Reading roundup, etc.
65. Lindsay Buroker, Emperor's Edge -- this title, which I'd never heard of before, came up in a comment exchange with et_tu_lj about heist books (we were bonding over the fun of Locke Lamora and similar), and when I googled it and saw the first book was a Kindle freebie, I decided to check it out. It was cute, in a sort of sitcom-y way, but also drove
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I want my nephews to read them but I've warned them that The Two Towers is hard to get through, that it's like the boring part of Deathly Hallows but longer and worse but worth it in the end once you get past it.
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but I've warned them that The Two Towers is hard to get through,Did you mean Fellowship rather than Two Towers? Or possibly I'm just projecting, because I finished the entirety of Two Towers in like a day when I was first reading the books, but it took me months to get through the first part of FotR, until the Council of Elrond was over with and the Fellowship set out. I love the second part of the book a whole lot -- Boromir is in it, and Gandalf the Grey, and Moria is probably my favorite part of the books -- but that beginning is rather slow, and I warned O about it, too ( ... )
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So I guess O. hasn't watched the LotR films yet either?
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Nope, O has not watched the movies yet, because I wanted them to read the books first and have the RIGHT canon from the start. But I will happily watch them all with him once he is done with the book :) (and will probably let L watch, too, because I don't think she's planning to read LotR any time soon...)
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All I can see is that the illustrator was a Legolas/Gimli shipper. XDDD
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That would be hilarious XD -- but I don't think so? Or at least I don't remember hearing anything about CC and The Tale of Two Cities, while SRB had announced it several years ago.
Cassandra Clare did have her characters in the Infernal Devices trilogy be fans of Dickens and discuss Dickens a lot, and specifically Sydney Carton, in a way that presumably was meant to draw some parallels between Carton and Will the love interest, but that was more on the level of, like, the teenagers in love talking about Romeo and Juliet or Heathcliff, not an actual retelling with plot and names.
That said, apparently SRB and Clare do share a love of Sydney Carton and Tale of Two Cities and had talked about this book in the idea stage.
All I can see is that the illustrator was a Legolas/Gimli shipper. XDDD
I suppose there's that XP
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That is interesting that they are both consciously remixing Dickens. I guess he is high on melodrama and thus a good fit for YA doorstoppers? :P
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