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Guivre
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01-17-2010, 08:25 PM
I love the HarperHall series too, I honestly think she totally nailed the whole fantasy world/novel concept with the Pern books of that time period, Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums and Dragonquest. The rest were a bit disjointed and dry. I do however also really like her novel Moreta -- which got horrible reviews for some reason. (She did mess up a bit with the medical information, but I thought it was entertaining fiction, otherwise.)
Anne McCaffrey also didn't seem to know what to do with her characters once they uh, "got some". As soon as her characters became non-virginal (boys included) they were dull as dirt. Which is so weird, because her novel Crystal Singer has a main character who is aware of her sexuality and it is a strong novel. (My favorite out of all Anne's work.) Ah well.
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Iltu
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01-17-2010, 10:07 PM
Chexala- Yes yes, that's the one! The horses are called Companions.
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01-18-2010, 12:45 AM
Guivre - I completely agree with you on Anne McCaffrey. A lot of Anne's books are very dry. I haven't read Moreta but you reminded me that I do own it. XD I own a bunch of her books and I can't remember which ones I do have half the time.
I've read most of them, I just don't remember much from them except the Harper Hall books. Which goes to show how much I loved those books (and there's the fact I've read them 3 or 4 times...).
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01-18-2010, 03:23 AM
lol, the harper hall books were the first ones I read as well XD that was...omg....5 years ago lol. Well, then I kind of drifted off Anne McCaffrey into the sci-fi and fantasy books XD
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01-20-2010, 02:58 PM
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dream, i'm both amused and a little confused that you used wolverines, but not wolves. :3
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Wolves are organized most of the time, wolverines are just "OMG IT MOVED! OMNOMNOM!" Which I think accurately describes most of us when a book is mentioned. :3
Also sakoya, For manga I have a page goal set, I know I probably won't reach it because of the reason leenie listed, but I'm also doing a Chapter/Issue count. Which is helping me feel more accomplished then the page count. xD
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01-20-2010, 05:24 PM
Ember's 50 Book Challenge
BOOKS I'VE READ
- Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog - Ysabeau S. Wilce
- The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz
- The Curse of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz
BOOKS TO READ
Books on My "To Do" List in No Particular Order
- Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) - Ysabeau S. Wilce
Curse of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz
- Revenge of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
- The Hunger Games Book Three- Suzanne Collins
- You Suck - Christopher Moore
- Bite Me - Christopher Moore
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
- The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag - Alan Bradley
- A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley
- Seeds of Antiquity - Alan Bradley
- Death In Camera - Alan Bradley
- The Nasty Light of Day - Alan Bradley
- Who Owns the World: The Surprising Truth About Every Piece of Land on the Planet - Kevin Cahill
- Radiant Shadows - Melissa Marr
- Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
- Soulless - Gail Carriger
- Changeless - Gail Carriger
- The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker - Leanna Renee Hieber
- The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker - Leanna Renee Hieber
- Faeries of Dreamdark: Silksinger - Laini Taylor
- The Summoning - Kelley Armstrong
- The Awakening - Kelley Armstrong
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Reason: adding info
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ljosberinn
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01-20-2010, 08:06 PM
Woot, I finished my book list for 2009! I didn't realise until now that I did a couple of days ago, but eh, who cares? I did add the last book on the 2009 list though, since I only just read the last couple of chapters after the "deadline". I read a total of 55 titles, though seeing how I mostly listened to audiobooks last year, I only managed 7058 pages. Ah well, I'm mostly interested in the title count anyway. Now to start a new list! :D
ljosberinn's book list for 2010:
Novelso1 Halldór Laxness - Salka Valka (451p)
o2 Charlaine Harris - All Together Dead (Audiobook)
o3 Charlaine Harris - From Dead To Worse (Audiobook)
o4 Charlaine Harris - Dead And Gone (Audiobook)
o5 Iain M. Banks - The Algebraist (Audiobook)
o6 Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!*(Audiobook)
o7 Jim Butcher - Storm Front (Audiobook)
o8 Jim Butcher - Fool Moon (Audiobook)
o9 Jim Butcher - Grave Peril (Audiobook)
1o PG Wodehouse - Right Ho, Jeeves (Audiobook)
11 PG Wodehouse - Very Good, Jeeves (Audiobook)
12 PG Wodehouse - Carry On Jeeves (Audiobook)
13 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (Audiobook)
14 Neil Gaiman - Stardust (Audiobook)
15 Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass (Audiobook)
16 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (Audiobook)
17 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (Audiobook)
18 Anne Rice - Interview With the Vampire (368p)
19 Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat (599p)
20 Anne Rice - The Queen of the Damned (573p)
21 J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring (Audiobook)
22 J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers (Audiobook)
23 J.R.R. Tolkien - The Return of the King (Audiobook)
24 J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion (Audiobook)
25 C.S. Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Audiobook)
26 C.S. Lewis - The Silver Chair (Audiobook)
Total pages: 1991 Graphic Novels
Total pages: Short stories
Total pages: - Other
o1 Paul Jobling - Bodies Of Experience - Gender and identity in women's photography since 1970 (50p)
o2 Joan Acker - Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A theory of gendered organization (10p)
o3 Judith Butler - Gender Trouble (203p)
o4 Iain Morland and Annabelle Willox - Queer Theory*(191p)
o5 Kate Bornstein - Gender Outlaw (159p out of 249)
o6 Chris Beasley - Gender & Sexuality (174 out of 248)
Total pages: 787
Total: 32 titles, 2778 pages
Currently reading:Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
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Iltu
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01-20-2010, 09:42 PM
Yeee! We're reading Macbeth in English classhat's only my favorite play EVER! *does a dance* I'm glad to have an excuse to read it again.
Best of luck, Ember and Ljos!
Ember- OH MY GOSH. You suck and Bite Me! I love those books. Christopher Moore is hilarious. :XD Have you read Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal? That's probably my favorite by him.
Also, that first book on your liat: the title is fascinating, did you like the book?
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ember2phoenix
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01-21-2010, 01:22 AM
Iltu: Lamb is Moore's masterpiece! It's amazingly funny and very well done I think. I really love Dirty Job, too. Some of his earlier stuff is just kinda alright though. And yes I did like the Flora book, quite a bit. It's YA fantasy, so you have to like that genre to be into it, but I thought the author created a fantastic world to play inside and the main character (Flora, of course) is well-developed. I intend to read the sequel soon.
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Melissa
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01-21-2010, 04:52 AM
I finished another book yesterday called -
Chew : Taster's Choice - John Layman & Rob Guillory
It was an interesting graphic novel and I loved the art. I just don't know if I'll read the rest of the series when the books come out because the story creeped me out. XD
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Siti_Hajar
Someone New
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01-21-2010, 09:58 AM
I'm reading The Carnivorous Carnival from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket
The series is fun (for me). I wonder when I can finish the whole series. I've only finished 6/13 books from the series. I'm a really slow reader!
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01-21-2010, 02:15 PM
@Siti: I've only read the first four of that series as well. Mainly because the stores around here don't carry the rest and when I buy online there's usually something more important to buy. xD I need to get onto buying those.
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01-21-2010, 06:22 PM
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I'm reading The Carnivorous Carnival from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket
The series is fun (for me). I wonder when I can finish the whole series. I've only finished 6/13 books from the series. I'm a really slow reader!
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I love this series :D They were a really fun read.
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LaVida
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01-21-2010, 07:01 PM
lmao, omg, I never really got into the series and it's not that it isn't good, it's just the part that the little baby is also called sunny just kind of makes me look away.....(since my name's sunny as well)
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01-21-2010, 07:06 PM
XD , it is weird to read a book with your name in it, I just read one where the character that had my name was brutally murdered :shock: It's a bit hard to go on reading after that XD
I'd be okay if my character was just a baby/biter :lol:
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Guivre
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01-21-2010, 11:30 PM
@Aoi Midori -- I'll never get over when they had this character named "Dina the Donkey" in Highlights magazine when I was little. Good thing I like donkeys.
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Ditachan
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01-22-2010, 01:09 AM
I dare. I love to read but I never keep up with how many books I actually read.
DitaChan Book List 2010
1. Vampire Academy
2. Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel
3.Shadow Kissed: A Vampire Academy Novel
4. Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel
5. Computers in the Medical Office
6. Understanding Human Anatomy & Physiology
7. An Introduction to Medical Coding
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Iltu
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01-22-2010, 01:14 AM
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Originally Posted by ember2phoenix
Iltu: Lamb is Moore's masterpiece! It's amazingly funny and very well done I think. I really love Dirty Job, too. Some of his earlier stuff is just kinda alright though. And yes I did like the Flora book, quite a bit. It's YA fantasy, so you have to like that genre to be into it, but I thought the author created a fantastic world to play inside and the main character (Flora, of course) is well-developed. I intend to read the sequel soon.
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I have Dirty Job on my bookshelf, but I've yet to read it! :gonk: You're not the first person to tell me it's good, though. I've read a lot less YA books recently, but I like it when it's well-done. Fantasy remains my favorite genre, so I will look for that book! It sounds so cute, and excellent characters are a selling point for me.
Ditachan- AHMAHGAWD VAMPIRE ACADEMY. I LOVE Richelle Mead. <3 Those aren't my favorite books by her, but I enjoy them anyway.
Good luck with your list!
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ember2phoenix
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01-22-2010, 01:27 AM
Ilyu: Read it soon, Dirty Job is hilarious! :)
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Ditachan
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01-22-2010, 03:55 AM
I can wait until the next vampire academy book comes out. I have read all those. I am kind of mad now because I have to be patient and wait for the new one. I might start the House of Night series until then.
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01-22-2010, 05:45 AM
@ Christopher Moore discussion
my old roommate was in love with his books. They were the only books she could ever read all the way through. She kept trying to get me to read Dirty Job but I always had other books I was busy with. The whole time she was reading Stupidest Angel we kept making jokes at a friend of ours whose name happened to be Angel. He hated Christopher Moore for that title.
@ Series of Unfortunate Events
I really wanted to read those books and I tried reading the first one a few years ago...but the writing was killing me. I can understand writing for kids...but those books were too dumbed down even for me. He would write a word...and then explain it's meaning it became very aggravating....XD
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Siti_Hajar
Someone New
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01-22-2010, 09:10 AM
Melissa: At first it was annoying to me,too, but I think I got used to it after reading its book.
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KatMagenta
Starlet on the rise
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01-22-2010, 01:55 PM
Yay, trip to the library = books. Or for me it equals a book, a 'graphic novella', a comic and manga. XD
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FeyonaSaibre
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01-22-2010, 03:13 PM
Yeah... I started reading Dirty Job and got caught up reading one of the Dresden Series books... though I think I need to start a new list seeing how I'm WAY past the end date of mine... ^.^;;
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Spring`Tyme Fresh
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01-22-2010, 03:17 PM
At some point in the near future, I am going to make my new book list because I uber failed last year.
This year, though, I've nearly finished my second book already. ^^
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