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Chatterbox: Blab About Books
Random Thoughts About Books
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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)
The forbidden island... OMG. The ending made me gry a lil bit T_T
And I forgot all bout Hubbard! I wish I had a dog like him awww *squeezes imaginary puppy*
(August 12, 2023 - 4:22 pm)
Books can help forge new friendships! They give ppl things to talk about and have in common, and since there's such a wide variety of them, it's easy to strike up conversations about books!
(August 20, 2023 - 11:08 am)
Has anyone noticed the way writers tend to write about characters who are also writers? Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Julieta from Julieta and the Romeos, David Copperfield...
(August 21, 2023 - 9:21 am)
Hmm... maybe it's the "write what you know" thing? And since writers probably know about writing... writing might also be used for character development and getting to know a character too, though, I think
(August 21, 2023 - 1:44 pm)
so Doomsday Book by Connie Willis was written in 1995, and takes place in ~2050 (before the MC travels back in time anyway) and this "Pandemic" is mentioned multiple times, and I couldn't help but realize that it oddly predicted aspects of the covid-19 pandemic?? so this Pandemic supposedly occured in the early 21st century - it doesn't give an exact date, but it was said to have been around fourty years ago, so that would place it in the early to mid 2010s - close enough to 2020. plus, at one point it states, "'In America, nobody would dream of telling you where you can or can’t go.' And over thirty million Americans died during the Pandemic as a result of that sort of thinking, he thought." (the book takes place in Oxford, for context) and i mean?? there's also a few other passages i don't feel like searching through 500+ pages to find that are also eerily accurate of the covid pandemic.
of course, the 1918 influenza pandemic did have many similarities to the covid-19 pandemic, so it's very likely that Connie Willis drew upon that when writing about her Pandemic. still, it's really weird to read about knowing that the book was written nearly thirty years before the covid-19 pandemic!
(yes this is a very good book and i highly recommend it)
(*gasps* Knight said <dieok>! KNight this is unacceptabe behavior--)
(August 30, 2023 - 5:41 pm)
Interesting how books can predict things and history repeats itself.... maybe there's some sort of algorithm for telling the future based on the past!
(August 30, 2023 - 8:07 pm)
i want someone to look at me the way kal looks at auri
(August 31, 2023 - 9:04 am)
I love C.S. Lewis's emphasises! Were those just something at his time or a unique style? For example, in the lion the witch, Edmund (arghhhh sooo aggravatingggg but I'd have probably done the same but still, judgment) says "of course it would be raining," and I would've emphasized the course, so it'd be "Of course it would be raining!", but C.S. Lewis does "Of course it would be raining!" which just sounds so much better and quainter and perfect and... wait, did I just do it again? Ughhh
Have you guys ever had that thing happen to you where you read a book and start talking/thinking in the style of the characters/narrator/author? It happens to me all the time! Most prominently after I read the Narnia books or the Anne of Green Gables books. They just have such personable and unique and absolutely perfect voices that I simply have to adopt them, if not rather involuntary (for while I'm glad to be talking like amazing authors and characters, I often find myself repeating the same words over and over again), and it's quite hard for me to get out of the voices after. The last time I read Narnia it took me over a week to stop saying things like "quaint" and "queer" and "rather" and such. And yet I keep coming back as it's such a great book series! Though with it's faults, which I suppose I can excuse as they were probably not even faults and just facts in the book's time (which I don't even know anyways), except for all that repetition that I never quite seemed to catch before (what with that wardrobe door and all)! SPOILER: I think Narnia may be the cruelest kind of magical world, though, what with all those poor children who know such magic exists and yet can never visit, being too old, though it is none their fault, and can only live with their memories of the place knowing exactly how to get there and what wonderful things reside there but being denied to go visit their friends as people they know come back with fantastical stories (as they surely must), especially Peter and Susan, as Edmund and Lucy, the one who was the first in the strage place and the last of the four to go there, came young and first but they came later and older than both and I think that that is hardly fair (but who's to say what's fair or not, and life itself is "hardly fair" anyways). We're lucky we can visit as many times as we want if only in books, for we can live out each moment as long and often as we'd like and still get half or more the experience! With almost none of the actual danger. And more detail and understanding! A mighty good deal if you ask me (while still believing fully that worlds like this exist, as they must)! END OF SPOILER
What's cool about Narnia is that each time you visit, a layer gets revealed, a perceptual shift as you grow and learn and experience. A new visit in the same situations each time, and just, if not more, enjoyable! Narnia is absolutely YESSS!!
Wow, count how many times I said "what with" in just those few paragraphs... and "as" and "such" and... Feiya said OZGKH. What a splendid bit of nonsense! Now she says GOOBC!
(September 1, 2023 - 9:05 pm)
I daily make my way over to my bookshelf to run my fingers across the spines of books
(October 8, 2023 - 3:02 pm)
at book sales there are always numerous copies of:
-anne of green gables
-the call of the wild
-cat warrior books
-misty of chincoteague
-pretty little liars books
-the indian in the cupboard
-ramona quimby
-the black stallion
-chronicles of narnia
-edward eager books
anyone else noticed that?
(October 21, 2023 - 2:35 pm)
I find it funny that in Keeper of the lost cities Sophie is so oblivious sometimes
(November 12, 2023 - 12:08 am)
OMG, a little TOO oblivous... *eye roll*
(November 16, 2023 - 3:12 pm)
Right???
(November 22, 2023 - 7:07 pm)
There should be more Hunger Games genre books, you know? Not off-brand ones, but the same author, using a new idea. I NEED MORE HUNGER GAMES!!!!!!!
(November 19, 2023 - 10:51 am)
Harry Potter was good, but not my favourite series if you compare it too, for example, KotLC. (please forgive me for CONSTANTLY talking about it, lol) Just Harry Potter has long boring parts, and there are some parts that are just sad. (I have a grudge against JK Rowling because of Fred... WHYYY)
(November 24, 2023 - 4:20 pm)