YA Book Council discussion

Hey guys, roll call on The Name of the Wind!

Read it already:
Alethea
Jason
Jane

Reading it now:
Roxy
Kate
?

Let me know! I want to get a good discussion going on this book so I need to know who is participating.

For those of you who need convincing, this is the one book that got the blurb "the next Harry Potter" that actually *deserves* the blurb. (I reserve judgement on Lev Grossman's The Magicians because I have barely started that one.)

Nancy's reading it right now too.

Alethea wrote: "

Hey guys, roll call on The Name of the Wind!

Read it already:
Alethea
Jason
Jane

Reading it now:
Roxy
Kate
?

Let me know! I want to get a ..."

Waiting for the cliff notes!

So, there's this guy.

He's *magic*!

The end.

Alethea wrote: "So, there's this guy.

He's *magic*!

The end."

It's true, he is. *nods*

OMG! Just finished reading Skapri's tale of Lanre. OMG! OMG!! OMG!!! This book is really...(at a loss of words).

(^_^)

I know, huh! :)

I'm going to start re-reading it. I have it on audio, though I read it first (Jason listened to it). I was going to start today but I forgot to charge my iPod.

I'm going to re-read it too! And that's saying a lot 'cause there's only been like 10 books that I've re-read (and 7 of those are Harry Potter).

I lost/broke my headphones, so audiobooks will have to wait. I have 10 credits that I need to use.

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Suggestions:



(surprisingly decent sample on audible--read by Anna Chlumsky)



a couple of books I've been hesitant to buy:




(read by Katherine Kellgren... I made a deal with Jason that if we ever have a daughter I'll agree to Katherine with a K if her middle name can be Kellgren :)

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/unsolicited advice

Bought:
Another Faust
Beautiful Creatures
The Strain

I'll probably get Legacy too. I didn't know it came out on Audible.

Jane wrote: "Bought:
Another Faust
Beautiful Creatures
The Strain"

Yay! I started reading BC yesterday, but I'll take a listen to the audio too.

A draccus, really. Unexpected tragedies...? Oh, Tehlu. Why can't I read faster?

The draccus portion was the only part that I really thought dragged. "Is this enough?" "No, better make that double... no, times 100. No, I think that might just put it to sleep. We want to kill it. Better add some more." Geez.

Oo! Me too.

Reading TNotW was like going scuba-diving... you're in this mysterious, amazing other world and then some time later you emerge and there's all this light and sound and you hope you haven't burned dinner because there's no telling how much time has passed!

I sort of liked the neat little reasoning behind his logic of how much of the resin to give the draccus, so that part didn't bother me. All in all I liked it a lot, probably enough to read the others in the series whenever they come out. The thing I wasn't so sure if I liked was how the story is told in a flash back from the hero's tale in his tavern in the present. So basically each day's tale will be a book. I can see the literary effect of telling it like that. From the outset the reader will view his story as the origin story for a hero. It might grow on me, but for now I'm not as interested in the interludes, and what's happening in the present.