I'm headed out to the book store tonight lol, I think this is an awesome thread. LaVida, You don't like TP's Magic Circle Series? Why? I really enjoyed them. The characters could have been a bit less Mary-sueish, but the plot was solid. My favorite series by TP was song of the lioness.

I need to read Tamora Pierce's books. D:
I'm such a failure at having things I should read already read...

lol. I understand people are always telling me what I should read, typically its on my list but I just haven't got to it yet

@LillithNightroad: Just curious, but what about the Circle of Magic characters was Mary-Sueish? I don't seem to remember any large number of Sue qualities in any of the main characters, but it could just be me.

@Iltu: Awww, that's alright. I have much catching up on awesome books to do too. ^^

@Flaming Pink Flamingo: Maybie mary-sue is not the right word. I think I mostly think the main characters were underdeveloped and that the secondary characters were mostly personality-less. I haven't read them in awhile and thinking back I am probably just being harsh on them considering I don't read books in the young adult section anymore. I'm more into the jargon filled, complicated, 1000+ page, sci-fi books now. Like David Weber, Elizabeth Moon, etc. So I'm a little out of touch with the Young adult and fantasy genres. Also, the Magic Circle series were her first books, and just like fine wine authors get better with age. *edited to make more coherent*

Lilith- I've got forty books out from the library, plenty of unread books on my shelf, and tons of books I want to read that are not in my possession and STILL people going, "Hey read this!" There are so many books and too little time... XD

Flamingo- Ah, don't we all? It can be so hard to choose what to read!
But it's nice in a way, knowing you'll never run out of wonderful books. ^^

@LillithNightroad: Ah, okay. Well, I read a lot of Young Adult fiction, so I could just be used to such things as well... But I would need to buy most of them in order to reread the series. @.@ It's gotten pretty big since she expanded the Circle. I do think that the second set was better than the first though. The type of magic Tamora Pierce explored in the CoM series was a kind I've never really seen used before, so I found them quite fascinating.

@Iltu: Yes, that's true. The only problem is, where to put all these books? Dx I prefer to buy my books, since I'm the type of reader who loves to go back frequently to visit my favorites, and hates having to wait for the library to aquire the necessary books, as well as the time limits they place when lending you stuff.

Iltu: Lol, I have an ENTIRE dresser full of unread books I am planning on reading, 2 drawers are completely filled, Plus I have some library books. For my Birthday I got one hundred fifty dollars worth of gift cards to barnes and noble. And fifty dollars to half price books... My library of books I have read is so large I cant even fit it in my bedroom, and I have a pretty big bedroom. lol

Time for a disappering act, but I like this thread so I subscribed. TTYL

well, the last time I read a magic circle book was.......5/6/7 years ago? and the introduction didn't really hook me, but at that time I was kind of impatient XP. I will read magic circle....but only eventually :P I'm just planning to read a ton of books before that XD. Like how I got to finish all of those Laurell K. Hamilton books XP (like, over 15+ of them XP) and also how I also want to read every single book of Tamora Pierce's again (except for Beka's Series (which I just finished...umm....a weekish ago)) and also after that valiant/fae series that people were talking about earlier and also another book that Darkyn recommended (Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs) and also if I see any books that I like at the library :3

so.....that kind of puts magic circle on the "eventually list" ^.^'''''

Flamingo- You put them all stacked wildly on tip of a bookshelf, of course!
I need the library or I would be so poor. D: So so poor... I do go out and buy my favorites if I got the book from the library, though. And there's so many books at the library, even if I have to wait for something, I'm cool with it. There's so much to read while I wait!

Lillith- Ah, I am jealous! I can't afford books left and right yet, but one day, when I have my own house and a job... I will buy a futon and then get set on making my walls covered in bookshelves and books! Like Elinor in the Inkheart trilogy. I will be a fat old woman with a large house full of books (and dogs, which Elinor despises, so that's a key difference) and it will be glorious!
As for books in dressers, I hide books in my dresser when my dad says I have too many out and need to take them back to the library. :lol:

Iltu & Lillith>> a few years ago I kept on maxing out my library card XD (50 check-outs max) but now I'm too busy to stay at the library for that long XP. and sadly, I don't get that many presents ^.^'''' and since I don't have a part-time job or anything, I'm stuck on buying 50 cent books from the library XP.

@Iltu: Oh, but I do. xD And on top of my dresser, I have a few of the bigger ones stashed in my closet, and more in boxes downstairs. >.> I should rearrange my bookshelves so, maybe I can make more fit. :rofl:

LaVida- I buy the occasional books from barnes and Noble, but I mostly only go there when I have gift cards. XD Other than that, it's half-Priced books and library sales for me!
Library sales are my friends. My mom and I got 21 books for fifteen or so dollars when we went to the big summer sale. :)

Flamingo- I just did that recently, it was a mess and my books were everywhere. XD I've got a bookshelf at my mom's and one at my dad's, so most of my books are lucky enough to live on one of the two, instead of on/in dressers and on the floor and in the bastment and all over the place.

Originally Posted by Iltu

LaVida- I buy the occasional books from barnes and Noble, but I mostly only go there when I have gift cards. XD Other than that, it's half-Priced books and library sales for me!
Library sales are my friends. My mom and I got 21 books for fifteen or so dollars when we went to the big summer sale. :)

Flamingo- I just did that recently, it was a mess and my books were everywhere. XD I've got a bookshelf at my mom's and one at my dad's, so most of my books are lucky enough to live on one of the two, instead of on/in dressers and on the floor and in the bastment and all over the place.

Check with the librarians and see if they have a sales rack - usually you can buy a brand new book for 50 cents or a buck XD and when I say brand new, I mean no dents, rips, folds, yellow pages, etc. AND they don't even have library stickers or stamps on them yet XD

Flamingo>> lol, you could start your own library with all those books XD

We're a collection of 40 or so branches, and my library is one of the smaller ones, so we don't have a sales rack. :/ The main libarary has a big sale every summer, some of the larger branches have sales throughout the year, and there's an ongoing warehouse sale somewhere downtown, but I've never been because it's like forty minutes away.
It just makes the summer sale a bigger treat, though. :)

Originally Posted by Iltu

We're a collection of 40 or so branches, and my library is one of the smaller ones, so we don't have a sales rack. :/ The main libarary has a big sale every summer, some of the larger branches have sales throughout the year, and there's an ongoing warehouse sale somewhere downtown, but I've never been because it's like forty minutes away.
It just makes the summer sale a bigger treat, though. :)

oh, where are you? here in Toronto, there's always a sale rack in every single library and sometimes they sell brand new books for only 50 cents to a dollar, and nothing more expensive than that :) But they do have book sales, but they only sell the SUPER expensive ones there XP Like, I once found a book with a CD on the sale shelf and it was only a dollar <3 AND it was hard cover (and apparently the book was 40 something dollars originally @_@ XD)

I'm in Ohio, but libraries in Toronto sound lovely. I might have to run off to Canada and pay you a visit! :lol:
At the summer booksale, mass market paperbacks are fifty cents, other books range from fifty cents to four dollars (like seventy percent are two or less), and CDs, movies, and audiobooks are about the same, though most are two or three.

Originally Posted by Iltu

I'm in Ohio, but libraries in Toronto sound lovely. I might have to run off to Canada and pay you a visit! :lol:
At the summer booksale, mass market paperbacks are fifty cents, other books range from fifty cents to four dollars (like seventy percent are two or less), and CDs, movies, and audiobooks are about the same, though most are two or three.

lol, the large selection sounds so enticing XD oh, but do you need a library card to buy the books over there? or can you just buy it ? :) over here some librarians are really nice and if you forgot to bring money today they would add the money to your library card or put it on hold for you :)

No, any old joe off the street can come in and buy books from the big library sale, since it's a fudraiser for the library. :) It's awesome, I think they had around 80,000 items this year! Can't wait for next time. <3 I might go after the first day from now on, though. I could hardly move, it was so packed. XD
Aww, that's so sweet of them! I love nice librarians. c:

lol, okay, gotta go, school day tommorw ;d ah~~~ can't wait for the weekend XP

well I read the last book in the Witch of Two Suns and I want to read more but the author can't get the fourth installment published but my count is now
8- Twilight Rising, Serpent's Dream
as well as
9- Beast Master's Circus

Originally Posted by Iltu

Anthony- Same here, I'm very glad Ironside was the first I read, or I probably wouldn't have bothered with the others. I liked Valiant because of Val's relationship with Ravus and how it developed over the course of the book- it was by far my favorite aspect of it! Yeah, a fourth book would make me happy. And hey, they live in a magical world- I'm sure there's a new plot somewhere that all the characters we've come to love can find themselves entrapped in. :lol:
I want to reread Ironside, to see what details I might have missed without the prior knowledge.

That relationship was definitely the best part. I really had no idea the books were even really connected until Louis showed up in Ironside. And then I went, "Wait... Wait, what?!" I love Corny, personally. xD But that's just me.

@LaVida
I agree. Read Valiant first if you can find it, then Tithe just to see the other characters and where they come from, and then you'll know everyone in Ironside.

I... am going to have to come back and reread a lot of this thread and see what I can pick up the next time I have a shopping spree at the bookstore. xD

sorry I sort of disappeared earlier (this is misa's main xP)

I got called away. I do intend to stay and actually talk to people here. xP

I am also working on a list as I type this....though I may do 100 books, simply because alot of the books I may put down may be children's novels (studying to be a teacher, and I have a whole bin full of books I want to study on my free time. No need to not kill two birds with one stone right xP)

EDIT: I do get enjoyment from childrens books as well, they are just a quicker read for me. I have desided though to put my goal at 52 one book per week. I also already made my list. And here it is.

1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerors stone by J.K. Rowling
2) Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets by J.K Rowling
3) Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
4) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.k Rowling
5) Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix by J.K Rowling
6) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
7) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
8)Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
9) New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
10) Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
11) Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
12) Beauty- a retelling of beauty and the beast by Robyn McKinley
13) Rose Daughter by Robyn McKinley
14) Deer Skin by Robyn McKinley
15) Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
16) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway
17) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
18) Dragonlance Dragons Autumn Twilight by margaret weis and tracy Hickman
19) Chalace by Robyn Mckinley
20) The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
21) The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
22) Message in a bottle by Nicholas Sparks
23) When the Heart Cries by Cindy woodsman
24) When the Morning Comes by cindy woodsman
25) When the Soul Mends by Cindy Woodsman
26) Crispin and the cross of Lead
27) Blubber by Judy Blume
28) Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson White
29) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
30) Are you there god its me Margaret by Judy Blume
31) Cleopatra by Kristina Gregory
32) Victoria by Anna Kirwan
33) The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
34) Encyclopidia Brown Cracks the Case by Donald J Sobol
35)Queen Elizabeth by Katheryn Lasky
36) Bud, not buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
37) Sonak by Sheri Holman
38) The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
39)The Mismantle Chronicles- Urchin of the Riding Stars by M.I. McAllister
40) Anastasia by Carolyn Meyer
41) Marie Antoinette by Katheryn Laskey
42) Ida B by Kathrine Hannigan
43) Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
44) Lady Ch'iua Kuo by Laurence Yep
45) The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
46) The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
47) Isabel by carolyn Meyer
48) Knight in Shinning Armor by Jude Deveraux
49) Charlotte's Web by E.B White
50) Jahanara by Katheryn Lasky
51) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
52) The Giver by Lois Lowry

@Tamora Pierce discussion: My favorites of hers are her current series about Becka Cooper. I just like her as a character.

@Shadowfoot: I would probably have to agree with you on Beka's books being the best, although I find them closely tied with the Trickster series about Alanna's daughter.