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1 February 2001

• Steven Brust, The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
• Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds., A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales: a nice collection of retold fairy tales for children
• Tanith Lee, White as Snow: a wonderful and powerful retelling of the Snow White fairy tale mixed with the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone
• Elizabeth McIntosh, Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS

Books read: 4

6 February 2001

• A.S. Byatt, Possession
• Susan Cooper, Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children
• Kara Dalkey, The Nightingale
• Pamela Dean, Tam Lin
• Charles de Lint, Jack of Kinrowan
• Patricia C. Wrede, Snow White and Rose Red, Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, Talking to Dragons, The Book of Enchantments
• Jane Yolen, Briar Rose
• Jack Zipes, ed., Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England

Books read: 13

11 February 2001

• L.M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe
• Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
• Kara Dalkey, Steel Rose
• Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter
• Eleanor Farjeon, The Glass Slipper
• Lisa Goldstein, Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
• Robin McKinley, ed., Imaginary Lands
• Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden
• Ethel Johnston Phelps, Tatterhood and Other Stories, The Maid of the North
• John Sutherland, Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?

Books read: 12

12 February 2001

• Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country
• E.L. Konigsburg, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
• Nancy Springer, Fair Peril
• Susan Wilson, Beauty

Books read: 5

15 February 2001

• Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
• Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest
• Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove

Books read: 3

19 February 2001

• Margaret Drabble, The Millstone
• Neil Gaiman, Stardust
• Lisa Goldstein, Summer King, Winter Fool
• E. Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Books read: 7

21 February 2001

• Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead

Books read: 2

25 February 2001

• Orson Scott Card, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon
• Diana Wynne Jones, Wild Robert, Eight Days of Luke, Mixed Magics, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Dark Lord of Derkholm, Year of the Griffin
• Noel Streatfeild, When the Siren Wailed

Books read: 13

28 February 2001

• Sandra Gulland, The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe, The Last Great Dance on Earth
• C.S. Forester, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower
• Anne-Marie Selinko, Desiree

Books read: 6

Total books read this month: 65
Total books read this year: 136

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