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Gizmo, I was a children's librarian until we had baby thirsty so all my favorites are young children's books. I tried to read a couple of books a week when I was working. I am lucky now if I read one a month now! I am a big fan of the public library though . I am currently reading Bad Girls of the Bible (LOVE IT, its for a Bible Study Class) and I Am America (and so can you)by the one and only Steven Colbert.
My favorite kids books are Bridge to Terebithia, The Westing Game (I LOVE THIS BOOK), and The Boxcar Children.
I have not read through this thread...see...I don't even have time to read CD lately. Five kids and the holidays!!!! Can someone tell me why I gave up drinking? I sure could use it right now. LOL
I wanted to add Captivating to the list of possible reads for the women. I started a study group with it. Was never able to complete it, but it is a pretty quick read and I found it very interesting. It is written by John & Stasi Eldredge. For the men, there is Wild at Heart. My husband listened to that one on tape and has given it as gifts to several friends.
Well, aside from the usual pile of Star Trek novels by my bedside, I *did* look at the Left Behind series, since I'd heard so much about them.
They're interesting books, with a well-designed plot, but I couldn't get 'in tune' with the characters; one character's marriage was on the rocks -- but the circumstances are never properly explained, which makes the introduction of his 'love interest' seem quite jarring and out-of-place.
The other, a journalist -- he's obviously talented, and has lots of connections (and rivals) in his particular field, but beyond that, we don't learn much else about him.
Another thing that got me was the dialogue: despite being involved in what some would consider the biggest spiritual experience in recorded history, the most I could get from the characters was a sense of mild curiosity -- a kind of 'hey, what gives?' that was really devoid of any emotional context.
Other than that, I read the late Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, a few pages of Batman: Knightfall (good book, *really* good book), and plenty of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series (very entertaining, and *incredibly* funny).
While I was visiting a website of one of my favourite Comic writer and writer of Star Trek Novels Peter David, I stumbled on this topic:
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Oh, the idiocy...the idiocy...
The majority of Star Trek fans are everything that the philosophy of IDIC could possibly want. But every so often, the exact sort of intolerance that is antithetical to the world of Trek rears its head. Witness the following letter to author Andy Mangels, and Andy's scathingly witty reply. Obviously, as the creator of the bi-sexed Burgoyne in "New Frontier," I've found the letter particularly interesting. Although the letter is reprinted with Andy's permission, I've taken the liberty of mercifully omitting the author's name.
Gizmo, I was a children's librarian until we had baby thirsty so all my favorites are young children's books. I tried to read a couple of books a week when I was working. I am lucky now if I read one a month now! I am a big fan of the public library though . I am currently reading Bad Girls of the Bible (LOVE IT, its for a Bible Study Class) and I Am America (and so can you)by the one and only Steven Colbert.
My favorite kids books are Bridge to Terebithia, The Westing Game (I LOVE THIS BOOK), and The Boxcar Children.
You were a librarian too? I didn't know that! I read at least 1-2 books a week while at the public library, and we were required to review 2-3 a month (for the YA collection). But like I said, there are some wonderful Young Adult books out there, so I really didn't mind.
My area of "expertise" was in graphic novels, so I read tons of those... some favorites are Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman (amazing portrayal of the Holocaust), Pedro & Me by Judd Winick, and the Runaways series. As for non-graphic novels, I love the YA authors Karen Hesse, Walter Dean Myers, Patricia McCormick - and classics like J.D. Salinger, L.M. Montgomery, Christopher Pike, Madeleine L'Engle, Marguerite Henry, etc.
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A book or comic?
