Sarah Avery rated Startide rising: 5 stars
Startide rising by David Brin (Bantam spectra book)
David Brin: “Startide Rising” (1983) This is a sci fi story about a Terran (Earth) crew of neo-dolphins and humans …
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Writer of epic and contemporary fantasy. Winner of 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Escaped academic.
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Sarah Avery rated The Prophet: 4 stars
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Reflections by the Lebanese-American poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, …
Sarah Avery rated Trilogy: 5 stars
Sarah Avery rated D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths: 5 stars
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
A re-telling of the myths of ancient Greece for children.
Sarah Avery rated Tao Te Ching: 5 stars
Tao Te Ching by Laozi
The Tao Te Ching (UK: , US: ; simplified Chinese: 道德经; traditional Chinese: 道德經; pinyin: Dàodé Jīng [tâu tɤ̌ tɕíŋ] …
Sarah Avery rated Watchmen: 5 stars
Sarah Avery rated The Farthest Shore: 5 stars
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin, Françoise Maillet, Michel Lee Landa (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are …
Sarah Avery rated The Mabinogion: 5 stars
Sarah Avery rated From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E.Frankweiler: 4 stars
Sarah Avery rated Taran Wanderer (The Chronicles of Prydain): 5 stars
Taran Wanderer (The Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander (Chronicles of Prydain (4))
Sarah Avery rated Dreaming the dark: 5 stars
Sarah Avery rated Notes on thought and vision & The wise Sappho: 5 stars
Sarah Avery rated Sundiver: 2 stars
Sundiver by David Brin (A Bantam spectra book)
In all the universe, no species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron—except perhaps mankind. …
Sarah Avery rated Stardust: 5 stars
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Stardust is a 1999 fantasy novel by British writer Neil Gaiman, usually published with illustrations by Charles Vess. Stardust has …
Sarah Avery rated Villette: 4 stars
Charlotte Brontë: Villette (1936, Oxford University Press, H. Milford)
Villette by Charlotte Brontë (The World's classis, XLVII. The novels of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. IV)
Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe achieves by …