Book List Part 2

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Book List Part 1

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Heidi at Boarding School - Charles Tritten

Title: Heidi at Boarding School
Author: Charles Tritten
Genre: Classic
Rating: 2/5
# pages: 152
Date read: January, 2019

Heidi was born and raised in the mountains, and when she comes to boarding school in Switzerland, it means a great upheaval in her life. But with her good mood and courage, she quickly wins over friends and learns to enjoy her life. Even better - she experiences a fantastic holiday with a schoolmate at home in her beloved mountains.


I hadn't realized that this sequel wasn't written by Johanna Spyri, and unfortunately Charles Tritten did not have the same way with words, making the story very disjointed and it jumped around in time, so the last few months took up 80% of the book, and the last 20% covered several years!

I didn't dislike it, but without the rosy glasses of childhood nostalgia, it could only just make it to "It was okay".

The Paper Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg

Title: The Paper Magician
Author: Charlie N. Holmberg
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 226
Date read: January, 2019

Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic…forever.

Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined—animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic.

An Excisioner—a practitioner of dark, flesh magic—invades the cottage and rips Thane’s heart from his chest. To save her teacher’s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane’s still-beating heart—and reveal the very soul of the man.


Fascinating book! I only wish that the quiet days before trouble arrived had taken up more pages than they ended up doing. I love reading about people learning a new craft, and here it almost seemed to be over before it began. I would have liked to see more of Ceony and Thane getting used to each other, and Ceony learning her folds. Ceony's trip through Thane's heart was interesting, but seemed more like exposition than actual plot. Makes me wonder if it was used mainly to set the stage for the next book? No matter, I still really enjoyed it, and finished it in just one day.