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Jan. 27th, 2009
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Jan. 27th, 2009 03:28 pmBook Nine: Dawn of the Golden Promise, 394pp
So... when I was a teenager I felt gypped that there was Never Going to Be Another Book in this series. I was like, "That's it? It's barely beginning!"
When I was like, just this afternoon, I felt nothing but relief that It Was Finally Over.
It's kind of a... I dunno. If they'd knocked Quinn out of the previous book, a lot of the really important things needing to be wrapped up in this one could have almost been in the last book instead and saved a lot of time and paper. It's almost like she had a few things she had to finish out, so she used a lot of not-so-important filler to make it book-length.
Really, not all that thrilling.
That's all.
Moving on.
So... when I was a teenager I felt gypped that there was Never Going to Be Another Book in this series. I was like, "That's it? It's barely beginning!"
When I was like, just this afternoon, I felt nothing but relief that It Was Finally Over.
It's kind of a... I dunno. If they'd knocked Quinn out of the previous book, a lot of the really important things needing to be wrapped up in this one could have almost been in the last book instead and saved a lot of time and paper. It's almost like she had a few things she had to finish out, so she used a lot of not-so-important filler to make it book-length.
Really, not all that thrilling.
That's all.
Moving on.
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Jan. 27th, 2009 09:58 pmBook 10: Mr Revere and I by Robert Lawson, 152 pp
This was a nice evening's read. I've always enjoyed Robert Lawson's quirkiness and sense of humour, both in his writing and illustrations. I can't say this is my favourite of his books that I've read, but it was a fresh way (for me, at least) to look at the Revolutionary War and understand a little better the emotions and attitudes and incidents that led up to the war and experience, after a fashion, the exhilaration of being free.
It's not an era I've done a lot of reading on. Anyone have any recommendations of Revolutionary War era stories that are good?
This was a nice evening's read. I've always enjoyed Robert Lawson's quirkiness and sense of humour, both in his writing and illustrations. I can't say this is my favourite of his books that I've read, but it was a fresh way (for me, at least) to look at the Revolutionary War and understand a little better the emotions and attitudes and incidents that led up to the war and experience, after a fashion, the exhilaration of being free.
It's not an era I've done a lot of reading on. Anyone have any recommendations of Revolutionary War era stories that are good?