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The Two Krishnas: A Novel
The Diviners
My Blue Notebooks PA: The Intimate Journal of Paris's Most Beautiful and Notorious Courtesan
The Ghost Belonged to Me
Disney made a live action movie based on this called 'The Child of Glass', which was my favorite movie as a kid. I remember once I had lunch with a bunch of people in college and we all had seen this and loved it and we spent lunch chatting about it.
Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story
I'd been looking forward to this for months, with a mixture of excitement and trepidation ever since I heard it was coming out. I shouldn't have worried. The book is a beautiful hardcover edition and the art is gorgeous. I love the decision to make it all sepia with the only color the red of blood and blood tears (and how happy the blood tears made me! Finally!) I was especially happy that Armand was drop dead gorgeous. Except for the narration interspersed here and there, there is no new text. A lot of people seemed unhappy that the dialogue is all taken straight from the book, but I wouldn't want it any other way. I love the dialogue of Interview. That said, the new narration, while it the right tone, didn't really shed much light on Claudia. It felt almost superfluous because it didn't give any real new insight into her thoughts and feelings.
Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story
I'd been looking forward to this for months, with a mixture of excitement and trepidation ever since I heard it was coming out. I shouldn't have worried. The book is a beautiful hardcover edition and the art is gorgeous. I love the decision to make it all sepia with the only color the red of blood and blood tears (and how happy the blood tears made me! Finally!) I was especially happy that Armand was drop dead gorgeous. Except for the narration interspersed here and there, there is no new text. A lot of people seemed unhappy that the dialogue is all taken straight from the book, but I wouldn't want it any other way. I love the dialogue of Interview. That said, the new narration, while it the right tone, didn't really shed much light on Claudia. It felt almost superfluous because it didn't give any real new insight into her thoughts and feelings.
Team Human
TEAM HUMAN I think everyone’s sort of wary about co-authored books. I am myself, but I’m not sure why, really... I’ve only read two [non-fiction] co-authored book aside from this one, which doesn’t seem to be a big enough sample size. Maybe it’s just that it’s hard to imagine just how one would go about co-authoring a book. Writing one seems hard enough, even without another author to work with. I can’t really say how having two authors affected Team Human. It’s very different than anything else I’ve read by Sarah Rees Brennan, but then again, it was a very different genre. There were definitely lines, especially in terms of dialogue, where I seemed to recognize SRB’s trademark style. Although I am aware of Justine Larbalestier, I’ve never read any of them, so I can’t say what parts of the book were ‘hers’. Reading the author’s note at the back however, made it seem like they had a lot of fun writing this.Which nice to know, because I had a lot of fun reading it. It’s about time we got a witty send-up of the whole ‘high school girl falling for vampire’ trope, because all the derivative YA books so far have been very serious and earnest. It was so much fun to see that couple from the best friend’s perspective. And the world-building was fun, and so were the characters. I love Kit. I loved how, in the end, the story was about choice, how to make our own and let other people make their own. Also, random maybe, but I really appreciated how Francis actually spoke in a old-fashioned manner, as opposed to most books where we are told that the vampire speaks like that, but the actual dialogue is modern.
Pippi in the South Seas (Pippi Longstocking Books)
In elementary school one of my best friends and I were so obsessed with Pippi Longstockings (admittedly because of those old Swedish movies which were horribly dubbed into English). I remember wanting to make a play, but being stumped by the impossibility of being able to pick up a horse!
The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1) (Boxcar Children Mysteries)
I actually only like the first book, because I lose interest after they moved out of the box car. LOL
The Egypt Game (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
We read this book in school, but I also loved all of Zilpha Keatley-Snyder's work, esp the Great Stanley Kidnapping Case. A few years ago I heard her speak at my public library, and she was just wonderful, very warm and funny.
The Railway Children (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics)
I had a beautiful illustrated edition of this.
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
My grandparents gave me this book when I was little, and thus began my lifelong love of Greek mythology.
Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, Book 3)
This was always one of my favorites. (The other is Anne's House of Dreams.) I always loved Phillipa Gordon.
Heidi (Kingfisher Classics)
As a kid, I used to pretend to be eidi when I was going to sleep, and pretend that I was sleeping in my little bed of hay in Grandfather's house...
A Little Princess (Penguin Classics)
I am very embarassed to state that in middle school I may or may not have written a Little Princess/Witching Hour (yes the Anne Rice book) cross-over fic. LOL
Lips Touch: Three Times
I read this one back at the beginning of the year, after finishing Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and I really loved it. I'm not sure why I didn't post a review then.Laini Taylor has such a way with words. I just love the worlds she creates - they couldn't be written by anyone else.
