Beverly, I bought and read the first three, but they never really appealed to me the way they do to so many others. This is why there are so many books published that aren't the same (barring random plagiarists).
Sweet lumpy minion, you're the only one that understands. Probably 'cause I haven't sucked the brain out of you yet.
Glory ,'Potential'
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."
Toddson - Feb 16, 2012 10:39:17 am PST #17841 of 28261
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Beverly - Feb 16, 2012 11:56:14 am PST #17842 of 28261
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I actively disliked the POV character from the start. I kept hoping she'd grow on me, but basically I just wanted to smack her.
I could have been a wee titch hormonal at the time.
Polter-Cow - Feb 16, 2012 11:59:19 am PST #17843 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
She's so unflappable that it's hard to ever get a sense of real danger. But the books are still fun fluff.
Beverly - Feb 16, 2012 12:02:41 pm PST #17844 of 28261
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I think I didn't read far enough. I never got a sense of any vulnerability from her, and if you can't sympathize with a flaw in a character it's hard to invest in them. Unchippable isn't really an empathetic flaw. Maybe she'd become more chip-prone if I read further.
erikaj - Feb 16, 2012 4:05:16 pm PST #17845 of 28261
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm reading Elmore Leonard's "Fire In The Hole..." I'm not worthy...
sj - Feb 17, 2012 4:54:45 am PST #17846 of 28261
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Apparently rereading books can be good for your mental health. link
Amy - Feb 17, 2012 9:30:51 am PST #17847 of 28261
Because books.
Polter-Cow - Feb 17, 2012 9:41:37 am PST #17848 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I am overly fond of the name Chabo the Wolf-Baby.
(I am rather loving A Series of Unfortunate Events at this point. It's been getting better and better!)
Beverly - Feb 17, 2012 9:54:52 am PST #17849 of 28261
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I have never had enough space to be able to arrange my books other than by size--fiction, non-fiction, poetry, biography, whatever. All this size books will fit in this shelf, smaller ones have to go in those shelves, etc. Luxury would be enough space to organize by subject, and alpha.
On rereading--I find that when I'm craving a reread of a certain book that many times I'm craving the experience. That is, if I read Woman on the Edge of Time the summer we camped at the lake, when the kids were 11 and 12, with late mornings spent reading in the hammock and afternoons spent diving off the boat anchored in our tiny cove. That by rereading, I wanted not only to recapture the emotions and reactions evoked by the book, but the ambient sounds, sunlight through leaf-dapple and the dew burning off as the morning progressed, the scent of woodsmoke and coffee, and the gentle sway of the hammock.
Not all books were read first time in such vivid surroundings, but I do find that rereading conjures up sensory details I noted while reading.
Atropa - Feb 17, 2012 10:34:13 am PST #17850 of 28261
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Apparently rereading books can be good for your mental health.
I am vindicated! Because wow, I reread a lot.