Review: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
Click to view on Amazon The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson Genre: Historical Fiction - YA (Going towards the 2012 Genre Fiction Challenge !) I listened to this book on my new commute to my new job as a librarian with a large library system in Western Washington. (Yes, I've moved to a new state and started a new job, and yes, that is why I haven't been updating recently.) Anyways, this book pulled me in a few different directions. I'll admit that I knew very little about it going in, so at first, I thought I was listening to some kind of dystopian, speculative fiction novel. We have this boy, Octavian, who is raised in this household called the Novanglian College of Lucidity. He is told that he is a prince and his mother is a princess, and he is surrounded by men who teach him latin, music, and the classics and who dress him in all sorts of finery. Also, except for he and his mother,