You'd think after all these years hanging out around here that I would have picked up a book by our own Deborah Grabien before, but no, I've just now gotten my hands on Matty Groves and I'm LOVING it. Thank you, Deb, for a great read. Now I'm looking forward to enjoying more of your work.
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Shari_H - Jun 16, 2010 3:41:43 am PDT #11585 of 28343
Keep breathing!
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2010 6:27:36 am PDT #11586 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So good, in fact, that I'm almost sad this is the one that will be associated with the pseudonym, rather than the perfectly fun but not nearly as mindblowing Toby Daye books.
Ha. Yeah. The Toby books will be going on for longer, though, so there's that. I hope they become more mindblowing.
Steph L. - Jun 16, 2010 8:03:41 am PDT #11587 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Did people here say they had a hard time getting into Changeless? Because I did. I'm finally past the halfway point (and, uh, it's pretty obvious that Alexia is pregnant, right? [DON'T ANSWER THAT]), and I'm finally engrossed in it. But I can't put my finger on what made it so hard to get into this time.
Which is not to say that I won't read Blameless, because I will.
(Like a total geek, I have a list of what books are coming out when: Mockingjay in August, Blameless and the new Skulduggery Pleasant in September, and Behemoth [Scott Westerfeld's sequel to Leviathan] in October. And I am not a patient woman.)
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2010 8:07:59 am PDT #11588 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But I can't put my finger on what made it so hard to get into this time.
I had the opposite experience. I got into it much faster than I got into Soulless since it went right into the plot.
Steph L. - Jun 16, 2010 8:11:49 am PDT #11589 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
It's possible that since I tried to start it when I was in the middle of oh-crap-my-antidepressant-isn't-working that I just couldn't concentrate.
Strix - Jun 16, 2010 10:53:38 am PDT #11590 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I will have to pick up The Hunger Games sometimes soon, as I hear so much good about it.
megan walker - Jun 16, 2010 11:37:37 am PDT #11591 of 28343
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I will have to pick up The Hunger Games sometimes soon, as I hear so much good about it.
Yes! I was all set to buy it for my niece's birthday and was saddened to learn that she had read them both already.
meara - Jun 16, 2010 12:07:25 pm PDT #11592 of 28343
I was trying to explain the premise of Hunger Games to my mom and she looked at me funny and said "and you read this for FUN?". Apparently I did not convince her that postapocalyptic struggle to survive against people trying to kill you is entertaining?
megan walker - Jun 16, 2010 12:53:15 pm PDT #11593 of 28343
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Apparently I did not convince her that postapocalyptic struggle to survive against people trying to kill you is entertaining
And, don't forget, it's televised!
Steph L. - Jun 16, 2010 5:03:37 pm PDT #11594 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
May the odds be ever in your favor!
I finished Changeless, and I was right about what I guessed, although I didn't see the twist coming afterward. Interesting.
Also -- oh, IVY.