Yeah, though since I have a separate book blog I don't really want to start another place where I post about things I'm reading.
Hahaha, while we are confessing about having different tastes, I could not get through Soulless at all. I was waiting in a bus station & then had a 2.5 hour bus ride but still couldn't make myself get past page 60 or so. It's a shame b/c it sounds like the sort of thing I would really like!
50books_poc has really gotten a lot quieter over the past couple of years, which is a shame. It used to have a lot more content. The tags are pretty well-maintained; maybe there's more stuff you might be interested in from the past? (I mean, there doesn't have to be, heh.)
I didn't read Fire & Hemlock until I was an adult (though I first read it 10+ years ago, I've reread it several times since then). I read it originally b/c I love Pamela Dean's novel Tam Lin (which takes the old ballad & sets it in the Vietnam War era at a college campus in Minnesota & is... kind of the ideal version of being a college student studying literature & having ridiculous friends who are constantly quoting books at each other & trying to figure out social relationships & life in general). Fire & Hemlock is also based on the same ballad, but v. different. I didn't read any other DWJ books for years b/c I was sure they would all disappoint afterwards, hahaha. To be fair I don't love all her books, but that one I do, & the Chrestomanci books especially, & also Deep Secret, which is possibly funnier for con-goers as it gently skewers sf/f cons.
(But yeah, I am sure there are a lot of books I read & loved as a kid which would disappoint me now--I wouldn't pick up a book that solely had reviews like that either.)
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Date: 2010-11-07 11:49 am (UTC)Hahaha, while we are confessing about having different tastes, I could not get through Soulless at all. I was waiting in a bus station & then had a 2.5 hour bus ride but still couldn't make myself get past page 60 or so. It's a shame b/c it sounds like the sort of thing I would really like!
I didn't read Fire & Hemlock until I was an adult (though I first read it 10+ years ago, I've reread it several times since then). I read it originally b/c I love Pamela Dean's novel Tam Lin (which takes the old ballad & sets it in the Vietnam War era at a college campus in Minnesota & is... kind of the ideal version of being a college student studying literature & having ridiculous friends who are constantly quoting books at each other & trying to figure out social relationships & life in general). Fire & Hemlock is also based on the same ballad, but v. different. I didn't read any other DWJ books for years b/c I was sure they would all disappoint afterwards, hahaha. To be fair I don't love all her books, but that one I do, & the Chrestomanci books especially, & also Deep Secret, which is possibly funnier for con-goers as it gently skewers sf/f cons.
(But yeah, I am sure there are a lot of books I read & loved as a kid which would disappoint me now--I wouldn't pick up a book that solely had reviews like that either.)