Tuesday Book Club
Two books about supernatural boyfriends this week:
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer and The Mediator, Book 6, Twilight by Meg Cabot.
Because sometimes a cold, bloodless, pulseless guy is exactly the one for you. Both very romantic tales, and they gave my girlish heart just what I wanted.
What did the rest of you read this week?
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I love the Twilight and Mediator series. I’m looking forward to the next Stephenie Meyer title. Glad you enjoyed them.
I read Find Me, an adult mystery by Carol O’Connell, the fifth book in Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series, and Skybreaker (sequel to Airborn) by Kenneth Oppel. Next up: the ARC of Mitali Perkins’ new book.
I just finished reading Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalastier. I really enjoyed this book. Enough to have picked up the second book of the trilogy. Can’t wait.
Well, I didn’t fly anywhere yesterday, so I didn’t read as much.
I re-read the South Beach Diet and lost 3 lbs already.
Currently reading a Robert Ludlum book.
I finished Free Food For Millionaires(reviewed at my blog) and have started The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings while still reading Throne of Jade and Afternoons with Emily. Plenty of pages on my plate there!
Hey,Robin,remember when you said that if there’s a really great book you HAVE to read,to let you know loud and clear? Well,Free Food For Millionaires is a MUST READ for spring. It’s coming out in May and if my review doesn’t sway you,this might: the author is one of the nicest people in the world. She sent me an e-mail to thank me for my review and asked me if it could be included in the upcoming website for the book. I said yes(of course)and she wrote me back a lovely reply regarding the House of Mirth(we both like Edith Wharton,another plus in her favor). You gotta read this book,you gotta!
Lady T, you know I like to reward nice authors. I’ll definitely add that one to my list.
Patrick, you know how I feel about The South Beach Diet, so we won’t start that whole fight again. I’m happy for you that you lost 3 pounds. I’ll hold my tongue on what I was going to say otherwise.
Vivian, I need to read that myself. I enjoy Justine’s blog, and keep meaning to pick up one of her books. Thanks for the reminder.
I just saw The Mediator series in my library a few weeks ago. It’s on my “to be read after I graduate in 21 Days” list!
I read three books this week (2 were for class). I finished Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat (different, but really good) and Norma Howe’s The Adventures of Blue Avenger. I *loved* Blue Avenger. It is a definite must read!
I also just re-read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. My Harry Potter Book Club met last night and it was wonderful… although we’re still trying to decide who should die in the next book… I’m going to restart The Goblet of Fire tonight!!
Well, I wouldn’t have mentioned it if I had completed another book.
Patrick, I totally understand that reasoning. I’m sure I would have done the same, frankly.
Christen, congratulations on your upcoming graduation! How exciting!
I just finished Murder on Washington Square a couple nights ago, and now I’m halfway through The Nanny Diaries. I’ve been such a slacker lately, so I’m trying to catch up;-)
After being blown away by “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” I’m reading “Louisana Song,” by Kerry Madden.
I have so many on the TBR pile right now, I don’t know where I’m going to go next!!
Sigh, Kelly, do I hear that.
And Kimmy, I’ve had the same experience lately, which is why I made sure to read two books this week. I want to read more, and apparently the only way to do that is to read more. Go figure.
Coincidently the advertising agency I work for has the South Beach Diet account. I compose the computer files that are used to print the magazine ads. While I’m constantly exposed to the marketing claims, I never realized that by reading the book you could in one week lose three pounds. Now thats impressive.
Patrick did you actually have to eat the pages or just read them?
i’m to put “the south beach diet” under my pillow and see if that’s as effective as reading it–p. i’ll let you know.
Actually, you have to lick the pages. The secret of the diet is the specially formulated ink that the book is printed with.
Incidentally, the book says 8-13 lbs in the first week is normal. And this is my second time doing the first week. This is normal for me.
I’ll post more on my blog tonight. Here is my first post on the subject.
annette – my wife thinks the funniest thing I have done for diet/exercise was wear ankle weights to bed. I still think that it was effective.
Finally finished Jesus Land, a memoir by Julia Scheeres. It won the ALA Alex Award for 2006 (that’s for an adult book that is appealing to young adults) and it was quite good.
It is about so many things… family, race, Christianity, abuse, betrayal…life.
Julia and her adopted brother are sent to the Dominican Republic to attend a Christian reform school called Escuela Caribe and this book contains details the events leading up to this point, what they experience there, and a brief, but poignant epilogue.
An excerpt:
“I must show proper Courtesy and Respect Toward Authority Figures, and part of that is letting authority figures win panty-folding contests. Yes, Bruce, you do have the tightest panty. You are the Queen of Panty Folders, you Canadian .”
I love tragedy mixed with humor. It really pushes your emotions to places you didn’t know they could go.
For more information on Escuela Caribe, which is still in operation today, check out http://www.nhym-alumni.org/
I might try Twilight next because SOMEBODY thinks I’m the WORST LIBRARIAN EVER because I haven’t read it.
Ooh, Molly, that sounds like my kind of book!
Thank you, Robin! I’m so excited to be done with school!
On an exciting note… one of my Harry Potter book club friends also graduated from Rutgers with her Master’s and she was showing me her regalia… it turns out it looks an awful lot like wizard robes with Gryffindor colors! We might be rocking the graduation regalia when we go to get our Deathly Hallows books on 7/21/07! =) (I’ll take pictures!)
First off: Hurray, I can comment!
Let’s see…I’m still going back through the Artemis Fowls (I’m on Arctic Incident, the second one), which never cease to be hilarious.
I finished up Twilight yesterday. While I’m not usually the swooning type, but that. Was. Awesome. I need to find New Moon now. Or, well, tomorrow when I can hit the library. I feel like such a sell-out, using a library…I usually just buy everything because I know I’ll read it over and over. I’ll probably wait for the trilogy to end and go to a nice box set, and buy it then.
Speaking of buying, I shelled out another $20 for two more volumes of Fullmetal Alchemist (Hi, my name is Miri, and I’m an FMA addict…), both of which I read that night. Another two volumes and I’ll have hit the end of the ones that have been released in English and will have to wait, preying on the bookstore like some kind of weirdly selective vulture, as the ones through sixteen (the last one released in Japan) hit the Books-A-Million shelves. Siiigh. (About those, though: has anyone else ever been severely hoodwinked by an author? And I do mean severely. We’re talking highly charred corpsicles of friendly, innocent women here. Or, well, innocent dummies, as it turned out. Somebody hand me a spork, Arakawa-sensei is getting stabbed.)
I’m also still working my way through Slander (which is very interesting, just not something you can sit and read for hours on end), and I’m revisiting a very precious friend: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. Robin, you said we should alert you to books you absolutely must read? This is one of them. It’s an absolute must-read for people who love books, people who write books, book-people of all shapes, sizes, and positions…it’s amazing. And so wonderfully bookish. (It’s the first of a trilogy, but nobody’s perfect. The second one’s amazing, too.)
So ends my Tuesday book ramble.
Miri, ramble on any time you want! Glad we were able to sort out the website comment problem so you could join us again. And just in time, since you have much to report.
First of all, I think I read somewhere (maybe on Stephenie Meyer’s website?) that the Twilight series will go beyond three books, so you might as well read New Moon now, and Eclipse when it comes out in early August.
Second, thanks for the heads up about Inkheart. I will take you at your word, and add it to my must-read list.
Third, have I ever been hood-winked by an author? Oh, yeah. And either it’s so much better than I expected, and so I’m a fan for life, or I feel totally robbed and will never open that person’s books again. No amount of apologizing will do it.
And I have to read Artemis Fowl, too. Okay, better stop typing and go back to reading . . .
Top Ten Uses For An Unworn Prom Dress by Tina Ferraro.
And I’m still reading my long book. I took a break to read Tina’s book so I could report today. lol.
I need to read New Moon. But I’m worried that I won’t be happy if she starts acting all stupid toward Edward. Is this book going to make me mad?
Um, maybe, Heather, in a few places. But it’s worth it. Truly. Read it.
Two young adult books, one of my old favorites-Thunder Cave by Roland Smith, and Golden & Grey by Louisa Arnold. There is a second in that series that one of my students is holding onto.
I did buy Twilight and its on my TBR pile. I need to read it so my 2 book readers can read it before school is out.
Readerdiane, I’ve never heard of either of those YAs. Feeling underdeveloped here.
Please do read Twilight soon! Your girl heart will thank you!
Oh, I LOVED Golden & Grey too.
SERIOUSLY getting a complex about having not read Twilight. I’m going to go try to find it to buy tonight, as all the copies in my library/library system are checked out.
I read my umpteenth Pony Pal earlier in the week. Last night I planned to relax for a change and put a big dent in the book I’ve been trying to read for weeks now and instead I spent the better part of the night and today in the vet’s office with one of my Dachshunds who was bitten by a rattlesnake last night.
She’s still in hospital and all I’ve read today are internet vet articles on snake bites. Robin, I think you would have been proud of my first responder skills last night.
Deborah, I’m so sorry about your Dachshund!
I bet I would be proud of your first responder skills. So you didn’t cut the wound and try to suck the venom out? Excellent.
Seriously, what did you do?
I wasn’t sure at first if it was a snake bite, but she was outside and came in crying and pawing at her mouth-it began to swell -a lot- immediately and it was so painful she wouldn’t let me touch it. She was getting increasingly distressed,shaking, sucked in stomach, panicked eyes, etc. The amount of pain and the instant swelling was not consistent with insect, scorpion, wasp, pack rat, etc. bite and since I have seen rattlers in the backyard before I began thinking that way. DID NOT PANIC.
Took her vitals (minus temp as I don’t have a rectal therm-note to self- buy one), kept her as immobile as I could,called vet and did 90 mph down Speedway. Her head/neck is now about 3 times it’s usual size, but it wasn’t until this morning when we could get her mouth open that we could see the puncture wounds inside her upper lip. Intravenous Benadryl, antibiotics, fluids, blood draw for platelets count. She was doing OK until this afternoon and I was actually there to take her home when she began bleeding (the big danger with hematoxins) at IV site-in an amount that made vet keep her and we will continue to do platelets counts and fluids, antibiotics and Benadryl.
Unfortunately, time has passed for anti-venin (must be within first 4 hours of bite) and its use is somewhat controversial for canines anyway and we weren’t entirely sure it was a snake bite and didn’t want to compromise her condition if it wasn’t. Most vets treat with loads of Benadryl, fluids and antibiotics. Did you know it can take up to 72 hours for snake bite symptoms to show in dogs? This is probably more info than you wanted to know, but I’ve read just about everything on the internet on this topic. She is such a sweetheart too. She’s a little too yappy for me most days, but tonight it is too quiet here.
Wow, Deborah. Thanks for sharing! Those of us with pets are grateful for the information.
Hope your little one is back to her old self soon!
Thanks. And thanks for giving me paragraphs too.
Don’t mention it. It’s a service I perform for Annette all the time.
damn straight rb.
[Here, Annette. Let me put a paragraph break here for ya.--Mgmt.]
d. i’m rooting for your little weiner dog. i have a friend who is taking her dog to a “snake awareness” class were they (the dogs) are taught to be wary, as opposed to curious, about snakes. i quess i just assumed that dogs are naturally (ie process of evolution) snake avoidant, which your own experience proves, is not the case.
my own dog although, thankfully, having no snake tales to tell (yet) has had run-ins with a poisonous toad and killer bees, both experiences very unpleasant, and expensive.
TALL TALES by Karen Day
THE TAKER by J.M. Steele
Geez, Little Willow, I don’t know those books, either. I need to get out more.
This wiener and my ridgeback are very cautious with outside critters and have stayed clear in the past – when they see/hear one. She smelled strongly of Rosemary and that bush is her favorite one, so I think she just got under there and the snake and her surprised each other. (Should I paragraph break here?) [Yeah, let's do.--Mgmt]
The weiner pup is the one I worry about-he just lacks experience and I might consider the dangerous critter avoidance class for him. Though I’ve heard mixed results from those classes – a lot depends on the trainer.
You’ve sure got the expensive part right – I should have been a vet.
Reading Un Lun Dun by China Mielville, which is the type of novel I don’t normally read (fantasy-esque). Good stuff. (It’s technically YA). I plan to review it when I’m done (at our site, of course).
Oh, good, Jules. I’ll be interested in hearing about that.