Book List 2008
1. Covenant With The Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis
2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
3. Children of the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis
4. Lord of the Vampires by Jeanne Kalogridis
I think this was my favorite of the three books. It starts out with a very interesting forward that kind of explains everything and the idea behind the books. I wish I'd read that forward before the first book, though I it might have given away some plot details. Definitely wrapped the trilogy up very nicely, though.
5. Happy Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
YES, I finally finished it. Now I need to rewatch the movie, so I can pick it apart. lol
6. The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Wow, what an incredibly amazing book! It's a Nebula Award winner about an autistic man who has an opportunity to try out a new experimental "cure." It is beautifully written, and a really interesting story. Very well written from the autists perspective.
Most of them probably don't hold the same meaning without having read the book, but I just wanted them somewhere for my reference.
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"I was wondering about the speed of dark," I say, looking down. They will look at me, if only briefly, when I speak, and I don't want to feel all those gazes.
"It doesn't have a speed," Eric says. "It's just the space where light isn't."
"What would it feel like if someone ate pizza on a world with more than one gravity?" Linda asks.
"I don't know," Dale says, sounding worried.
"The speed of not knowing," Linda says.
I puzzle at that a moment and figure it out. "Not knowing expands faster than knowing. Linda grins and ducks her head. "So the speed of dark could be greater than the speed of light. If there always has to be dark around the light, then it has to go out ahead of it."
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"I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that, my mother said. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder."
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"Don is a person, not a thing," I say. No one can completely control someone else and it is wrong to try."
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7. Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton
Finally catching up to my book-a-month goal and finally getting around to reading this series. Another vampire smut series, supposedly an R-rated Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It's pretty simple writing, but fun. I was disappointed in the lack of smut, though. There are as many allusions to sex as in Buffy, but no actual sex. Or even any real heavy make out sessions. I'm thinking the R-rating referred to the extra-gory murder scenes? I still 100% support 5'3" heroines who run around kicking ass, and it promises to be an interesting series.
Still need to get a hold of a copy of Charlaine Harris' newest book...
2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
3. Children of the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis
4. Lord of the Vampires by Jeanne Kalogridis
I think this was my favorite of the three books. It starts out with a very interesting forward that kind of explains everything and the idea behind the books. I wish I'd read that forward before the first book, though I it might have given away some plot details. Definitely wrapped the trilogy up very nicely, though.
5. Happy Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
YES, I finally finished it. Now I need to rewatch the movie, so I can pick it apart. lol
6. The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Wow, what an incredibly amazing book! It's a Nebula Award winner about an autistic man who has an opportunity to try out a new experimental "cure." It is beautifully written, and a really interesting story. Very well written from the autists perspective.
Most of them probably don't hold the same meaning without having read the book, but I just wanted them somewhere for my reference.
****
"I was wondering about the speed of dark," I say, looking down. They will look at me, if only briefly, when I speak, and I don't want to feel all those gazes.
"It doesn't have a speed," Eric says. "It's just the space where light isn't."
"What would it feel like if someone ate pizza on a world with more than one gravity?" Linda asks.
"I don't know," Dale says, sounding worried.
"The speed of not knowing," Linda says.
I puzzle at that a moment and figure it out. "Not knowing expands faster than knowing. Linda grins and ducks her head. "So the speed of dark could be greater than the speed of light. If there always has to be dark around the light, then it has to go out ahead of it."
****
"I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that, my mother said. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder."
****
"Don is a person, not a thing," I say. No one can completely control someone else and it is wrong to try."
****
7. Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton
Finally catching up to my book-a-month goal and finally getting around to reading this series. Another vampire smut series, supposedly an R-rated Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It's pretty simple writing, but fun. I was disappointed in the lack of smut, though. There are as many allusions to sex as in Buffy, but no actual sex. Or even any real heavy make out sessions. I'm thinking the R-rating referred to the extra-gory murder scenes? I still 100% support 5'3" heroines who run around kicking ass, and it promises to be an interesting series.
Still need to get a hold of a copy of Charlaine Harris' newest book...