A much belated report, but I finished this on the 28th or 29th of December, and it was my last book for the year. 5 more than 2007; not as many as I would have liked, but when I started 2008 I didn't know I would do NaNoWriMo and thus effectively remove an entire month from my calendar ( Read more... )

Now that NaNoWriMo is over I can actually get back to reading! Also now that I've taken my one final and the semester is therefore over. Wheee ( Read more... )

Wow, this one took a long time to get started. I was seriously thinking about setting it aside and reading the third book in the Harper Hall trilogy first, since most of this book takes place after that one. But after page 100-something, it actually picked up and started showing some signs of a plot. Yay! Now I'm even more excited about reading ( Read more... )

(Have also in the meantime read Henry IV part I and A Midsummer Night's Dream for my Shakespeare class, but since I read those last year I won't count them. Same will go for The Merchant of Venice, which is up next ( Read more... )

'Nother one down. This picks up _right_ where Dragonsong left off and covers Menolly's first week at the Harper Hall. Only a week?! Well, this _is_ super-speshul Menolly we're talking about. I'm still in that odd ambivalent place where sometimes I want to roll my eyes at her Sue-ish tendencies, and others I genuinely like her. I'm more in love ( Read more... )

I'm continuing my Anne McCaffrey experience with the first of the Harper Hall books. This one was a pretty fast read (or maybe my speed in general is picking up), in the same clear and easy style as the first two books of hers. I'm... sort of ambivalent about Menolly. I get happily caught up in her story and then every now and then it hits me ( Read more... )

Since I had tons of free time last week while the internet was down, I was able to finish Dragonquest. It picks up seven years after the events of Dragonflight, and most of the characters are the same. The plot thickens in regards to ancient technology coming back into play and trying to figure out what happened so long ago and why. At least, ( Read more... )

This is the only play for my "Shakespeare's Early Plays" class which I haven't already read and/or performed. And I actually liked it quite a lot. Read it in one sitting, out of my stonking huge Complete Works of Shakespeare because the bookstore was out of the little paperbacks ( Read more... )

The main reason for the huge gap since my last update is that I was struggling through this book here. Yep, a month plus. Bleh. For as much as I liked The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife just really didn't do it for me. I never really did get drawn into the story, and I only finished it because I was determined to do so. Now I feel the same ( Read more... )

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Wow, not so good about keeping up with my book reporting, am I? While I was in New Zealand, I bought and read Dragonflight, the first of Anne McCaffrey's Pern books. Deja vu seems to be a common theme in my reading these days, because despite that I'm _certain_ I've never read this one, ( Read more... )