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[★ Jess]

That was on my to-read list for a while, but then decided not to, after reading some fairly wonky reviews :S
But im certainly looking forward to the movie!

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I'm just nervous about Vanessa Hudgens as the girl in it. Nothing like in the book. Oh well, could still work. So what books are you most anticipating reading?

[★ Jess]

Ive very excited to start The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan :)

[[deleted user]]

i haven't heard of that one.

[★ Jess]

its the sequel to The Forest of Hands and Teeth,which was superb.

[[deleted user]]

I just read the little write up about it and it sounds really good. What's your favourite genre to read?

[Neko]

Brenda wrote: "Laura wrote: "Shelly, is a first read through of the Tomorrow series or first read? I keep meaning to finish it off but I go so slack when I read them in HS >_

Laura, they are so good...worth a si..."
It's on my TBR to really reread..sometime..lol

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Yeah i wasn't sure what to expect but it's worth it.

[★ Jess]

Shelly wrote: "I just read the little write up about it and it sounds really good. What's your favourite genre to read?"

Favorite genre....hmmm....
Its hard to say. my favorite books range from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to Misery to The Hunger Games to The Book Thief. Its all over the place :)
How about you?

[Neko]

Shelly wrote: "Yeah i wasn't sure what to expect but it's worth it."

They certainly are :) I saw him speak about the books too and then got one of the books from the series personally signed by him :D

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Laura - that sounds awesome. I was supposed to get an autograph and then have coffee with M.K. Hume but unfortunately schedules clashed.

Jessica - I have so many different fav. genres. I used to be just mainly into scifi but lately i've been much more broad in my book selection.

[[deleted user]]

tomorrow series is one of my favs
I really liked them when i was in HS, such a great adventure novels :D
i got to meet him once to but no signed books it was at th

[[deleted user]]

the* summerset book festival got to meet andy griffiths too :D

[[deleted user]]

awesome. I've never met any authors, just people from TV shows and movies.

[Neko]

@Shelly- Awe, that sucks about the schedule clash ><;;

@Melanie- Nice! Did he tell you he does work shops on his farm? You get to go stay at a writing camp with him...That would be amazing!

Speaking of Tomorrow series has anyone watched the movie?

Hmm..Famous ppl..I met one of the women from Stingers in the airport because we were standing behind her...My dad thought it was a work friend..So he went to say hello...And the Kate Kendle(i think) turned around...It was very funny situation for our family. Dad still gets ribbed about it XD

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I met them at conventions mostly. They have writers there too but they're not the writers I read.

I haven't seen the movie but I want to.

He does workshops at his farm, that's soooo cool. I love writers and people already in the industry that appreciate what they've got and aim to help others.

[[deleted user]]

i happen to own the movie...it was great one of the best books to movies, i think because the books are just so action packed they lend them selves every easily towards movies..plus the soundtrack is all aussie music soo great :D

I did not know about the workshops i know he is a principal at a school totally wished i went to that school!

as for famous people... i know sophie monks younger brother he went to school with my eldest brother...she counts as famous right?

[[deleted user]]

haha yeah she counts. I've met mostly American actors though - people from Stargate Atlantis and SG1, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, etc.

[Neko]

Lol Sophie Monk counts. Her face looks bad now >_>;;

Oooo..Buffy! Who did you meet from that?

I never knew about the Principal thing..Maybe that's new? Cause I saw him in HS around 97 or 98 or 99....lol I don't really remember cept it wasn't in 2000.

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On topic I read some children books at work ;p

and

[[deleted user]]

Haha I've been reading heaps of children's books too lately. I've read the Disney storybooks of their disney movies - 'Little Mermaid', 'Hunchback of Notre Dame', 'Monsters Inc.', etc.

I met James Marsters from Buffy and went to a small concert of his and a little cocktail party before the concert. It was amazing. Plus I hugged him. lol.

My sister just met Tom Felton on the weekend. Not sure if everyone here knows but that's Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter movies. She got me an autograph from him.

[Neko]

James Marsters is dreamy...Well, he was as Spike!! Awe, you got to hug him, I am jealous :P

Children books are great to read. I love looking at them for inspiration plus getting to know what is out there. Disney storybooks are great.

[Michael]

I've just started Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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oo james masters *drool*
did you see tom felton at supernova?
so wanted to go!

[[deleted user]]

Nah I didn't go to Supanova. My sister did and said Tom was amazingly sweet and went way out of his way for his fans. There were HEAPS of fans there to see him too so he stayed longer and skipped his lunch breaks to make sure he got to see them all.

Yeah James was amazing.

There's a book sale on at Target starting tomorrow and going for three weeks I think so I'm planning on getting some more kids books then. =)

I found Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to be a bit hard to get through but it's a classic so it's worth it.

[Michael]

Shelly wrote: "I found Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to be a bit hard to get through but it's a classic so it's worth it. "

It is a bit hard to read, but I want to knock it off my list.

[★ Jess]

Im reading Animal Farm. I put The Dead-Tossed Waves to the side for the moment, since its about different characters, set years later than its predecessor, and dont want to feel bitter about not having my favorite characters.

[Michael]

I really loved Animal Farm, but I think that was because I read it by choice and not forced to read it. The Metaphors are brilliantly and skillfully written

[[deleted user]]

I too loved animal farm...my school wasnt cool enough to force us to read books like this we got A Cage of Butterflies and other equally boring books instead.
Animal farm and 1984 are some of my fav books

[Michael]

Carmel wrote: "I think for me, because I had a brilliant teacher who was very passionate about the classics & all things literature, it made studying this book really interesting and a highlight in my latter school years"

My English lessons in high school were really bad, so I'm trying to learn now

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I liked 1984. I think I was the only one in my class to like it though.

[[deleted user]]

My school was lousy with this sort of stuff as well, but it's my passion so i'm also trying to teach myself. yay us. lol.

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Knowledge Lost wrote: "Carmel wrote: "I think for me, because I had a brilliant teacher who was very passionate about the classics & all things literature, it made studying this book really interesting and a highlight in..."

i had a fab yr 12 English teacher in yr 12 the class mostly consisted of us talking about books and the novel she was writing rather doing the actual work set for us...we also had lots of escapes from the Christian studies class the block over...I'm still in touch with her :D

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I've just finished It Is No Secret: The Story Of A Stolen Child. A very sad, poignant look at the life of Donna Meehan, one of the stolen children, who was taken from her family at age 5, and fostered and then adopted by a lovely Polish couple in Newcastle. She loved her white parents deeply, but felt lost, confused and betrayed by the things that had happened in her life. It tells of her finally finding her birth mother, and all her relatives from Coonamble, NSW. Donna lives very close to where I live now, and the places throughout Newcastle and Lake Macquarie in her book are all very familiar. It was published in 2000 and is worth reading.

I am about to start These Things Hidden, which was a recommendation, and it says on the front of the cover...'Fans of Jodi Picoult will devour this'...we will see!

[Michael]

Shelly wrote: "My school was lousy with this sort of stuff as well, but it's my passion so i'm also trying to teach myself. yay us. lol."

Autodidacts unite :)

I started my blog for the sole purpose of teaching myself...and maybe others

[Neko]

Blogs are great for that. I used to have a blog for keeping tabs on things i liked/enjoyed and mixed it in with my personal art and photography but ended up deleting it.

[Michael]

Laura wrote: "Blogs are great for that. I used to have a blog for keeping tabs on things i liked/enjoyed and mixed it in with my personal art and photography but ended up deleting it."

I'm too addicted to think about deleting

[Neko]

Knowledge Lost wrote: "Laura wrote: "Blogs are great for that. I used to have a blog for keeping tabs on things i liked/enjoyed and mixed it in with my personal art and photography but ended up deleting it."

I'm too add..."

ehehe..updated it every few minutes then? ;p just j/king.

Carmel wrote: "Laura wrote: "Blogs are great for that. I used to have a blog for keeping tabs on things i liked/enjoyed and mixed it in with my personal art and photography but ended up deleting it."

Would you..."

I've thought about it. It's actually still there with 3 or 4 enteries I think. But otherwise it's abandoned overal. I use the feeds list cause I like keeping up with some other ppls blogger accounts :)

[[deleted user]]

I thought about having one but I don't know if people would really be interested in what I have to say about books, movies, etc. I think if I ever published a novel or something like that I would probably have a blog or website, but i'd be interested in reading blogs from you guys.

[Neko]

@Shelly- Don't worry about what others think of your blog..If you want one do it for yourself only :) It's what the aim of my blog was for, simply myself.

It was also a great way to keep hold of recipies that i wanted to try x)

[Michael]

Laura wrote: "ehehe..updated it every few minutes then? ;p just j/king."

I would, if I had something to say every minute. I use twitter for that :P


Shelly wrote: "I thought about having one but I don't know if people would really be interested in what I have to say about books, movies, etc. I think if I ever published a novel or something like that I would p..."

Can I suggest not writing a blog for others, write it for yourself, a way to write down you interests and passions, a record that you can refer back too.

Readers will come and go, but it's best to just please yourself.

[[deleted user]]

Thanks. I'll give it a think. I don't have time for really anything right now. lol. Uni's putting too much on my plate so maybe when i'm done.

[★ Jess]

Carmel, I am reading Animal Farm by choice :)
Not sure weather or not I will see the film...

Today at school we started Lord of the Flies, though I will read that, and focus 100% on that, once I finish Animal Farm.

[[deleted user]]

I've seen and read Lord of the Flies so many times. It's good. Bit sick of it now though.

[Neko]

Never read Lord of the Flies...I don't really know much about it at all..I keep thinking it's a take off of 'Lord of the Rings'..hmm..maybe i should look into it sometime.

[Monya]

Shelly wrote: "i haven't read any of them before. I have heard tonnes about 'The Once and Future King' because i love Arthurian mythology. =)"

Shelly, The Once And Future King (including The Sword In The Stone) is one of the half-dozen books I will grab on the way out if the house is on fire... (Not likely, it's brick, but you know what I mean.) It's just beautiful and you're in for a treat.

Monya (aka Mary)

[Monya]

Melanie wrote: "i happen to own the movie...it was great one of the best books to movies, i think because the books are just so action packed they lend them selves every easily towards movies..plus the soundtrack ..."

Melanie - Joy Chambers, the writer wife of Reg Grundy, is the younger sister of John (Jack) Chambers, who was a senior at high school when I was a junior. Does that count? I've never actually met her!

Monya (aka Mary)

[Joanne]

I have to get a copy of "The Hunger Games", as one of my nephews has a role in the film. What's it like? I don't know it at all?

[Dee-Ann]

Joanne wrote: "I have to get a copy of "The Hunger Games", as one of my nephews has a role in the film. What's it like? I don't know it at all?"

wow ... congratulations to him. I really liked the book, great YA literature, full on adventure, fairly violent in parts. If you are up this way, I have a copy floating around gathering dust at home.

[Joanne]

Dee-Ann wrote: "Joanne wrote: "I have to get a copy of "The Hunger Games", as one of my nephews has a role in the film. What's it like? I don't know it at all?"

wow ... congratulations to him. I really liked t..."

Thanks Dee-Ann - I'll be back home in a few weeks so I might take you up on that offer! I'm in Cairns now and looking forward to meeting Helene Young (Goodreads writer) next week too.

[Joanne]

Carmel wrote: "Joanne wrote: "I have to get a copy of "The Hunger Games", as one of my nephews has a role in the film. What's it like? I don't know it at all?"

You do realise Jo, that now that you have reveale..."

:) He's pretty cute - even if I say that as his old auntie...