Thalia’s Comments (group member since Jan 08, 2012)

Thalia’s comments from the The Dusty Bookshelf group.

Jessica, yeah, I am! I need to read them for review anyway, so I'll be reading the first three, and THEN Bree Tanner.

I'll create a post on my blog tonight before I go to bed and start the giveaway then! (:

I'm going to try my hand! I'm not doing too much on Friday (if you don't count an audition, a movie for my best friend's birthday and babysitting much), and Saturday, although busy, I'll try and find time to read! I don't want to miss out on it! Just hope nobody expects me to accomplish much, hahah. (:

I'll also just be reading whatever it is at the time. It'll either still be The Two Towers, or maybe I'll have moved onto Twilight (which I have to reread to get to my dusty Short Second Life of Bree Tanner!). We'll have to see. (:

I'm excited! I've been wanting to use my twitter more often, since I've been really lazy about using it, hahaha.

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Also, I have a prize! I've been looking to get rid of this signed Dearly, Departed audiobook I won. I don't listen to audiobooks, so this one has been getting dusty with nothing to do!

No, I chose not to read it because of sexual content. I don't like reading about sex, and I heard the scenes in this one made some of my most liberal friends feel a little weird, hahah. It was a book club book for school a couple months before school let out, but I just didn't end up reading it, because I was still very unsure about it.

I read it once, a long time ago, but I don't remember too much of it, as is true for the books in this series, hahah. I just finished the first Treebeard chapter and DANG. Not hasty is definitely an accurate way to describe it!

This is also the toughest of the movies for me to get through; I still love it, but if I'm tired or something, it's easy to doze off in the middle of all the war preparations, hahah. (:

I'm going to read !

I'm just starting it, and oh! Treebeard! I don't know if I can handle forty pages of him!

You guys will have to let me know how you like it! I started it, but set it back down when I heard about some issues with the content that I didn't want to read. Maybe I'll pick it back up on your guys' recommendation. (:

Updating here again! (:

I just finished:

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks.

It was a dusty book, so yay!

Now I'm starting:

A World Away by Nancy Grossman.

I'm reading it for an ACR tour, and this is my first tour, and I'm really excited to start reading. (:

I won't be able to do it that weekend. :/ I'm doing a fundraiser car wash all day Saturday, so I'll lose all my reading time, hahahah.

Lilaboti wrote: "jessica, thalia, april and denise... you guys are the best.... thanks... that just gave me a super boost..."

Oh, I'm glad! (:

Anyway, I said this in the other group; I need to find time to watch FotR!

Okay, so I finished Fellowship of the Ring awhile ago, but I still have to find time to watch the movie! I just got back from camp a few days ago, and was studying for finals before that, so I didn't have three hours to just hang out! (:

But maybe tonight or tomorrow night! I'm really excited!

Hayley, for bad Twilight fanfiction, I'm not surprised it's hard to get through! Fanfiction.net took it down when the author first put it there with the Twilight names because it was too graphic, so all the author did was change the names and publish it as an ebook. :/

I'm reading That Summer by Sarah Dessen, and I'm actually not impressed. And I've never not loved a Dessen book! This one is just so boring and I'm already more than halfway through.

Also, the love interest is the main character's sister's ex-boyfriend, who MC's sister dated when MC was like, nine. It's just really awkward the way it's being approached now. >>

I miss you guys, too! I feel like I haven't been here in forever! D: I just got back from camp, and I'll be heading off to a youth conference for my church this weekend, so I'll be away again! Congratulations on your sister's wedding! My brother and his wife just had their first baby. (:

Looks like we're all having big changes!

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Catching up!

The White Glove War by Katie Crouch.

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So, I haven't updated here in quite awhile. But after having read so many terrible books lately, Fellowship is really making me happy. <3

I also bought That Summer and The Book of Luke; and I won Hourglass. Fingers crossed!

However, my nest read is going to be The White Glove War, and looking back on how much I hated The Magnolia League, I don't have high hopes. ;-;

Update: In the Mines of Moria! Huzzah! Only a little more than a hundred pages left for me. (:

Stephanie, I agree! Frodo's got some spirit in him! I think I preferred the urgency of the movies, though--with the council and getting Frodo to Rivendell, etc. The hobbits are waiting around in Rivendell for another month before they actually set out for Mordor, and it all seems so slow to me and doesn't have the hurried element I feel should be there. But I think that's more that that's what I grew up with, so I notice when it's missing. XD

Hahah, I wouldn't call it "making out"! (; But I waited all movie for that kiss! Not knowing about its existence for so long, I was disappointed thinking the movie ended with her dad saying it was okay to marry Darcy. I felt so unfulfilled!

Really? What about it bothered you?

I spent YEARS not knowing there was another scene at the end with Darcy and Elizabeth...My sister-in-law watched it with me and was like, "Wait...there's another scene." And I just about died!

I preferred the 2005 P&P! Admittedly, it was the reason I wanted to read it to begin with, but everything about it was just perfect in my eyes. (:

Where I'm at (had to put it down to read books for English), Frodo and the others JUST left for his "new house" and left Hobbiton. Stephanie, I remember noting that difference as well! They took FOREVER to get out of there! Some twenty years, in fact.

The other thing I always notice is how, in the movie, nobody mentions that it's also Frodo's birthday! That has always bothered me.

Stephanie, when Strider/Aragorn joins the hobbits in the movie, he's waiting at the Prancing Pony. Frodo accidentally pulls a stunt with the ring when he falls, after Pippin calls out Frodo's real name (instead of Underhill). Strider pulls him into a room upstairs and is eventually able to convince them he's a friend of Gandalf's. After that, it's all very different from the book. When they get up to the peak and Frodo is stabbed by the Nazgul, Arwen shows up and takes Frodo to Rivendell.

Since I was only six or so when I first saw the movie, when I first read the book, I was shocked at how long Frodo held on after being poisoned by the blade! He was like, riding a horse on his own, totally fine, and the effect was so immediate in the movie. Arwen wasn't in the scene at all, hahah.