Matt and I went away for the weekend. I have Mockingjay with me and haven't started it because I didn't want ot ignore him ( our anniversary was yesterday ) but I will be starting it Sunday
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
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."
beth b - Dec 11, 2010 6:17:14 pm PST #13234 of 28277
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
zuisa - Dec 12, 2010 6:39:49 am PST #13235 of 28277
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I am so glad so many of you are enjoying Catching Fire/Mockingjay!
I finally finished Midnight's Children. It was a very tedious read, but I feel accomplished having completed it. And it was definitely worth reading, I think.
I have now moved on to Snow Crash, because any book where the main character is named Hiro Protagonist is definitely worth reading.
sumi - Dec 12, 2010 6:41:20 am PST #13236 of 28277
Art Crawl!!!
I just started reading Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin. I read a good review of the sequel in i09 so I decided to get the first book and give it a try. So far, I am enjoying it. Anyone here read this one?
Anne W. - Dec 12, 2010 6:53:21 am PST #13237 of 28277
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Sumi, I read and enjoyed the first book, but have yet to get hold of the second.
Ginger - Dec 12, 2010 8:06:03 am PST #13238 of 28277
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I just finished Dreadnought by Cherie Priest, and while I enjoyed it, I have some sympathy with the person who criticized her making up shit. I have no objection to the explanation of the zombies, since there is no scientific basis for zombies, which are created entirely out of handwavium. However, I can't come up with any way that the Civil War could last 20 years as a shooting war. Two countries with skirmishes on the border, yes, but not 20 years of war. At a minimum, this alternate world had to be one without Antietam and Gettysburg, or there wouldn't be enough warm bodies to carry on, and, as she implies, England would have come into the war on the Southern side. England would have had to pour munitions into the war, because the South was getting short of anything that could be made into bullets. Also, I doubt the cotton economy would have survived the Southern states freeing their slaves in a world where there is still a huge frontier to fill and a Union army for the ex-slaves to join.
Also, she used the word "gentrification."
Dana - Dec 12, 2010 8:25:23 am PST #13239 of 28277
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Is this the sequel to Boneshaker?
Ginger - Dec 12, 2010 8:26:39 am PST #13240 of 28277
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's not exactly a sequel, but it's set not long after Boneshaker in the same universe.
Dana - Dec 12, 2010 8:27:13 am PST #13241 of 28277
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Hrm. I liked Boneshaker okay, but the parts of it I liked tended to be the parts that the book didn't really focus on.
Steph L. - Dec 12, 2010 8:43:23 am PST #13242 of 28277
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Also, she used the word "gentrification."
Is that...bad? (Having not finished Boneshaker, and not read Dreadnought, I obviously lack context.)
Ginger - Dec 12, 2010 8:47:55 am PST #13243 of 28277
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Is that...bad?
It's about 100 years before the coining of the word, much less the concept.