Comments on: Tuesday Book Club

By: robin

robin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:24:01 +0000

Cool, RM! Since you checked it out from the library, I’ll bet you get to it before I do. Enjoy!

By: RM1(SS) (ret)

RM1(SS) (ret) — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:34:43 +0000

Okay, y’all talked me into it. I spotted Uglies in a display at the library this afternoon, so I grabbed it (along with the four books I’d already picked out). I’ll read it right after Dobry, the 1935 Newbery winner.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:22:49 +0000

Congratulations, Lady T! I know that was a big, long book. You owe yourself some short ones

By: Lady T

Lady T — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:42:35 +0000

Update: as of last night,I have finished Maia(woo hoo!) and will be able to focus more on Keeping The House as well as start a much shorter book,Swim To Me by Betsy Carter.

Speaking of the Golden Compass trailer,I just finished my post for the day and have embedded it there. It does look awesome. Between the trailer and the huge promo flipbook that I picked up at BEA,I’m getting pumped up for this movie.

By: readerdiane

readerdiane — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:57:31 +0000

We won’t finish Uglies in class but I told them they could check it out from the Public Library and some of them looked at my like I had 2 heads. Others said they would get it from the school library in the Fall.

I do love the descriptions in the book and the heroine is very well drawn. I have to finish it before Friday.

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:11:41 +0000

Thanks!

I also managed to have somewhat of a life this weekend, attending events for and with friends, which was nice.

I have seen various versions of the trailer, and admittedly replayed the morphing scene with the daemons.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:00:28 +0000

Little Willow!!! AAAAAA!!! I love that you can read so many books in a 48-hour period! I bow to your brain.

Have you seen the trailer for The Golden Compass? It makes me feel just like I did about Lord of the Rings: that I’m so grateful we live in a time when movie technology can do justice to these fantasy books. I think it’s going to be great.

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:44:48 +0000

Robin: Sixteen books completed + first half of another book = 3380 pages read in approximately twenty hours

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:43:51 +0000

UGLIES is brilliant. Pretties and Specials, the second and third books, are as well. Extras, the companion, is due out later this year.

HIS DARK MATERIALS is brilliant AND masterful. I love it so much that I waited years before reading another Pullman novel. I’ve since read CLOCKWORK and SCARECROW.

The Sally Lockhart trilogy by Pullman is one of (rather, three of) those books that I’ve wanted to read for quite some time but, for some reason, knew would come my way when the time was right. So far, I’m liking RUBY. I saw the Masterpiece Theatre telefilm earlier this year and was disappointed in it because I was overly eager for it.

I really hope the film version of THE GOLDEN COMPASS does the book justice. The same for the movies that follow.

Little Willow, Pantalaimon fan

By: robin

robin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:03:59 +0000

All right, RM! Very nice showing! I really like your program of reading all the Newbery winners. I think you’re onto something there.

Patrick, thank you for making up for the “I’m not wearing pants” comment with some solid science. You are a mysterious man.

Diana, I agree–The Subtle Knife was my favorite in the trilogy, and I truly loved the trilogy. The Subtle Knife was just so mind-blowingly imaginative. I don’t know how someone gets those particular brain cells to be able to write something like that.

And D, thanks for the offer to furnish me with Uglies, but it’s right here on my shelf beckoning to me. I really, really need to work through my TBR pile this summer, for my own happy sake. So many great books need to be read!