Okay, I'm a terrible person (maybe not as terrible as David) because it's been a year since the last re-read, AND I left us hanging 2/3 of the way through a story arc. But let's move on now, shall we?

Ax hesitated a moment. Then he said, First off, this is one of my favorite books, if only for the number of emotional punches contained within. ( Read more... )

Before we get started, I wanted to apologize for getting behind on these re-reads. I read this book weeks ago, and then I unexpectedly got a kitten, and I kept forgetting to do the re-read post because kittens are a lot more demanding than I remembered. I will try to have the next re-read post up more quickly. So, again, sorry! I will try to be a ( Read more... )

"What are we gonna do, run an ad in the newspaper? 'Help Wanted: danger, nightmares, big-time creepiness, no pay? Have you ever wanted to turn into a bug and fight brain-stealing aliens? Well, call 1-800-Animorph.' "Obviously, this is an important book for the Animorphs, since it kicks off the David trilogy. We get the morphing cube back, which ( Read more... )

She laughed bitterly. ≺You think we can make peace between human and Yeerk and Andalite? Don't be stupid.≻

≺No, I don't think we can make peace between all humans and all Yeerks and all Andalites. But you and I can have peace. One Yeerk, one human.≻
This is a huge book in terms of tonal shift for this series. I've always thought that this book is ( Read more... )

We were at the mall. At the place where the excellent food places are. I was in human morph. Behaving perfectly like a human. "Exactly, Rachel. Eggs-ACT-lee. Zactly. We arrived back at the precise moment when we were snatched away. We were all yanked away at the same moment, so naturally we all arrived back at the same moment. Yanked. Yanked is a ( Read more... )

"It's OAT-freaking-MEAL!" Marco exploded.I'm going to come right out and say that I've always liked this book, mostly for the randomness that is Instant Maple and Ginger oatmeal. Has anyone ever found any at the grocery store, though? I remember looking for it after reading this book, and the closest I could find was Maple and Brown Sugar flavored ( Read more... )

"Why is it working so slowly? Lee. Slooooow-lee?" Ax asked...
"Look, Space-boy, this is the fastest modem around, okay?" Marco said defensively. "Fifty-six thousand bits per second."
"Fifty-six thousand? Not millions, at least? Mill-yuns. Millie-yuns." He laughed. "I like that word. It makes nice sounds in my human mouth."This book, more than ( Read more... )

Sub-Visser Seven strutted to meet the alien. He laughed cynically. “It wants to trade,” he said. “This strange creature wants to trade. So. What do you have to trade, alien ( Read more... )

The Ellimist didn’t laugh. “Tobias, you are a beginning. You are a point on which an entire time line may turn.”I want to start this re-read discussion with a question: what are your thoughts about what the Ellimist did for Tobias regarding morphing/being human? Was it fair? Was it what Tobias really wanted? How do you think the series would've ( Read more... )

Not a good night's sleep. My dad came in from the next room at about four in the morning to tell me I woke him up talking in my sleep.
"You were yelling, 'Crocodile not alligator!'" he said.
Fortunately, he just figured it was stress from the insane day I'd had. He was right. But he didn't know half of it.Time to get back on the wagon with the ( Read more... )