I’m so glad you recreated your book post; I always love reading them!
We read With the Fire On High in my YA class this spring, and it makes me want to read Clap When You Land ASAP! WtFOH was probably my favorite of the nine books we read, and I handed it on to sanguinity when I was done. So warm and bright, and I kept waiting for terrible Dramatic things to happen and they never did!
I know Graceling only via the audiobook, though I have a print copy around here somewhere. Happy memories of chopping stuff in the kitchen while listening!
With you on the mixed reaction to Secret Commonwealth. I did think he did a nice job with aged-up Lyra and Malcom, both of them having changed yet both the same people they were. I will still be avid to read the next book, but this one hasn’t really stuck in my mind much. All those spy-business conversations!
I’m reading Crooked Kingdom now, having read Six of Crows in class. Both of them went pretty slowly for me— I’m just not as enamored of the characters (Kaz especially) as some of my classmates were? And the sudden switch to breezy banter can be a little jarring sometimes.
I still have many, many library books to catch up on even though they closed down for the pandemic and have only brought holds pick-up back for the last week or two. I am not complaining. :)
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Date: 2020-07-03 06:20 pm (UTC)We read With the Fire On High in my YA class this spring, and it makes me want to read Clap When You Land ASAP! WtFOH was probably my favorite of the nine books we read, and I handed it on to sanguinity when I was done. So warm and bright, and I kept waiting for terrible Dramatic things to happen and they never did!
I know Graceling only via the audiobook, though I have a print copy around here somewhere. Happy memories of chopping stuff in the kitchen while listening!
With you on the mixed reaction to Secret Commonwealth. I did think he did a nice job with aged-up Lyra and Malcom, both of them having changed yet both the same people they were. I will still be avid to read the next book, but this one hasn’t really stuck in my mind much. All those spy-business conversations!
I’m reading Crooked Kingdom now, having read Six of Crows in class. Both of them went pretty slowly for me— I’m just not as enamored of the characters (Kaz especially) as some of my classmates were? And the sudden switch to breezy banter can be a little jarring sometimes.
I still have many, many library books to catch up on even though they closed down for the pandemic and have only brought holds pick-up back for the last week or two. I am not complaining. :)