Comments | rachelmanija: Book round-up: Halpin, Sherburne, Uttley, Glyer, Rapp, Norton

rachelmanija

Book round-up: Halpin, Sherburne, Uttley, Glyer, Rapp, Norton

Aug 20, 2009 12:18

Donorboy: A Novel

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author: sherburne zoe, author: glyer diana pavlac, author: halpin brendan, author: uttley alison, author: norton andre

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lady_ganesh August 20 2009, 19:27:13 UTC

I really did enjoy the Bingo games in Donorboy, though.

rachelmanija August 20 2009, 19:28:22 UTC

The Bingo was my favorite part too.

lady_ganesh August 20 2009, 19:45:37 UTC

I never got tired of the epistolary format, but I do think the author was having a hell of a time finding an ending to that book.

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Try the Library--do Ben Franklin proud shalanna August 20 2009, 22:13:08 UTC

Library! Try inter-library loan if they won't spring for the book or don't have it (no room, because they have 47 copies of Twilight and 100 copies of the new one by that author, "by popular demand.") I know I read something called "The Inklings" very long ago, but I was a dumb teenager and I don't remember hardly a thing about it except that a lot of it went sailing over my head like a Frisbee on crack. Whee. But this new book sounds far better.

shalanna August 20 2009, 22:10:48 UTC

I'm going to try to get one of our libraries to order the Inklings book! Thank you for doing all this reviewing.

If you're looking for more novels . . . which you probably aren't . . . I have a novel online now in the Dorchester/TextNovel contest. Details on my LJ, where I continually attempt to pim--I mean, promote the contest. It IS kinda neat to be able to read so many different books (or sample them). Maybe their new model of publishing will catch on (or not). Either way, it's fun to try it out.

asakiyume August 21 2009, 10:41:37 UTC

You confirm me in my memories of Here Abide Monsters which I recall picking up several times as a kid. I loved the title, and I loved the beginning. But somewhere in the middle, I always got confused, and I don't know if I ever finished it. If I did, I don't recall the ending.

maukatt August 21 2009, 12:00:07 UTC

Most of Andre Norton's books had that odd, "WTF Beavis?" feel to them to me. I read every book of hers I could get my hands on, but I was never quite sure how I really felt about them. They were definitely memorable, but her alternate worlds always had a rather... cold feeling to them. Cold, and empty. And odd.

But Here Abide Monsters is one of the ones I still remember the most. Again, I'm not exactly sure why....