I have fallen so far behind on the book bingo that I feel awful. I've kind of given up on the sequel to Angelfall as a bad job, though I feel I should push on and finish it D:
I did get given The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and a Cap comic for my birthday though, so maybe they will kick my butt in gear!
Ah yes using names all the time, this is another thing an alarming number of editors seem to let slide D: No one uses names that much in real conversation so you don't have to in books! /o\ (I was trying to read a different book not that long ago that kept introducing everyone by what they looked like, it drove me bananas! Particularly when it was introducing someone new every few paragraphs :/)
I'm still enjoying reading all of the things. But I know that if I didn't want to be reading this would probably be so very hard. Maybe I'm cramming them all in before the mood leaves me. I have Angelfall as one of my squares now. Either 'a book I heard about online' or 'a book set on another continent' I can't remember if it's set in America or not?
I missed your birthday, awh, Happy Birthday for last Sunday! :D I've heard some good thing about 'Ocean..' so I hope it's good.
I realised it really quickly, because people just don't talk like that when they know each other, and then it kept jumping out at me. But, yes, so much. There's nothing worse than people being 'the blond man' 'the doctor' 'the older man' and 'the man in the tan jacket.' I hate them so much. I'm assuming the writers spent a while thinking up their characters names. They should think about using them.
I ended up reading Cap fanfic in the wake of The Winter Soldier. I am awful. But World After is rather not-good and I have a 1500 word rant on it saved on my computer D: But yes Angelfall is set in America.
Thank you! I had heard good things too, it had been on my list at Christmas time, and my brother surprised me with it because he remembered I had been looking at it xD I will review it eventually!
It's kind of funny that when you do a writing course, or even when you get into writing through fanfic, you have a lot of people telling you that overusing people's names and descriptors all the time are no-nos, and yet there are so many books that do exactly that D:
Still haven't seen The Winter Soldier, utter failure that I am. I will get to it, I need new fandom excitement, I feel like I haven't had that for ages :(
Yes! I swear the things they tell you not to do always seem to be the things that people mind the least when they're actually reading. Stuff you can get away with. It's mistakenly trying to fix it that ends up grating on people. Maybe we just expect character names everywhere after all this time?
How are you going about picking one for "A Book that Scares You"? I've honestly never read a book that scared me. And without reading one, how do I know it'll count? Maybe it's supposed to be a "try it until you get it" square?
I'm kinda at a loss. Was kinda considering of looking at other year's cards and picking the item in that square (to keep it kinda random and less self-serving).
I'm having exactly that problem. I don't really find books scary so I figure I'm stuck with a subject matter I find disturbing...or randomly finding a book I picked for another square unexpectedly creepy and sticking on that square instead. I really don't know how that's going to work.
Also, I thought we were friends, and I've missed your book reviews! You've reminded me that I need to read book 2 of The Shambling Guide, I liked the first one. Also, I wish the Nightrunner series was on Kindle. I can never find them in the library so I can't get to book 4.
I vaguely remember thinking IT by King was a scary movie, so maybe the book will do it too? But yeah, a disturbing topic might work also.
Huh, not sure why you aren't seeing them anymore, they aren't private or anything. Odd.
I never even noticed if the Nightrunner stuff was an ebook, it's one that I still buy hard copy. I made my boss bring the Shambling guides into B&N, Mur rocks.
I think I read IT years ago and I remember it being quite a bit different to the movie? I did look for The Amityville Horror but I couldn't find it in the library. Though The Hot Zone was recced to me for that square, it's about how humanity is going to be destroyed by a gruesome flesh eating bacteria...or something? Maybe that will do for a scary one?
Nope, totally my fault, I thought I had you added as a friend but I didn't. I'm reading you now.
I'm trying to cut down on my shelving space when I can, even if I am keeping hard (paperback actually) copies of stuff I love.
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I did get given The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and a Cap comic for my birthday though, so maybe they will kick my butt in gear!
Ah yes using names all the time, this is another thing an alarming number of editors seem to let slide D: No one uses names that much in real conversation so you don't have to in books! /o\ (I was trying to read a different book not that long ago that kept introducing everyone by what they looked like, it drove me bananas! Particularly when it was introducing someone new every few paragraphs :/)
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I missed your birthday, awh, Happy Birthday for last Sunday! :D I've heard some good thing about 'Ocean..' so I hope it's good.
I realised it really quickly, because people just don't talk like that when they know each other, and then it kept jumping out at me. But, yes, so much. There's nothing worse than people being 'the blond man' 'the doctor' 'the older man' and 'the man in the tan jacket.' I hate them so much. I'm assuming the writers spent a while thinking up their characters names. They should think about using them.
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Thank you! I had heard good things too, it had been on my list at Christmas time, and my brother surprised me with it because he remembered I had been looking at it xD I will review it eventually!
It's kind of funny that when you do a writing course, or even when you get into writing through fanfic, you have a lot of people telling you that overusing people's names and descriptors all the time are no-nos, and yet there are so many books that do exactly that D:
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Yes! I swear the things they tell you not to do always seem to be the things that people mind the least when they're actually reading. Stuff you can get away with. It's mistakenly trying to fix it that ends up grating on people. Maybe we just expect character names everywhere after all this time?
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I'm kinda at a loss. Was kinda considering of looking at other year's cards and picking the item in that square (to keep it kinda random and less self-serving).
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Also, I thought we were friends, and I've missed your book reviews! You've reminded me that I need to read book 2 of The Shambling Guide, I liked the first one. Also, I wish the Nightrunner series was on Kindle. I can never find them in the library so I can't get to book 4.
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Huh, not sure why you aren't seeing them anymore, they aren't private or anything. Odd.
I never even noticed if the Nightrunner stuff was an ebook, it's one that I still buy hard copy. I made my boss bring the Shambling guides into B&N, Mur rocks.
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Nope, totally my fault, I thought I had you added as a friend but I didn't. I'm reading you now.
I'm trying to cut down on my shelving space when I can, even if I am keeping hard (paperback actually) copies of stuff I love.
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