hello! I'm trying to catch up ... let me see ...
I was too old for the Sweet Valley High books, my sister was the horse-crazy one, but I ended up reading a lot of her horse books, I read Nancy Drew, the Bobbsey Twins, the entire Oz series (or at least everything they had in the public library), my father had subscriptions to Galaxy, Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, plus all his books from after 1949 (the year everything went up in flames in a house fire).
In new news - I found the new Bujold book, scooped it up, and ran home and read it pretty much in the space of a day. I plan to go back and re-read it at leisure. Armsman Roic is an important part of the story and has some good lines.
I just brought home The Golden Compass but I haven't opened it yet. I bet I'm going to end up disappointed at how non-controversial it turns out to be.
Oooh, new Vorkosigan book? Yay!
I just brought home The Golden Compass but I haven't opened it yet. I bet I'm going to end up disappointed at how non-controversial it turns out to be.
I read it a few years ago, and a friend's daughter started reading it a few weeks after I did. The friend, who is Catholic, asked me if there was anything in there that she should be concerned about. I told her what the plot was up to the point where I'd read, and had her read one or two pages that I thought were particularly anti-Catholic. She said that was fine for her ten-year-old to read, though she was glad to be aware of it to be able to discuss it with her. I kept up with giving her warnings on stuff as I got to it, and though there were a few parts that she thought might be too scary, I don't think there was anything that actually hit the "I don't think I want my daughter reading that" limit until the third book.
I bet I'm going to end up disappointed at how non-controversial it turns out to be.
I didn't really see what was so controversial about it.
I don't think there was anything that actually hit the "I don't think I want my daughter reading that" limit until the third book.
But, yeah, anything that would be is in the third book.
I have only read the first book (I have been meaning to get around to the next two, but I just haven't gotten a hold of them) and I definitely agree that the first book had nothing very controversial, but it is a really fantastic book.
Interview with Rita Mae Brown - at the Chronicle of the Horse.
Hey, Dennis Lehane has a new book coming out next week - a follow-up to
Gone, Baby, Gone.
Wow, really? I thought he was done with Patrick and Angela.
Hey, Dennis Lehane has a new book coming out next week - a follow-up to Gone, Baby, Gone.
I have it set to download to my Kindle as soon as it comes out. I can't wait to read it.
