David - proud Gleeman in Branwen's adventuring party > Recent Status Updates

"Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. Pain is a part of life." Whoa, that is some pretty deep stuff right there, Harry!

Okay, let's try this again, here is the video of me doing the ALS ice-bucket challenge! This time everybody should be able to view it! :D

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This is the kind of book that the less you know going in, the better...so I can't really tell you why Chapter 18 left me gasping loud enough for the neighbors to hear and so mind-blown that I spent the next five hours speaking in strange tongues! Suffice to say that Chapter 18 was...

So if anyone who only knows me on GR has ever been curious as to what my voice sounds like, here is a video of me doing the ALS ice-bucket challenge! Enjoy :Dhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=...

Hmmm, let's see, Anne, the horses were terrified to approach Rosewood Manor, the staff there have mysterious cuts and bruises on their skin, you hear disembodied laughter, and now a mysterious figure keeps watching you. Anne, it may be time to... RUUUUN!!!

"The smell floating up to me in a cloud of crispness, green, and cold; what I imagined a snow-covered pine tree would taste like. Not that I went around chewing pine needles!" HA HA! Anne, I love your spirit! :D

"The day I turned seventeen, birds fell from the sky. A flock of them seemed to cross an invisible line, a boundary of packed winter breezes that wrapped them up in a coat of ice, freezing whatever kernel of magic allowed them power over the air." I'm already hooked!!!

Hello, book buddies! I'm taking a break from my regularly scheduled reading list to do a betaread for a dear friend of mine, so no status updates from me for the next couple of days. But I'll still be popping on GR to check out all of your updates!

"So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it." *sobs* - Wow, you really know how a tear a reader's heart out and stomp on it a few times for good measure, Ms. Hobb! :(

Harry Potter fans will really enjoy this article.
Team Snape!

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Hmmm...the mysterious inhabitant who left all the treasure on the island...could it be a...DRAGON?!? Could an epic dragon battle be coming?!?

These are exciting times for my Goodreads friends!
Recently, I purchased "The Rose Master" by the lovely and talented Valentina Cano.
Now today, I just went to Amazon and ordered "For Fallon" by Soraya Naomi and "Crimson Oath" by Tenae Hunt, which are both first novels for these amazing ladies!
So happy for my book buddies-turned-authors! :D

NOOOO!!! How could you hurt me like that, book??? HOW???

P.S. Branwen, I suspect you know what part I just got to! ;)

So the killer's identity has been revealed, and it turns out I was completely...wrong!!! Sherlock, I ain't! :P

The idea of the woman being able to weave such beautiful tapestries because of her mental link with the spider was actually kind of sweet! It makes me wonder if spiders have gotten a bum rap all this time...

I'm pretty sure Laurel suspects that Fitz isn't really Lord Golden's servant by now...not only because she's so clever, but also because Fitz actually referred to Golden as "Fool" while she was in earshot! Fitz isn't quite as good as Inconspicuous Cat at avoiding suspicion...

I really starting to love Laurel the huntswoman! She's so strong, yet also so sweet! I know, I know, me falling for a kick-ass heroine...in equally shocking news, the sun is hot!

"I found no sign my room was searched. I never leave a room in perfect order. It is easy to return a searched room to perfect order, more difficult to recall exactly how both sleeves of the garment flung across the chair touched the floor." - Dude, you're smarter than this dog...

Hmmm...let's see, Fitz's bond with his wolf saves his life many times while the Prince's bond with his cat may have lead him directly into a trap...I guess we know where the author stands in the eternal battle between cats and dogs!

Okay, I was starting to nod off during the very sssslllloooowwww burn portion of this book, but now that the story is moving along nicely, I'm wide awake again! :D

Even though I've been enjoying Robin Hobb's prose, there's no denying the story itself has been stagnating! Fitz is just now embarking on his quest...after TEN CHAPTERS of him just staying in his cottage! So little was happening, I was having Blair Witch flashbacks...

Rare, non-book related status for you all today! :)

"Her Catalyst comes to dismantle heroes. To enable men to be less than what they should be. For where I would build, she would destroy. Where I would unite, she would divide. She believes all must end before it can begin anew." - Hmmm, she reminds me of a certain someone...

One of the most fascinating elements about this book is the mental bond Fitz shares with his wolf Nighteyes! It makes me wonder what kind of things we'd hear if we could read our pet's mind...

HARRY - "The Velvet Room? I thought I burned that place - uh, that is, I thought some as-yet-unidentified perpetrator burned that place to the ground!" - Harry, subtlety really isn't your strong suit, is it?!?

So far there hasn't been one fight sequence, and the hero has yet to even begin his quest, yet I'm still completely enthralled. Such is the power of Hobb's writing! :D

"You could have been someone. They gave you every chance of making something of yourself. You could have mattered. But this is what you chose. Remember that. You chose this!" - Geez, lady, there was no need to go all bitchcakes on him like that! :(

"He was not just one old man come to visit me. He brought all of my past trailing along behind him as an embroidered train follows a woman into a hall." - Robin Hobb's prose is so poetic, it's almost lyrical! I envy her for her lovely way with words!

So excited to be starting a new buddy read today with one of my most treasured friends, the lovely and amazing Branwen! :D

I was out late last night, so I planned to only read a few pages...but Harry's fight with the ghouls was so good, I got sucked into the dreaded "just...one...more...chapter" trap! Now I'm tired and groggy, but still...