I adored Mouse and everyone's reactions to him. "Wait--you have a *real* temple dog? The Powers that Be *let* you keep him?"
I figured Mouse would be whatever size he needed to be.
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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."
Connie Neil - Sep 04, 2014 5:40:20 am PDT #22632 of 28343
brillig
DebetEsse - Sep 04, 2014 10:56:17 pm PDT #22633 of 28343
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I have read 230 pages of Verity in the last 12 hours, and there was a dress rehearsal in there.
Yes, close reading for salient details (I will say that I am proud of myself for immediately grasping two things. Unless I'm wrong about those things. Of course, I'm sure I missed several more.)
I will also say this for YA, I am much more likely to be up all night reading it than I am with Srs ltrture.
lisah - Sep 05, 2014 10:41:23 am PDT #22634 of 28343
Punishingly Intricate
I don't understand why Code Name Verity would have been categorized as a YA book at all.
Polter-Cow - Sep 05, 2014 10:51:39 am PDT #22635 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The main character's age seems to be the determinant factor, but this feels like The Book Thief, where it could could have gone either way, marketing-wise.
Pix - Sep 09, 2014 9:33:34 pm PDT #22636 of 28343
The status is NOT quo.
Just finished the last Skulduggery book. So! Good! And much less painful than I was expecting, though not without its moments.
Steph L. - Sep 09, 2014 9:52:44 pm PDT #22637 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I haven't even started it yet, so this is good to hear!
-t - Sep 11, 2014 4:17:49 am PDT #22638 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm not sure what I want to say about Dying of the Light. I never had to actually put it in the freezer, but I did have to close it up and walk away from it a few times. Mostly I want to start at the beginning and read the whole series again without having to wait between books...
-t - Sep 11, 2014 4:22:37 am PDT #22639 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Speaking of putting books in the freezer, I don't know if I'm going to get past the first chapter of Ocean at the End of the Lane. Maybe I should switch to The Night Circus.
Jesse - Sep 11, 2014 4:28:36 am PDT #22640 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In random book news, I'm reading In Cold Blood for the first time, and he does this weird thing with short phrases (even single words) in quotes, which I assume means they are out of interviews, but the rest of the sentence is his own, but it does make me feel like I'm reading Zagat reviews sometimes. This "hideous crime" inflicted on an "upstanding" family is "well worth checking out."
Steph L. - Sep 11, 2014 4:55:01 am PDT #22641 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm not sure what I want to say about Dying of the Light. I never had to actually put it in the freezer, but I did have to close it up and walk away from it a few times.
I might need to skip my library book and just start reading Dying of the Light. I'm no good at waiting!