Sandi's comments
(member since Apr 07, 2008)
Sandi's comments from the SciFi and Fantasy Book Club group.
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Carolyn, your school experience is so much like mine. I always took notes, but never went back to them. Just the act of writing things down helps me remember them.
Julia wrote: "It's ten minutes into the future science fiction and perhaps it's better for her in a few years, but perhaps not. I *loved* Little Brother by Cory Doctorow and it won a boat load of awards."Little Brother is an excellent book, my son loved it. However, I'd only recommend it for the 13+ because of some rather mature content. My son was 13 when he read it and was a bit embarrassed by the "adult situations". (His words, not mine.)
valpal wrote: "Sure, it's like having someone read a book aloud to you!"It is having someone read aloud. However, I personally don't consider that the same as reading. When you read to yourself, you put different emphases and different voices to it than someone else might. It's not less valuable than reading, but it's not the same as reading.
If she hasn't read A Wrinkle in Time, then that's a great place to start. There's a whole series, but Wrinkle stands alone quite well. My daughter read and loved them all. I only read Wrinkle because I didn't know that the Murry kids were in any more books.Also, if she's an advanced reader, she might like Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue. It fast paced, has a lot of action, and the protagonist is a girl. There's a sequel coming out early next year.
Hugh wrote: "Sandi wrote: "How blurry is it? My eyes aren't the greatest."Let's put it this way: if both pages looked the same, you wouldn't even notice it. However, left pages look slightly different than r..."
Well, okay then. I'll send you my address. I love reading and reviewing new books.
How blurry is it? My eyes aren't the greatest.
That is so cool. Nerdy, but cool. :)
Patrick, I run across errors everywhere, even in books published by well-known houses. For example, I recently read War for the Oaks by Emma Bull. The main character's name is Eddi. At one point, it was misspelled as "Eddie". There are six editions of this book on GoodReads and I read the most recent one. You'd think that sometime between 1987 and 2004, someone would have fixed that error. I've seen it in other books to when a character has an unusual spelling of a common name. One book had a character named Kimm, but on one page she was called Kim about three times.I've also recently noticed that writers and editors are having a lot of trouble with homonyms. Bare & bear seem to be the most commonly confused words, especially when meaning "carry".
Mary JL wrote: "I actually do not mind series books, if each can stand alone. For example, Agatha Christie wrote dozen of Hercule Poirot mysteries; you can read them in any order and still enjoy the character...."
I think the mystery genre does that much better than the SF&F genre. I think that's why I like the Dresden Files series. Each book is a complete story. My attention span is too short for a 10,000 page story told in 10 volumes.
Susanna wrote: "I'll be starting Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts."I loved that book.
Oh, that. It didn't even make me think about eating lobster. Nobody here in SoCal knows how to cook it right, so I never eat it.
It's been a long time since I read the book. Can you give me some spoilers to remind me what Project Lobster was?
I wonder if a big part of releasing new books in old series is marketing. For example, consider the Landover series. Not only is there a new book (in hardback), but the first five books in the series have been re-released in two trade paperback volumes. Because the series is rather old and was originally released in mass-market paperback, a lot of people who have read the series (and probably no longer have their copies) will not only buy the new book, but will purchase the new editions of the old books as well. Also, since it's been a generation since the first book came out, there will be a whole new readership for the series. That can add up to a lot of sales dollars for a sure thing.I just hope that publishing doesn't go the way of movies, only marketing the sure thing.
I wonder if he used Boston because of it's Revolutionary War history.
I like short story podcasts. Check out Starship Sofa and Escape Pod. The latter has sister podcasts that feature fantasy (Podcastle) and horror (Psuedopod).
I don't know if The Historian is such a good choice for a book group. It's really, really, really slow, it's very dense, and the ending is a real let-down. I would recommend Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box A Novel. I love ghost stories and it's a really scary one. It's also very well-paced.
Mad wrote: "I'm making my way through the Kage Baker books about The Company because they had such stunning reviews. The first one, In The Garden of Iden I would give about a B-, but the second one seems sligh..."It starts getting better with Mendoza in Hollywood and it really takes off with The Graveyard Game. I actually read the 6th and 7th books right after the first one, so I can tell you the series gets really good by then.
Dang, I thought you were talking about this one: The Last Airbender. Avatar is one of my favorite animated series. I'm so excited about the movie, but so disappointed they couldn't use "Avatar" in the title.
I really liked the "Stranger than Fiction" books and books by that author who claimed the pyramids and the Easter Island statues were proof that aliens had been to Earth in prehistoric times. The "Stranger than Fiction" books were really good; they had all kinds of weird, "true" stories about spontaneous combustion, ghosts, ESP and a bunch of other topics.
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