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Book of A Thousand Days
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Jan 18, 2009 02:49PM
I am starting to read this book, and it is very good. It is about a maid and mucker, named Dashti, who is 15 and is forced to live in a tower for 7 years with her lady, who disobeyed her father and refused to marry a particular man. A very good book!! what do you think?!
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Amazing! I really loved it! There were lots of things I didn't expect, like how absolutely obedient she was through out the whole thing. But that just made it better 'cuz I didn't expect it.How far are you? Whats happening?
yeah, this is one of my fave books. I really liked the ending.
Me too! *sighs* and I loved the cat. what was his name?
His name was My Lord. I thought it was a weird/stupid name at first, but now it's grown on me. I wish I could have a cat like My Lord!
lol! Now I remember! Wasn't he orange?
yeah... I like kitties... sorta. that's kinda an understatement...
Ya i like cats to in fact i have 8!!!
Wait, I thought My Lord was gray...like a beech tree or something. He reminded me of my friend's kitten named Champ. She had to give him away, though.
I so wish I could have 8 cats! that would be heaven! but it's against my city's law. we can only have 6 pets. we're already breaking the rule by having 2 cats and 6 chickens.
That sucks if i lived in your city i would totally be breaking the rules because i have 30 chickens 8 cats 4 dogs 3 horses 2 birds 2 goats and some gold fish i LOVE animals but then again who doesn't? and My Lord is gray
I love animals too and hate smelly cheese.
I've got 2 goldfish, but the law doesn't care about fish. lol. do you have a farm or something?
Yeah I thought My Lord was gray too. ??
crap! I forgot. well, rather, it wasn't in at the library. My mom's read it more recently then me and she says he's gray so... I guess your right.
I have a gray cat his name is popcorn.
no, you have 2 black cats. or did you lie to me?
i have 5 cats 2 black 1 gray 1 mutlti and 1 brown
What?!?!?!?! 5 cats?!?!?!?!?! Thats more than Mrs. Freaky Cat Lover over here!
Who is Mrs freaky cat lover? And they are not all mine 2 are mine 1 is my dads 1 is my moms and 1 is my brothers
okay that makes sense but aren't you the freaky chicken lady?
ummm i don't really have any clue what we are talking about anymore.
We are talking about cats but we should be talking about b1ooo
mee too!have you guys seen the new cover? it's not half bad!
i like the old one way better. why are they changing the covers?
I agree, but it's not as bad as some other covers they've changed.idk. ask the publishers.
i wish they would leave well enogh alone.
Think of it this way: The Goose Girl has been out for about six years, correct? Bloomsbury knows how it sold in those six years, about four of which the novel has been out in paperback.
People DO judge books by their covers. Someone who didn't find the scenic cover of The Goose Girl attractive might not even flip the book over to see what it's about. However, that same person might prefer to see real people's faces and decide to give the novel a shot with the new cover.
It's marketing. Publishing is a business, and publishers want to sell as many books as possible, which means updating book covers if it's deemed necessary. And fans' opinions, sadly, don't mean much.
But I don't understand changing Book of a Thousand Days's cover. I know that plenty of times, the covers are changed between hardcover and paperback versions (again, the publishers now have a sense of how the book sells with a particular cover, except hardcovers and paperbacks probably sell differently, which would be another consideration, I think. You're kind of going after two different audiences, I believe), but I do feel that the hardcover cover of Book of a Thousand Days is pretty modern-looking and eye-catching, whereas the the older Books of Bayern covers would appeal to a smaller percentage of the population.
If you look at current YA covers, especially those of people books, there's not many that are like the older Books of Bayern covers. The new ones fit in much better, and the publisher doesn't really care if the fans like them or not. The fans are already going to be buying the books and recommending them; they're after a new audience.
But the hardcover Book of a Thousand Days? That cover seems to fit in with the covers of YA lit today.
People DO judge books by their covers. Someone who didn't find the scenic cover of The Goose Girl attractive might not even flip the book over to see what it's about. However, that same person might prefer to see real people's faces and decide to give the novel a shot with the new cover.
It's marketing. Publishing is a business, and publishers want to sell as many books as possible, which means updating book covers if it's deemed necessary. And fans' opinions, sadly, don't mean much.
But I don't understand changing Book of a Thousand Days's cover. I know that plenty of times, the covers are changed between hardcover and paperback versions (again, the publishers now have a sense of how the book sells with a particular cover, except hardcovers and paperbacks probably sell differently, which would be another consideration, I think. You're kind of going after two different audiences, I believe), but I do feel that the hardcover cover of Book of a Thousand Days is pretty modern-looking and eye-catching, whereas the the older Books of Bayern covers would appeal to a smaller percentage of the population.
If you look at current YA covers, especially those of people books, there's not many that are like the older Books of Bayern covers. The new ones fit in much better, and the publisher doesn't really care if the fans like them or not. The fans are already going to be buying the books and recommending them; they're after a new audience.
But the hardcover Book of a Thousand Days? That cover seems to fit in with the covers of YA lit today.
that's makes sense. thanks. I only had one of her books until recently, and then they started changing covers, so I rushed out and bought the books in the old covers before they were impossible to find, which cost me quite a bit of money. could that be part of they're plan to get more money? they know the old fans will want the old covers, so making those more expensive (hardcovers) while the newer fans haven't seen the old covers so are content to but what they see in front of them (paperbacks)? ...if that makes any sense...
i just smiled because i did not know whay to say.
*shakes head in sympathy*
*does a dance and sings ole mcdondle*
