These books are about young girls going out into the world and having adventures!

That's exactly how I feel. Sabriel started out with action right away, in the middle of her actually doing something. This book is like you said, one thing happens, and then another, but none of it is very interesting. And then when one intersting thing does happen, it gets washed out with a bunch of non interesting things right after that. No building action is annoying as well. I'm at the very end now and still don't feel like it's building to anything at all. It's all about her and her waaah the world doesn't work like I want it to over and over and over again until you want to punch her out of her stupidity.

I wanted to shake Clariel and tell her "Have some patience! It's not that hard to wait a couple months before getting what you want! Not everything has to happen tomorrow!" Most teenagers aren't even that bad, geez. It was frustrating to see other people continually offer her these incredibly logical and worthwhile solutions, just for her to get upset that progress wasn't being made fast enough.

I get second-hand embarrassment pretty easily, and Clariel just kept laying it on.

Maybe it's her character I dislike? I mean I understand her dream but it doesn't seem like motive enough for all of the things she did... I can understand being impatient but she's like taking it to the extreme...

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Just finished it. I still feel meh about the whole thing. Like why should I care about her? I'm not sure the book really gave me a reason...

I'm almost done with Ice Country, so I have to get my hands on the next book

I just started The Language Inside. It's very interesting because it's written in verse rather than paragraphs. A different experience but I'm surprised at how immersive it still is.

oh I've read that kind of writing a few times, in book form.
Ellen Hopkins YA books are written in free verse, and I liked the few that I read.

I'm surprised that I'm actually liking it to be honest.

sometimes it's nice to have a surprise like that.

Definitely! Still, I'm eager to finish it. I have so many books I want to read right now. XD

I always have a huge list but can never get into them right away

Aww... It's easy for me because I read in the subway for like two hours a day. So the options are either be bored, or get into the book, LOL!

oh that's a great time to read!

Sometimes I also read on my lunch break and/or in the evenings. But most of my reading is done in the train. I saw this quote once about how trains are possibly the biggest libraries in the world given the number of books that come and go on them.

hm, that's actually pretty cool!

I should find it and share it with you Clockie, it was in French!

I would like that!

Hm, I think it's on my computer at home. I will have to remember to check.

*drops in after too long*

Cross your fingers everyone; I'm doing NaNo~!

My fiancé is also doing NaNoWriMo. I've never done it myself...

This is my first year doing it .
Hopefully I'll actually finish a book. I'm doing one I've been working on for years.

I wish you the best of luck!

^^ Thanks. I'm gonna need all the luck I can get! 16k words left to write

That's not so bad... >.>

It still feels a bit overwhelming.
But then it's still in the first week, so that's prolly why.

Yeah, at the same time, only three weeks to go!