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What's in your To Be Read Pile (TBRP)?
I always have a pile of books I am soon going to read, and having gone to the library this morning, it has grown quite large. Here is the list of all the books I checked out:
A Hidden Magic, by Vivian Vande Velde
So You Want to Be a Wizard, by Diane Duane
Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories, by Diana Wynne Jones
The Princess and the Hound, by Mette Ivie Harrison
Lady Macbeth's Daughter, by Lisa Klein
Dragon's Heart (Pit Dragon Chronicles, Book Four), by Jane Yolen
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, compiled & edited by Leonard S. Marcus
The President's Daughter, by Ellen Emerson White
Ranger's Apprentice Book Six: The Siege of Macindaw, and Book Seven: Erak's Ransom by John Flanagan
So there it is. As you can see, I mostly read fantasy. Anyone read any of these books/authors/series? What did you think? And, most importantly, what's in your TBRP?
submitted by ZNZ, age 12, Wonderland
(January 23, 2010 - 4:11 pm)
(January 23, 2010 - 4:11 pm)
Oh, wow... A lot, trust me. I won't even try to make a list; it'd take far too long, and the Admin may not even post it. I'll just comment on other people's books.
So You Want to Be a Wizard is great. So is the rest of the series. I absolutely love it. There's just one thing I think you should be warned about. Nita starts out as a great character, but by the 2nd book she's a total Mary Sue. However, the awesomeness of the plot makes up for that, and I'd still definitely recommend them. And Dairine, at least, is a wonderful character. The Feline Wizardry series is on my TBRP, by the way.
Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories
The Boy In the Striped Pajamas is on my TBRP, too!
To Kill A Mockingbird is an awesome book. It's easy to tell why it's a classic. It doesn't really have a plot, actually; it's more like just a slice of life than a story, but the slice of life is so realistic, it really doesn't matter.
Some Vivian Vande Velde books are on my list, too!
Discworld is on my own list.
Howl's Moving Castle is on my own list.
(January 24, 2010 - 10:12 pm)
Oh yeah, I forgot to say what I thought of Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories. Well, it's awesome.
(January 25, 2010 - 5:48 pm)
Oh! I didn't read the thread correctly. I wasn't paying attention, so I thought that by, 'TBRP,' you meant books to be read soon, and 'pile' was merely a metaphor, but you literally mean TBRP! So, now I can post my own. If I said something was in my TBRP in my previous comment, know that I only meant that I intend to read it soon.
My TBRP is: The Adoration Of Jenna Fox, which I would ordinarily never read, but... In Texas, there's a list of books called RIG, which stands for Reading Is Great. If you're in middle school, and read a certain amount of them, you get prizes, and not flimsy plastic bracelets and ugly stickers like you get from the dentist's office, but things that are actually really cool! If you read just 15, you get $10 off at our school book fair, which always sells great books! But the problem is, there are only 23 RIG books, and less than 15 look interesting, so I'm having to read ones that I wouldn't normally, which is fine because they're often much better than I expect. So, this is a RIG book.
Keeper of the Night
Sent (the sequel to Found)
Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want
Bear Dancer
Taking Liberty
The Falconmaster
Leigh Anne's Civil War
Water Steps
(January 24, 2010 - 10:26 pm)
Yes, I was thinking of an actual pile, but it's okay. I have a list too. Two points about my TBRP vs. my TBRL:
1. My list has more books than my pile, and
2. my pile has more books than I cared to admit here. *guilty grin*
(January 25, 2010 - 4:27 pm)
Re-reading Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass
Under the Lilacs
Moby Dick which I found in my family's attic some time ago but never got to reading it.
King Arthur and his knights ditto to the one above.
Grimms Complete Fairy Tales.
And many more that I'm to lazy to remember and list. They are all books found in my home, so I don't have to read them in a cirtain amount of time like I do library books.
(January 25, 2010 - 3:04 pm)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes. I just finished his memoirs.
The Prince and the Pauper- by Twain
Peter Pan- I've never actually the read the original book, which seems weird to me...
Seeing Red- I need to get this, because I just got the first one, and I want the second one, partly because I forgot a lot of what happens, and partly because I just want all the books.
Discworld
That is all that I can recollect....
(January 27, 2010 - 9:49 am)
Yeah, loved Peter Pan, but it seemed really weird when Peter forgot things.. I forgot to say The Hunt for the Seventh.
(January 28, 2010 - 5:11 pm)
Pirate Latitudes (Michael Critchton, published posthumously)
Matchless (Gregory Maguire)
Soul Music and Carpe Jugulum (Pterry, even though I don't technically *own* either of them yet, but we're getting them in book club)
The Big Sleep (Can never remember the author. We're reading it in English at a rate of a chapter a day with breaks for weekends, so I can't actually remember the beginning at this point. So I have to read it *properly*)
(Finish) Brisingr (Christopher Paolini.)
Nation (Pterry but not a Discworld book)
Nation (stageplay adapted from the book)
(Finish) The Boys Next Door (because I've only read to the end of act one)
The Hidden Ivies (some college book, D: it's boring as heck).
(Rereading) just about every Discworld book I own.
(January 28, 2010 - 9:36 am)
I've heard alot of people talking about Discworld. What is Discworld? I can't seem to figure it out.
(January 29, 2010 - 10:21 am)
A series of satiric fantasy novels set on the Discworld (which floats through space supported by four elephants on the back of a giant turtle), written by British author Terry Pratchett. They are quite wonderful.
(January 30, 2010 - 2:20 pm)
The rest of the Uglies series
Pride and Predjice <-- I know I spelled that wrong; I'm just too lazy to fix it
Runemarks
The second Hunger Games book (I think it's called Catching Fire)
There are more, but as mentioned before, I'm lazy tonight.
(January 28, 2010 - 10:23 pm)
*Checks pile*
Well I'm almost done with The Lightening Thief…
The Sea Of Monsters ~ Rick Riordan
The Titan's Curse ~ Rick Riordan
The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives ~ I don't know
Fablehaven 3: Grip of the Shadow Plague ~ Brandon Mull
(February 2, 2010 - 9:44 pm)
Well, I'm reading two books right now, The Black Stallion's Ghost and If You're Reading This, It's Too Late. But here's my TBRL (I used to have piles of books, both read and unread, all over my room until I cleaned it. Now the books in this list are happily sitting on my bookshelf.):
1. The God of Mischief by Paul Bajoria (sequel to The Printer's Devil).
2. Manatee Blues by Laurie Halse Anderson (fourth in the series Wild at Heart).
3. Sunchaser's Quest by Mary Stanton (second in the series Unicorns of Balinor).
4. Lily Quench and the Magician's Pyramid by Natalie Prior (fifth in the series Lily Quench, which I am rereading).
5. Pride's Last Race by Joanna Campbell (tenth in the series Thouroughbred).
I like to read fantasy mostly, too. :) It's the best.
Andy (spam message thingy) says kmpo.
~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
(February 23, 2010 - 9:24 pm)
Top!
Andy says uufr.
~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
(February 25, 2010 - 2:14 pm)
Thoroughbred? *whispers* Ick.
Currently, I have
The first Violet Travilla book, can't remember what it's called
The Prophet of Yonwood, by Jeanne DuPrau
The Name of This Book is Secret, by Raphael Simon (I finished this. It was funny.)
Treasures From Grandma, by Arleta Richardson
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, by Mary Norton
An Edward Eager book (which I'm *technically* too old for) that one of my siblings checked out and I haven't read in a while.
For school I just finished reading Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison, which was all right but not my favorite.
(February 25, 2010 - 3:24 pm)