HOLY SHIT! I freaking LOVED this novel. I dove head first and never came up for air. Seriously. I want NEED the third book NOW. Guh. If you haven’t read The Hunger Games, you MUST.From Goodreads:Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was [...]
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The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer,
Posted October 26th 2009 by tyralynAs I said in my post about Life as We Knew It, I switched out one of my challenge books. I decided to take A Wrinkle In Time off the list. I had tried to read it and didn’t care for it a while ago and only put it back to sort of force myself [...]
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Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Posted October 21st 2009 by tyralynFirst – this was the 50th book of the year for me. 50th! I’m stunned. Sure, the majority are audio, but even still, I’ve been listening to audiobooks for years and never get to the 50 mark. I ended up with 31 in 2006, 39 in 2005 and 2004. A lot of those were typically [...]
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Posted October 17th 2009 by tyralynI have now finished book 3 of the 7 that I chose for the DystopYA challenges! I quite enjoyed Little Brother. As a geek, it tickled my geeky side quite a bit. As a reader, however, it disappointed me. I felt that the Epilogue was tacked on just as an afterthought, at the behest of [...]
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The Giver by Lois Lowry
Posted October 12th 2009 by tyralynThe Giver was a super quick read at 208 pages. It was a good book, but I’m not sure I understand why so many people think this is a must read. I can see encouraging youths to read it, but I wouldn’t say that it’s a must read.From Goodreads:Jonas’ world is perfect. Everything is under [...]
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Posted October 11th 2009 by tyralynThe first book I chose for the DystopYA challenge(s) was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I typically like YA, but this one? I absolutely LOVED. From Goodreads:Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long [...]
I Read.
Posted October 9th 2009 by tyralynI read, a lot. I also listen to a lot of audio books.What I don’t seem to get is why people think that audio books aren’t as time consuming as ‘real’ books. You spend just as much time listening to it as you would reading it, because it’s not being read any faster than a [...]
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PISSED OFF RANT AHEAD
Posted September 13th 2009 by tyralynOkay, guess what folks. I’m PISSED OFF. I’m goddamn sick and tired of people slagging on Laurell K Hamilton and/or Stephenie Meyer. Who died and gave you people the right to sit and slag on someone elses writing? NO ONE. If you don’t like their writing, DON’T READ IT. Plain and goddamn simple as that. [...]
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Word Of The Day
Posted June 14th 2009 by tyralynNUT-BUNNY!Usage – “I’d thought of a lot of things this nut-bunny could have wanted from me; that hadn’t been one of them.”Source: Skin Trade – Laurell K Hamilton
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$20 Later..
Posted June 2nd 2009 by tyralyn$20 later, we know that the spot on the bottom of Rob’s foot is absolutely nothing of any consequence. It’s a solid mass that comes from him having been a dumb ass when he was younger. I’m not kidding about that either. But at least we know that there’s nothing there to worry about, so [...]
