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sorcyressStollen for Active_Apathy, because I like books.
The worst reading experience that you have ever had?
Oof. I am so tempted to just agree with her and say the Catcher in the Rye. I absolutely *hated* Catcher, not the least because, when I read, I pick up the writing style in my internal monologue for a bit. That sucked *so bad*.
The worst actual experience...I don't really know. Nowait! Worst reading experience wasn't actually a reading experience, it was a learning experience. I hadn't bothered to start reading The Great Gatsby for my eleventh grade English class yet, and, ohno, pop quiz. I bluffed my way through, including specifically stating that the main character was the narrator, who's name I couldn't remember. I got a nine out of ten.
That was bad teaching. No student is so scatterbrained to forget Nick Carraway's name if they've actually read the book. Especially considering that I seem to remember it just fine now, three years later.
Also a bad experience? The fact that I really really liked the story of Tale of Two Cities (Doubles! True Love! Revolution!) but just couldn't get through the actual book. I feel really quite guilty about that --I am sorry, oh great and wonderful Sydney Carton!1
The best reading experience you have ever had?
Oh, just about any point where I went into bookcoma. Bookcoma goooood. Reading the seventh Harry Potter book was pretty faboo. Rereading By the Sword immediately after Obama won the election into five in the morning and just being full of The Happy and overdosing on fantasy and glee was wonderful. I'm sure there have been others --I really like books.
Which book has affected or influenced you the most so far?
Oooo.
I have stolen the most for my fantasy world(s) from Robert Asprin's MYTH books, and Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books. So, those, of course.
The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage has saved my sanity on multiple occasions, and remains my security blanket in novel form.
Honestly, the very first Heralds of Valdemar trilogy --Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight, and Arrow's Fall probably fucked up my nice little eleven year old head and ultimately warped me more than anything else ever written. I've had an essay about Heralds and their influence on me sitting around for nearly eight months now, I just need to clean it up and post it.
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy et al are some of the finest books ever written, and have definitely changed my life for the better.
And, of course, the Artemis Fowl series managed to score me a significant other2, so, well, that's a pretty damn excellent case of affecting me.
Have you ever read a book that you got really scared of?
There was at least one story in one of those scary story compliations that was legit frightening --something about a demon doll, who like...was posessed with the girl's sister's soul or something equally terrifying. No, it was a dollhouse! Because at one point, the fake plastic stove managed to give the little girl real burns. That was creepy as All Shit.
The only other disquieting story memory was from when I was...maybe thirteen or fourteen? It was a Mulan fanfiction where whatshisface the asshole bookkeeper of the group learned Mulan was a girl, and sexually blackmailed her. I was...way too young for that. There's a reason I largely respected mom's rule that I wasn't allowed to read anything on fanfiction.net with a higher than "G" rating.
What do you use as a bookmark?
I don't actually use bookmarks very often. I'm pretty good at finding where I am in a book later, plus, most of the time I just read the whole thing in one go anyways. When I do use a bookmark, I use whatever flat thing is available --ribbon, paper, whatever. Folding down corners is a mark of the uncivilized.
When do you usually read? At home, work, while cooking, in the morning, noon, afternoon, before you go to bed...?
Meh. Not often enough. I'm trying to get better at reading during meals, because then I both eat and read more. Additionally, I've finally figured out that, there's a lot of light on MassAv at night. Unless it's raining, I can be reading as I walk along there, regardless of time of day. I need to do more with this.
Do you remember the first book that you read?
Nnnot specifically, no. I remember there was a book (with dragons in it, of course) that I would make up stories to, when I was very young --for some reason, yellow spots stick into mind?
I've been reading for longer than I can remember, I expect. Yeah, I had 'that kind' of parents.
Which do you prefer - paperback or hardcover?
Hardcovers look nice, can be used to kill a bitch, and don't fall apart quite as easily. Paperbacks actually fit into pockets or purses, can be had for cheaper, and are easier to read. They very win, unless all books could follow the example of my British edition of the Hitchhikers Guide and be hardcovers that are only about half an inch taller and wider than trade paperbacks. That is a Good Size.
What are you currently reading? What page are you on?
Hahaha. Um.
Currently, as in "have opened within the last week?"
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (reread) and I'm on page 11 -not even the second chapter.
Planetary: The Fourth Man written by Warren Ellis and drawn by John Cassaday, and I'm about to start issue 11. (Though I probably need to reread issue 10, as I don't remember it well.)
Currently as in "am in the middle of"?
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett, which I *believe* I borrowed from BDan (though it's possible I borrowed it from Magus). Don't remember the page, will have to restart. (again --I am doomed at this book.)
The Ethical Slut by...um...it's not on hand and I'm too lazy to google, but it's by a pair of authors which I've read the first two chapters or so of, and need to restart once I get around to reading it.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski3 which I've finished the introduction to, I think.
20 000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, which is fucking *fantastic*. I'm in about chapter 12 or so.
The Book of Vice by Peter Sagel. Yes, the one who does "Wait Wait..." I'm four or five chapters into it.
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher. I'm maybe two chapters in, if that? It's another one I'll have to restart when I get around to it.4
Currently as in "the next things I'm going to pick up and read straight through"?
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
Starcross by Phillip Reeve, sans the beautiful illustrations, as I have an old Advance Readers copy.
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman. I swear that someone told me, when they learned this was on my list, that I needed to put down everything else and read it immediately.
Do you ever leave "a mark" (deliberate and/or not deliberate) in your books? For example, write in them, underline quotes, coffeemarks or food crumbs and etc.
I try to avoid stains, from food or water or whatever.
As for pen...well...
Your average run of the mill book owned by the Sorcyress will easily go its entire career without ever being touched. But there are certain special books that are just So Fucking Good that there's practically more writing in my hand than in the original type.
That's specifically why I own two copies of the hitchhikers Omnibus --the big blue one is technically for writing in. All three copies of The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage have my name in the front cover, a date list in the back (for when it was read and by who) and one line underlined --...for in times of stress a good book is often all the comfort you can reasonably expect to find.
My copy of Boy Meets Boy is one of the best things I own, especially after the most recent reread, because I'm not sure you can go more than four pages without finding something I've marked out in brackets for whatever reason --"How am I lucky?" "Because you know who you are", which I legit just opened the book to a random page and found. I love this book so damn much.
Does the title, amount of pages and the cover affect you when you are considering a specific book?
Yes, no, and yes.
I'm sure I would've *eventually* read Skulduggery Pleasant if it had been recommended enough. But because it had a cover that looked like this... I mean, come on. Skeleton! Pinstripes! Fire! Awesome hat! Incredible fucking wordporntastic title. There was no doubt that it was a Book I Needed.5
I try not to be too judgey on titles, since I'm terrible at them myself, but a book called X Rated Bloodsuckers, which proudly proclaims "By the best-selling author of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats" is a book that is pretty much immediately worthy of my time. Yes, this *is* part of the reason that Snakes on a Plane is my favourite movie ever.
Seriously though, when it comes to pages...The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage clocks in at 180 pages. I am the Messenger which is beautiful and creepy and amazing is 357 pages. The parts of the Hitchhikers trilogy that I accept as definitely canon are 624 pages in my big blue omnibus.
Lord of the Rings is longer than any of those, and it sucks. Catcher in the Rye is (IIRC) shorter than all any of those, and it sucks harder. Books should be as many pages as it takes to tell the story well.
Do you ever browse through to the last pages in order find out the ending?
Discounting books I've had to read for school, the only time I've ever done this is with a book called The Kid who Became President (or something like that) which I did after mom told me to --after the book ends, there's a page written in the voice of the story where the kid specifically bitches you out for cheating and looking at the end. It's amazing.
Has knowing the ending of a book (example, through spoilers or a movie) ever made you decide whether you will read the book or not?
*shrugs* Nah? I mean, I tend to avoid spoilers as best I can (hard, on sites like tvtropes...I know far more about The Dresden Files than I'd like) but if I do learn spoilers for a book I was planning to read for whatever reason anyways, it's not like it makes me stop reading it.
I suppose the exception would be whichever books come after Twilight. I read it, I thought it was incredibly well written, with an incredibly terrible plot, and Cracked's summery of the subsequent books was more than enough to make me utterly uninterested in reading any of them. Amazing writing is just not enough when I am personally opposed to everything your plot stands for.
Is there a book that you have read more than five times?
The Pirates Mixed Up Voyage by Margaret Mahy is my favourite book, my security blanket, and has been read at least three times since the beginning of 2008, maybe more.
By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey is my favourite Valdemar book.
I used to regularly --as in, every couple days-- read the introduction to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy aloud to myself in the library. I have it partially memorized. I don't think I've finished the guide more than two or three times though.
I grew up in a family with loads of newspaper comics compilations --there are definitely Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy and Foxtrot books I have read *way* more than five times. Additionally, Far Side is the only newspaper comic there is where I can say definitively I have read every singly comic of. (Thanks Maccytu!)
Have you ever been in an accident where the book was the cause? (for example, almost getting hit by a car when reading while walking, or having stacks of books falling on you from a bookshelf...)
Nnnnno? By which I mean I'm absolutely sure I have, but I don't remember when or what.
Do you sell/give away your books or do you keep them, even though you don't like one of them?
Neither --books that I don't consider myself to "need" stay at home in Maryland. When I have a permanent address in Massachusetts, mom and I will first go through to figure out what I can take with me up there for good, and second, what to do with the stuff neither of us wants.
Unrelatedly though, I have a giant stack of (mostly) individual fairy tales. If anyone wants one, drop an address, and I'll see what I can do about sending you a generic book. ((And by drop an address, I mean e-mail it or something.))
Do you have some kind of book system, where you write down what you are reading, have bought, will read, will buy and etc?
Naw. I wish I did.
About the closest is trying to write down the fifty new books I've read for my largely defunct mission101 project. So, when I read new things, I try to get it down. I'm not great at it.
~Sor
MOOP!
1I think I have such a crush on Sydney Carton. I remember writing an essay on how he was the true romantic hero of Tale of Two Cities. He's probably the second most awesome character I read about in tenth grade --Cyrano de Bergerac is, of course, cooler than the offspring of ZombieJesus and Chuck Norris. And that's pretty fucking cool.
2If you have to ask which one, you don't pay enough attention.
3This is intriguing, because trying to read the name on the spine has just shown that I am better at reading things that are upside down than things that are sideways. I am officially fascinated.
4I love The Dresden Files, and find them a lot of fun, but I can't read more than one at a time. They're just so gloriously intense or something like that.
5And there are apparently sequels out! Squee!
The worst reading experience that you have ever had?
Oof. I am so tempted to just agree with her and say the Catcher in the Rye. I absolutely *hated* Catcher, not the least because, when I read, I pick up the writing style in my internal monologue for a bit. That sucked *so bad*.
The worst actual experience...I don't really know. Nowait! Worst reading experience wasn't actually a reading experience, it was a learning experience. I hadn't bothered to start reading The Great Gatsby for my eleventh grade English class yet, and, ohno, pop quiz. I bluffed my way through, including specifically stating that the main character was the narrator, who's name I couldn't remember. I got a nine out of ten.
That was bad teaching. No student is so scatterbrained to forget Nick Carraway's name if they've actually read the book. Especially considering that I seem to remember it just fine now, three years later.
Also a bad experience? The fact that I really really liked the story of Tale of Two Cities (Doubles! True Love! Revolution!) but just couldn't get through the actual book. I feel really quite guilty about that --I am sorry, oh great and wonderful Sydney Carton!1
The best reading experience you have ever had?
Oh, just about any point where I went into bookcoma. Bookcoma goooood. Reading the seventh Harry Potter book was pretty faboo. Rereading By the Sword immediately after Obama won the election into five in the morning and just being full of The Happy and overdosing on fantasy and glee was wonderful. I'm sure there have been others --I really like books.
Which book has affected or influenced you the most so far?
Oooo.
I have stolen the most for my fantasy world(s) from Robert Asprin's MYTH books, and Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books. So, those, of course.
The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage has saved my sanity on multiple occasions, and remains my security blanket in novel form.
Honestly, the very first Heralds of Valdemar trilogy --Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight, and Arrow's Fall probably fucked up my nice little eleven year old head and ultimately warped me more than anything else ever written. I've had an essay about Heralds and their influence on me sitting around for nearly eight months now, I just need to clean it up and post it.
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy et al are some of the finest books ever written, and have definitely changed my life for the better.
And, of course, the Artemis Fowl series managed to score me a significant other2, so, well, that's a pretty damn excellent case of affecting me.
Have you ever read a book that you got really scared of?
There was at least one story in one of those scary story compliations that was legit frightening --something about a demon doll, who like...was posessed with the girl's sister's soul or something equally terrifying. No, it was a dollhouse! Because at one point, the fake plastic stove managed to give the little girl real burns. That was creepy as All Shit.
The only other disquieting story memory was from when I was...maybe thirteen or fourteen? It was a Mulan fanfiction where whatshisface the asshole bookkeeper of the group learned Mulan was a girl, and sexually blackmailed her. I was...way too young for that. There's a reason I largely respected mom's rule that I wasn't allowed to read anything on fanfiction.net with a higher than "G" rating.
What do you use as a bookmark?
I don't actually use bookmarks very often. I'm pretty good at finding where I am in a book later, plus, most of the time I just read the whole thing in one go anyways. When I do use a bookmark, I use whatever flat thing is available --ribbon, paper, whatever. Folding down corners is a mark of the uncivilized.
When do you usually read? At home, work, while cooking, in the morning, noon, afternoon, before you go to bed...?
Meh. Not often enough. I'm trying to get better at reading during meals, because then I both eat and read more. Additionally, I've finally figured out that, there's a lot of light on MassAv at night. Unless it's raining, I can be reading as I walk along there, regardless of time of day. I need to do more with this.
Do you remember the first book that you read?
Nnnot specifically, no. I remember there was a book (with dragons in it, of course) that I would make up stories to, when I was very young --for some reason, yellow spots stick into mind?
I've been reading for longer than I can remember, I expect. Yeah, I had 'that kind' of parents.
Which do you prefer - paperback or hardcover?
Hardcovers look nice, can be used to kill a bitch, and don't fall apart quite as easily. Paperbacks actually fit into pockets or purses, can be had for cheaper, and are easier to read. They very win, unless all books could follow the example of my British edition of the Hitchhikers Guide and be hardcovers that are only about half an inch taller and wider than trade paperbacks. That is a Good Size.
What are you currently reading? What page are you on?
Hahaha. Um.
Currently, as in "have opened within the last week?"
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (reread) and I'm on page 11 -not even the second chapter.
Planetary: The Fourth Man written by Warren Ellis and drawn by John Cassaday, and I'm about to start issue 11. (Though I probably need to reread issue 10, as I don't remember it well.)
Currently as in "am in the middle of"?
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett, which I *believe* I borrowed from BDan (though it's possible I borrowed it from Magus). Don't remember the page, will have to restart. (again --I am doomed at this book.)
The Ethical Slut by...um...it's not on hand and I'm too lazy to google, but it's by a pair of authors which I've read the first two chapters or so of, and need to restart once I get around to reading it.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski3 which I've finished the introduction to, I think.
20 000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, which is fucking *fantastic*. I'm in about chapter 12 or so.
The Book of Vice by Peter Sagel. Yes, the one who does "Wait Wait..." I'm four or five chapters into it.
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher. I'm maybe two chapters in, if that? It's another one I'll have to restart when I get around to it.4
Currently as in "the next things I'm going to pick up and read straight through"?
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
Starcross by Phillip Reeve, sans the beautiful illustrations, as I have an old Advance Readers copy.
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman. I swear that someone told me, when they learned this was on my list, that I needed to put down everything else and read it immediately.
Do you ever leave "a mark" (deliberate and/or not deliberate) in your books? For example, write in them, underline quotes, coffeemarks or food crumbs and etc.
I try to avoid stains, from food or water or whatever.
As for pen...well...
Your average run of the mill book owned by the Sorcyress will easily go its entire career without ever being touched. But there are certain special books that are just So Fucking Good that there's practically more writing in my hand than in the original type.
That's specifically why I own two copies of the hitchhikers Omnibus --the big blue one is technically for writing in. All three copies of The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage have my name in the front cover, a date list in the back (for when it was read and by who) and one line underlined --...for in times of stress a good book is often all the comfort you can reasonably expect to find.
My copy of Boy Meets Boy is one of the best things I own, especially after the most recent reread, because I'm not sure you can go more than four pages without finding something I've marked out in brackets for whatever reason --"How am I lucky?" "Because you know who you are", which I legit just opened the book to a random page and found. I love this book so damn much.
Does the title, amount of pages and the cover affect you when you are considering a specific book?
Yes, no, and yes.
I'm sure I would've *eventually* read Skulduggery Pleasant if it had been recommended enough. But because it had a cover that looked like this... I mean, come on. Skeleton! Pinstripes! Fire! Awesome hat! Incredible fucking wordporntastic title. There was no doubt that it was a Book I Needed.5
I try not to be too judgey on titles, since I'm terrible at them myself, but a book called X Rated Bloodsuckers, which proudly proclaims "By the best-selling author of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats" is a book that is pretty much immediately worthy of my time. Yes, this *is* part of the reason that Snakes on a Plane is my favourite movie ever.
Seriously though, when it comes to pages...The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage clocks in at 180 pages. I am the Messenger which is beautiful and creepy and amazing is 357 pages. The parts of the Hitchhikers trilogy that I accept as definitely canon are 624 pages in my big blue omnibus.
Lord of the Rings is longer than any of those, and it sucks. Catcher in the Rye is (IIRC) shorter than all any of those, and it sucks harder. Books should be as many pages as it takes to tell the story well.
Do you ever browse through to the last pages in order find out the ending?
Discounting books I've had to read for school, the only time I've ever done this is with a book called The Kid who Became President (or something like that) which I did after mom told me to --after the book ends, there's a page written in the voice of the story where the kid specifically bitches you out for cheating and looking at the end. It's amazing.
Has knowing the ending of a book (example, through spoilers or a movie) ever made you decide whether you will read the book or not?
*shrugs* Nah? I mean, I tend to avoid spoilers as best I can (hard, on sites like tvtropes...I know far more about The Dresden Files than I'd like) but if I do learn spoilers for a book I was planning to read for whatever reason anyways, it's not like it makes me stop reading it.
I suppose the exception would be whichever books come after Twilight. I read it, I thought it was incredibly well written, with an incredibly terrible plot, and Cracked's summery of the subsequent books was more than enough to make me utterly uninterested in reading any of them. Amazing writing is just not enough when I am personally opposed to everything your plot stands for.
Is there a book that you have read more than five times?
The Pirates Mixed Up Voyage by Margaret Mahy is my favourite book, my security blanket, and has been read at least three times since the beginning of 2008, maybe more.
By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey is my favourite Valdemar book.
I used to regularly --as in, every couple days-- read the introduction to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy aloud to myself in the library. I have it partially memorized. I don't think I've finished the guide more than two or three times though.
I grew up in a family with loads of newspaper comics compilations --there are definitely Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy and Foxtrot books I have read *way* more than five times. Additionally, Far Side is the only newspaper comic there is where I can say definitively I have read every singly comic of. (Thanks Maccytu!)
Have you ever been in an accident where the book was the cause? (for example, almost getting hit by a car when reading while walking, or having stacks of books falling on you from a bookshelf...)
Nnnnno? By which I mean I'm absolutely sure I have, but I don't remember when or what.
Do you sell/give away your books or do you keep them, even though you don't like one of them?
Neither --books that I don't consider myself to "need" stay at home in Maryland. When I have a permanent address in Massachusetts, mom and I will first go through to figure out what I can take with me up there for good, and second, what to do with the stuff neither of us wants.
Unrelatedly though, I have a giant stack of (mostly) individual fairy tales. If anyone wants one, drop an address, and I'll see what I can do about sending you a generic book. ((And by drop an address, I mean e-mail it or something.))
Do you have some kind of book system, where you write down what you are reading, have bought, will read, will buy and etc?
Naw. I wish I did.
About the closest is trying to write down the fifty new books I've read for my largely defunct mission101 project. So, when I read new things, I try to get it down. I'm not great at it.
~Sor
MOOP!
1I think I have such a crush on Sydney Carton. I remember writing an essay on how he was the true romantic hero of Tale of Two Cities. He's probably the second most awesome character I read about in tenth grade --Cyrano de Bergerac is, of course, cooler than the offspring of ZombieJesus and Chuck Norris. And that's pretty fucking cool.
2If you have to ask which one, you don't pay enough attention.
3This is intriguing, because trying to read the name on the spine has just shown that I am better at reading things that are upside down than things that are sideways. I am officially fascinated.
4I love The Dresden Files, and find them a lot of fun, but I can't read more than one at a time. They're just so gloriously intense or something like that.
5And there are apparently sequels out! Squee!
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on 2009-04-16 02:38 am (UTC)Oh, I completely agree. He's awesome. I ought to reread it, actually—it's been a while. I happen to like Dickens, at least when he's good, though, and I realize that this opinion is not shared by all.
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett, which I *believe* I borrowed from BDan
I think you're right, since I don't see it on the shelf with the other Pratchett, though that isn't definitive given the state of my room right now.
Summer Knight
I'm pretty sure that this is the name of a porn star in a movie called "Insatiable Nurses" that some friends and I managed to obtain back in high school.
Books should be as many pages as it takes to tell the story well.
True, but I happen to think that The Lord of the Rings is told well in its number of pages. It could perhaps have been told well in a smaller number of pages, but it would have been a different story. Granted, I have a fondness for epic.
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on 2009-04-16 05:01 am (UTC)I...will...um. Porn, huh. 'kay.
Pfah. I don't actually hate LotR. It just doesn't do anything for me, plus I couldn't get through the second book. I am not often willing to struggle with stuff I'm reading for fun.
~Sor
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on 2009-04-16 06:39 am (UTC)Like I said, I have a fondness for epic. It may have something to do with reading The Worm Ouroboros in my formative years (specifically, when I was 10). That was a struggle to read, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, and when I read LotR a year or so later, it was easy by comparison. And, of course, it hits my linguistics geek buttons as well, along with several others, though it might be argued that it was in large part the cause of my interest in historical linguistics.
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on 2009-04-16 04:55 am (UTC)~Sor
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on 2009-04-16 04:57 am (UTC)Still not as bad as Catcher.
OR THE SCARLET LETTER! HOLY FUCK, HOW DID I FORGET THAT?!
~Sor
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on 2009-04-16 04:31 am (UTC)I don't think it was I, but why haven't you read it yet? Read it!
Careful?
Did the injury cause you to forget the event?
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on 2009-04-16 04:59 am (UTC)Because there are other books to read?
Hahahaha! I did not even think about that. Regardless, I always make sure to look up when I cross streets. And I've determined not to read when I'm in what I've affectionately termed the "rape zone". (Which is just as well, because less street lights make it harder to read anyways.)
Haha. Maybe? >.>
~Sor
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on 2009-04-17 01:14 am (UTC)*ponders stealing emme for herself*
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on 2009-04-17 11:28 am (UTC)Sounds like a loverly story, though!
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on 2009-04-16 09:35 pm (UTC)I've been reading while I walked since I was, um, 12 or so (ie, since I started reading s&f//realized they had an entire section of "the kind of books I like" in bookstores and libraries). You can read in surprisingly dark streetlit streets -- though I miss living in manhattan and having the streets -- day or night -- be bright enough that I didn't even think about it.
Skullduggery: isn't that cover awesome? The book's good too; a -good- Potter-influenced series! Playing With Fire is the only sequel that's actually out as yet (and is quite good), though...ah! Scepter of the Ancients is out next week (hmmm...) and apparently, a fourth book, The Faceless Ones is out in August (now -that- is an aggressive release cycle).