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- Bethany Shepard
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I'm reading The Candlestone by Bryan Davis. I'm a little stuck on it… it's a little slow.
"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther.
I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."
-Nicolas Cage
I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."
-Nicolas Cage
So, if you follow any publishers or anything, you've probably noticed that A. ALL BOOKS COME OUT ON TUESDAYS. and B. ABOUT A THOUSAND BOOKS COME OUT ON THE SAME TUESDAY. So yeah, this most recent Tuesday about ten books came out that I want to read. So far, I own three of them. I've read one, and the one I'm working on now is called The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancy. It's the sequel to The Fifth Wave. And so far, I like it.
An owl and a squirrel are sitting in a tree, watching a farmer go by. The owl turns to the squirrel and says nothing, because owls can't talk. The owl then eats the squirrel because it is a bird of prey.
Haha. It was a really powerful book. Our government is quite a while away from that, thankfully.CreativeThinker101 wrote:Ha ha, me too. It just makes me so glad our government isn't really like that... or is it?
As for Old Man and the Sea, it may not have been the most interesting book in the world, but the ending was a bit of a twist and oddly satisfying, at least for me.
Maybe I should read it again. The language was descriptive, but the story didn't interest me.
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I recently read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It was fairly meaningful, and a lot better than the movie. I really enjoyed it.
I also just finished the first book in the Artemis Fowl series, and it was decent, I'm excited to read the rest of the series.
I also just finished the first book in the Artemis Fowl series, and it was decent, I'm excited to read the rest of the series.
Oh I'm ready tons of books right now! My favs
A Jar of Dreams
Trixie Beldon
The Red Rock Mystery Series
A Jar of Dreams
Trixie Beldon
The Red Rock Mystery Series
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- TigerShadow
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Ooh, I liked The Help, too! I had to read it last summer for our high school's summer reading assignment, and I liked it a lot. I loved the different perspectives on things.Joy wrote:I recently read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It was fairly meaningful, and a lot better than the movie. I really enjoyed it.
We're reading Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights for English, and I'm actually rather intrigued by it. I'm curious to see where it goes. My APUSH teacher doesn't care for the Brontë sisters, though; he told us once that at one point when he was in high school, he was at home sick and was reading Wuthering Heights for English and then somehow managed to drag himself out of bed and muster up the strength to force himself to turn on the TV...only to find that everything had been pre-empted because the news was reporting the attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan. So no more Brontë sisters, because then the President might get shot, and you just can't take that kind of risk.
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That's a funny story! Not the best reason in the world.TigerShadow wrote:Ooh, I liked The Help, too! I had to read it last summer for our high school's summer reading assignment, and I liked it a lot. I loved the different perspectives on things.Joy wrote:I recently read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It was fairly meaningful, and a lot better than the movie. I really enjoyed it.
We're reading Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights for English, and I'm actually rather intrigued by it. I'm curious to see where it goes. My APUSH teacher doesn't care for the Brontë sisters, though; he told us once that at one point when he was in high school, he was at home sick and was reading Wuthering Heights for English and then somehow managed to drag himself out of bed and muster up the strength to force himself to turn on the TV...only to find that everything had been pre-empted because the news was reporting the attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan. So no more Brontë sisters, because then the President might get shot, and you just can't take that kind of risk.
I like Wuthering Heights. I think I like Jane Eyre a little better, though, because of
But I really need to go to the library and get a new fiction book to read.
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I might have to read Wuthering Heights. I liked Jane Eyre; it was one of the best books I've had to read for literature, I think. It's so interesting that the Brontë sisters all ended up writing. That must be unusual.
Unfortunately, I'm basically just reading textbooks right now.
You public schoolers and your acronyms.TigerShadow wrote:My APUSH teacher doesn't care for the Brontë sisters...
Unfortunately, I'm basically just reading textbooks right now.
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Yeah, it's a really great book. I didn't like how the movie made the characters seem a lot more perfect (Elizabeth, Minny, Skeeter, Celia). In the movie you feel sorry and sympathetic for all those characters, and in the book there are a lot of things that sort of made me question my loyalty to those characters in the first place.TigerShadow wrote:Ooh, I liked The Help, too! I had to read it last summer for our high school's summer reading assignment, and I liked it a lot. I loved the different perspectives on things.Joy wrote:I recently read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It was fairly meaningful, and a lot better than the movie. I really enjoyed it.
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I picked up Young Unicorns by Madeleine L'Engle and just started reading it. I borrowed it from one of those little house-shaped free libraries on someone's lawn.
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- RyanCummings
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Brock Eastman (the guy we all know as the one who made us laugh out loud at the Official AIO podcast) wrote a book called HowlSage around the time that he wrote the fifth Imagination Station book, and it is probably one of my favorite books ever. Is there anyone else who enjoyed his book?
PS: There is a Kickstarter to fund the rest of the books in the Sages of Darkness series. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/25 ... ing-demons
PS: There is a Kickstarter to fund the rest of the books in the Sages of Darkness series. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/25 ... ing-demons
~~~Ryan Matlock: Youtuber, producer of the World Famous Odyssey podcast, writing assistant to Brock Eastman, and SUPER AIO fan.
I want to start Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, and Hobbit!
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Ooh, I remember that one. I think I've read all the Black Stallion and Island Stallion books. How about you?Natalie P. wrote:the Island Stallion Races
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Good choices! Which one will you start first?Micky wrote:I want to start Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, and Hobbit!
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- HomeschoolCowgirl
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Yes, we've read all the Island/Black Stallion books... and just about all the other books about horses our library has to offer!
"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, for rhythm and harmony find their way into the inner places of the soul... making the soul of one who is rightly educated, graceful" -- Socrates
I'm almost halfway through Eragon. IT'S AMAZING.
Fun fact: The author was homeschooled, graduated when he was 15, and wrote it when he was 19. But I don't think he's Christian.
Fun fact: The author was homeschooled, graduated when he was 15, and wrote it when he was 19. But I don't think he's Christian.
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Two (Aliens) help a young boy race his unknown-to-the-world horse in the International.
Two (Aliens) help a young boy race his unknown-to-the-world horse in the International.
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"Why does Connie shower all of the time?" ~CGM_Games
Good choices! Which one will you start first?[/quote]Micky wrote:I want to start Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, and Hobbit!
I just finished the book of chronicles of narnia.
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I never finished The Chronicles of Narnia. I stopped in Prince Caspian because it got boring, and I've never continued.
17:39<Novatom>: I'm in another boat. A boat of people who don't know what everyone's talking about. A boat that is sinking.
17:40<Sameriazx>: oh no... here we go again...
17:40<Sameriazx>: oh no... here we go again...