Outread Aubrey! Challenge discussion
What are you reading?
I met the author of Kenobi today. In person. At my local comic shop. He was just hanging out. I was browsing Star Wars comics, and he mentioned the SW comic lines he authored and offered to sign them. If that wasn't cool enough, he off-handedly mentioned "Kenobi" and I'm like "WAIT. Are you the author of Kenobi? Like the bestseller?" "Yup."
My general response was something along the lines of "...I'm sorry, that's just... OH MY WORD."
My general response was something along the lines of "...I'm sorry, that's just... OH MY WORD."
All authors should just randomly hang out at our local bookstores. It would make it easier for everyone. XD That's so cool, Aubrey!I started and finished Fire and Ashes! I liked it muchly. Whatever Floyd says, I think he's a hero. He rescues treed cats. ;)
Now excuse me while I add Floyd to my small fangirling list alongside Grace Pennington's Eagle Crash. B)
Ahh, I am so with you, Olivia! Except August is the one for me. You can keep Mr. Crash. ;)
I keeps Crash. ^_^ He is funny. And reckless. Like Floyd.... what does that say about me, liking these types of personalities? o.OI think Crash and Floyd would drive each other mad. *Hugs both because after "Fire and Ashes" and "In His Image," they both need one*
I think this one is where I got the idea that Floyd was abducted. I don't know why...
Also read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Just.... wow. O.O
I like Crash too...Floyd was abducted, Olivia. More or less. His backstory is scattered over the entire series and may or may not ever be fully explained, but I'm more than happy to expound outside of the novellas, if you'd like. I promise it DOES all make sense. More or less.
Katie wrote: His backstory is scattered over the entire series and may or may not ever be fully explained, but I'm more than happy to expound outside of the novellas, if you'd like. I promise it DOES all make sense. More or less."I would love to hear some extra-novella expounding about his backstory! Charrie back stories are always fun. :)
Katie wrote: "I like Crash too...Floyd was abducted, Olivia. More or less. His backstory is scattered over the entire series and may or may not ever be fully explained, but I'm more than happy to expound outsid..."
Floyd should write some of it up for his blog. ^_^
Aubrey wrote: "I met the author of Kenobi today. In person."OMGoodness, I'm so *jealous* Aubrey! =P I've never read John Jackson Miller's novels yet (except the free ebooks about the Sith) but ... a Star Wars author!!! =) No good authors seem to come around my area, LOL.
If any of you like reading Star Wars books, there's the Del Rey Star Wars Fancorps --it's free to join and you can earn points (by reviewing Star Wars books, spreading the word about author events, etc.) to earn cool things like posters, bookmarks, autographed Star Wars books, etc.!
http://fcrps.me/ZekkainaSolo
I'm currently reading book 2 of the Cheney Duvall MD series by Gilbert & Lynn Morris. Our library doesn't have the complete series, but I'm reading what they have so I can read the 7th novel, which is set in Hawaii. It's alright so far, but nothing really spectacular ... and the writing is ... okay. I guess I've been spoiled by the quality of writing in Christian fiction today. =)
I haven't read anything all weekend. Sigh. Now I have food poisoning so theoretically I have time, because I'm not at school, but realistically I feel too horrific to do anything much.After watching the new BBC show The Musketeers, I downloaded Dumas's The Three Musketeers onto my Kindle to read at some point...
Question: Can I add my own book to my 'read' shelf? Crossroads Poetry is meant to be coming out on Wednesday so I've read it like five times already.
Katie wrote: "I like Crash too...Floyd was abducted, Olivia. More or less. His backstory is scattered over the entire series and may or may not ever be fully explained, but I'm more than happy to expound outsid..."
Crash is fun. ^_^
Ah, I see. It was rather nasty of his sister, though. But I shall read the remaining books, then pester the authoress. ;)
To audiobooks count? I didn't think they did, since you don't read anything, but I thought I'd make sure.
Oh, a novella/short story recounting what actually happened when Floyd was first abducted would be awesome.
Yes, if you actually read your book all the way through (like while proofreading it), you can add it to your shelf like any other book. I do that with mine, but only if I legitimately "read" them that year.
Yes, if you actually read your book all the way through (like while proofreading it), you can add it to your shelf like any other book. I do that with mine, but only if I legitimately "read" them that year.
Zekkaina, that site looks pretty awesome! I might sign up... if I think I have time to keep up with it on top of Goodreads. -.-
Allow me to bribe you into reading some comic books this month: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Has anyone read Dreams and Shadows? That's as close as you're getting to a short story. If you want more detail I can expound...but just as trivia, not actual fiction. I'm almost done with Cloud Atlas. Maybe. Finally. Getting close.
I think I'll try to skip about half this page... You ladies are giving away too many spoilers about Inspector Floyd... :D
Aubrey wrote: "But but but!"I second this reaction! But I'll take trivia too.
I don't think it's actually spoilers... o.O Or maybe I'm forgetting my own books.
I'm kind of in writing mode right now, so I haven't been reading much. But I just started Thorofare by Christopher Morley and I'm really liking it so far.
Aubrey wrote: "Zekkaina, that site looks pretty awesome! I might sign up... if I think I have time to keep up with it on top of Goodreads. -.-"LOL, I know what you mean ... I had an account on goodreads for about two years before I really started using it and another two years until I began to update it regularly.
Aubrey wrote: "Yes, if you actually read your book all the way through (like while proofreading it), yo..."Awesome. I lost like four days of reading because of food poisoning so my shelf was looking a bit bereft. But I proofread it half a dozen times today.
Miriam wrote: "Awesome. I lost like four days of reading because of food poisoning so my shelf was look..."Oh dear. Are you okay now?
We went to a different library branch and I saw a bunch of Gakuen Alice books, so I got most of the ones they had (I got 10-16). ^_^ I've finished Gakuen Alice, Vol. 10 now! I was reminded just how awkward and bad the content could get, but I was also reminded why I like the story and her writing style so much!
As to content, there's still some romance (these characters are in the Elementary (school) Division, for crying out loud >.>). A boy and a girl get stuck together (as in, basically glued together); you can imagine how awkward that could get. You get the idea, about content.
But the story. Her writing style. o.o The characters are superb, and the plot imaginative (also: superheroes). I find her writing style hilarious, at times, with jokes it'd be hard to explain without someone just reading the thing themselves.
And long review. lol.
Shadow - Recovering a little, enough to be upright and reading at least, but still unwell. Sigh. This too shall pass.
I finally finished Cloud Atlas! I'm already a good bit into "Small Favor" my next Dresden book. :)
I've been rereading the Frontier Magic series by Patricia Wrede; the first volume, The Thirteenth Child, was a "Christmas book" two years ago, but had been mislaid until just last month, and after rereading it my parents brought in the subsequent volumes, Across the Great Barrier and The Far West, which I have also taken the opportunity to reread. The thought has occurred to me of late that based on other things I have read in the past year or so, these---which are an "alternate history plus magic" set on the frontier of a "United States of Columbia" only a couple of decades or so (if that) after their "Secession War"---are about the closest thing to a "Western" that I can stand (and I've "raved" about these).
And I just read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner tonight, because I looked up a quote used in Thorofare and found it was from that poem. I really enjoyed it—the description is incredibly vivid and the rhythm flows so easily. And I discovered that I've read quotes from it in other classic novels several times before.
Elisabeth -My parents quote The Rime quite a lot - it's one of those things - but sometimes they get it muddled with a different poem. I can't remember its name but it goes "The boy stood on the burning deck..." The Rime crops up everywhere though. Books, songs... That's where the albatross imagery originates, isn't it? (I haven't actually read it myself.)
That's "Casabianca" by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.Yes, that's where the albatross comes from—that was another thing I recognized from references I'd read before. Tell me, am I wrong or did C.S. Lewis borrow a bit of that for the Island of Darkness chapter in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader? It's been such a long time since I've read it that I don't remember if the bird was specifically named.
I'm not sure, it feels like it could potentially be a reference, but like you I don't know if it was actually an albatross or some other kind of bird. And lots of birds have symbolic value, especially where boats are concerned. (Like doves because of Noah's Ark.)I remember there's a Bastille song with the line, "there's an albatross around your neck" (I think it's "Weight Of Living") and I thought it was such an odd line until I googled it and realised it's a reference. :)
Ah yes, that's the one! Though I don't know as any of us have read Casabianca - I think my grandad used to quote it a lot and they just picked it up.
It was indeed an albatross in VDT; all the scholarly Narnia books I've read over the years pointed to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner as the source.
That Reagan book was really sweet. It's been years since I read it!I have read two books by a new author, Horace Valchell. One was wonderful and the other sad. He is a good writer, though.
I've also read another B. M. Bower book, "Cabin Fever". It is written in an unusual style, and often it seems the main character will turn out very badly in the end. It's got a very satisfying ending, but I would have liked it even better had the ending been longer!
And I finished Great Expectations! I actually liked it a lot better than I thought I would, based on the movie. (The movie I saw was well done, but so dark and lacking a lot of depth from the book.) Working on notes for the essays now, Aubrey. ;D
You're such a good girl, Rebekah. ;)
Finished 'Dragonflight'. It didn't do it for me. I'm now reading 'The Left Hand Of Darkness' and hoping to be less disappointed.
Finished "Small Favor" then onto "Turn Coat."
Finally got back to my current DeYoung book, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem. Note to self: Don't read a book whose description makes you go "Sounds like me!" unless you want to be resoundingly convicted.
I'm about halfway through Thorofare and I'm really, really enjoying it. Not quite like any other novel I've ever read. And I've been reading some classic children's fantasies on the side, to gain some inspiration for my current writing project—finished E. Nesbit's The Phoenix and the Carpet the other night and am about to start Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge.
I'm reading Warrior Daughter by Janet Paisley. It's an interpretation of the story of Skatha and Aifa, two Iron Age warrior women, who are basically my favourite Celtic characters, though I've always rooted for Aifa before. This book is on Skatha's side, so we'll see how I feel at the end of it...
I just got an ARC copy of "Behind the Scenes" by Anne Sanders. It sounds like it should be good. I am looking forward to reading it.
Faith wrote: "I just got an ARC copy of "Behind the Scenes" by Anne Sanders. It sounds like it should be good. I am looking forward to reading it."I'm just getting into ARCs...so much fun. We got a whole stack of them last week at work, but four of the really interesting ones were written in present tense, which drives me nuts, so I just picked one of the "normal" kind. It's interesting so far (historical fiction) but lots heavier on the romance than I like. Nothing explicit yet, but pretty close...halfway through.
I reached my goal of reading ten books this month! I'm slightly proud of myself. I also got through all my library books--both physical and digital. I told myself no more Dresden books until I read at least two of these books on my bookshelf that are just taking up space. I think I'm going to start on "City of Dreams" next by Stephen Lawhead. I keep ping-ponging between being really interested and really disinterested in that book.
I used to love Stephen Lawhead. I went off his work for a while (I couldn't get past the inaccuracies in his presentation of Celtic society, particularly the role of women, because it's my special interest and research specialism), but maybe in future I'll learn to like his writing again. I still like Empyrion - it's harder to bug me with SciFi as I have fewer pet peeves, ha ha.Talking of Celtic society, I'm almost done with Warrior Daughter. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is sensitive about content - explicit sex, language and violence throughout. I'm actually a little bit traumatised, and I read fanfic so I should be able to deal with a bit of sex. But no. That was a bit hardcore. O.o
Started reading Mr. Dicken's "Hard Times" yesterday. It's good so far - but I'm only in the third chapter. This is possibly the Dicken's book that I'm the least interested in... but I actually had it on my shelf.
I missed this question from earlier (at least I think I missed replying to it...): Yes, audiobooks count! :) As long as they are recordings of the full book, not dramatized adaptions. (Full cast is okay--just not radio-show style.)
I finally caught up on my digital comics. *rubs eyes* I have some DeYoung books to finish, but I also have several volumes of manga and the first Harry Potter book coming due, so I should probably just finish them...
I finished reading Gakuen Alice, Vol. 11 and Gakuen Alice, Vol. 12! Well, I'd read Volumes 10 and 11 before, but now I completed the story arc in 10, 11, and 12. Tragic backstory and [spoilers]!
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I couldn't sleep last night, so I made quite a bit of progress on Great Expectations. :)