I just finished Dresden Files' author Jim Butcher's fantasy series, the Codex Alera. It's 'shepherd-boy-makes-good', but Butcher writes such great characters, suspenseful action scenes and wonderful plots that when I finished I wanted to go back to the beginning and start again. (Sadly I couldn't 'cause I loaned the first two books out already.)
They were really stupid about naming the books, though. If you're interested, start with the first book and try not to look at the titles of the later books. The path is obvious by the end of the first book (Furies of Calderon), but you still don't want it spelled out before you've even started.
Decided there's no way I can destroy a book published in 1880. Even if the bookstore did give it to me for a carved book project, I just can't.
Crap!! That means it will have to go into the pile of books that are too good to get rid of, oh woe is me, for I am ever too short of shelf space.
No, instead I think I'll sink my exacto knife into an outdated PDR I picked up for the gilded edges. I have no real qualms about taking that one away from future generations of bibliophiles.
Will have to keep an eye out for one of those giant legal books so I can do a project with a lot of depth.
Yay, preservation!
Are there any copies of Sarah Palin's bio around you can practice on?
Can you carve a dartboard out of a book?
it's thin ... won't require much carving
Somebody has made mock webpages for various instituions associated with A Song of Ice and Fire - spoilery if you haven't read all the books.
Brief discussion tonight with Matilda included literary allusion.
Emmett: You're getting very big.
Matilda: I'm a big girl. I'm very tall. And I'm strong. Feel my muscles.
Me: You do have strong muscles.
Matilda: I'm very strong. I could fight The Trunchbull.
Me: You could. What would you do if you fought the Trunchbull?
Matilda: I'd cut her head off.
JZ: Don't you think it's enough to throw you lunch at her?
Me: No, she's got the right idea.
Matilda: I'd cut her head off.
Ms. Trunchbull is the horrible mean Head of School in the book Matilda.
