Reading Log #123-127
I just finished reading…
Title: Heroes of Olympus #2: The Son of Neptune
Author: Rick Riordan
Genre: YA fantasy
Publishing Date: 2011
Pages: 513
Collection: my personal library
Read Before?: no
Read Again?: will probably re-read the whole series
Can I say first that I really love the idea of the Roman camp? I loved the original Greek version, sure, but I was a Latin minor in college, so even though I live on the east coast, I think I would have ended up at Camp Jupiter if I was a half-blood.
I also really like the characters in this one. All of the characters in the series are great, and I like how this series switches points-of-view, so we can get the thoughts from different people.
Title: Once Upon a Time: Wild Orchid (a Retelling of “The Ballad of Mulan”)
Author: Cameron Dokey
Genre: fantasy
Publishing Date: 2009
Pages: 224
Collection: my personal library (ordered online)
Read Before?: no
Read Again?: sure
Mulan is one of my favorite stories, and I love fairy tale/legend re-tellings in general. I’ve read several of the other “Once Upon a Time” series, and several by this author, and they’ve all been great, but I think this one is the best I’ve read so far.
Title: Fraggle Rock, Volume 1
Author: Heather White & Jeffrey Brown
Genre: graphic novel (comic collection)
Publishing Date: 2010
Pages: 112
Collection: my personal library
Read Before?: no
Read Again?: sure!
Fraggle comics! Do I really need to say more? And I found not one, but two volumes at the books store *g*
Title: King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Author: Roger Lancelyn Green
Genre: mythology/fantasy
Publishing Date: 1953 (my copy 1995)
Pages: 330
Collection: my personal library
Read Before?: no
Read Again?: probably not
I’m glad I read this one- it’s classic literature that everyone should know. But old-time knights do seem to do a lot of riding off into the woods, challenging random people to to-the-death (or horrible injury) jousts, doing favors for random damsels and smoting people’s heads off. But now I feel like watching “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” would be even funnier…
Title: Star Trek: Voyager: The Eternal Tide
Author: Kirsten Beyer
Genre: science-fiction
Publishing Date: 2012
Pages: 400
Collection: my personal library
Read Before?: no
Read Again?: maybe
Okay, this one was weird. And part of a kind of weird series. But there were a couple of scenes that I particularly liked- part of the story involved the Q, especially the young Q (I think of him as ‘Little Q’). So before he traveled to Voyager (which had gone back to the Delta Quadrant) he stopped at Starfleet Academy to see Icheb. And of course, the scene where Tom and little Miral are watching “Captain Proton” on Tom’s old-fashioned TV, and he’s daydreaming about when she’s old enough to be Buster Kincaid in his holo-program. Too cute!
Current Mood:
geeky
Title: Heroes of Olympus #2: The Son of Neptune
Author: Rick Riordan
Genre: YA fantasy
Publishing Date: 2011
Pages: 513
Collection: my personal library
Read Before?: no
Read Again?: will probably re-read the whole series
Can I say first that I really love the idea of the Roman camp? I loved the original Greek version, sure, but I was a Latin minor in college, so even though I live on the east coast, I think I would have ended up at Camp Jupiter if I was a half-blood.
I also really like the characters in this one. All of the characters in the series are great, and I like how this series switches points-of-view, so we can get the thoughts from different people.
Title: Once Upon a Time: Wild Orchid (a Retelling of “The Ballad of Mulan”)
Author: Cameron Dokey
Genre: fantasy
Publishing Date: 2009
Pages: 224
Collection: my personal library (ordered online)
Read Before?: no
Read Again?: sure
Mulan is one of my favorite stories, and I love fairy tale/legend re-tellings in general. I’ve read several of the other “Once Upon a Time” series, and several by this author, and they’ve all been great, but I think this one is the best I’ve read so far.
Title: Fraggle Rock, Volume 1
Author: Heather White & Jeffrey Brown
Genre: graphic novel (comic collection)
Publishing Date: 2010
Pages: 112
Collection: my personal library
Read Before?: no
Read Again?: sure!
Fraggle comics! Do I really need to say more? And I found not one, but two volumes at the books store *g*
Title: King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Author: Roger Lancelyn Green
Genre: mythology/fantasy
Publishing Date: 1953 (my copy 1995)
Pages: 330
Collection: my personal library
Read Before?: no
Read Again?: probably not
I’m glad I read this one- it’s classic literature that everyone should know. But old-time knights do seem to do a lot of riding off into the woods, challenging random people to to-the-death (or horrible injury) jousts, doing favors for random damsels and smoting people’s heads off. But now I feel like watching “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” would be even funnier…
Title: Star Trek: Voyager: The Eternal Tide
Author: Kirsten Beyer
Genre: science-fiction
Publishing Date: 2012
Pages: 400
Collection: my personal library
Read Before?: no
Read Again?: maybe
Okay, this one was weird. And part of a kind of weird series. But there were a couple of scenes that I particularly liked- part of the story involved the Q, especially the young Q (I think of him as ‘Little Q’). So before he traveled to Voyager (which had gone back to the Delta Quadrant) he stopped at Starfleet Academy to see Icheb. And of course, the scene where Tom and little Miral are watching “Captain Proton” on Tom’s old-fashioned TV, and he’s daydreaming about when she’s old enough to be Buster Kincaid in his holo-program. Too cute!
Current Mood:
geeky