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19 novembre 2007

Extras - Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld's bio- and bibliography *** Genre : Science-Fiction - Young Adults American publisher : Simon Pulse : 16,99$ English publisher : Simon & Schuster Childrens Books Synopsis : "It's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the...

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18 octobre 2007

Anne Series - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Biography : Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in 1874 in Prince Edward Island, Canada and died in 1942 in Totonto, Ontario. She was a candian writer. Most of her novels and short stories take place in P.E.I. She was teacher for a few years and started to...

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21 octobre 2007

One for sorrow - Christopher Barzak

Biography : " Christopher was born and raised in rural Ohio, has lived in a southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan and the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan, where he taught English in rural junior high and elementary schools. His stories have...

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31 octobre 2007

Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

Biography : Scott Westerfeld was born in 1963 in Texas. According to The New-York Times he is one of the best-selling authors of science-fiction and young adults literature. He's already won several prizes for his novels, and Uglies and Peeps were named...

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1 juillet 2007

Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin : She was born in 1977, in New-York. She graduated from Harvard in 2000. She has worked as a screenwriter and one of her screenplays has been produced : Conversations with other women. For this work, she was nominated for a 2007 Independent...

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4 novembre 2007

The Worlds of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones

Biography : Diana Wynne Jones was born in 1934 in London. She grew up in a house where there weren't too many books, so she decided to write them, despite her dyslexia. Between the age of 12 and 14, she wrote 2 epic tales. She studied English in Oxford,...

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22 octobre 2007

All my friends are superheroes - Andrew Kaufman

Biography : " Andrew Kaufman is a writer, film-maker and radio producer. His writing has appeared on McSweeney's website, he has completed a Director's Residency at the Canadian Film Center and his film Aberistiwith was screened at festivals across Europe...

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23 novembre 2007

New moon - Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer's bio- and blibliography : here *** ** Genre : Science-Fiction - Young Adults American publisher : Megan Tingley Books, Little, Brown and Company : 9,99$ US; 12,99$CAN English publisher : ATOM : 6,99£ Warning : There may have some spoilers,...

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1 décembre 2007

Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

Biography : "Katherine Paterson was born in 1932, in China, where she spent part of her childhood. After her education in China and the American South, she spent four years in Japan, the setting for her first three novels. Ms. Paterson has received numerous...

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8 décembre 2007

The Orphan's Tales - Catherynne M. Valente

Biography : Catherynne M. Venlente was born in 1979, in Seattle, WA and grew up in Northern California. She graduated from high school at 15, and went ti the University in San Diego and Edinburgh where she studied Classics and Ancient Greek Linguistics....

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15 décembre 2007

The Wardstone Chronicles - Joseph Delaney

Biography : " Joseph Delaney lives in Lancashire with his wife, and has three children and four grand-children. His home is in the middle of Boggart territory and his village has a boggart called The Hall Knocker, which was laid to rest under the step...

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19 décembre 2007

Opal Dream - Peter Cattaneo

*** * Genre : Drama Release : 2006 DVD : 2006 Directed by Peter Cattaneo Written by Phil Traill, Peter Cattaneo and Ben Rice Based on the novella by Ben Rice (Pobby and Dingan) Starring Sapphire Boyce as Kelly-Anne Williamson, Christian Byers as Ashmol...

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20 décembre 2007

Big Fish - Tim Burton

Genre : Tales Release : Decembre 10th, 2003 DVD : April 27th, 2003 Directed by Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare before Christmas, Corpse Bride) Written by John August( Charlie's angls, Charlie and the chocolate factory, Corpse Bride) Based...

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26 décembre 2007

Firts in a Series Challenge

There is a big difference between the french and the english speaking blogosphere. French prefer Swaps, whereas english speakers prefer Challenges. For 2007, I was in for the ABC Challenge that consisted in choosing one author for each letter of the alphabet....

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29 décembre 2007

How to save a life - The Fray

The Fray - Members : * Isaac Slade - Voice and piano * Joe King - Guitar and voice * Dave Welsh - Guitar * Jimmy Stofer - Bass * Ben Wysocki - Drums The Fray - Bio : The Fray was born in 2002 in Denver, Colorado with the leaders Isaac Slade and Joe King....

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20 novembre 2007

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

Biography : Stephenie Meyer was born in 1973, in Connecticut. She attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where she studied English. Stephenie married her husband in 1994, has three children, and is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

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18 septembre 2007

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Biography : Philip Pullman was born in 1946 in Norwich, England. All along his childhood, he travelled a lot in Australia and Zimbabwe. Today, he teaches at Oxford's University. Most of his works are intended for a young public, but he also writes for...

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26 octobre 2007

The Eyre Affair - Jasper FForde

Biography : Jasper Forde was born in London in 1961. He worked for 20 years in the cinema industry before taking up writing with the adventures of Thursday Next. Currently he lives in Wales. Blibliography : * Thursday Next Series : The Eyre Affair (2001);...

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14 novembre 2007

Questions to...Christopher Barzak

Well, I've just arrived on the english-language (?) blogosphere, but I've had a french book blog for a year and a half now, and I always wanted to create a new rubric, where I would ask some questions to authors willing to answer. Indeed, when I really...

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26 décembre 2007

2008 TBR (To Be Read) Challenge

I've found out that a TBR Challenge was organised by MizBooks and decided that it would be a good way to cross some books in my TBR list, so here is my list for the 2008 TBR Challenge : - Tideland - Mitch Cullin- Stardust - Neil Gaiman- A Long Way Down...

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25 novembre 2007

Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer's bio- and blibliography : here *** ** Genre : Science-Fiction - Young Adults American publisher : Megan Tingley Books, Little, Brown and Company : 18,88$ US; 21,99$CAN English publisher : ATOM : 12,99£ Warning : There may have some spoilers,...

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18 novembre 2007

Specials - Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld's bio- and bibliography *** * Genre : Science-Fiction - Young Adults American publisher : Simon Pulse : 9,99$ English publisher : Simon & Schuster Childrens Books : 6,99£ Synopsis : " Specials circumstances : The words have sent chills...

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31 octobre 2007

Pretties - Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld's bio- and bliography *** Genre : Science-Fiction - Young Adults American publisher : Simon Pulse : 8,99$ English publisher : Simon & Schuster Childrens Books : 6,99£ Synopsis : After many misadventures and new developments, Tally has...

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18 décembre 2007

Booking Through Thursday : Rolling

Do you get on a roll when you read, so that one book leads to the next, which leads to the next, and so on and so on? I don’t so much mean something like reading a series from beginning to end, but, say, a string of books that all take place in Paris....

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26 décembre 2007

The Dark Side Challenge

I decided to create my own personal challenge, because at the moment, well since I discovered Stephenie Meyer's Series Twilight, I really want to read books about vampires, werewolves, and also witches. A few years ago, I was addicted to this genre, but...

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