I don't understand why Code Name Verity would have been categorized as a YA book at all.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
lisah - Sep 05, 2014 10:41:23 am PDT #22634 of 28343
Punishingly Intricate
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!
-t - Sep 11, 2014 5:19:19 am PDT #22642 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Don't torture yourself, read! The library book can wait.
sj - Sep 11, 2014 6:23:21 am PDT #22643 of 28343
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
That's too bad. I loved The Ocean at the End of the Lane so much that as soon as I finished reading it, I ordered the audiobook so I could "read" it again. I've never finished The Night Circus, and it is for the silliest of the reasons. The end papers make me dizzy and nauseated even when I only catch at little glimpse of them. I may have to buy the kindle edition to be able to read it.
I'm currently reading Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. I read The Shining for the first time last week and then jumped right into this sequel. It's weird because I found The Shining to be completely terrifying, but I'm just finding Doctor Sleep to be very entertaining but not really scary.