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This is like the random thoughts thread, but for books specifically! If you want to post random musings about your favorite book, long rants about the cliffhanging ending of the next book in your favorite series, amazement at the awesomeness of the last book you read, and so on, this is the thread for it! :)
(Iffy says <caffy>!! No Iffy you can't have any coffee the last time you had it you went wild with caffeine and did things which we do not mention)
submitted by Poinsettia, age ageless, a sea of crystal waters
(July 8, 2023 - 9:33 am)
(July 8, 2023 - 9:33 am)
So, I just finished Keeper of the Lost Cities book 9, and I cannot wait to find out what happens next! It is a great series and sometimes I get caught up in it and need to remind myself that I am a human.
One warning though: there are some serious cliff hangers!
Here are my fave charactors:Sandor, Keefe, Edaline, Dex, Silveny and Biana.
Please respond if you are a KOTLC fan!
(July 12, 2023 - 2:06 pm)
Yas its a pretty good series. A friend of mines introduced me to it a few months ago, and allowed me to borrow their books. Not my favorite of all time, but one of them. :D
(July 12, 2023 - 5:30 pm)
Cool! What book are you on?
(July 13, 2023 - 8:32 am)
Hey! fellow KotLC fan! I'd say my favorite charcters are Biana and Keefe. And Silveny. I own the whole series and can't wait for book 10. But right now they are making a KotLC graphic novel and the release of the tenth book has been delayed sadly.
(July 13, 2023 - 2:17 pm)
I finished the 9th book about a month ago.
(July 14, 2023 - 5:31 pm)
sing it with me, lizards-
KEEFE KEEFE KEEFE KEEFE KEEFE KEEFE
(September 12, 2023 - 9:32 am)
I personally love the Artemis Fowl series, because my favorite genre is fantasy. My favorite character from it is probably Holly or Mulch. Juliet is also high on my list. I think I like either the 5th book or the 2nd the most. I also enjoy The Penderwicks, Wings of Fire, and Keeper of the Lost Cities.
(July 14, 2023 - 2:27 pm)
I've been noticing a ton of strange similarities between Love and Olives, by Jenna Evans Welch, and One Way or Another by Kara McDowell...
-Both main characters (Olive and Paige) have divorced mothers who are married to/in love with someone else.
-Both main characters travel to a new place, leaving behind their boyfriends/boys they're interested in
-Paige and Olive both have panic attacks every second. And they never enjoy the wonderful places they go to because they're worrying about unimportant things... for instance, Olive goes to GREECE, which sounds beautiful and amazing, and she just sits around tying herself up in knots over her relationship with her (very nice) father :/ It makes reading the books less enjoyable.
-Paige and Olive both end up in the hospital, where their crushes come to see them, try to have serious talks with them, and are rebuffed. After the girls are out of the hospital, they are reconciled with their crushes and everyone's happy. Honestly, those scenes are almost identical.
-Both are separated from their mothers for a long time in the story.
-Both get into conversations with friendly men on airplanes near the start of the story.
-Both have homosexual minor characters.
-Both deal lightly with the topic of taking medications for what's considered to be mental illness but is actually just personality quirks and too much tying yourself up in knots. I didn't approve much of this part of the book. In Love and Olives, for instance, the main character's father is on medication just because he can't control his temper!
-A Jenna is mentioned in One Way or Another, and Love and Olives is by Jenna Evans Welch. And Jenna's not that common a name...
-They were both published in 2020.
Another thing that romcoms in general seem to share, is that the heroines are always really whiny and unsure of themselves. It's weird because this is technically the age of "girl power", and you'd think that would mean we could have some functional heroines. I don't want them to be tough and unemotional, necessarily - that always irritates me just as much - but they can be feminine without being so egotistical and unappreciative of the good things of life, and without going into full-blown panic mode every time they're faced with a slight change in their lives. Besides, the boys in these stories are always very calm and collected and sometimes end up saving the girls. Which is very romantic, of course - I don't mind when that happens - but it would be nice if the girls could also sometimes save themselves. That's one of the nice things about Julieta and the Romeos, by Maria E. Andreu: Julieta is very self-sufficient :)
(August 5, 2023 - 5:25 pm)
I've read those two books too, and you're right, there are lots of similarities. Another similarity I noticed was that both of the main characters sleep in the rooms of the boys they end up romantically interested in (Liv with Theo, Paige in Harrison's room)
<cbaoy> Well, Origami is frantically trying to communicate something about the CB, but I don't quite get it...
(August 6, 2023 - 11:44 am)
(August 5, 2023 - 5:40 pm)
Yes!! I haven't read the books you mentioned, but yes, I agree with what you said in the last paragraph thank you for that!! And huh, interesting coincidences (or not?)... could the two authors be writer friends or have read each other books (maybe subconsciously remembering details?)?
(August 5, 2023 - 8:06 pm)
Books connect people. I don't know who you guys are rly but when I read books you recommend, or have talked about, it's pretty cool to think, so-and-so has read these exact same words. So-and-so has flipped through these pages.
(August 8, 2023 - 12:39 am)
That's so true! It's similar with music too; like whenever I hear "You and Me on the Rock" by Brandi Carlile, I always think of how Peri and some other CBers have heard it :)
(August 8, 2023 - 3:31 pm)
Has anyone read Explorer Academy? dispite the thiner volumes, the series is top notch exellent. Favorite characters? Mine is definetly Emmet and Lani. Those two are so cool... great inventors. and I love how there are pictures of real places, and then they draw the people into it
(August 9, 2023 - 2:18 pm)
Yeah, I've read it, it IS pretty cool. I wonder if the author's name is real/fake? I mean, for someone who works for Nat Geo (I think) and writes kinda nonfiction, pretty cool name! But yeah, it's pretty good, not rly one of my favorites though. For characters, Hubbard. :) I've read them all except for the Forbidden Island.
(August 9, 2023 - 10:04 pm)