shadow: Oooh!
That's awesome!
Do you plan on publishing it for sale and such?
If so, you must tell me when it comes out so I can buy it and be all like "I KNOW THAT AUTHOR!" :3 xD <3

Tireth: LOL!
I have an Irish OC so I'm always writing it out, so it'd be pretty easy to understand :3
But yeah, a lot of people probably wouldn't be able to so that's probably why he didn't~
I say he should write 2 version though xD
1 with the accent written out, 1 as it is :3


Gah~
So unfair!
Now I want Tuesday to get here so I can go get it T_T
Until then, I have the 3rd book to satisfy me :3
I'm at the part where they've just entered Sanctuary so I'm not all that far, but I can already tell it's going to be one heck of a plot~
I mean, people are popping up and it's just like "...what?! how the heck?!"

Shanti is seriously getting on my nerves though - I honestly don't know if I can read the rest of the book with her in it xD;
She's just so horrid and annoying T_T
And poor Grace, having to deal with her on top of her own guilt~
But I feel even worse for Lorcan, he's known her for longer and -has- to be around her T_T;;

Heh, you could just follow that link and read it online if you want Yuri. ^^;

I'm rattling through my first football book. Me and the author have the same 'greatest footballer of all time'. Woo.

Originally Posted by tirethminet

@cherry - YA. <3
the majority of my personal library is YA. XD
speaking of, i got another 35 pages of fly by night done today! 8D
i was dragged along to my brother's gymnastics lesson since we go to dinner afterwards so i have nothing to do for almost an hour.
but it still takes me forever to read since i get distracted so easily. ;_;

Can you recommend any books?


kfdjhjfhflybynight. Now that Rush song will be in my head all day! xD;



Has anyone read Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs? I ordered it a few days ago on a whim. It looked good.

Cherry, have you ever read any books published by PUSH Fiction? They're written by young adults for teens.
My favorite one is Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier.
It's about an Indian teenager coming to terms with her American and Indian cultures, making peace with her pretty/popular/perfect blonde best friend, and working through a love triangle. It's not your typical YA storyline.

I read... Cut by.... I forgot the name... :/

it's very good... written very well.
This one is about a girl who have trouble, family, friends, etc. She cuts herself. she is getting treatment and tell how she cope with it.

Originally Posted by Knerd

Cherry, have you ever read any books published by PUSH Fiction? They're written by young adults for teens.
My favorite one is Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier.
It's about an Indian teenager coming to terms with her American and Indian cultures, making peace with her pretty/popular/perfect blonde best friend, and working through a love triangle. It's not your typical YA storyline.

No, I haven't read any of those. But I do prefer atypical YA books. So many of them are just stupid little stories about some stupid little high school girl, and each plot is exactly the same, pretty much. >> They're so throwaway.
But anyway, yeah, I'll look into that one, thanks!

Originally Posted by sad_girlformat

I read... Cut by.... I forgot the name... :/

it's very good... written very well.
This one is about a girl who have trouble, family, friends, etc. She cuts herself. she is getting treatment and tell how she cope with it.

I've read about that one! I think it was while I was looking for Thirteen Reasons Why, actually. I was looking for a depressing book. xD
So you'd recommend it? I'll go look into it some more.

Originally Posted by KatMagenta

Heh, you could just follow that link and read it online if you want Yuri. ^^;

I'm rattling through my first football book. Me and the author have the same 'greatest footballer of all time'. Woo.

I can't read books online ^.^;
My eyes are too sensitive and can't stare at a computer screen for too long -- so it's easier to read books in person than online :3

Sorry, I didn't think. I wear jam jar glasses anyway, so I forget other people might not want to ruin their eyes. I'm sure the illustrations will be much nicer to look at in real life too. ^^

I still have a couple of .pdf books to read, a classic Doctor Who novel and Accelerando. I tend to save them for when my internet inexplicably dies.

Kat: Lol!
No need to be sorry~
And it's not really about ruining my eyes, it's more about keeping them from getting worse ^.^;
-already need to increase my prescription-
My problem is, my eyes (even though I'm 16) function like an old persons', when they focus on things such as text in books or on the computer screen or pictures on the TV and such, they "go out" instead of "going in"~
That's basically the reason for not reading online :3
If I didn't have this blasted eye problem, I'd have been able to read Manga online as well as the two Alice books ages ago T_T

A Doctor Who novel?
I didn't know there were novels of it~
I thought it was just a TV show!

Accelerando?
What's that about?
I've never heard of it before~

Yuri: Ah, I'm just plain ol' very short sighted.

There's some free classic Doctor Who novels on the BBC website, but there's books based on the newer series (with Nine and Ten) too. I haven't actually read any of the new ones, but I've read a few Torchwood books and they're fun.

I actually got Accelerando out of my library a few months ago but as usual I'd gotten too many books and returned it unread. I've heard one of the books by Charles Stross I have read, Glasshouse, could be viewed as a sort-of sequel. Here's some text I copied from the website, it seems like a pretty good summary. ^^

Manfred Macx, a 21st-century intelligence amplification entrepreneur, lives partly in the physical world and partly in the virtual world of artificial intelligences, the Internet, biotechnology, and molecular nanotechnology. His 12-year-old daughter Amber, who seeks independence from her controlling mother, indentures herself to a company aiming to extract a fortune from the resources of Jupiter. Decades later, Amber's son Sirhan, a victim of multiple virtual childhoods, researches his dysfunctional family and uncovers a sinister new life form that threatens the continuation of biological life in the universe.

Further in the review it mentions the Neuromancer book Knerd recently read, so it must be good. XD

@yuri - two versions would be a lot of work and money. D:
you can make it! it's only a few more days.
i believe my favourite part about sanctuary is the ribbons. because they're ribbons. 8D
they do have an actual purpose, but i won't tell you incase you aren't that far yet.
shanti... i would say don't give up hope! but i don't quite remember if anything happened to her in book three or if it's just my imagination playing awful tricks on me. D: (it has been known to do so)

@cherry - uhhh. i think most of mine are out of print or you've already read them, so let me check.
non-magicky
born to rock - gordon korman
m or f? - lisa papademetriou & chris tebbetts
magicky
old magic - marianne curley
howl's moving castle/castle in the air/house of many ways - diana wynne jones
the china garden - liz berry
wicked lovely/ink exchange - melissa marr
time stops for no mouse/the sands of time - michael hoeye
abarat - clive barker
fire bringer - david clement-davies
and then there's the standards.
his dark materials, abhorsen series, claidi journals, eoin colfer, annette curtis klause, vampirates (nudgenudge)
most of my books have magic and stuff in them. |D
i do have other non-magicky ones, but i can't attest to their excellence since i haven't read (or don't remember reading) most of them, but if you'd like i can list those as well.
teehee rush.
i haven't read any of augusten burroughs, but they are fairly popular in the store as far as biographies go.

@knerd - i have that. 8D
i got it when it first came out in hardcover... and still haven't read it. >_>;;

I finished the Phoenix of the Opera series! Took me longer then expected because I left the last book home for a few days when I went to class. xD

@Yuri: I hope to publish it some day.
@Leenie: I wish she wouldn't expect me to come up with magical solutions--like celtic psi symbols...
@sad_girlformat: I believe the author is Patricia McCormick. I thought it was pretty insightful...

Originally Posted by tirethminet

@cherry - uhhh. i think most of mine are out of print or you've already read them, so let me check.
non-magicky
born to rock - gordon korman
m or f? - lisa papademetriou & chris tebbetts
magicky
old magic - marianne curley
howl's moving castle/castle in the air/house of many ways - diana wynne jones
the china garden - liz berry
wicked lovely/ink exchange - melissa marr
time stops for no mouse/the sands of time - michael hoeye
abarat - clive barker
fire bringer - david clement-davies
and then there's the standards.
his dark materials, abhorsen series, claidi journals, eoin colfer, annette curtis klause, vampirates (nudgenudge)
most of my books have magic and stuff in them. |D
i do have other non-magicky ones, but i can't attest to their excellence since i haven't read (or don't remember reading) most of them, but if you'd like i can list those as well.
teehee rush.
i haven't read any of augusten burroughs, but they are fairly popular in the store as far as biographies go.

Moar detlz on the non-magicky ones plox?
And Sabriel is on my to-read list. :D
I have the first Artemis Fowl book, but I've never read it. I tried it once when I was like, 11, but couldn't get into it. But as I said, I was 11. I'm keeping it and plan on trying it again. As well as The Golden Compass.

...Vampirates?




Oh, and I got that Running with Scissors book today and started reading it. I CAN UPDATE MY LIST OMGOMGOMG I SO RARELY GET TO DO THIS WOW

@shadow - she should go consult with her tattooist.
well. assuming it's a good tattooist who knows what they are doing and has some sort of artistic knowledge.

@cherry - i will uhm. make a list later. possibly tomorrow.
artemis fowl was great when i read it, but i got out of reading them since it's been so long between each one and i haven't reread any of them since. D:
VAMPIRATES. HOW HAVE YOU MISSED ME TALKING ABOUT IT?
vampire pirates. and. it's addictive. i don't know how else to explain it.