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books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 002

Veil of Winter by Melanie Dickerson

“My precious Elyce. All is well now. I’m here.”

#books #2023 reads #Melanie Dickerson #booklr #lit edit #veil of winter

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Series info:

Book 1 of Hagenheim

Book 2: The Merchant's Daughter

Book 3: The Fairest Beauty

Book 4: The Captive Maiden

Book 5: The Princess Spy

Book 6: The Golden Braid

Book 7: The Silent Songbird

Book 8: The Orphan's Wish

Book 9: The Warrior Maiden

Book 10: The Piper's Pursuit

Book 11: The Peasant's Dream

#books #ya #historical fiction #the healer's apprentice #melanie dickerson #hagenheim #poll

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goose girl chronicles

the noble servant by melanie dickerson

this is the fourth novel adapting goose girl i have read

currently 10% of the way through and the christianity is incredibly heavy handed. both main characters are very concerned about god forgiving them constantly. it is VERY annoying and does not feel natural, more like a sermon.

one aspect i do like dual povs from our goose girl and the duke she will marry (who is ALSO going to be in disguise it looks like)

the narrative starts before her maid makes her change places although we didn't get to know her much before the journey took place, or much about her family relations

the mc had the Revelation that WOW servants are treated with NO respect!! can you BELIEVE

the writing is meh but the audio is pretty good

absolutely no nuance to this book, i am being hit over the head with the morals and the foreshadowing oof

honestly, not sure if i will finish this retelling or not, it could go either way at this point

#my goose girl era #the goose girl #the noble servant #Melanie dickerson #i think ill try and make one of these #for each book #and reflect on the ones ive already ready

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Title: The Merchant's Daughter | Author: Melanie Dickerson | Publisher: Zondervan (2011)

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#book #books #reading #reading recommendations #help #help plz #advice #polls #poll #tumblr polls #my polls #i love polls #help me #school #englis #english #melanie dickerson #luisa may alcott #joanna ruth meyer #elizabeth george spear #megan whalen turner #j. r. r. tolkien #alan gratz #refugee #the hobbit #hobbit #the golden braid #the captive maiden #the princess spy #little women

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Book Review: Lady of Disguise by Melanie Dickerson

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Melanie Dickerson is one of my favorite authors, and she is probably the author who has had the biggest impact on my reading. You can read why here. Since I love Melanie’s books so much, I was thrilled to receive an ARC of Lady of Disguise, which is the first of her books I’ve reviewed on my blog! Lady of Disguise is the sixth book in Melanie’s A Dericott Tale series.…

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#A Dericott Tale #book review #book reviews #Christian #Christian fiction #Christian romance #clean romance #fairy tale retelling #family #Jack and the Beanstalk #Lady of Disguise #Melanie Dickerson #reading

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Book Review: Cloak of Scarlet

Title: Cloak of Scarlet [The Dericott Tales 5] Author: Melanie Dickerson Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Romance, Re-Telling Rating: 1 Star (DNF) Description/Synopsis: She was an orphan of no importance . . . Violet Lambton never imagined herself as anything but average. Adopted as a young child, she’s content with her comfortable life in her small medieval town with her faith, her books, and her…

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#5 #author #authorunpublished #book #cloak of scarlet #dericott #DNF #fantasy #historical #melanie dickerson #re-telling #review #romance #tales #unpublished

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Review: Veil of Winter by Melanie Dickerson

Review: Veil of Winter by Melanie Dickerson

Veil of Winter (Dericott Tales #3)Melanie DickersonThomas NelsonPublished June 14, 2022 Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About Veil of Winter Princess Elyce is on the verge of marrying the nephew of the unscrupulous King Conrad of a neighboring kingdom when she discovers that Conrad will use her marriage to force her people to work in his mines. In order to fake her own death and escape him, she…

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#Dericott Tales #Melanie Dickerson #Thomas Nelson #Veil of Winter #Wenceslaus

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Ladies and Gents, have any of you read any Dericott books by Melanie Dickerson??? Fairytale retellings set in Medival England with a Strong religious undertone/overtone? Consider me signed up!

#nia post #dericott #they are constantly praying to God and reminding themselves of Gods truths and praying for others im like!!!!!

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Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky - the new album is out TODAY on Omni Sound

For more than two decades, the disciple that has most visibly carried on Sun Ra Arkestra’s legacy and sound is their musical director, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, the iconic fire breather and life force that restored the Arkestra’s vitality in the massive vacuum left by Ra and John Gilmore’s death in the ‘90s. Allen turned 98 in 2022 and, as evidenced by Living Sky, his influence and leadership remain undiminished. Marking the Arkestra’s first new recording since their 2021 Grammy-nominated album Swirling, Living Sky was recorded on June 15, 2021 at Rittenhouse SoundWorks in Philadelphia and features a total of nineteen musicians, including a strings section. It was mixed and mastered by three-time Grammy winner Dave Darlington (Eddie Palmieri, Brian Lynch, Wayne Shorter). Sun Ra Arkestra Marshall Allen - Alto Saxophone, Kora, EVI Knoel Scott - Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone Nasir P. Dickerson - Tenor Saxophone Chris Hemingway - Tenor Saxophone Michael Ray - Trumpet Cecil Brooks - Trumpet Vincent Chancey - French Horn Dave Davis - Trombone Robert Stringer - Trombone Farid Barron - Piano Dave Hotep - Guitar Tyler Mitchell - Bass Wayne Anthony Smith, Jr - Drums Ron McBee - Percussion Jorge Silva - Percussion Elson Nascimento - Percussion Tara Middleton - Violin, Flute Gwen Laster - Violin Melanie Dyer - Viola Kash Killion - Cello, Sarangi Dedicated to the legacy of Sun Ra (1914-1993) Bandleader, composer, arranger, keyboard player, poet, philosopher and cosmonaut. In memory of Hartmut Geerken (1939- 2021) German musician, composer, writer, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. Mehmet Ulug (1959-2013) Turkish producer & promoter, Omni’s pathway to Sun Ra.

#Sun Ra Arkestra #jazz #avant-garde #experimental #sun ra #marshall allen #philadelphia #2022 #omni sound

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When I learned that the Villains Ever After Series was getting a Swan Lake story, I knew I had to read it. I expected this book to be a new favorite because I love classical ballet, and romance novels inspired by fairytales. However, after finishing this book in just under two days, I am sad to say that The Sorcerer and the Swan Princess is one of the most unromantic adaptation of Swan Lake I have read. By no means, am I upset with the Sorcerer, named Dietrich, being the love interest instead of the prince. It’s in the title. This creative twist was what interested me to begin with. However, Dietrich, despite the attempts to humanize him, is still not a charming love interest in the slightest. Ava is the heir to the throne of her kingdom, but has always had dreams to be a ballet dancer. However, she was forced to hang up her pointe shoes following an ankle injury. I liked this feature to Ava’s character both as a nod to the source material and because unfulfilled childhood dreams rips my heart strings right out.

Things finally start looking up for Ava when she receives a visit from an old friend, Prince Siegfried. But, everything changes when Dietrich the Sorcerer appears, turns Ava into a swan against her will, and kidnaps her despite her protest that she wants to go home. Maybe Dietrich has his reasons to do so, maybe he truly has Ava’s best interest at heart despite absolutely not respecting Ava’s autonomy. I personally found the reason to be flimsy. <spoiler> Ava’s twin sister, Lina, asked Dietrich to turn Ava into a swan and kill her so that she can take her place as queen. Dietrich turns her into a swan and kidnaps her instead. I recall Ava asking why he didn’t explain the situation and ask her to come with him instead, and Dietrich’s response is basically, “You would not have believed me”. I would still be bothered if he only kidnapped her, but he also denies Ava, her humanity and twists her body into something unrecognizable. Like, I would not give a man a second chance after that, even if he has a tragic sob story on top of the protecting from an evil twin excuse. </spoiler>

After the initial abduction, Dietrich does not respect Ava or even appears to take her seriously. Towards the middle of the story, Ava and Dietrich are having a very heated discussion, and Dietrich realizes the conversation is not getting anywhere. Ava only becomes more and more upset with him. A mature adult would remove themselves from the situation until both parties have a chance to calm down, but not Dietrich. He turns Ava into a swan again to shut her up. He says it’s because she needs to “cool off”. What I took away from the exchange is that A. Dietrich cannot take any criticism, even if said criticism is the result of his poor communication. B. he is more powerful than Ava and he wants her to know it.

Any efforts to make the characters fall in love just feels forced after this even when Dietrich realizes Ava’s mindreading ability hasn’t been working and finally explains himself. Ava forgives Dietrich, because the premise of the Swan Princess and the Sorcerer falling in love needs to happen not because they had genuinely good chemistry.

Finally, and this is probably is not even a problem, but I am a little confused that some major characters are renamed from the ballet, but others are not. The sorcerer character, Rothbart, is called Dietrich, and the characters filling the roles of Odette and Odile are named Ava and Lina, but the prince's name is still Siegfried.

Okay, I clearly need to calm myself down before some hot sorcerer turns me into an emu and makes me calm down.

Any Swan Lake adaptions I would recommend instead? The issue is I have not read any other books where Ava and Dietrich become a couple. However, an excellent romance book that is more of an adaptation of Robin Hood with Swan Lake elements is The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest by Melanie Dickerson.

#books #book review #swan lake #romance #fairytale retelling #Villianseverafter #The Sorcerer and the Swan Princess #rant review #odette #ballet #odile

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Remembering the honor of the ones that passed in 2022 Sonya eddy Barbara walters

Pope Benedict XVI Pele

Kirstie alley Stephen ' twitch' boss

Georgia holt grant Wahl

Queen Elizabeth II takeoff

Bob Saget Angela Lansbury

Sidney Poitier Olivia Newton - John

Robbie Coltrane Thierry Mugler

Andre` Leon Talley ray Liotta

Aaron Carter Leslie Jordan

Anne Heche Fred ward

Coolio Mike hodges

Jamie Lopez Dan reeves

Jay weaver grichka and Igor bogdanoff

Joan Copeland Kim mi-soo

Michael Lang Peter bogdanovich

Calvin Simon Marilyn Bergman

Ross browner Dwayne Hickman

James mtnme or mtwme. Maria Ewing

Chris Dickerson Melanie ham

Fred parris Deon lendore

Meat loaf. Steve schapiro

Charles Mcgee Yvette mimieux

Lusia Harris Gaspard Ulliel

Hardy Kruger Louie Anderson

Elza soares Clark gillies

Don Wilson Kathryn Kates

Thich nhat hanh bobbe long 'beegie ' Adair

Jean ramirez Ronnie spector

Dallas Frazier wavy navy pooh

Jon Lind adalia rose Williams

Clint arlis Jordan cashmyer

Rosa Lee Hawkins Breck Denny Jr.

Morgan Stevens Diego verdaguer

Peter Robbins rachik vachik mangassarian

Paul Carter Harrison dick Halligan

Betty Davis Emilio Delgado

Lee MacMillan Sam Bruce

Loretta Lynn Naomi Judd

Andy fletcher Bob Lanier

Kevin Samuels kailia posey

Niece waidhofer jaylon Ferguson

Gleycy correia James Caan

Tony Dow Ryan fellows

Luke Bell. Robert lupone

Don Anthony st. Claire Jesse Powell

Gavin Escobar PnB Rock

Robert Cormier Mikaben

And more rip

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Fictional works that are my personal archnemeses:

*With varying degrees of enmity and reasonableness of enmity

The musical Grease

Disney's Frozen

The CBS Sherlock Holmes show Elementary

Melanie Dickerson's fairy tale retellings

Usual disclaimers that this is extremely personal opinion with personal reasons, and you're not necessarily wrong if you liked any of them.

It appears that there are a few qualifying factors that make something an archnemesis instead of just something I don't like

Something that's of a genre or subject matter that I usually like a lot, so the fact that I don't like it feels more personal and disappointing

Lots of people do like it, and I'm either disappointed I don't get it, annoyed that they don't, or angry that they use their love of the thing they like to put down the thing I do like

(And it appears having a one-word title doesn't help)

Which brings to mind works that share some of the archnemesis requirements but don't qualify as archnemeses:

Thorn by Intisar Khanani (by virtue of being something I should like, so much so that I frequently forget that I don't like it and have to be disappointed all over again. But there are still a lot of things to like about it.)

The third episode of Strange New Worlds. (Too new and too slight to be a true archnemesis, but I'm baffled that it's praised to the skies and that no one can see that even by Star Trek standards the plot is flaming garbage nonsense)

And anyway I've satisfied my list-making and category-defining impulses, so I'll end the post now.

#random thought of the day #in case you were wondering the reason this post is such a mess is that i had to put my usual tag tangents into the post itself #which is very inconvenient and I should stop doing that

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worst books I read in 2023 imo

since i will dnf any bad books in the next 2 weeks and have a pretty stellar line up for my end of the year options, i will do my worst books of the year . . .this is based on my reading enjoyment so please don't expect objectivity

peter pan by jm barrie

i mean, this book is great in context with response texts and discussing childrens literature over time but the racism and sexism are overwhelming. i don't regret reading this book but i did not enjoy it overall.

the wonderful wizard of oz by l frank baum

see above but less obvious with racism and sexism

islands at the end of the world by austin aslan

im so over dystopias. also this was racist and sexist yay.

under the dome by kosoko jackson

if you don't mind a protagonist saying he's a journalist 17 times through his story, you might enjoy this.

the grimrose girls duology by laura pohl

in my defense, the fictional text the book focused was really deeply fascinating. or the idea of it was. deeply disappointing as a fairy tale retelling nerd. (i still can't believe i read both of these smh)

the marrow thieves by cherie dimaline

again, i can't do dystopias at my age anymore. also i should have looked up the trigger warnings before reading this. that's on me.

how much of these hills is gold by c pam zhang

i can see how this would appeal to some people. pretty writing but not appealing to me in the least.

the girl in the painting by tea cooper

i read this as an example of christian fiction in class. it was not as bad as i expected.

when women were dragons by kelly barnhill

this reeked of white feminism. there were a lot of good aspects but the message of the story was undercut by the lack of woc in the book.

the noble servant by melanie dickerson

this was what i thought christian fiction would be like. sometimes, i hate being right

beast by donna jo napoli

so racist. so sexist. so much islamophobia. and theres a lion sex scene

legends and lattes by travis baldree

if i wanted to read about a coffee shop being built, i would have read a blog post instead. biggest disappointment of the year.

pictures and stories from uncle toms cabin by harriet beecher stowe

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#these are more in #order read #vs how bad each are #book wrap up

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Title: The Healer's Apprentice | Author: Melanie Dickerson | Publisher: Zondervan (2010)

#books #The Healer's Apprentice #Melanie Dickerson

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The Arkadians by Lloyd Alexander

The Search for Delicious (Babbitt, Natalie) The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker

Maya and the Rising Dark (Barron, Rena)

Peter and the Starcatchers (Barry, Dave)

The Looking Glass Wars (Beddor, Frank)

Eigth grade bites by brewer (published under author's deadname?)

Minecraft the island by Max brooks

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism (Byng, Georgia)

The Awakening (Carroll, Michael )

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Carter, Ally)

A Week in the Woods (Clements, Andrew)

The Supernaturalist (Colfer, Eoin)

Artemis Fowl (Colfer, Eoin)

Airman (Colfer, Eoin)

Of Fire and Stars (Coulthurst, Audrey)

Into the Land of the Unicorns (Coville, Bruce)

Out of My Mind (Draper, Sharon M.)

So you want to be a wizard by Diane Duane

The Patron Thief of Bread (Eagar, Lindsay)

Half Magic (Eager, Edward)

Inkheart (Funke, Cornelia)

Bunnicula James Howe

Which Witch? (Ibbotson, Eva)

The Secret of Platform 13 (Ibbotson, Eva)

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks

The Reformed Vampire Support Group (Jinks, Catherine)

The Akhenaten Adventure (Kerr, P.B.)

The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Kessler, Liz)

Savvy (Law, Ingrid)

The Fairy's Mistake (Levine, Gail Carson)

Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg (Levine, Gail Carson)

Ella Enchanted (Levine, Gail Carson)

The Two Princesses of Bamarre (Levine, Gail Carson)

Nightmare Academy (Lorey, Dean)

The Merchant of Death (MacHale, D.J.)

The Ruby Princess Runs Away (Malcolm, Jahnna N.)

If the Shoe Fits (Mason, Jane B.)

How to Become a Planet (Melleby, Nicole)

Game of Strength and Storm (Menard, Rachel)

The Host (Meyer, Stephenie)

Fablehaven (Mull, Brandon)

Five Children and It (Nesbit)

The Borrowers (Norton, Mary)

The Wicked Bargain (Novoa, Gabe Cole)

If I Was Your Girl (Russo, Meredith)

Magyk (Sage, Angie)

The Alchemyst (Scott, Michael)

Scythe (Shusterman, Neal)

The Glitch in Sleep (Wexler, Michael)

You, me, and our heartstrings by See, Melissa

Instructions for dancing by Yoon, Nicola

The Jasmine Project by Ireland, Meredith,

Rise to the sun by Johnson, Leah

Happily ever afters by Bryant, Elise

Everything I thought I knew by Takaoka, Shannon.

The falling in love montage by Smyth, Ciara

The peasant's dream by Dickerson, Melanie

The princess will save you by Henning, Sarah

If I'm being honest by Wibberley, Emily

Opposite of always by Reynolds, Justin A

Summer constellations by Sevigny, Alisha

The wicked deep by Ernshaw, Shea

The supervillain and me by Banas, Danielle

The boyfriend bracket by Evangelista, Kate

An enchantment of ravens by Rogerson, Margaret

Wild beauty by McLemore, Anna-Marie

Stay tuned 🐺

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