Comments | almeda: Books Read in 2006 -- Part the First: Jan-Jun

almeda

Books Read in 2006 -- Part the First: Jan-Jun

Dec 31, 2006 23:55

This was so successful last year that I wanna do it again this year. Last year I had to do it broken up quarterly because LJ didn't like the post being edited so much; they seem to have fixed that somewhat, but I'm still getting ghosties and weirdness, so I'm going to split it into two halves. Part Two (July through December) is hereLast year's ( Read more... )

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Comments 17

Nina Kiriki Hoffman khavrinen January 9 2006, 22:20:28 UTC

I thought The Thread That Binds the Bones was pretty good, though I didn't react quite as strongly as you did. It was the first of hers I've read, and although several of the ideas were fairly familiar, they were handled skillfully enough to make them feel fresh.

hey! kougraducky January 15 2006, 18:19:31 UTC

you didn't include terry pratchet's books. Or did you give them to me with out reading them.

Re: hey! almeda January 15 2006, 23:37:39 UTC

I love you so much, I gave you a book I haven't read yet. And I didn't even sneak a read on your copy. :->

Though I've read Wee Free Men, just not this year. I read it when it came out.

Re: hey! kougraducky January 16 2006, 23:46:46 UTC

ok thanks so much. love u 2!

ashnistrike February 15 2006, 21:59:34 UTC

I followed you over here from Papersky's journal, largely because I know way too few people in Chicago. And you like all the same things I do (including several authors who aren't on my Interests list because, for reasons not even known to me, I only put general categories rather than names on it). And you read Aliens and Linguists, which I didn't think anyone besides myself and Ozarque had looked at. May I friend you?

The first Kushiel book indeed has nifty mythbuilding and culture-building, although the larger scale worldbuilding can get a little Tough Guide-ish at times.

almeda February 15 2006, 22:06:26 UTC

Anyone may friend me that likes, but I agree, we sound unusually compatible. :->

ashnistrike February 15 2006, 22:14:03 UTC

Thanks, will do. (And Nameseeker can squee over the puppy pictures, since she's been complaining of our doglessness).

I also keep meaning to ask you--in your LJ pic, do you in fact have a boa constrictor draped over your neck? And if so, is it yours?

almeda February 16 2006, 04:14:19 UTC

That's Spot, janmagic's ball python. But close. :->

halfwit_genius March 22 2006, 06:51:48 UTC

yay books! working on the early medieval section of a brit lit anthology myself right now ... just thought I'd post to say OMG U stol my name, cause obviously we can't have the same name.... where did you come up with the lj name?

almeda March 22 2006, 14:33:22 UTC

It's my middle name, and my grandmother's first name. S'okay, eloise stole my first name, which is why I went to my fallback position. :->

Afraid I beat you to it by several years, but that's the way it is on t3h int4rn3ts, right? :-> Neat icon, btw.

cleverusername2 May 25 2006, 14:03:09 UTC

Hello. How did you find me?

almeda May 25 2006, 16:56:28 UTC

I use marnanel's joule tool to see who's friended me, and my friends, recently, and somewhere in that tree of possibilities your name came up. The username amused me, so I clicked through to your journal, and decided I liked your writing.