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 Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:54 am
I'm curious what everyone has read recently that's really gotten you excited. Something that you would buy the day it came out, something you had to reread a second and third time, or even something that you can't rest until you've force fed it to all of your friends.
Let me know!
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:18 pm
The most recent? I guess that would have to be Alma Alexander's The Secrets of Jin-Shei. It was an impulse purchase because of the discount price, but I still loved reading the book. Everyone must read it!
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:02 pm
The last book I really got into was Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I'm still reading it because I just got it about two days ago. I hope it's as good as all the hype puts out.
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:29 am
Sorinchako The last book I really got into was Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I'm still reading it because I just got it about two days ago. I hope it's as good as all the hype puts out. Two very interesting, very different authors doing one piece. You'll have to tell me how that pans out.
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:33 am
I just bought 21 proms today. It has Libba Bray and Holly Black in the same book, writing modern day, ordinary fiction. Well, normal-ish. Libba's is a metaphor piece using a gorilla as a stand in for a current topic. Holly's is just interesting.
The premise behind the book is 21 authors together wrote 21 different stories about prom. There's morps, there's self conscious teenagers, creepy cults, and even some apes standing up for their rights. Very cool.
Edited by David Levitham, it should be at most major bookstores, and the full list of authors included are: Libba Bray, Jacqueline Woodson, Ned Vizzini, John Green, Sarah Mylnowski, Melissa de la Cruz, Holly Black, Brent Hartinger, Lisa Sandell, Will Leitch, Leslie Margolis, Cecily von Ziegessar, E. Lockhart, Jodi Anderson, David Levithan, Dan Ehrenhaft, Liz Craft, Aimee Friedman, and Adrienne Vrettos.
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:46 pm
Well, it's not a book series, but recently I've been so excited over anything written by comic book writer Brian Vaughan. I'm loitering in the comics section of Ebay, waiting to find a good deal on the trade paperbacks of Runaways, as well as the library to see if the TPBs have been returned yet so I may check them out again. redface
While I love finding a good writer, it can be a strain on the budget, too. I just learned about another, very short series that Vaughan wrote, and now I feel the need to go buy it because I know I'll thoroughly enjoy every page. Ah, mixed emotions.
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:40 am
Garth Nix. Anything by him is very good... Especially the Abhorsen books.
Oh, and Tithe's series. Don't pass that up.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:55 am
Fairgrass Well, it's not a book series, but recently I've been so excited over anything written by comic book writer Brian Vaughan. I'm loitering in the comics section of Ebay, waiting to find a good deal on the trade paperbacks of Runaways, as well as the library to see if the TPBs have been returned yet so I may check them out again. redface
While I love finding a good writer, it can be a strain on the budget, too. I just learned about another, very short series that Vaughan wrote, and now I feel the need to go buy it because I know I'll thoroughly enjoy every page. Ah, mixed emotions. Yes, bibliophilia is quite an expensive hobby. I feel it worse than usual, because I'm driven to want to spend as much as my husband. Except he's purchasing games. Which in turn translates to more books. Hat-tori Garth Nix. Anything by him is very good... Especially the Abhorsen books. Oh, and Tithe's series. Don't pass that up. Ironside was quite good.
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:13 am
I really like the Cirque Du Freak Series and I am getting into the Artemis Fowl series....(yeah a really late comer!)
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:01 pm
I'd have to say the last book I was excited to read wasn't really a book... 'twas a play...
Unkown Play (In some publications: Platonov or Without Patromony) by Anton P. Chekhov...
wonderfully written, quickly paced, but, not so much so that it leaves you behind. Hilarious moments, page-turning thrills and scandals, it's a play that anyone who enjoys theatrical works can enjoy.
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:59 pm
I am currently (and for the past year...I think) obsessing over The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (and now her son, Todd McCaffrey). There are, like, fifteen books in the series and I am currently rereading them all...at once...
I know...I'm a freak. But they are incredibly good. The books include some of everything: sci-fi, fantasy, a little civil war/rebellion, romance, midieval, etc. It's really a very good series with a good plot. She began writing it because she wanted a world united against a single common enemy (Thread, a voracious thread-like spore that devours everything carbon-based) (I did a report on her, so that's how I know).
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:57 pm
This summer I've been obsessing over Christopher Moore's books
consitering I first picked up one of his books on a lark and now a month and a half later I own all of them but one (which the bookstores didn't have in stock sweatdrop )
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:05 am
My current book obsession is the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Its a wonderful series.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:08 pm
One series thatI've been excited over is the Sevenwaters trilogy, by Juliet Marlier. When I got the first book it was like new at a library book sale for 50 cents, could not put it down, the second book I'm on my second coy of, and the third was great too.
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:59 am
Eclipse.
Need I go any further?
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