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This part of Chatterbox is call 'blab about books' right?
Well, I'm starting a thread where you can talk the hind leg off a donkey (don't ask!) about books!
Air your love for a book you read where you were just learning to read; mine would be 'Guess how much I love you'.
A book that's not the hotest, lastest thing to be reading, but just adored by you.
The stupid but loveable book.
The mushy stuff.
The fluffy bunnies stories.
And more!!!
-warning, anyone you can't stand major blabing please don't come into this thread; thank you for you listening, have a nice day!
submitted by Saz, age 13, with kangaroos
(July 11, 2012 - 9:51 pm)
(July 11, 2012 - 9:51 pm)
Some of my most very favoritest books are not well known at all.
The Ordinary Princess
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
The Sherwood Ring
Arana's Visitor
I'm willing to bet not many of you have heard of these books. I'm willing to bet at least 10 bucks (though actually doing so over the internet would be impractical) that none of you have ever heard of Arana's Visitor (first book in the Vadelah Chronicles series.) Anyone here who can honestly say they have heard of it wins the internet. And yes, it is published.
(July 11, 2012 - 11:06 pm)
Top!
(July 12, 2012 - 4:36 pm)
I don't think i've heard of any of them...Maybe The Ordinary Princess...I'm not sure.
What do you really love about these books?
Tobi says Booc!
(July 12, 2012 - 6:20 pm)
Ordinary princess = I don't know. I read it lots of times from when I was very little.
Mara, Daughter of the Nile = Everything. Just, everything. It's where I drew a lot of, not ideas, but... I don't know, just vague themes from for the Legend of the Red Cloak. Rebel bands and Evil Queens who heavily tax people for instance. But also, I love the romance part, it is definitely a pairing I ship. And the suspense. But if you ever get it, DON'T read the back of the book because it is spoiler HEAVY.
(July 12, 2012 - 10:47 pm)
I think I might have heard of The Ordinary Princess... It's about a princess who's christening curse is 'you shall be ordinary'?
(July 13, 2012 - 11:42 am)
I've heard of Mara, Daughter of the Nile. I looked up The Ordinary Princess, and I just read a book that was almost exactly the same. The princess had a bunch of names that all start with the same letter, she gets locked in a tower and teams up with the dragon to escape. etc. etc.
(July 13, 2012 - 12:35 pm)
No getting locked in a tower. No dragon.
(July 13, 2012 - 9:14 pm)
Well it says that her parents want to hire a dragon....
(July 14, 2012 - 10:44 am)
Yes, I've read the Ordinary Princess, and we own The Sherwood Ring and we used to have M ara,Daughter of the nile. Does this mean I win the internet?
(July 13, 2012 - 7:43 am)
Nope! ;) That was for anyone who'd heard of Arana's Visitor or even The Vadelah Chronicles at all.
(July 14, 2012 - 2:47 pm)
Well, my favorite book ever would probably have to be Kingdom Keepers Power Play. The book I've read the most would have to be my aunt's old 2008 Disney guidebook she gave to my sister.
My favorite book from when I was younger would probably have to be my Atlantic Ocean alphabet book. I read that soooo many times!
(July 12, 2012 - 8:30 pm)
"Oh, I know, I could talk a hind leg off a donkey...a very useless thing to do to a very useful thing like a donkey. But if you had tryed as often as I had to talk the head off a human donkey..."
"Am I the human donkey?"
--from my play (which is hapenning tonight!!!!!)
(July 13, 2012 - 10:41 am)
@ Coral
Break a leg!
(July 13, 2012 - 3:16 pm)
Are you doing A Midsummer's Night Dream? Speaking of theatre, I was just in a play of As You Like It and when I threw up my hat in the air, I tripped, fell on my bum, and my hat fell right in front of me. It was unscripted.
(July 13, 2012 - 7:12 pm)
THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE, SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN INHERITANCE OR THE LAST OLYMPIAN, DON'T READ.
Okay, I'm just going to go wild and rave about The Last Olympian, which I just finished and consider to be the best last-book in any series I have ever read. (Note: I have not read the last book of Harry Potter, so I can't say how PJ compares to that [so please don't say I don't know what I'm saying], so I'm only comparing it to Inheritance, really.)
Inheritance was a rather flat ending to a good saga. Paolini built up the suspense and thought of a good way to defeat Galbatorix, which was rather unusual. But after the last battle, it just fell upon its nose. I think if he had ended it much sooner after the battle, that would be more the last thing you remember, not the rather slow downward slide. It might have helped if there was an epilogue...an after glimpse of Eragon and the new generation of Riders. I would have wanted that. But there wasn't one.
On the other hand, The Last Olympian fulfilled everything I could have asked for. It ended smoothly, the final battle was gripping and intense, the final dialogue between Annabeth, Luke and Percy was realistic, yet a little tragic at the same time (I said little, not a lot) and Riordan's way of briefly summarizing the end of summer camp came in handy here, to avoid the Inheritance mistake. Plus, it ended on a good note for The Lost Hero to begin. I think The Last Olympian is my favorite in the series...followed by #4, #3, #1 and #2.
(July 14, 2012 - 9:59 am)