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I am going to Boston this weekend! I will see Millifriends and friends from school and my baby brother who is in his second week of college in Boston and is thus not a baby anymore (:O :O :O) and possibly my friend from high school's baby sister who is in her second year of college in Boston and therefore even less of a baby. (All in two days. It will be a packed weekend.) It will be full of awesomeness. Tragically, however, this also means that I will miss the Brooklyn Book Festival. Susan Choi (whom I have not yet read, but I have checked out of the library due to [livejournal.com profile] schiarire's LJ recommendation)! Joan Didion! Arthur Phillips! Susan Cooper! I was going to send my roommate as my proxy for awesome, but she has some kind of work bonding thing that day. BUT New York-area people, you all should totally go and then tell me about it!

Meanwhile, I will sulk and instead get my book-babble fix by inflicting more booklogging on you all. I read The Winter Prince on [livejournal.com profile] shati's orders; now I have finally managed to get my hands on the next book, A Coalition of Lions. This is the book in which Goewin, King Arthur's daughter from the complex English politics of the previous book, bops over to ancient Aksum (what is presently Ethiopia) to engage in complex politics there. I did not like it quite as much as The Winter Prince - I think Goewin is slightly more compelling from the outside than the inside - but I still very much enjoyed it; complex politics! Ancient Aksum! It is mostly, I think, that the plot is not as strongly crafted in terms of arc as in The Winter Prince. But Wein's prose remains very compelling, and I will definitely be reading on in the series.

I do, however, have to share my one facepalm moment:

BECCA, reading book: Oh, I really like how she is handling the relationship between Goewin and [Character X!] It is pretty clear that they feel strongly about each other without her ever having to hit us over the head with a 'ZOMG I love him, how did I not realize?' sledgehammer moment. This is kind of refreshing!
BECCA: *turns, literally, a single page*
GOEWIN: ZOMG! I love [Character X!] How did I not realize! *pulls out sledgehammer, bonks Becca over the head with it*
BECCA: *sees tiny book-shaped stars!*

Date: 2008-09-10 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shati.livejournal.com
I don't think Aksum is prehistoric. :O Definitely not the time period in the books, anyway.

Otherwise, we agree! I think A Coalition of Lions is the weakest book of them all (although I still like it), and part of it is that I just don't find Goewin as compelling a lead, and part of it is that, yeah, the plot is not as strong or tied into the emotional arcs or organic as the other books'.

I finished my reread of The Sunbird -- should I bring it to Boston? Actually, I should anyway, I think I stole it away from Gen.

Date: 2008-09-10 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dramaturgca.livejournal.com
Sounds like your baby brother is the same age as my baby brother...

Date: 2008-09-10 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dramaturgca.livejournal.com
Has yours attempted facial hair yet? Mine did...

Date: 2008-09-10 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dramaturgca.livejournal.com
For mine, it was all mustachey. Fortunately, he was required to be clean-shaven during marching band season, so the summer was the only issue... Who knows what new terrors college will bring?

Date: 2008-09-10 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dramaturgca.livejournal.com
Well, good. Now I'm even more scared for December...

Date: 2008-09-10 08:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cupenny.livejournal.com
>_> Oddly enough I will also be in Boston this weekend.

Maybe we should make plans. *packs certain things*

Date: 2008-09-10 08:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gramarye1971
O_O Susan Cooper whut.

(Truthfully, it is for the best that I cannot go, because I would almost certainly burst into tears or ask her to sign everything I own or do something equally mortifying.)

Date: 2008-09-11 06:32 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] schiarire.livejournal.com
BOOK FESTIVAL

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