"Force is only one form of strength," she said evenly. "There are others."

In the years since I read this last, I'd forgotten how much I love this story. There are so many really interesting characters, and she really pulls me into these peoples' lives.

His voice was night and darkness and a wild, wild wind.The scene that stays with me the most: ( Read more... )

If I step back and look at the books I've felt the strongest connection to, they're often stories about people building some sort of home and community out of darkness, even despair. It isn't that the story's purpose is to wallow in darkness, but that these characters strive. Hope moves them to find something -- companionship, love, meaning. Even ( Read more... )

Sometimes I finish a story (or to be fair, a drama) and everything about it has wrapped around me like a blanket and I don't want to move. I don't want to move from that story or those characters. So it leaves me feeling a little more picky than usual (and that's saying something).

I loved City of Night (even with its odd beginning that seems like ( Read more... )

The Hidden City is mostly character. Personalities shaping one another, kindness wending through a cold city. A seer among the lost. One forms a new family, while envy horribly consumes another.

I remember Jewel from the Sun Sword books, but that was years ago. This is the same world from a different angle. I've read and watched a lot of stories ( Read more... )

Along with my sudden devouring of books recently (if only I could digest them), I seem to have very little interest in watching any new shows ( Read more... )

Mistborn: The Well of Ascension
Mistborn: The Hero of AgesThe important thing is how I feel after finishing a story. It's best to close the book and feel the characters still speaking, Vin still clinging to spires in the rain, still learning how to fly using horseshoes (really). To still see Elend standing in a field of ash under a red sky, as a ( Read more... )

The magic in this story is different... and complicated. But I like that it's not enough to be a Mistborn who can use all the metals. It's not enough to be powerful. Vin has to think, and be clever, and come up with new ways of using these tools. She's not a good bodyguard/assassin/army just because she's Mistborn, but because she thrinks through ( Read more... )

I've really been enjoying The Well of Ascension, but recently I realized that I'm not quite emotionally immersed. The world is unique, I like the characters and problems and how it's flowing, but I wasn't feeling it like I wanted to, if that makes any sense.

A later scene made up for that.

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I usually don't spend much time with stories that happen in the world I live in. I get bored far too easily. I don't want to go here, I'm already here. Like taking a plane from my house to my house, it's an idea that doesn't seem worth it to me. I'm already in this world, I spent my day working here, I want to go somewhere else now ( Read more... )

The used bookstore had some things I was interested in, but at home I found a box.

It was under a table, a box of about a dozen books I meant to read a long time ago and never got around to. Then I stopped reading so much and forgot about it. Three McKillip novels I've never read (which is hard to believe), so I'll pull those out. Bujold's Sharing ( Read more... )