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So much for reading goals.
February
1. Living Dead in Dallas Charlaine Harris
Fantasy. Mystery. 291 pages.
First Person Limited.
Borrowed form the GIC.
From the back: Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered and no one seems to care. Then she’s face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and posionous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the posion from her veins (like they didn’t enjoy it).
Point is, they saved her life.So when one of the bloodsuckers asks her for a favour she complies. And soon, Sookie’s in Dallas using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She’s suppose to interview certain humans involved. There’s just one condition: The vampires must promise to behave-and let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly...
With a description like that I’m sure you don’t need my thoughts...
April
2. The Throme of the Erril of Sherill Patricia A. McKillip
Fantasy. 165 pages.
Third Person Limited.
“And it will like you very much...if you find it while I am with you. It likes me most of all.” She took the hand of the Cnite Caerles and turned him towards the morning sun. Flowers bent gently under her bare feet. “But it will like you, too, if you speak gently to it, I think...It is my dragon, my Dracoberus, and it was a gift to me from seven-people. And then, if you find it, I will love you, too.” She smiled up at him, raising her fair face like a flower opening, and Caerles gave once more the wisp and whispers of a sigh.
This book was actually a novella which included the short story The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath. And, well, I’m not sure what to say really. Go read someone else’s review. Oh, I KNOW, the spelling was irksome.
3. The Shack WM. Paul Young
Fiction. 248 pages.
Third Person Limited.
Bookshelved.
”She is beauty”, he thought. “Everything that sensuality strives to be, but falls painfully short.” In the dim light it was difficult to see where her face began, as her hair and robe framed her visage. Her eyes glinted and glistened as if they were portals into the vastness of the starry night aky, reflecting some unknown light aource within her.
What to say…what to say. Well, there were a lot of things that I liked about the book….like Sophia. And a lot of parts where I said, “My theology is not your theology.” I think The Shack is for people searching for answers, but I think it’s for the newbie Christian, or non-practicing…it’s a bit sugar coated. A lot sugar coated. SUPER SUGARCOATED. And way too hyped.
4. Watchmen Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Graphic Novel. 416 pages.
Bookshelved.
"A work of ruthless psychological realism, it’s a landmark in the graphic novel medium. It would be a masterpiece in any."
-TIME, TIME MAGAZINE’s 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present
This took me a long time to read. I started it ages ago. Read pages at a time…and then stopped. Picked it up again. Stopped. A co-worker back home lent it to me during 4th year, then I bought it, and didn’t finish it before moving. I borrowed it from another ft here in Korea. I’m not sure I like it, nor do I dislike it.
5. Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs Molly Harper
Romance. 384 pages.
First Person Limited.
Bookshelved.
Vampirism: (n) 1. The condition of being a vampire, marked by the need to ingest blood and extreme vulnerability to sunlight. 2. The act of preying upon others for financial or emotional gain. 3. A gigantic pain in the butt.
Those little excerpts from the Guide for the Newly Undead were the only good things in that entire novel. It was a birthday gift.
June
6. Rose Daughter Robin McKinley
Fantasy. 287 pages.
Third Person Limited.
Borrowed from Kate.
Beauty, will you marry me?” said the Beast?
I love McKinley but I was a little disappointed (maybe, more than a little) with Beauty. This was a lot better. And, as before, go read someone else’s review. I’m lazy. Oh, but the book seemed familiar, I’m not sure if I’ve read it before or if it really is just a longer version of Beauty I suppose the internets would know.,, This book definitely started off my McKinley kick.
7. The Hero and the Crown Robin McKinley
Fantasy. 246 pages.
Third Person Limited.
Bookshelved.
Six days later Aerin faced her father in the great hall with the sword she had received at his hands hanging at her side, to ask him to let her ride with him; and watched his face as he came backa long long way to be kind to her; and discovered what the place she had earned in his court was worth. Aerin Dragon-Killer. King’s daughter.
Excellent novel. Wonderful. Beautiful. Awesome. Everything I like about fantasy.
8. The Blue Sword Robin McKinley
Fantasy. 272 pages.
Third Person Sort Omniscient/Limited…I don’t know what I’m saying.
Bookshelved.
Corlath’s surprise was no less than that of his men as he heard himself say: “One last thing. I’m going back to the Outlander town. The girl-the girl with the yellow hair. She comes with us.”
So, I really don’t like books set hundreds of years later in the same world. But this one was alright. More than alright, actually. It just took awhile to warm up to.
~Nox
February
1. Living Dead in Dallas Charlaine Harris
Fantasy. Mystery. 291 pages.
First Person Limited.
Borrowed form the GIC.
From the back: Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered and no one seems to care. Then she’s face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and posionous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the posion from her veins (like they didn’t enjoy it).
Point is, they saved her life.So when one of the bloodsuckers asks her for a favour she complies. And soon, Sookie’s in Dallas using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She’s suppose to interview certain humans involved. There’s just one condition: The vampires must promise to behave-and let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly...
With a description like that I’m sure you don’t need my thoughts...
April
2. The Throme of the Erril of Sherill Patricia A. McKillip
Fantasy. 165 pages.
Third Person Limited.
“And it will like you very much...if you find it while I am with you. It likes me most of all.” She took the hand of the Cnite Caerles and turned him towards the morning sun. Flowers bent gently under her bare feet. “But it will like you, too, if you speak gently to it, I think...It is my dragon, my Dracoberus, and it was a gift to me from seven-people. And then, if you find it, I will love you, too.” She smiled up at him, raising her fair face like a flower opening, and Caerles gave once more the wisp and whispers of a sigh.
This book was actually a novella which included the short story The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath. And, well, I’m not sure what to say really. Go read someone else’s review. Oh, I KNOW, the spelling was irksome.
3. The Shack WM. Paul Young
Fiction. 248 pages.
Third Person Limited.
Bookshelved.
”She is beauty”, he thought. “Everything that sensuality strives to be, but falls painfully short.” In the dim light it was difficult to see where her face began, as her hair and robe framed her visage. Her eyes glinted and glistened as if they were portals into the vastness of the starry night aky, reflecting some unknown light aource within her.
What to say…what to say. Well, there were a lot of things that I liked about the book….like Sophia. And a lot of parts where I said, “My theology is not your theology.” I think The Shack is for people searching for answers, but I think it’s for the newbie Christian, or non-practicing…it’s a bit sugar coated. A lot sugar coated. SUPER SUGARCOATED. And way too hyped.
4. Watchmen Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Graphic Novel. 416 pages.
Bookshelved.
"A work of ruthless psychological realism, it’s a landmark in the graphic novel medium. It would be a masterpiece in any."
-TIME, TIME MAGAZINE’s 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present
This took me a long time to read. I started it ages ago. Read pages at a time…and then stopped. Picked it up again. Stopped. A co-worker back home lent it to me during 4th year, then I bought it, and didn’t finish it before moving. I borrowed it from another ft here in Korea. I’m not sure I like it, nor do I dislike it.
5. Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs Molly Harper
Romance. 384 pages.
First Person Limited.
Bookshelved.
Vampirism: (n) 1. The condition of being a vampire, marked by the need to ingest blood and extreme vulnerability to sunlight. 2. The act of preying upon others for financial or emotional gain. 3. A gigantic pain in the butt.
Those little excerpts from the Guide for the Newly Undead were the only good things in that entire novel. It was a birthday gift.
June
6. Rose Daughter Robin McKinley
Fantasy. 287 pages.
Third Person Limited.
Borrowed from Kate.
Beauty, will you marry me?” said the Beast?
I love McKinley but I was a little disappointed (maybe, more than a little) with Beauty. This was a lot better. And, as before, go read someone else’s review. I’m lazy. Oh, but the book seemed familiar, I’m not sure if I’ve read it before or if it really is just a longer version of Beauty I suppose the internets would know.,, This book definitely started off my McKinley kick.
7. The Hero and the Crown Robin McKinley
Fantasy. 246 pages.
Third Person Limited.
Bookshelved.
Six days later Aerin faced her father in the great hall with the sword she had received at his hands hanging at her side, to ask him to let her ride with him; and watched his face as he came backa long long way to be kind to her; and discovered what the place she had earned in his court was worth. Aerin Dragon-Killer. King’s daughter.
Excellent novel. Wonderful. Beautiful. Awesome. Everything I like about fantasy.
8. The Blue Sword Robin McKinley
Fantasy. 272 pages.
Third Person Sort Omniscient/Limited…I don’t know what I’m saying.
Bookshelved.
Corlath’s surprise was no less than that of his men as he heard himself say: “One last thing. I’m going back to the Outlander town. The girl-the girl with the yellow hair. She comes with us.”
So, I really don’t like books set hundreds of years later in the same world. But this one was alright. More than alright, actually. It just took awhile to warm up to.
~Nox