I have a new posting technique. I’m actually taking my own advice and writing these suckers out on Word before I try to get Blogger to interface with my service provider. Yes, I am a genius, and it’s only taken me eight or nine years as a content developer to discover this groundbreaking method.
So what did I read on tour? I’m glad you asked.
Winners
The Weavers of Saramyr by Chris Wooding – Just when I thought I’d read all the literary fantasies out there, and that there are no more Neil Gaimans, Phillip Pullmans, C.S. Lewises, or the like to discover, I stumbled on the first of 28-year-old Chris Woodings’ Braided Path Trilogy.
How can you go wrong with a beautiful young outcast with special powers who has suffered terrible tragedy, a princess in grave danger and a blight upon a kingdom that might have come out of the latest Japanese Anime feature? Anytime a book draws me in so much that I foget what I’m doing, and who I am, I feel lucky. And luckier still that I have two more left to finish.
Fluke, or I know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore – A dedicated whale scientist and his quirky team set out to unravel the mystery of the whale they spot, with “Bite Me” lettered neatly on its Fluke. Weird, witty and funny, this should be a delight for anybody who’s ever donated to Greenpeace. Like, ahem, me.
Losers
half of Staying Dead – Yes I’m a nerd, but don’t think for a second that a few fuzzy demons and magic spells will detract from the fact that a book is lacking literary value. I should know—I’m the queen of reading books without literary value.
Read the last page, didn’t like how it ended, so stopped reading halfway through
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – Seriously, I do this ALL this time. It’s embarrassing, but I’ve been reading this way for years. I just have to know the ending before I devote time to the entire novel. But other than that, My Sister’s keeper is an interesting moral tale about a teenager whose birth was originally planned to provide genetic material for her cancer-ridden older sister.
So what did I read on tour? I’m glad you asked.
Winners
The Weavers of Saramyr by Chris Wooding – Just when I thought I’d read all the literary fantasies out there, and that there are no more Neil Gaimans, Phillip Pullmans, C.S. Lewises, or the like to discover, I stumbled on the first of 28-year-old Chris Woodings’ Braided Path Trilogy.
How can you go wrong with a beautiful young outcast with special powers who has suffered terrible tragedy, a princess in grave danger and a blight upon a kingdom that might have come out of the latest Japanese Anime feature? Anytime a book draws me in so much that I foget what I’m doing, and who I am, I feel lucky. And luckier still that I have two more left to finish.
Fluke, or I know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore – A dedicated whale scientist and his quirky team set out to unravel the mystery of the whale they spot, with “Bite Me” lettered neatly on its Fluke. Weird, witty and funny, this should be a delight for anybody who’s ever donated to Greenpeace. Like, ahem, me.
Losers
half of Staying Dead – Yes I’m a nerd, but don’t think for a second that a few fuzzy demons and magic spells will detract from the fact that a book is lacking literary value. I should know—I’m the queen of reading books without literary value.
Read the last page, didn’t like how it ended, so stopped reading halfway through
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – Seriously, I do this ALL this time. It’s embarrassing, but I’ve been reading this way for years. I just have to know the ending before I devote time to the entire novel. But other than that, My Sister’s keeper is an interesting moral tale about a teenager whose birth was originally planned to provide genetic material for her cancer-ridden older sister.
1 Comments:
That's so funny how if you don't like the last page, you don't read the book! God I can think of a few books I've read where that tactic would have worked out better. And that first book in your winners list, I will have to tell my boyfriend about, he loves that style of book.
Thanks for the comments on the Fair Isle sweater! I am such a nutjob when it comes to picking out colors and feeling confident they look good. See ya on Wednesday night!
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