Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
I just read it this last weekend. I liked it well enough, without loving it. I thought Alina was pretty naive (although justifiably, for the most part), rather expected another twist that we didn't get, and enjoyed the magic structure and the visuals of the Shadow Fold.
I am surprised to hear it got optioned for a movie, but then again it has that whole Potterish magic-training thing going.
I'm doing okay. A little sleepy, but nothing awful. Percocet is really handy for nighttime dealing with the battered feeling. I AM going into work though.
In the past two days I've read Imaginary Girls, Glass Heart and Shadow and Bone. It's been tons of fun to do entertaining reading. Before that it was The Dog Stars which was excellent. Like I could teach it in AP excellent. Next on my list are Telegraph Hill and finishing the new Junot Diaz book.
I like Junot Diaz in theory better than reality and I like the new one, sort of, more than Oscar Wao. Oscar Wao made me want to smack somebody.
Also on the list, The Barbaria Nurseries by Hector Tobar which is mostly excellent from the snippets I read.
Being in slight pain or fear of pain + waiting at appointments is excellent for my reading.
Oscar Wao made me want to smack somebody.
OMG thank you.
I liked it, but I get why you might feel that way.While everyone deserves love, and that unrequited thing sucks(just ask the mayor) that shouldn't imply that Oscar is entitled to be beloved by the object of his desire...it was very different from everything I read at the time I read it and I liked its use of language(languages)?
Oscar Wao made me want to smack somebody.
OMG thank you.
Right?? I thought I was the only person who didn't love that book.
Funnily enough, I thought it would be up your alley, PC. Of course, I should know better than to guess at that stuff given the ultraviolent dreck I sometimes get recommended because I "like mysteries" ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
I enjoyed it. I don't remember it at all, but I enjoyed it at the time.
I read Special Topics in Calamity Physics at about the same time (so they are forever linked in my brain for no real reason) and enjoyed it more. And remember it better.
what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
My niece thought I might like the Left Behind series. To be fair, she was ~11 at the time.
Funnily enough, I thought it would be up your alley, PC.
Me too!
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Well, people did tell me to read the Dark Is Rising books...though maybe not in a direct, you-would-like-this way.