I liked the premise of this comic: vampires invade an Alaska twn, where of course the sun doesn't rise for 30 days. I decided to pick up the graphic novel last month and just got around to reading it, but once I started I didn't stop. Great story, even better art in an abstract style I find very appealing. Gory and grisly, not a read for kids (in case you couldn't figure that out), and ...
(I hate it when this happens: I typed up a really good review of this book and decided to send it also to booktards , so I hit Ctrl-A to select all and then tried to hit Ctrl-C to copy...but I hit Ctrl-V instead and deleted everything I had typed. You can't Ctrl-Z to undo here, so I lost it all. And I don't feel like trying to recreate it, so... Good book. More later.
I picked this book up a couple months ago just as book to keep around for when I want to read and don't want to get into something big. It was on sale at Borders for $2.99, and browsing it let me know that it might make a good addition to my classroom library. All things considered, it was definitely worth the three bucks; there are other books that do similar things in different formats, ...
I listened to this book the first time a couple months ago, but I decided to listen to it again before reading (or listening to) the sequel, Catching Fire . After my first listen, I was told byu several people that there was a manga written almost ten years ago that dealt with the same idea: a televised game that pitted children against other children, only one can survive. So I bought ...
Back about 9 months ago, I discovered that my sweet Quaker parrot, Emily, is really a boy bird (You can read all about it here: http://orbadviser.livejournal.com/260029.html ). My friend Kara read that post and recommended Enslaved by Ducks because the author (a memoirist) had a similar incident that resulted in his having a parrot named Stanley Sue. Well, when someone recommends a book...
...'s not much of a second source, being an opinion column and all, but it's at least by Sue Carlton, who does a pretty good job with it. ...well, that was surreal. The deal, presented in orbadviser 's blog, was simple: post the first sentence from your blog from each month of this year, but I misremembered it and did the last sentence of each month. Here's how it would have looked if I'd ...
I first read this book waaaay back in the early 80s, and it - along with A Sword for Shanarra by Terry Brooks - is responsible for my love of the fantasy genre. I've read it several times since then, but not in the past decade or two. It turns out that this book and its sequel were offered as a twofer on Kindle, so I figured I'd give it another read. To be honest, I was ready for it to ...
I really had to struggle with this book, which is what was assigned to the kids who afre taking AP Language. I have been assured that the students love this book by the other AP teacher (who assigned the reading to them), but I thought it was thick and poorly written. It seems that Upton Sinclair had several purposes to his book: to do an expose on the meat industry (which seems to be what...
Well, after complaining about the last two Sookie Stackhouse books, I rather liked this one. And this one is the most recent one, so I can read/liosten to something else until next May. I know she has several short stories published in different anthologies, but I think I'll skip them for now.
Gosh, I am really enjoying this manga. One of my college students assures me I will enjoy BLeach , but I am already reading this one and have plans to buy more Battle Royale this weekend; I don't know how captivated with manga I want to become. But I am enjoying it immensely. In this volume, Light and L meet in person, suspect that each other is who he really is, and decide to join forces...
