While She Knits

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Gosh, it's been quiet around here!

What great things have you read recently that are totally obscure?  Something other people are unlikely to ever find on their own?

I'll go first:

Boris by Cynthia Rylant - if you've ever loved a pet, you'll like this one.  So sweet!  And, it's told in verse.

A teen sci-fi series that you'll like if you're a Star Trek nerd * - the Galahad series by Dom Testa.  A comet has infected the earth with a disease that is killing off all the adults.  As a last-ditch effort to save the human race, scientists build a spaceship to travel to another planet, and choose 251 disease-free teens who must learn how to get the ship there, and colonize the planet.  Lots of fun.  The first book is The Comet's Curse.



* No, not me.  Not a bit.

Comments

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

I got to meet Maggie Stiefvater at a book signing a couple weekends ago. But I couldn't afford the shiny brand-spanking-new copy of The Raven Boys... bummeration! (Yay libraries!) So you thought it was good? I'm excited. The Scorpio Races is one of my favorite books of all time.

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I was so hoping to be able to meet Maggie while she was at Anderson's Bookshop, but I had just driven up to Chicago earlier that week and couldn't afford a second trip. How exciting for you to be able to meet her, but definitely a bummer that you couldn't get a copy of The Raven Boys.

I, too, adored The Scorpio Races, and I loved The Raven Boys just as much, if not a tiny bit more (I'm just about to finish reading it for the fourth time, if that gives you any indication of my love). I think this is the type of book that you will enjoy if you fall in love with the characters, unless you already have an affection for obscure Welsh mythology and the like. I personally find it fascinating, but the subject matter might not reach out and grab everyone. If you come to love Blue, Gansey, Adam, Ronan, Noah and company as I did, however, you'll be willing to follow them wherever their quest takes them. By the time I finished the book, all of them felt like very old friends.

Hopefully that makes sense. I've been attempting to write a review for weeks now, but I haven't quite been able to adequately put into words why I felt about this book the way I did.

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Oh, I know how that goes. I write book reviews for a website and I always struggle to give clear, logical reasons for why a book worked/why I loved it, beyond the initial "OMG READ THIS AND DESPAIR!"