially after her father has gone missing.

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