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Ana Sofía
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Dec 26, 2011 08:28AM
I do too. But mine is still pretty cool. :D
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it's not really sad. And I didn't like it that much.. just nothing really stood out to me.
okay.Hey, have you read Tangerine yet?
okay. Well, it's super depressing and weird.
Lol. Tangerine? As in this Tangerine:
if you guys haven't read city of bones by cassandra clare yet im game for that....plus i just got done reading it and then i will finally have people to talk about it with!!! that would make me sooooo happy:)
yeah i need to read that. i actually saw it at my school's library.
it is sooooo good and i cant talk to anyone about it which infuriates me so>_< that would be my angry face....lol
The Summer Before Boys might be a good one to read. I read its companion novel, Anything But Typical, in 2010, and consider it to have possibly been the best book of the year.
@Christina- hahaha! :D@Josiah- Oh I didn't know there was a first one... Do I have to read The Summer Before Boys before I read Anything But Typical? I mean will I miss anything?
Anything But Typical actually came first; it was published in 2009, whereas The Summer Before Boys came out this past year. I haven't yet read The Summer Before Boys, as it's part of my cache of potential Newbery contenders that I'm planning to read after the 2012 awards are announced in January, but I don't think that one would need to read Anything But Typical before the newer book. I understand them to be companion novels, rather than one being a direct sequel (or prequel, or midquel, I'm not sure yet about chronology) to the other.
Adriana wrote: "That wasn't depressing!"yeah, it was. The guy's brother blinds him, another guy dies because of the guy's brother, and also, the guy's brother almost ruins his life with crime. That IS pretty depressing.
@Josiah- Oh, I'm sorry I thought you meant Anything But Typical was a companion novel of The Summer Before Boys. I would love to read it. (:@Starburst-You are just looking at the negative side! But yeah I get it... I wasn't really thinking of all those things but I wouldn't call it depressing. I would call it extremely complex ^_^
Adriana wrote: "@Josiah- Oh, I'm sorry I thought you meant Anything But Typical was a companion novel of The Summer Before Boys. I would love to read it. (:@Starburst-You are just looking at the negative side! B..."
well, I do see your point. It is rather complex.
Tangerine was my introduction to Edward Bloor as a writer, and I was truly awed by it. The conversations crackle with incredible energy, and the back-and-forth arguments among the characters are so logically spoken that I never found myself thinking that the plot would have been different if only a particular point had been argued more intelligently. Then there's the adventure story, which left me nearly breathless with its pulsating intensity, and the exciting soccer action, so skillfully rendered that I couldn't bring myself to pause while reading until I found out how the games would end. Overall, my impression of Tangerine is that it is one of the most richly imagined and tightly plotted stories I've ever read. It turned me into a permanent fan of Edward Bloor.
Hmmm.. I've never really heard of any other of his books... Do you recommend any?
Crusader would definitely be at the top of my list of Edward Bloor recommendations. It's a relatively dense novel, yet paced so perfectly that its six hundred eight pages flew by for me. I remember thinking at one point while reading Crusader that enough action, adventure, suspense, stunning revelation and in-depth character development had already been packed into the story to fill a half dozen or more full-length novels, and then I realized that I wasn't even one-third of the way finished with it. In my opinion, Edward Bloor does just about everything right in Crusader, and I think that it's essentially as good as Tangerine.By my observation, Edward Bloor's earliest novels tend to be his greatest, so that's the general rule of thumb that I would apply in recommending them. London Calling is very good, probably Edward Bloor's third-best work. I've also heard some positive things about A Plague Year, which came out in 2011, and I plan on reading it in the new year. I was very curious about Memory Lane as well, but apparently it was only released for e-reader, so I'm not able to read it.
Huh. The summary of those books are not what I expected. But thanks. I think I'll read London Calling. It sounds the most interesting. (:
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I just finished One Crazy Summer yesterday.
That was quite a quick book, wasn't it?
I liked it a lot. I don't get what's so sad about it."
What's up with that?? You told me last week that it was super hard to read, and that The Roar totally wasn't hard -- which it isn't. Hrumph. :S
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Hehe! My family got a Kindle from Santa!! I'm glad you got that e-reader, and that it works okay. God only knows my family doesn't have ENOUGH dang books already!!
Adriana wrote: "Huh. The summary of those books are not what I expected. But thanks. I think I'll read London Calling. It sounds the most interesting. (:"London Calling is a good choice. Like Tangerine, Crusader and even Story Time to a certain extent, London Calling has that uniquely eerie atmosphere about it, as if some massive veiled conspiracy could be lurking within every shadow and around every corner. In my experience, no one cultivates that feeling any better than Edward Bloor.
You write so eloquently. Makes me want to read it more.
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Book (aka Meg) wrote: "Why, thank you, Adriana!! That really makes me feel good!!"Ummm... I meant Josiah.
I don't know if she was being sarcastic.
Yeah I don't know why I even had to write it down.
Adriana wrote:Ummm... I meant Josiah."
Well, in that case, Thank You. :-) I just tried to express the unique nature of Edward Bloor's writing style as clearly as I could. He has produced some marvelous works, especially during the earliest stages of his career.
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HEY! That wasn't called for, Nolan! Why would you laugh at my very obvious, stupid mistake like that in such a way!! I:< (Like it? Just made it up.) AND, what do you mean, "it got better?!" Jerk.
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Pelicanz wrote: "*type it out"whatever
Book (aka Meg) wrote: "Oh. Sorry about that. I didn't mean -- *fake sobbing* I though you were -- *More sobbing*HEY! That wasn't called for, Nolan! Why would you laugh at my very obvious, stupid mistake like that in su..."
Sorry D:
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HEY! That wasn't called for, Nolan! Why would you laugh at my very obvious, stupid ..."
It's okay. I was being super sarcastic about the crying.
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Who AREN'T the pelicangiraffes?
THEY HAVE A HEALTH CONDITION. DON'T DISCRIMINATE >:(."
I wasn't. Yeesh, who took a cranky pill yesterday?!
wow. A lot has been going on here. I couldn't check yesterday because I was traveling all day. *content sigh* it's good to be home.
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Starburst wrote: "wow. A lot has been going on here. I couldn't check yesterday because I was traveling all day. *content sigh* it's good to be home."I haven't been home since Thursday! It's great to be home too.
Which Tiger's Curse is the one we're going to be reading? According to Goodreads, Tiger's Curse was originally published in 2011; however, this other Tiger's Curse first came out in 1982. I figured that the more recent book was the one we were talking about, but might I have been wrong?
Oh! I was thinking about the book called The Tiger Rising. Ooops.It's the 2011 one Josiah. It shows it on the bookshelf.
Oh, I see. I hadn't thought to look on the group's bookshelf. Thanks, Adriana!
okay. anyway, what do you guys want to read for february?
Josiah was talking about a companion for Anything But Typical. Maybe we should read it first then the companion?
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