Leann’s Comments (group member since Dec 11, 2011)

Leann’s comments from the Off The Shelf group.

OH Karen, why are you so wise? A plague on all your brain wrinkles.

I am ashamed to admit that I read all of the Sisterhood of the Travelling pants books... when I recently found out there was a fifth one I was like "Pffft. I refuse, respectfully." but deep inside I was thinking, Great, here goes another plunge in my self worth... ima hafta read that stupid thing.

Also, did you know Neil Gaiman wrote Stardust (very cool movie made out of it)?!?!? That's pretty great.

Karen, you must have been dead on about Maeve Binchy being amazing and now I really want to read one of her books. I checked on pbswap and there were almost NONE of her books available on there. That makes me want to read them all the more!!! Bliggity blarg!

Honestly, out of all the ones so far, I'm diggin two of Karen's the most: Major Pettigrew and The Reliable Wife. Broken for You is also kind of in the same vein and as I have already read about 1/4 of it I can tell you that the writing is very good.

SO, K-Nel, What are we waiting for?!? Let's do this thing! Can we go ahead and set up a vote for which one we'd like to read and narrow them down so I can get the book? I perused Deerskin and decided I didn't want it to be on my list. I am not in the mood to read it again right now... it's kind of a massive downer.

Kat wrote: "Since this is my first book club, I didn't realize that I was allowed to add books to the group bookshelves. I put Good Omens and Storm Front on the to-read shelf. (Thanks for shelving The Last Un..."

I was just happy someone else put it out there and I didn't have to risk my fragile self worth on the rejection. OR I'm just happy that someone else actually reads the same weird old books that I do.

Wow, am I feeling stupid... that book is SOOO not even remotely new. There is just a new one in that series. Insert face plant to hard desk surface here.

P.S. I put all my book selections on the bookshelf so you can check them out... because karen did that and I didn't want my books to look inferior to her books due to my being not thorough enough.

AH turds! OK, can I also put the latest ursula Leguin novel on our list of possibilities? I will happily take off The God of Small Things (I guess :( ) and exchange it for this one. It's new but man alive, I love her writing. It's called "The Dispossessed". Dystopian, Utopian, whatever... looks fan-bloody-TASTIC. OK, OK, I'm done.

Well, here goes it. Meh name's Leann but everyone close to me calls me Lan. Yes, I am well aware that LAN stands for local area network but that is not a metaphor for what I am.

I'm a landlord over three apartment complexes, my 15 yr old sister is my dearest friend, and my husband (of 9 yrs in Feb) is way hotter than my looks would imply I am capable of getting. He's also kind of a genius, which makes him even hotter to me. I'm not a genius, but I sure do like hanging around them.

I am currently in the middle of writing 3 books, one memoir of my insane landlord years, one book about a young girl that becomes a landlord with a romantic subplot (of course) and one YA teen girl horse book, because I LOVE horses and pretty much everything to do with them.

My favorite book is The Never Ending Story. If you haven't read it then I guess you don't understand how amazing it is.

My favorite authors are Robin McKinley, Bradbury, Orwell, Jane Austen, and Kurt Vonnegut. Obviously I also love Michael Ende, but he only wrote one book that I have read, so he doesn't really get to be added to the most loved authors until he has more than that. I loved the Hunger Games but Collins doesn't have enough books out yet for me to consider her a long standing favorite. She gave me a reason to fall in love with dystopian fiction again, for that I adore her. I also loved ALL four of the City of Ember books. As I have not found many more dystopian fiction plotlines that amuse me, I am currently still trying to hack my way through all of the Jane Austen books. Currently only have 3 under my belt. Emma will be next.

I think the reason I am still so childlike in a lot of my interests is because I loathe politics and have not yet had any children, the raising of which would make me more of an adult, to be sure. I don't really like children though and would be perfectly happy having horses instead of children. I do not currently have enough money to have either though, so I guess that sucks for me.

I am here because I adore Karen Nelson about as much as I can any other human being and wish her book club to be a success. I am also wanting to get into more "grown up" books and I'm thinking there's more chance of that happening if I join a group.

I tried to start a book club before and it did not end well, I'm hoping this second go will last longer than two books. :)

You can see random thoughts of mine at:
www.musingsofanoverlord.wordpress.com

But strangely enough, I too would probably read any one of Karens suggestions.

I also have The Last Unicorn! But i figured i was the only one who would wanna read it. Im gonna propose The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos and Deerskin by Robin McKinley.