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Terry Pratchett's Jingo and
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Tue, 14 October 2008 11:30 |
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i have all 3 books on the horses and they were very good,i also have all of michelle's books except the dark lands and i even have a signed hidden city thanks to my sister.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #1044 is a reply to message #773 ] |
Tue, 14 October 2008 16:21 |
 NotLonely
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| Laura wrote on Mon, 13 October 2008 04:41 |
| Lianne wrote on Sun, 12 October 2008 21:35 |
| Loramir wrote on Sun, 12 October 2008 21:15 |
Coincidentally, I also just finished the Song of the Lioness series - I still love all my YA fantasy books! I'm waiting for my 11-year-old cousin to get old enough for the Lioness books - she's just finished The Hero & The Crown, which she loved, so now I'm debating whether to trust her with my beloved copy of The Blue Sword or send her off to the library!
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I didn't read any Tamora Pierce until I was an adult... I think I was halfway through college. I've found, like someone else said in some thread I can't remember at the moment, that there is a lot of good fantasy in the YA section. So I'll hang out with the teenagers and find good books. :>
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It seems like so many Robin McKinley fans are also Tamora Pierce fans...I know it seems obvious, we all like fantasy, duh, but I hear the two names listed together so often, and they're such different writers with completely different styles. I first read Pierce in fourth grade and then Robin's work in fifth. Perhaps it's the subject matter and the "girls who do things rather than acquire things," themes to which they are both so committed.
I've decided that when I finish Bleak House my reward will be a read of Lioness Rampant; I recently bought a new copy to replace my old falling-apart one with the ridiculously ugly 80s haired, feather earringed, creepily staring close up of Alanna as the cover.
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I was just thinking about the trilogy I read ages ago that featured a cat with purple eyes and a Girl Who Did Things. And I think you've just reminded me who on earth that was? I don't know why I've never picked up Tamora Pierce in the past few years. Probably the cover - I almost *always* judge, even or especially when I'm trying desperately hard not to. Mind you, some of them should have got the designer/person who wrote the brief fired.
Today I put a book back because it's character on the front was carefully detailed, nice style, pity that his hands were about the size of a three-year-old's. Whearas the head looked about thirty. Hard to tell. Grmph.
Life always, always finds a way.
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Wed, 15 October 2008 06:29 |
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I've just finished 'The Ivory Swing' by Janette Turner Hospital - not my choice, this month's Bookclub book, but interesting. It's set in India during the 80s; a young Candadian family spend a sabbatical year there, and come head to head with the clash of eastern and western values. Bit light, but some food for thought.
On the other hand, 'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak is terrific! It shows life in the Third Reich from a child's perspective, narrated by Death, and with Lemony Snicket-like asides through it. It is quirky, sad, funny and empowering all at the same time. Highly recommended.
And 'Chalice' arrived in the mail today! Guess what I'll be reading on the plane to Adelaide on Friday??
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Wed, 15 October 2008 14:18 |
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| Honey_Bee wrote on Tue, 14 October 2008 17:25 |
| holmes44 wrote on Sun, 12 October 2008 22:00 |
i have just finished reading michelle sagara's new book cast in fury and am waiting for mercedes lackey's foundation in her valemar series.
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She has a new Valdemar book coming out? How did I not know this!
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it was release oct 7 and i am hoping it will come in this week.hey, i did it! my first quote. [ happy dance]
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Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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Wed, 15 October 2008 15:00 |
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| Susan in Melbourne wrote on Wed, 15 October 2008 06:29 |
On the other hand, 'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak is terrific! It shows life in the Third Reich from a child's perspective, narrated by Death, and with Lemony Snicket-like asides through it. It is quirky, sad, funny and empowering all at the same time. Highly recommended.
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I agree!
And have you read his other book, which I believe was published before The Book Thief, which is called I Am The Messenger?
I enjoyed it, and so did one of the children's librarians who I work with. But the other one really didn't like it, or at least thought it far inferior to The Book Thief. I'd be interested in your reaction!
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Thu, 16 October 2008 08:47 |
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So glad this thread exists! I get such ideas. I am, as usual, reading a few books simultaneously. The Million Dollar Mermaid about Esther Williams as part of my research for this year's NaNoWriMo novel, Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell for sheer fascination, a couple of Tamora Pierce's, and this weekend, I will be curling up on the couch under a blanket and a couple of cats and cracking up Mercedes Lackey's Foundation.
P.S. If anyone knows of any books that talk about female swimmers in the early 1900s or swimming vaudeville acts or traveling tent revivals in the same era, please, PLEASE let me know. Pictures or articles are also welcome. Thanks!
Every day for the next year, I'm taking and posting at least one picture. Stop by and take a look!
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Fri, 17 October 2008 20:10 |
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"I recently finished rereads of EXPENDABLE and HUNTED by James Alan Gardner."
(How do you do quotes here?)
I loved both of these books. I have pretty much loved everything Gardner has published so far--of them all I think Vigilant is my favorite. Good stuff. Expendable is just wonderful.
I'm trying to read too many books at once. First I have Chalice, and then McKillip's new book, and Didion's The Year of Thinking Magically. I think I'll cut back to Chalice for now. It's hard for me to read right now, because I'm injured, but I'm going to give it another shot.
Hi to everyone!
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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Fri, 17 October 2008 23:22 |
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Currently:
Lirael by Garth Nix
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey
(yeah, they're all rereads)
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self respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
--H.L. Mencken
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Sat, 18 October 2008 22:30 |
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| amelia_mansfield wrote on Wed, 15 October 2008 00:54 |
I'm glad to see so many other DWJ fans out there! I've just finished The Dark Lord of Derkholm (for the millionth time). I'm not one of those people who will finish a book and start over at the beginning immediately, but I have been known to do this with DWJ. As a kid, I would read one of her books first and then turn around and read it aloud to my younger siblings. Glad to hear good things about House of Many Ways as I haven't read it yet. I was pleasantly surprised by The Pinhoe Egg as I wasn't a big fan of Conrad's Fate, so I have high hopes.
Interesting to see that The Dark Lord of Derkholm is dedicated to... Robin McKinley!
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I just recently read The Pinhoe Egg and The House of Many Ways - both much fun and sources of laughter which I didn't have to explain, since now that school is in session I can eat lunch in private and READ while eating. DWJ wrote a hilarious nonfiction tie-in to The Dark Lord of Derkholm, called The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel, which is a total hoot!
I am slowly reading Chalice, which is so lovely, even though I spent much of my life being scared of bees (I got stung a lot as a kid).
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Sat, 18 October 2008 22:39 |
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| Julia wrote on Wed, 15 October 2008 14:00 |
| Susan in Melbourne wrote on Wed, 15 October 2008 06:29 |
On the other hand, 'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak is terrific! It shows life in the Third Reich from a child's perspective, narrated by Death, and with Lemony Snicket-like asides through it. It is quirky, sad, funny and empowering all at the same time. Highly recommended.
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I agree!
And have you read his other book, which I believe was published before The Book Thief, which is called I Am The Messenger?
I enjoyed it, and so did one of the children's librarians who I work with. But the other one really didn't like it, or at least thought it far inferior to The Book Thief. I'd be interested in your reaction!
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I have tried and tried and TRIED to read The Book Thief and simply can't do it. And I like Zusak's other books a LOT. I love I Am the Messenger, and also Fighting Ruben Wolfe. The Book Thief leaves me cold. I have tried to read it from the beginning. I have tried reading at various places in the book, because usually I love the way Zusak writes. But I just can't read The Book Thief. I figure there are way too many books out there just waiting for me to read them, so I have to leave this one behind for now.
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Sun, 19 October 2008 16:03 |
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| Susan from Athens wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 16:45 |
| ssshunt wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 03:10 |
I'm trying to read too many books at once. First I have Chalice, and then McKillip's new book, and Didion's The Year of Thinking Magically.
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I haven't read Didion's Year of Magical Thinking but I recently saw Vanessa Redgrave do a one-woman play of it at the National. She was riveting and the text was riveting too. I'm not sure I want to read it right now, because the impression was so searing, but I definitely will later. It definitely captures the sometimes surreal quality of bereavement, where part of you knows the person you live is dead and is devastated, while another part is convinced they are playing an immense joke on you that is in very bad taste and you will get the point at any moment.
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This can get confusing, these quotes within quotes. But how fascinating, Vanessa Redgrave! And it is such a hard book--I lost my father last year, and I swear I hear him talking to me sometimes... I thought I might be able to connect with the book. And then her daughter died. That poor woman...
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Sun, 19 October 2008 16:33 |
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Absolutely. We want to pretend it doesn't happen. But at the same time, in order to function, we DO have to put it out of our minds or we can become obsessed with dying--I have been there. When I was falling down the staircase my neck was bending funny--when I finally stopped and it was my leg that had the damaged I was weirdly relieved. Things happen, we feel our mortality, and that's not an easy feeling to deal with. It haunts me a little too much these days. But I'm working on it.
A bunch of friends got together and sent me a care package with much chocolate but also books (Tithe and Valiant) and cranes and a stuffed mouse--so many sweet things. This has helped me feel alive. Hard to explain, but I figure if they could take the time to do this, then I matter, and if I matter, then I'm alive. Hope some of that made sense.
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Sun, 19 October 2008 16:53 |
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Thank you so much, Susan. I promise not to fall into depression, been there before. All you people out there burning candles and thinking of me really helps. Truly.
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