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  • June 27, 2008 at 2:47 am in reply to: Homeschoolers and Books #42529
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    Pip here again; what about read-alouds? Lotsa curicculums have ’em. My parents often read aloud books, I read to my younger siblings a lot, and Dad has an ongoing nighttime story. Right now it’s Master Cornhill by McGraw.

    June 27, 2008 at 2:43 am in reply to: Inheritance Cycle #42760
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    The thing that got on my nerves about Eragon was that, as a friend said, it wasn’t happy enough. Paolini’s too serious!!! But I hated Eldest; the magic Eragon practiced came from within himself, instead of from a God-figure or God Himself. It also had words that C.P. KNEW nobody was gonna know, like major $10, SAT words! That was hard to wade through. He also didn’t do a very good job at surprising us with Murtagh being alive, his departure was too quick and nobody felt a great loss as should have been felt in losing a major character, so I kinda knew he was gonna come back. Bummer. That loveydovey nonsense between E. and the elf woman was shmultzy. I didn’t actually notice the “Moral Issues” until I went to a fantasy lit. conference and the lady read a shocking passage from the book and brought me to wonder what C.P. believes. I just like Eragon because the kid (and he was a kid, fifteen when he started that book) was homeschooled and all in all, it made it to my fav.s shelf. But Eldest is doomed to the basement!

    Who knows what will happen in the third. The bad guys suddenly turning over to the good side kinda makes ya wonder.

    Does anyone like Angela? I love her! Her and the little pussykins. I wish he wouldn’t call Angela a witch, that got on my nerves. “Healer” is just fine and dandy, thankee verra much! :)

    June 27, 2008 at 2:34 am in reply to: RUNNING OUT OF BOOKS!!! #42173
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    Hey, this thread IS about books! We’re throwing in suggestions here and there…

    June 27, 2008 at 2:32 am in reply to: Movies vs. Books #42378
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    Yeah, the book of Ella Enchanted was so cute, and they took it and turned it into a big teen pop bonanza to show off Anne Hathaway! (Sorry, but that huge smile of hers just gives me the creeps) /:(

    June 27, 2008 at 2:30 am in reply to: The Quoting Conversation #42660
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    “…you have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Danny in “Nothing to Fear” (Hence the name, I suppose).

    June 27, 2008 at 2:27 am in reply to: What Are You Reading? #40625
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    What’s the Ted Dekker series?

    June 27, 2008 at 2:26 am in reply to: 2nd Annual Read-a-Thon #41782
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    Nothing to Fear (Koller), 279 pages

    Running Total: 5,682 pages

    June 26, 2008 at 4:41 pm in reply to: What Are You Reading? #40621
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    Hush, Puppies is a cute little large print, 47-page book with a recipe in the back, that recounts how hush puppies were first made (the book, not the recipe).

    Eagle of the Ninth finally completed! It didn’t grab my attention, so I’d be unconsciously reading and then suddenly find the character doing something for a change, and I wouldn’t know why they were doing it! Sutcliff’s adaptions of the Illiad (I’m also reading that and it’s Zzzzzz…..) and the Odyssey were actually pretty good.

    June 26, 2008 at 4:37 pm in reply to: The Quoting Conversation #42657
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    Do you mean that we should only quote in third person? Or all three? All three might be a bit difficult!

    June 26, 2008 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Movies vs. Books #42376
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    Pip here again; somebody should make a movie of the Eagle of the Ninth. They might improve it!

    My siblings and I once tried watching the Disney version of The Black Cauldron, based on Lloyd Alexander’s book by the same name…oh, my, GOODNESS!!!!!! It was so morbid, we had to turn it off. Last year, I sent a letter to the Disney studios, saying that they should make a real-life movie of the Prydain Chronicles. I mean, that would be AWESOME! They could stick SOOOOOOO much into those movies and make it epic. Thoughts on that, anyone?

    June 26, 2008 at 4:30 pm in reply to: RUNNING OUT OF BOOKS!!! #42171
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    1,000 pages? Hmm. I thought it was only six hundred eighty-something. My copy was, anyway. It sure FELT like a thousand pages to wade through! It wasn’t even that interesting. I say skip Eldest and move on to Brisingr! You ain’t gonna miss much.

    June 26, 2008 at 4:26 pm in reply to: 2nd Annual Read-a-Thon #41776
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    Hush, Puppies (Mitchell), 47 pages

    The Village by the Sea (Fox), 147 pages

    The Eagle of the Ninth (Sutcliff), 292 pages

    Running Total: 5,403 pages

    June 25, 2008 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Plowing through Dickens #41518
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    Which book is it?

    Dickens is challenging, but rewarding,

    June 25, 2008 at 4:47 pm in reply to: RUNNING OUT OF BOOKS!!! #42168
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    Good giref, Eldest was huge and now this!

    I thought sure I saw Brisingr in a bookstore. Maybe they got it early.

    Oh, libraries always take FOREVER to get in new books! :{ I say order it via interlibrary loan!

    June 25, 2008 at 4:45 pm in reply to: Wayne Thomas Batson #40384
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    My Door Within copy’s in paperback.

    I love how Batson didn’t continue making his modern kids talk and act entirely modern; they slipped into their surroundings much better than some books I could mention… 8)

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