It took me a very long time to read Elissa’s Quest and it should only have taken a day. It’s a very young book and a very easy to read book but I was distracted by kid activities and a heavy workload. Too bad – otherwise I’d have hopped over to the library to see if the sequels were available. I want to know what happens to Elissa next.
Very nice little girl’s adventure book.
It’s all YA all the time for me. It seems like every book on my TBR pile is YA. Weird, but I like it except that it makes me want to do a year long YA challenge or something. Anyway, the YA I’m blogging about right now is QUEER YA! Hero was pretty darn amusing and that’s high praise because I don’t really love comic book heroes and that’s what this story is about.
A boy, who happens to be gay also happens to have super powers. He struggles with a dad who doesn’t have super powers but used to be a super hero and who doesn’t want his son to be gay. He struggles with a mom who left him when he was young and, well… I won’t give away more of the plot line.
There’s a very happy ending though not everyone lives happily ever after – which is as it should be in the world of comic book super heroes and families, right?
I finished up May Bird and the Ever After on the plane yesterday and was glad this was the book I happened to be reading. I think I prefer children’s lit and young adult lit for plane rides. Light and easy but also sort of interesting. That’s what May Bird is. TW found it a little too dark but I thought it was fine and not nearly as dark as a lot of other books for kids. I wonder if the other books in the series are any good… I have to know what happens to May, Somber Kitty and all of these dead folks when they get to the Far North.
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Awhile back, Sassymonkey was trying to come up with books for a fairy tales challenge of some sort. I gave her some ideas but generally speaking, she came up with her list on her own. As I was searching, I realized I had never read Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins. Crazy, we read a lot of fairy tales around here. So, I reserved it.
And it was terrific. I really liked the way one fairy tale moved into the next. All of the connections between the women. Really excellent idea and one that should have been done before – or maybe it has and I’ve been missing it?
Remember when I won a contest at Bookburger and got a free audio copy of Eclipse? TW and I have been listening to it in the car for ages. Finally, it was over today on the way home from breakfast. Finally. Thank goodness.
I officially hate Bella. Also Alice, though not nearly as much. I hate Edward and Jake, too – but not as much as I hate Bella. And also Alice. I would probably hate Edward, Jake and Alice less if Bella wasn’t such a whining, annoying, twit of a girl. What in the heck happened to the Bella in Twilight that led her to what she is in Eclipse? Whatever Stephanie Meyers was drinking when she wrote Eclipse, she should stay away from it if she writes another book in this series.
Sheesh.
I loved Twilight. I really liked New Moon. I wanted to like Eclipse but I didn’t – not even a little bit.
I think we should have stopped reading the Acorna series about four books ago. Third Watch was errr a little boring and a lot tedious. I don’t like the “children” much at all. Actually, I think when Acorna mated with Aari I should have stopped reading. I never liked him and it’s just gone down hill ever since.
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We’ve been looking forward to Percy Jackson and The Titan’s Curse for a long time. But, when I started reading it – I was afraid I was going to be very disappointed. It took me a few chapters to really get into it, that hasn’t happened with any of the other Percy Jackson books.
Thankfully, once the Oracle spoke things picked up and I read it just as quickly as I could – putting it down only when I had to get some work done. Now I’m back to being excited for the next one. Did Riordan announce the title of Percy 4 yet? Darn – not yet, but very soon.
About 50 pages to the end of Odalisque: Book One of the Percheron Saga, I realized I was going to hate the book. I realized this because it is what I’ve always thought as a part of a “real” series. It’s a book that doesn’t wrap up the adventure, it doesn’t even come close to wrapping up the adventure. We haven’t even hit the climax – or maybe there are two climaxes and book three contains the denouement and wraps it all up tidy? I don’t know. I just know when I finished it last night, I was annoyed. Now I have to track down Book 2 and Book 3. Immediately.
Damn it. Book Two hasn’t even been released yet! How did this happen? I blame TW for choosing this from the library shelf in the first place.
Because it seems as if all I’m blogging about are books and wii, I’ll toss in a kid story along with the “book talk”. How’s that? Soon I’ll blog about something else. I swear.
You know Bookburger right? I noticed a post there about the making of Twilight into a movie. There was much discussion about whether Zac Efron would make a good “vampire Edward”. I thought it was an “ok” choice, not terrible but not great and I said so on the Bookburger blog. Well errr I didn’t notice it but that post was a contest and because of my comment I won an audio version of Eclipse. How cool is that? It’s really cool because on someone’s blog – sassymonkey’s or Kit Cat’s – I said I was going to try and get the audio version because we might enjoy it more than reading the print version (the reviews are hit or miss for this one and we loved the other two.)
So anyway, the day I realized I won this audio book I picked up Liz from school. We were talking about her homework and from there we somehow started talking about her crafting. She mentioned that she really wanted to get busy knitting because she wants to knit a Zac Efron doll for A’s birthday – and to knit some clothes for him. (Heh. This is pretty amusing. How do you knit a Zac Efron doll? I guess we will ask Lorena and crew this weekend…)
I thought it was a weird coincidence that I had just found out I won a book based on a comment about Efron and here she was talking about him. So I told her about winning the contest and we discussed whether Efron would make a good vampire Edward. She doesn’t know the character but she thinks Efron would be a weird vampire. But, her biggest concern is something else…
She wants to know why characters who are named Edward are never bad. It just makes sense to her that all characters named Edward SHOULD be bad – the alliteration of Evil Edward or Edward the Evillllllll is just so excellent, writers should work on that. Quit making Edwards and Eddies and Eds the good guys. They’re evil – they have to be. Liz has deemed it so.
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Heh. TW reserved The Good Fairies of New York when she heard one of the characters in it has Crohn’s. TW read it and was amused. I read it and was also amused. I love the alternative “teen” type fairies with colored hair and ripped kilts trying to corrupt the young fairies of Scotland. Awesome. The fairy war was a little much and the darn “poppy” chase was a lot much. Other than that, awesome. And like Neil Gaimon, I have no idea why this hasn’t been made into a play or a movie.
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