Books and books and reading and books...
It's been a funny old week so far - I'm actually off day-job work for a very annoying and niggly am-sick-at-home reason, which on the one hand allows me to get on with 10-day-madness work, but on the other hand is frustrating cos they might decide to whip me elsewhere for a few days, where I might not have internet and therefore will lose the vast majority of 10-day-madness work after all - gargh! (Cross fingers for hyper-strong antibiotics!) And of course whether day-job boss believes why I'm off work is a whole 'nother question, cos of the timing of it too (I was off last Friday for 10-day-madness-meeting in London, when all was still just niggly rather than well-I'll-just-ask-the-doc niggly...) Anyway - all of which is my eternally long-winded way of saying: I'm at home and taking a break from 10-day-madness-job, and so it's time for a long-promised (to me) bookpost! Prompted eternally by caffyolay's book posts, and also this time by foxcat74's book post!
This is my reading-plan for 2012! (You can click it bigger to see the titles if you're really interested) All the books I've been accumulating over 2011...and, um 2010 and a bit beyond that have been sitting waiting patiently as I get all excited over something else entirely... In fact there have been new additions already since this pic was taken on the 8th of January (see how long I've been planning this post!) Some of you will no doubt recognise some of those books, too... *g*
And have I read any of it, yet? Erm... well I've re-read The Secrets Beneath by Sally Fell, and November by Sebastian, and... *g* Actually I have read one and a half of those from the pile so far:
...which is book 6 in The Tomorrow series by John Marsden. I finally re-found the first book, Tomorrow, When the War Began when I was over in Australia. It's a Young Adult dystopian book, and one that's been niggling me for ages, because when the film came out (waiting for me to watch on my dvd pile *g*) I remembered the plot but was confusing it with another book, which turned out to be Hills End by Ivan Southall - now also in my pile, thanks for a second-hand bookshop in Lorne (Australia). Oddly enough, though, I could have sworn I read Tomorrow When the War Began as a kid, but it turns out not to have been published until 1993, so... oh, fickle memory! Although it would have fit in very well with my 1984-ish reading of things like Nevil Shute's On the Beach, and our English theme (I was still at school then!) Confronting the Future - we'd read Z for Zachariah at some point too, and... oh, it was a very what-if-the-button-is-pressed time. So maybe that was where the connection came in
And now I'm just rambling, and barely even about books. *g* Anyway, I'm really enjoying the series, and thoroughly recommend it - though Ellie's getting a touch religious now and then for my tastes, I'm interested to see where Marsden will take her. I'm on the last book in the series now - but there's a follow-up series, too, The Ellie Chronicles, and I might just have to see whether they're over at The Book Depository... *g* The story is about a group of teenagers who were camping in a previously-inacccessible spot when Australia (as a country) was invaded. It's all about their fight for survival, as seen through the eyes of Ellie, a girl who grew up on a farm in rural Wirrawee and has a deep connection with the land that comes over beautifully. Marsden really makes her feel like a human - not perfect, but someone we understand, and whose life we want to keep following. Wirrawee's alot like the places I grew up - and of course I want to know what happens about the invasion too, so I've read all the way through to Book Seven... *g*
But I do keep being distracted - by Christmas and work and other work, and other work, and now other work and stoopid being-poorly-at-home... and fic. *g*
Whatcha reading? *g*
Also - it's sort of wishing it was snowing outside - those very fine almost mist-drops that are now and then blown about enough that you can see they're just a bit more substantial, and if only they could they'd be grown-up snow... *g*
ETA - whee - Google thinks I have snow! *vbg*
Does anyone actually have snow?
This is my reading-plan for 2012! (You can click it bigger to see the titles if you're really interested) All the books I've been accumulating over 2011...and, um 2010 and a bit beyond that have been sitting waiting patiently as I get all excited over something else entirely... In fact there have been new additions already since this pic was taken on the 8th of January (see how long I've been planning this post!) Some of you will no doubt recognise some of those books, too... *g*
And have I read any of it, yet? Erm... well I've re-read The Secrets Beneath by Sally Fell, and November by Sebastian, and... *g* Actually I have read one and a half of those from the pile so far:
...which is book 6 in The Tomorrow series by John Marsden. I finally re-found the first book, Tomorrow, When the War Began when I was over in Australia. It's a Young Adult dystopian book, and one that's been niggling me for ages, because when the film came out (waiting for me to watch on my dvd pile *g*) I remembered the plot but was confusing it with another book, which turned out to be Hills End by Ivan Southall - now also in my pile, thanks for a second-hand bookshop in Lorne (Australia). Oddly enough, though, I could have sworn I read Tomorrow When the War Began as a kid, but it turns out not to have been published until 1993, so... oh, fickle memory! Although it would have fit in very well with my 1984-ish reading of things like Nevil Shute's On the Beach, and our English theme (I was still at school then!) Confronting the Future - we'd read Z for Zachariah at some point too, and... oh, it was a very what-if-the-button-is-pressed time. So maybe that was where the connection came in
And now I'm just rambling, and barely even about books. *g* Anyway, I'm really enjoying the series, and thoroughly recommend it - though Ellie's getting a touch religious now and then for my tastes, I'm interested to see where Marsden will take her. I'm on the last book in the series now - but there's a follow-up series, too, The Ellie Chronicles, and I might just have to see whether they're over at The Book Depository... *g* The story is about a group of teenagers who were camping in a previously-inacccessible spot when Australia (as a country) was invaded. It's all about their fight for survival, as seen through the eyes of Ellie, a girl who grew up on a farm in rural Wirrawee and has a deep connection with the land that comes over beautifully. Marsden really makes her feel like a human - not perfect, but someone we understand, and whose life we want to keep following. Wirrawee's alot like the places I grew up - and of course I want to know what happens about the invasion too, so I've read all the way through to Book Seven... *g*
But I do keep being distracted - by Christmas and work and other work, and other work, and now other work and stoopid being-poorly-at-home... and fic. *g*
Whatcha reading? *g*
Also - it's sort of wishing it was snowing outside - those very fine almost mist-drops that are now and then blown about enough that you can see they're just a bit more substantial, and if only they could they'd be grown-up snow... *g*
ETA - whee - Google thinks I have snow! *vbg*
Does anyone actually have snow?