Remember a couple of months ago when I was talking about Tabitha King? Well I finally got around to reading Candles Burning the novel started by Michael McDowell. He died before it was completed so Tabitha King picked up his manuscript and wrote the story. It was good. Really very good.
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Sassymonkey said Magic Study was less evil than Poison Study, (evil = caused to stay up late into the night to finish), I disagree. I found Magic Study got off to a much quicker, a quick start and I really wanted to do nothing except keep reading! I took a break to help a friend with her blog template and in the back of my head was “darn, now I’m not going to finish this tonight”. Ha, I should have known I’d just keep reading.
I thought for a minute the author was going to make everything neat and tidy, I’m so glad she didn’t. I liked the interaction between Yalena and Lief and Yalena and her mother. Those had to be tough relationships for the author to create and maintain.
I’m looking forward to Fire Study.
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Well sassymonkey turned out to be right after all. Poison Study was difficult to put down once I got into it. That whole getting into it thing was a problem. It was really slow for the first chapter or two. I thought sassymonkey had lost her mind.
I thought this was a YA book but it isn’t – why isn’t it? Oh more money in adult books, maybe? Maybe it is the transgendered character keeping it from being a YA? Ha. I was surprised at the TG turn, pleasantly surprised actually. F2M TG, awesome – that is just not something you see everyday and certainly not an F2M TG with all of that power. I would love to hear the story of how that all came about. Not that I don’t like Yelena, I do. But I have a lot of questions about Ambrosia….
I’m off to read Magic Study now.
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OK so I said I was reading What the Dead Know and here I am blogging New Moon instead. I wasn’t in the mood for missing girls, vampires and werewolves seemed like a much better idea. Besides, New Moon was another book I started but didn’t finish around the time of our trip to London and I was disappointed that I didn’t manage to get through more than the first 50 pages or so before I had to return it.
So, I read the rest of it in about 3 hours. It was just as good as Twilight – in some ways it was better. I really loved Jacob and I loved Emily, I’d like to know more about Emily and how she adjusted to living with the werewolves. And while I thought running off to Italy there at the end was a little much, I appreciate why the story went that way. I’m anxious to learn more about Bella’s “immunity”. When’s the next book due out? Oh, August 2007, cool! I can wait that long. Anyone getting a preview copy????
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Woo! Two vampire novels back to back! Two totally DIFFERENT vampire novels back to back. Two totally different and totally fabulous vampire novels back to back. Life just doesn’t get any better!
Twilight finally made it to the top of my TBR stack. I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to get it. I wish I had just bought the darn thing instead of waiting for it to appear on my library reserve shelf. Maybe I’ll go out and buy it today so the kids can read it at their leisure. It’s another one worth having on the colorful library shelves!
And, the sequel, I cannot wait to read the sequel! It’s on the shelf right now – but there are a dozen in front of it… should I let it jump the line and read it right now? What do you think?
I love Christopher Moore. I should just stop there and leave it at that. There’s just nothing else that needs to be said about You Suck. Christopher Moore wrote it and that should be enough for anyone. You want more? OK here’s more….
If you haven’t read Bloodsucking Fiends, then read that first. Actually, you should read all of the books before this one because there were a ton of "in jokes" that you simply won’t get if you haven’t read a bunch of his other books. You Suck was written for his long time readers, not for the newbies.
I loved Abby Normal
"So I like slept til eleven, because we’re on Christmas break, only it’s called winter break now because Jesus is an OPRESSIVE ZOMBIE BASTARD AND WE DO NOT BOW DOWN TO HIS BIRTHDAY! At least not at Allen Ginsberg High School we don’t. (Go Fighting Beatniks!)"
Heh.
Nope, You Suck was not the best Moore, ever. But it was awesome Moore just the same. I want to read it again. Right now! And then go back and read all of his other books again! Oh no! I just realized something – we’re going to have to wait a lifetime for another book! That’s the only problem with a new Christopher Moore book – waiting for the next one. Darn it.
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Fly By Night feels a lot like an Edge Chronicle book but it’s a little too rambling in places. I found myself falling asleep or skimming in far too many areas and I’m betting kids are going to lose interest even more quickly than I did – unless they are patient with books or good at skimming in order to get to the good stuff.
I liked the characters. I liked the premise. I just wish it wasn’t quite so rambling, particularly at the end when the author was trying to tie it all up.
Not great but not bad either.
I haven’t read many Ursula K Le Guin books, the Catwing series is pretty much all I can remember reading (And I am a very big Catwings fan, and so are the three big kids. The small kids never showed much interest.) I kept seeing Voices at Amazon and on various book blogs so I reserved it at the library. I didn’t know it was the sequel to something. I hate reading books out of order but TW said it wouldn’t matter, so I read it. And I liked it.
Another story where the bad dudes don’t recognize the accomplishments and worth of women. Another story where books are feared by the bad guys and worshipped by the good guys. It was good. Good enough for me to head over to my library website and reserve the first one.
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Heh, thanks Lorena. This totally amused me and I knew I’d wind up with Rand. I don’t mind a bit.
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Who knew Jeanette Winterson could write such a great young adult fantasy book, and it’s not gay at all! There’s not even any gender confusion. Weird, eh?
Tanglewreck is the story of the Timekeeper. The Timekeeper is important because time is totally screwed up. We never have enough of it, time is always flying, stuff like that. I mean it’s REALLY flying and we REALLY don’t have enough. That’s the problem and the Timekeeper is the solution.
Really a good book, your fantasy loving kids will enjoy it.