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Manveru

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• Oct 13, 2003

• #461

This name... still can't remember having heard of him, but... someone recommended me once one of the books you mentioned above: Dandilion Wine. Now I know at least who wrote it.

So...

I guess your "duty to spread the bookish-goodness all over the world" is completed in a way, again. Keep doing so...

 

Rhiannon

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• Oct 13, 2003

• #462

Dandilion Wine is my favorite of the Bradburys I've read. Definitely recommended.

 

Manveru

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• Oct 13, 2003

• #463

I'll definitely read that.
THX again.

 

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• Oct 14, 2003

• #464

Oh wow! I love Ray Bradbury.... I've probably said that like a thousand times, but it is true!!! You should try reading some of his newer stuff... like "From the Dust Returned" I think that is what it is called. Anyway, I just think it is a mazing that he has been writing books for more than half a century now, and they are all good!!!

Now I am doing that thing when I read tons of books at the same time. I started Jane Eyre yesterday. Sigh... what a great book...

 

Rhiannon

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• Oct 14, 2003

• #465

I loved, really loved From the Dust Returned. There is so much Bradbury I need to read...I need to try Something Wicked This Way Comes. I started it when I was younger, and freaked out more easily. It was too creepy for me.

Celebrating Teen Read Week with my new mattress and Robin McKinley's Sunshine, which I'm halfway through.

 

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• Oct 14, 2003

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"Something Wicked This Way Comes" is one of the best! It is extremely creepy, but I think most of his books are... Yeah I still get creeped out thinking about it...but it is worth it!

 

Rhiannon

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• Oct 14, 2003

• #467

Rhian is an unashamed whimp- the supernatural is especially scary. But she's much better now.

 

Rhiannon

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• Oct 16, 2003

• #468

...and speaking of the supernatural, I finished re-reading Sunshine by Robin McKinley. Man, but that book is crawling with great one liners!

Next up: I told Tal I would start Winter Rose again, so I will. Because I do whatever Tal tells me too (mostly).

 

Rhiannon

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• Oct 18, 2003

• #469

And I finished Winter Rose in almost-one sitting. Most of it last night. Wowee. I kind of wished that the ending had had more to it, but I was happy just the same.

So now, Eregon, In the Forests of Serre, or Song of the Basilisk?

I think I'll pick up In the Forests of Serre and then take a break from McKillip with Eregon...

So, am I the only one reading anything these days?

 

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Manveru

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• Oct 18, 2003

• #470

Wow, Rhiannon, you're like a little readin' machine

Yeah, I'm reading some... (though I've had so little time recently). I'm soon to finish that Dumas's book (although someone told me I'm too old for reading Dumas...well, as I didn't have time--read: wasn't interested in reading anything when I was younger--I have to do this now... I love those musketeers' stories).

BTW: Maybe everyone's reading so 'pationately' that they have no time to talk about it here?

 

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Rhiannon

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• Oct 18, 2003

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Wow, Rhiannon, you're like a little readin' machine

Click to expand...

Thanks! I'm finally getting my stride back, hurrah! I haven't read this much in a while- I had the dread Reader's Block over the holidays, and then I was sick...I'm miserable when I'm not reading much

You know, I love a good swashbuckling, but I didn't care for Dumas when I read that years ago...My response was Less Sleeping Around, More Swords! That's mainly what I remember. I should read it again and see how I feel now.

 

Eliot

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• Oct 18, 2003

• #472

Hey! I read too!

I'm reading the next book in the Redwall series, Loamhedge. It's all right.

I'm also reading The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo and Front Page History of the World Wars as reported by The New York Times. It's pretty interesting.

 

Rhiannon

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• Oct 18, 2003

• #473

...and I still don't even have Triss.

I took my mother in to the bookstore, held both of them up, and said "Okay. Look very closely. Redwall books I don't have."

 

Eliot

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• Oct 19, 2003

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Can't you just get them at your library?

 

Rhiannon

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• Oct 19, 2003

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Well, I collect them (I collect the Redwall books, I collect books by Robin McKinley in various covers and formats, and I collect Patricia McKillip hardbacks with cover art by Kinuko Y. Craft. And I collect fairy tale/mythology books in general).

Also the library here is awful. I don't even go there. Fortunately I have plenty of books of my own to read...if I ever run out, then I will be in trouble.

 

Eliot

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• Oct 19, 2003

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Well, can't you just buy them yourself?

 

Rhiannon

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• Oct 19, 2003

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Yes...except I've purchased four...no five...no six new books lately, and after I worked so hard to save money...I think I was dehydrated. But I need to buy a plane ticket, and fabric for my costume and....

I'm counting on Christmas.

Anyway, last night when I went to bed at 2am, I made the mistake of starting In the Forests of Serre- I made it to chapter four before I conked out. So far I'm loving it.

 

Eliot

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• Oct 20, 2003

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Yay! I finished Loamhedge last night. It was pretty cool, IMO.

 

Rhiannon

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• Oct 20, 2003

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*plugs ears* La la la I-don't-want-to-hear-about-Loamhedge la la la....

I am inhaling In the Forests of Serre. I can't believe Tal didn't like it...But there's still the potential that I'll hate it if certain things happen to the characters.

 

Manveru

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• Oct 24, 2003

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I've been able to get my hands on another book by P. Coelho Veronika decides to die, so my little "book-schedule" is about to have a little break, but only until I finish P.C.'s book (so till tomorrow, I guess).