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Monday Madness: Hans Christian Andersen Classic Fairy Tales

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 Monday Madness  is a new bookish meme hosted by Booklover's Teaparty and  Bookfever . You know that feeling when you feel like you are gonna go mad if you do not get a certain book right away, when you are obsessed and all you want is that one book and you will be happy? That is what Monday Madness is about. All those books you that drive you mad.  Pick a book. Talk about it- why do you want it? What has drawn you to it? Why is it making you mad with want for it?         Hans Christian Andersen classic fairy tales           Hans Christian Andersen is one of the world's most popular storytellers, and his fairy tales are among the best-loved works of literature. Readers the world over know his poignant tale of "The Little Mermaid," who sacrifices everything for love, and "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," whose affection for a paper ballerina is symbolized by his transformation...

Monday Madness: Jane Austen: Her life, Her times, Her novels

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 Monday Madness  is a new bookish meme hosted by Booklover's Teaparty and  Bookfever . You know that feeling when you feel like you are gonna go mad if you do not get a certain book right away, when you are obsessed and all you want is that one book and you will be happy? That is what Monday Madness is about. All those books you that drive you mad.  Pick a book. Talk about it- why do you want it? What has drawn you to it? Why is it making you mad with want for it?            Jane Austen: Her life, Her times, Her novels.           Over the past 200 years — although never more than in recent decades — Jane Austen's sharp and witty novels have delighted a diverse and devoted international readership. With scant information about her life available, fans have a bottomless hunger for details about the woman behind the work.  Jane Austen feeds that appetite with backgrou...

Monday Madness: Iced by Karen Marie Moning

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 Monday Madness  is a new bookish meme hosted by Booklover's Teaparty and  Bookfever . You know that feeling when you feel like you are gonna go mad if you do not get a certain book right away, when you are obsessed and all you want is that one book and you will be happy? That is what Monday Madness is about. All those books you that drive you mad.  Pick a book. Talk about it- why do you want it? What has drawn you to it? Why is it making you mad with want for it?      Iced by Karen Marie Moning          #1  New York Times  bestselling author Karen Marie Moning picks up where  Shadowfever  leaves off with  Iced,  the first book in her hotly anticipated new urban paranormal trilogy set in the world of the blockbuster Fever series.     The year is 1 AWC—After the Wall Crash. The Fae are free and hunting us. It’s a war zone out there, and no two days are a...

Monday Madness: Fever by Lauren Destefano

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 Monday Madness  is a new bookish meme hosted by Booklover's Teaparty and  Bookfever . You know that feeling when you feel like you are gonna go mad if you do not get a certain book right away, when you are obsessed and all you want is that one book and you will be happy? That is what Monday Madness is about. All those books you that drive you mad.  Pick a book. Talk about it- why do you want it? What has drawn you to it? Why is it making you mad with want for it?             Fever by Lauren Destefano          Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind. Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as gri...