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Posted 28 May 2013 - 01:09 AM
read Warm Bodies and Silver Linings Playbook.
Liked warm bodies..., LOVED Silver Linings Playbook. It was a wonderful book about relationships. Not just romantic, but in family as well. Probably my favorite book I've read so far this year.
it was that good! Read it in pretty much one sitting. I devoured it. The plot was intriguing and yet it was real about the truth about mental illness.
It was wonderful!
10 out of 10. 
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Posted 06 June 2013 - 06:13 PM
read Fireblood by Jeff Wheeler and was curious about his writing style..
Followed by Muirwood trilogy. I actually really, really really enjoyed it. A super easy read. The world was kind of challenging at times and sort of frustrating in the way that all fantasy is, but the main character Lia, while starting out as your average helpless peon, grows into something else, something great.
The first book was pretty good....
But man, the second book kicked butt. Couldn't put it down. There was a romance, but it was well built and I thought very convincing in that it wasn't like love at first sight. And you all know I'm a sucker for a good romance anyway.
The main male protagonist, Colvin was interesting and he grew on me pretty quickly.
I saw the end of the third book coming, but it was still thoroughly enjoyable anyway. They aren't very long and I think worth the read.
Ice Bear bought these legally
Posted 07 June 2013 - 02:41 PM
Yesterday I finished In the Land of Believers by Gina Welch. It's a book about the two years she spent undercover in Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church, learning about conservative Evangelicals while pretending to be one. It was pretty interesting, though it took me a while because I got distracted by other books 
I'm not really much of a nonfiction person, but this was good.
uwu
Posted 07 June 2013 - 03:10 PM
I finally finished Bitterblue(which is the sequel to Graceling) by Kristin Cashore.
Honestly, I am sorely upset over the ending and the love interest for her. u.u
Btw, Mara I suggest also reading Fire by Kristin Cashore. That is a good one. c:
Benevolent, All-Seeing Eye
Posted 07 June 2013 - 03:15 PM
I finally finished Bitterblue(which is the sequel to Graceling) by Kristin Cashore.
Honestly, I am sorely upset over the ending and the love interest for her. u.u
Btw, Mara I suggest also reading Fire by Kristin Cashore. That is a good one. c:
uwu
Posted 07 June 2013 - 06:01 PM
Read it! I'm holding off on Bitterblue, though, because of all the negative reviews I keep reading about it.
I personally believe Cashore could have done a better job with it.
Simply put, Bitterblue herself is an excellent character. She is very much like Katsa and other heroines.
The only problem is when it comes to love. Her personality is totally gone and just. Yep. Needless to say, knowing how you are, you would absolutely froth at the chance to strangle a certain character. (:
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Posted 08 June 2013 - 12:50 AM
The only problem is when it comes to love. Her personality is totally gone and just. Yep. Needless to say, knowing how you are, you would absolutely froth at the chance to strangle a certain character. (:
Ugh, yeah. If books were recipes, then romantic subplots would be like the secret spice ingredient added to kick it up a notch. Add the right kind of spice in the right amount, and the flavor of the dish is greatly enhanced. Add too much spice, or the wrong kind of spice, and it can detract from or even outright spoil the meal.
I can't tell you how many times I've tossed aside a book because the romantic elements triggered my gag reflex 
~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =
uwu
Posted 08 June 2013 - 01:06 AM
Ugh, yeah. If books were recipes, then romantic subplots would be like the secret spice ingredient added to kick it up a notch. Add the right kind of spice in the right amount, and the flavor of the dish is greatly enhanced. Add too much spice, or the wrong kind of spice, and it can detract from or even outright spoil the meal.
I can't tell you how many times I've tossed aside a book because the romantic elements triggered my gag reflex
~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =
I've done the same.
Bitterblue doesn't have that too terrible, it's just a jerky guy honestly. And the inner feminist in you would love to scream into Bitterblue's face haha.
Benevolent, All-Seeing Eye
Posted 08 June 2013 - 01:10 AM
I've done the same.
Bitterblue doesn't have that too terrible, it's just a jerky guy honestly. And the inner feminist in you would love to scream into Bitterblue's face haha.
More like my inner feminist would troll the hell out of the guy until he ran away crying. 
Then I'd take Bitterblue out for tea and cucumber sandwiches
~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =
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Posted 15 June 2013 - 02:13 AM
LOL I just finished all three books. I really enjoyed the first two and I did like the third. Although the main love was annoying which was weird cause both I really liked both Brigan and Po. Where did this guy come from?
Plus, I may have been rooting for Giddon.. whoops.
Ice Bear bought these legally
Posted 15 June 2013 - 02:47 AM
I finished Myst: The Book of Atrus yesterday, and had a proper nerdgasm. I can't decide if I want to go ahead and play the fourth game in the series, which I started and stopped because there were sound-sync problems, or go ahead and read the second book. Or both.
uwu
Posted 15 June 2013 - 03:41 AM
LOL I just finished all three books. I really enjoyed the first two and I did like the third. Although the main love was annoying which was weird cause both I really liked both Brigan and Po. Where did this guy come from?
Plus, I may have been rooting for Giddon.. whoops.
Oh God, right?
GIDDY-KUN D:
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Posted 16 June 2013 - 02:51 AM
OH GOOD I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE. I was like, but that's not SUPPOSED to be who I'm rooting for. It just kinda happened.
uwu
Posted 16 June 2013 - 03:13 AM
OH GOOD I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE. I was like, but that's not SUPPOSED to be who I'm rooting for. It just kinda happened.
Only one?
the entire fandom rooted for him too haha.
Just me
Posted 16 June 2013 - 03:35 AM
I do not know these things. I only just discovered them via you guys!
Now I don't feel so weird. COME HERE GIDDON LET ME LOVE YOU.
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Posted 20 June 2013 - 09:38 PM
read both Legend and Prodigy. Very good! I can't wait for the next one which of course isn't coming out till November. UGH.
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Posted 21 June 2013 - 01:29 AM
Finished The Hunger Games trilogy about a month ago... one of the best series I've ever read. Those books literally consumed my life for about a week; I didn't do anything but eat, sleep, work, and read. Decided that that type of habit probably isn't healthy so I've gone cold turkey on books right now... xD (And fanfictions that are substantially long... TOSOT was pushing it, haha...)
Ice Bear bought these legally
Posted 01 July 2013 - 12:23 AM
Just finished Golden Boy not five minutes ago. A few parts were slower-paced than I excepted, but they were still interesting to read. Watching Habo make his first friend and then have her help him read with the magnifying class was adorable, and I almost cried at the closing paragraph, because it was so sweet and seriously just a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming if I've ever seen one. So worth the money.
(and I know Katie will enjoy this post if she sees it, having been to the launch party and everything on Thursday.)
Ice Bear bought these legally
Posted 09 July 2013 - 03:39 AM
Just finished reading My Chemical Mountain by Corina Vacco. It was pretty good. A little hard to get into--I was never really a fan of stream of consciousness writing, and the three main characters are the only ones who get any development at all, while the rest are pretty static. The descriptions of the setting were both beautiful and horrifyingly disturbing and disgusting, which I thought was a nice touch. The last two chapters were very engaging, and I totally did not see the end coming AT ALL, which is another plus.
And the cover art. Holy shit. This book has one of the most beautiful cover art designs I've ever seen on a book, and it's the reason, along with the title, that I picked it up to read the first chapter in the book store a week and a half ago. I mean seriously, look at this cover. Look at it:
How did that cover artist manage to make a mountainous pile of sludge and toxic waste in a landfill look so goshdarn gorgeous? It reminded me of the opening sequence of WALL*E, which also somehow made trash look unrealistically and creepily beautiful.
Also, this was a pretty fast read. It's very short. However, I would have liked to have had development of more characters, as well as a less confusing opening chapter.
Benevolent, All-Seeing Eye
Posted 24 July 2013 - 07:09 AM
I am traumatized. 
I just read the first three books of The Edge Chronicles (entitled The Deep Woods, Stormchaser, and Midnight Over Sanctaphrax). I picked them because they were in the children's fantasy section of the library and looked like a fun, easy read. "Oh, a boy raised by woodtrolls!" I read on the back. "How whimsical! I bet this will be a pleasant diversion from my woe-begotten life."
WRONG. DEAD FREAKING WRONG.
I haven't been this mentally scarred by a series in years. This trilogy is supposed to be for KIDS...and yet it's one of the most grotesque, horrifying, trippy, violent, tragic, and downright f*cked up things I've ever read. EVER. I can't even describe the kind of suffering the main character, Twig, goes through. Abandoned by his father at birth. Lost in the scariest damn forest I've ever encountered in a fantasy novel. Hunted by ferocious beasts. Lied to, stolen from, tricked, betrayed. Beloved pet-companion eaten alive in front of him. Held captive. Friends murdered and dismembered before his eyes. Father freaking evaporates after they're finally reunited. Works his ass off and gets a skyship, only to have it destroyed and have his companions flung to the far corners of the wilderness. Oh, and the pièce de résistance: made immortal after his love is butchered by an enemy, so that he can't follow her into death. All beautifully described and illustrated, all charmingly situated within the confines of a cruel, schizophrenic, polluted world that doesn't give a shit.
THIS AUTHOR IS A SADIST. I have never read a children's series like this. I feel like my heart has been ripped out through my ribcage, poked with needles, stomped on by a 300 pound sumo wrestler, dunked in a vat of rubbing alcohol, and shoved back into my chest. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE GUY WHO WROTE THIS
I mean, putting your characters through hell on their way to greatness is one thing, but this is just barbaric.. it's going to take me a long time to get over what I just internalized. 
As Twig cried in this heartwrenching scene, "WHY?! WHY WHY WHY"
~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =
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