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(December 26, 2012 - 8:24 pm)
(December 26, 2012 - 8:24 pm)
My Antonia by Willa Cather
(December 12, 2013 - 7:02 pm)
@Gollum- I've just read the Uglies series not Leviathan. I've heard that Leviathan is good though...
I'm reading Clockwork Angel, Book 1 in the Infernal Devices Series by Cassandra Clare. Not that far yet. :)
(December 13, 2013 - 12:49 am)
Stopped reading Land Under England, because it's slow and there are better things to read and the school library has something intrinsicallly wrong and irritating about it and I always feel guilty when I'm reading a book from the high school section (which technically I'm not allowed to do, which is ANNOYING.) Which, which, which, which, which.
Finished In the Belly of the Bloodhound last night. The last sentence. WHY MUST LIFE HAVE NO MEANING THE TWO DAYS WHEN THE LIBRARY IS CLOSED?
Read all of How I Live Now today. Recommend. Highly.
Spamster in his spamster cage says brew. The suspense is brewing... DAH.
My tea is brewing. . . .
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(December 15, 2013 - 12:48 pm)
That day started Leonardo's Shadow and went about halfway through it. Then on Tuesday there was a snow day, so I walked to the library and got Mississippi Jack, because Tuesday is a day when life has meaning and books can be read the end suspense things. Then commenced to read 400 pages in one day of that book because it is beautiful. And I started Herge: Son of Tintin for a project for Art.
(December 18, 2013 - 4:04 pm)
I think I just finished It's Kind of A Funny Story. I'm currently slogging my way through Les Miserablés (I'm probably going to stop reading it) I'm like 90% sure I lost It's Kind of A Funny Story and guess what? It's a library book. Yippee
(December 19, 2013 - 12:39 am)
Tip on Les Mis: You can skip the entire Waterloo tangent. It is IRRELEVANT. I think. I stopped shortly after skipping the last twenty pages of that. I was on the bus, and sometimes I would read aloud a couple sentences from my book to indicate that I'm reading and people should stop talking already, so I was reading from the Waterloo section and kept ridiculing it in random ways. It was fun.
Finished Mississippi Jack. Dah. Not so much dah as In the Belly of the Bloodhound, but dah. Arg. And China? Sadness...
Spamster in his spamster cage says give. Give what? Christmas presents? I wrapped those already, Spamster...
(December 19, 2013 - 8:39 pm)
My dad says I can't read Les Misribles until I'm 14.
(December 20, 2013 - 6:43 am)
Well, there are some things in it that might be considered mature. Although that is still a bummer. Restriction on books is always a drag.
Books just got super complicated recently, so: Reading Leonardo's Shadow still, still reading Herge: Son of Tintin, read all of Let it Snow again, and started the Harvard Lampoon version of The Wobbit because I'm giving it to my friend for her birthday and I wanted to see what it was like. It's as if Daniel Pinkwater, Douglas Adams and one of my really weird classmates tried to write the Hobbit and got sidetracked. Sidetracked is the only word for it. You don't set out to write something that rediculous on purpose.
@ Maggie:
The author of It's Kind of a Funny Story just died recently...
(December 22, 2013 - 11:42 am)
Judging from the movie, that may be a good call.
My parents never really restricted my books because they knew I wouldn't read anything that I shouldn't be. The only two I've explicitly been told not to read was Twilight (I was in fifth grade when it blew up, so it wasn't exactly appropriate; I can read it now if I want) and Fifty Shades of Grey. Neither of which I want to read because they both sound really bad. I've always been appreciative of that because I've had a college reading level since like fourth grade (I think. It hasn't been proven, but I tried reading an unabridged Jane Austen book back then and understood it. I abandoned after two pages because I was a weird kid & it bored me.) and if they hadn't let me read YA books back then (Yes, I discovered YA in fourth grade. My great-grandmother and my parents both gave me The Princess Diaries boxed set for Christmas, and that was the major catalyst.), I probably would have died of boredom. That said, there was some stuff I didn't understand back then (I was cringing when I reread that boxed set easily, just imagining a fourth grade me reading it.) when I was reading books that were just a little to old for me. But, since it went over my head, I don't think it was a bad thing.
I apologize, that was only supposed to be like two sentences...
(December 29, 2013 - 6:42 pm)
Just started Candymakers and The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag.
(December 20, 2013 - 5:33 pm)
Just finished TWtStHB by Alan Bradley. It was actually quite good, like the first in the series. The Flavia de Luce series is a wonderful bundle of cynical, enlightening witticisms and quips. It combines instructions on how to make poisons, with instructions on how to successfully deceive everyone you know, become a good liar, and be a wonderfully effective suck-up. The heroine, Flavia de Luce, is a character with character. She is a mischievous, vindictive, deceitful chemist who actually is a more pleasant person than you would imagine. I fully recommend this book.
(December 23, 2013 - 6:53 pm)
The Candymakers is one of my favorite books. PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS! They are important.
(December 30, 2013 - 4:51 pm)
Just Finished: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (this was probably my seventh time reading it)
Currently Reading: nothing yet. I'm not sure if I should reread The Fault in Our Stars or It's kind of a funny story. They're both really awesome. I thnk I'll reread TFiOS. I haven't read any John Green books in a while and I'm in the mood for a happy book because The Book Thief almost made me cry, and I'm not in a good place right now. Is it just me, or does Christmas this year feel...less?
The Book Thief really made me cry, too. I suggest something happier now. Maybe a Christmas story. Or some uplifting music. I just heard about a flash mob performance by the US Air Force band at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. It began with a beautiful cello solo, Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. You can always play your cello, Maggie, to help you feel better.
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(December 24, 2013 - 1:01 pm)
I just finished reading Leopard's Gold. It was really good and I can't wait to see if she'll write another book . . .
Now, I dunno. Actually I read two really sick picture books last night. Really sick. As in they weren't for children. At all. Really, on the cover it said: 'This **** is not for children. Seriously.' Except it had the curse there. XD
I dunno what to read next . ..
Also, Maggie, Christmas this year seems really nice to me. Since we actually have a tree, not some palm tree house plants like last year. We also got to actually wrap our presents in wrapping paper, not towels! SO this Christmas doesn't seem real, it seems too good.
Merry Christmas everyone!
(December 25, 2013 - 9:12 am)
Currently Reading: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan because my mom got me HoH for Christmas
Just Finished: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
(December 25, 2013 - 11:57 pm)