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My sister is sending me Harry Potter observations from work. I would very much like to reread Order of the Phoenix. I think it is my favorite of the series, because it has such chapters as "Career Advice" (which I think we both consider to be the best of the series). And Professor McGonagall is just awesome. -
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It drives me insane when someone on a message board says, "I love the Twilight series and Stephenie Meyer. What are other YA books that you enjoy?" and all the recommendations are for equally bad series (or worse! The House of Night series is definitely worse). Where are the recommendations for good YA ( Read more... ) -
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I'm not catching up on LJ in general tonight. But I'm extremely excited that Barack Obama is our president-elect.
And while I'm not the biggest fan of Grey's Anatomy, I'm pissed that Brooke Smith was abruptly fired from the show in an attempt by Disney to keep lesbian couples from television. Apparently she just goes to her car and drives away.
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I can't believe I just had this conversation with my sister.
Me: Have you read The President's Daughter?
Ashley: I started it once.
Me: You didn't finish it? I just read the new version, and then I compared it with the old version, which I have checked out from the library.
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The President's Daughter by Ellen Emerson White
Since I was in the Downtown Crossing Filene's Basement exactly one time, and it was during its "we're closing!" sale, I want to compare the second paragraph at the beginning of chapter three (actually, due to a minor change in a paragrap break, it's the third paragraph in 2008).
1984:
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Reading update
I'm rereading The President's Daughter by Ellen Emerson White. White wrote a fourth book for this series (which I haven't read yet) and updated the first three for the modern audience in the process (since now we have cell phones, the Internet, and Hill Street Blues is no longer on TV).
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in which I discuss the state of vampire fiction
I've been reading a bunch of vampire-themed YA books recently, and, though not literature in the "will be a classic" sense, they are all much better than the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Oh, and they all have human/vampire romance in them. No one sparkles, and there are actually RULES in these societies!!
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Reaction to Breaking Dawn
Copied from a post I made elsewhere
Bella gets everything she wants -- a baby, immortality, can still talk to Charlie, Alice and Jasper come back, and guess what? In seven years Renesmee will STOP AGING and be able to live forever, just like Bella can!! Oh, and I won't even get into Bella's perfect self-control.
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I've been reading Breaking Dawn reviews all day, and most of them are not very favorable. I kind of can't wait for it to come in for me at the library because it sounds like it'll be so bad that it's funny. -
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OMG Mickey's going to join Torchwood!!!!
(Okay, I haven't found this said officially, but of course he is. Mickey is my favorite minor recurring Doctor Who character, and of course he's going to be around for more.)
I've only seen a scattering of old Who episodes, but I have seen Genesis of the Daleks (and The Dalek Invasion of Earth and Destiny of ( Read more... )