I loved Paladin of Souls. I'm trying to convince myself to wait for the PB on the third book, but it might just get me.
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
brenda m - Jul 22, 2005 8:35:54 am PDT #8462 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Susan W. - Jul 22, 2005 8:41:40 am PDT #8463 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I was checking out adult books, both fiction and non, by 3rd or 4th grade, though I think the librarian sort of informally tried to nudge me away from anything too violent, sexy, or disturbing until I was in my teens. I didn't have major problems with comprehension, but I missed out on reading a lot of the childhood and early adolescent classics (Alcott, LM Montgomery, and the like) until I was in my 20's, and I regret that. I would've liked to have discovered them at the usual age.
Not that any of that is directly applicable to a child reading HP, but I do think about this stuff a lot more now that I have a child of my own. A child who's still at the Goodnight Moon stage, but still.
Our copy of HP arrived from England yesterday. I'm on p. 285 and can't wait to be done so I can read the whitefont.
JohnSweden - Jul 22, 2005 9:34:02 am PDT #8464 of 10002
I can't even.
I loved Paladin of Souls. I'm trying to convince myself to wait for the PB on the third book, but it might just get me.
I lucked out and got the HB of Paladin of Souls at bookcloseouts.com for cheap, so now I'm loathe to drop the 40 bones for the new book without hanging out for a while and seeing if I can catch a similar break.
-t - Jul 22, 2005 9:41:05 am PDT #8465 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'll be waiting for the next one to come out in paperback, because I find hardbacks uncomfortable to read. A lifetime of conditioning. But I also picked up the second volume of the Baroque Cycle, so that should keep me busy for a while.
brenda m - Jul 22, 2005 9:50:27 am PDT #8466 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'll be waiting for the next one to come out in paperback, because I find hardbacks uncomfortable to read.
Yeah, I generally feel that way too.
Baroque Cycle?
-t - Jul 22, 2005 9:52:22 am PDT #8467 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Baroque Cycle?
Neal Stephenson tomes, the first one was Quicksilver, I think. Age of Enlightenment prequels to Cryptonomicon, more or less.
Gandalfe - Jul 22, 2005 9:52:23 am PDT #8468 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson's novels, set during the, what, 1600s? I couldn't even finish the first one, it induced snores in me, and I normally like his work.
Due to various hand problems, I am pretty much physically incapable of reading hardback books without a physical desk to set it on.
JohnSweden - Jul 22, 2005 10:16:17 am PDT #8469 of 10002
I can't even.
Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson's novels, set during the, what, 1600s? I couldn't even finish the first one, it induced snores in me, and I normally like his work.
This is me. I will give the Baroque Cycle another try sometime, but Quicksilver wasn't grabbing me and I've read and enjoyed his previous stuff.
Emily - Jul 22, 2005 10:21:39 am PDT #8470 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
The ex gave me the first two, and I fought and clawed my way through the first one, but the second... Maybe I'll get around to it one day, but I'll have forgotten everything that happened in the first one!
Alicia K - Jul 22, 2005 12:03:29 pm PDT #8471 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Is there a site anywhere that might sum up what happens in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander? I read it several years ago and want to read the next book, but can't remember what the heck really happened, other than Woman Time Travels, Woman Has Hot Sex With Man In Past, Man In Past Undergoes Woeful Trauma (and if you read the book, I think you know what I mean).