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skygiantsI 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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 onshati'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!*
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
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!*
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Date: 2008-09-10 08:18 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-09-10 08:21 pm (UTC)But yes! I was rolling with the plot until towards the end, and all of a sudden, hey, there's a resolution, I did not expect to see you so soon!
You should totally bring it for Gen's sake; I actually have it out from the Brooklyn library now! Because the Brooklyn library pwns the NY library so hard in terms of YA lit it is ridiculous.
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Date: 2008-09-10 08:26 pm (UTC)Three years ago: "What do you mean I grow hair UNDERNEATH my chin too?"
Two years ago: "Yes, all my friends tell me to shave the sideburns and that they're hideous, but I DON'T CARE."
This year: "But my girlfriend likes the beard, really!"
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Date: 2008-09-10 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-10 08:36 pm (UTC)His last, triumphant words to me on the subject: "But now I'll be in college so you can't tell me it's sketchy anymore!" I fear. I fear a lot.
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Date: 2008-09-10 08:21 pm (UTC)Maybe we should make plans. *packs certain things*
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Date: 2008-09-10 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-10 08:32 pm (UTC)(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.)
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