Unread Authors

Behold! The Second Unread Authors Challenge is upon us! Last year I ran this challenge from September to February, and the premise was this:...

Jonathan Stroud. The Amulet of Samarkand Date read: 1/30/2009 Rating: 3*/5 = good Genre: Fantasy My thoughts: I enjoyed this fantasy featuri...

We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. ...

He remembers now how his dreams for Frederiksborg preoccupied him. He remembers how, in a single night, he understood that the architecture ...

UPDATE: JANUARY 6, 2009 - CHALLENGE COMPLETED! Many thanks to Ariel for hosting this fun challenge. I ended up reading a total of 9 books f...

Hallet was lying on his back, hands clasped behind his head, nothing much visible from Prior’s angle except his chin. How appallingly random...

It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognize the thoroug and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two...

I have seen and endured the suffering of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to ...

C. J. Westwick. Emerald Enigma Date read: 10/19/2008 Rating: 3*/5 = good Genre: Thriller My thoughts: This book was an engaging thriller wit...

The house was a sepulchre, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection. When I thought of Manderly in my...

They call this Broken Bay , Blackwood said. River comes in yonder. He pointed ahead, where Thornhill could see only confusing stretches of ...

Jennifer Traig. Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood Date read: 8/30/2008 Rating: 3*/5 = good Genre: Memoir My thoughts: ...

A. A. Attanasio. Wyvern Date read: 8/29/2008 Rating: 4*/5 = great Genre: Adventure My thoughts: This was a beautifully written epic story a...

These are stories. You could say that such stories pay more attention to the truth of a life than fiction usually does. But not enough to sw...

Eleanor Mathews. Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship Date read: 8/24/2008 Rating: 3*/5 = good Genr...

For a few moments, the sun disappeared behind a cloud, and in the shadow, nothing of it was visible, only the shingly mud and the herringbon...

Last year I failed spectacularly in my goals (amidst, in my own defense, the madness the surrounded the completion of my dissertation), so I...

Thanks so much Ariel for the invitation to officially join this group. I'm so excited because, for one thing, the acceptance of your in...

Welcome to the Unread Authors Blog, a group blog designed for participants in the Unread Authors Challenge to post their reviews and thought...

She wore her black slingbacks and a white cotton dress with blue flowers that matched the paint that framed the door. Alentejo blue. here sh...