Summary: A teen leaves home to fix a problem he created and stumbles of a task to save the kingdom from a great evil.
This blog is not going to become a young adult fantasy book review blog. But I am enjoying re-reading some of the books of my childhood. There will be some more weighty books reviewed later this week.
The cover of The Book of Three shown is the cover of the copy that I had when I first read the book. It has been updated, but I still like this cover. It shows well Taran, the main character and the Horned King, the expression of evil for this book.
Regular readers of this blog know that I am a nanny for my two nieces. They have just turned 4 and 2.5. I bought an iPad right after it came out and they have been the largest users of it.
We play lots of games on it, and the 2.5 year old really likes to read books on it. But I rarely actually read books with her. Usually she read parts of them herself. She knows how to turn on the narration and turn the pages. But at 2.5 she rarely finishes a whole book. The four year old also rarely finishes a book, but she is more interested in the games than the books.
I am not sure why I have always been so drawn to A Swiftly Tilting Planet. It has been one of my favorite books since I first read it. I have read it at least a half-dozen times now, although it has been since high school since I last read it.
I was trying to figure out why this is my favorite book of the series. Partially I think it is because it is focused on Charles Wallace. I have always been particularly drawn to ‘special children’. As an adult, I appreciate even more that what he wants to do is take charge and solve problems and use the skills and brain power he has. But as with many of the books, really what is needed is not to take charge and solve problems, but to just be the person that you were created to be. Charles Wallace was created for this problem, and he does not need to work to solve it as much as just be Charles Wallace and allow The Wind (or God) to place him where he need to be.
Several days ago Amazon announced that Seattle Library would be testing their new kindle library lending. Evidently it went very well and Amazon announced the roll out today. I have not had a chance to try it out. My local library is part of the Overdrive Library system, which is what Amazon is supporting, but my library (Cobb County GA) says “coming soon.”. I will add a new post once I am have been able to try it out.
Here is the press release:
Amazon today announced Kindle Library Lending, a new feature launching later this year that will allow Kindle customers to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 libraries in the United States. Kindle Library Lending will be available for all generations of Kindle devices and free Kindle reading apps.
“We’re excited that millions of Kindle customers will be able to borrow Kindle books from their local libraries,” said Jay Marine, Director, Amazon Kindle. “Customers tell us they love Kindle for its Pearl e-ink display that is easy to read even in bright sunlight, up to a month of battery life, and Whispersync technology that synchronizes notes, highlights and last page read between their Kindle and free Kindle apps.”
Status: Gave Up I am up for someone convincing me that I am wrong. But I gave up on Something Wicked This Way Comes. I have not actually read anything by Bradbury. I know that is probably reprehensible, but I just have not picked anything up by him before. I saw the audiobook at the library and … Read more
Upfront this is not a normal review. I did not read it as I normally read, I read it as I was prepping it for the kindle version. I have not prepped and converted many books, just a handful, but I have done a few based on my own love of ebooks and the desire to get smaller independent books out to a wider audience. Kevin Hendricks, one of the contributors, contacted me about working on Outspoken because I converted his last book, Open Our Eyes: Seeing the Invisible People of Homelessness. Outspoken is a very similar style, lots of contributors, lots of short chapters.
Many Waters is the fourth book in Madeline L’Engle’s Time Quintet. It was not published until 1986, almost a decade after the third book and 24 years after the first book of the series. Chronologically, it is set between books 2 and 3. Because I got these at the library, due to availability, I listened to it in chronological order.
Summary: Bond fights the bad guy, tries to get the girl
I feel like I watched a lot of James Bond movies growing up. But when I go back and watch old James Bond I do not remember many. So maybe I watched the same ones several times?
I have not actually read any of the original books before. Other than the original Jason Bourne books, I have not really read any of the old spy novels. I have enjoyed some of the newer, post-cold war spy novels.
After reading A Wrinkle in Time, which I have not read in many years, A Wind in the Door was more familiar. I remembered most of the story line and while it has still been 20 years or so I have read it more recently and more often than Wrinkle in Time.
I am participating in Tentblogger BlogX Challenge (modeled after the P90X). John has been incredibly helpful in giving suggestions and helping me make Bookwi.se a better blog. (He and Chris Ames even came up with the name.) Todays challenge was to update the About Page. Since I will hit 700 posts very soon (probably Thursday), … Read more