Winners! Thanks to random.org, the winners of my 3 bookmooch/pbs credits are (comments #10, #11, and #13):
If you can give me your pbs/bookmooch id’s, I’ll get your credits to you. Congrats!
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Author Sarah Hall was nominated for the Booker Prize for her book The Electric Michelangelo. I recommend this title to readers who enjoy dystopian fiction with a feminist slant. While not nearly as captivating as The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, it is worth a look if you enjoy reading the dystopian genre.
About a month ago, I finished the Harry Potter series (for the first time!). I really liked the HP characters that Rowling created, almost too much, because when there were deaths, I was sorely disappointed. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to those characters, and some of the deaths seemed wholly unnecessary and excessive. Overall, I enjoyed the first four books much more than the last three. Part of the reason is probably that the last three books were much darker than the first books of the series. Another reason, though, was that, at times, I felt conscious that I was reading a book, whereas with the first books I was too wrapped up in the story to notice. I wasn’t enamored with the last two books at all, probably due to the demise of too many characters. By that time, though, I was invested in the story and unable to resist finding out how the series ended. I would love to know how others would rank the books in the series. I’ve heard some say that The Chamber of Secrets is the weakest book, but it happens to be my favorite (followed very closely by The Goblet of Fire). I guess I prefer the (relative) innocence of the first few books compared to the last in the series. If you’ve read the entire series, I’d love to know your ranking of the 7 books, even if it differs greatly with mine! My ranking follows:
The best books of the first half of the year (not in any order except first two): Maus I
I’ll draw the winners on Wednesday, July 9. Good luck!
50. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Pages read: 3839 / Pages read in 2008: 17170 Have you reviewed any of the above books at your blog? If you’d like, enter your link in Mr. Linky below. |
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Daughters of the North, known as The Carhullan Army in the UK, is a dystopian novel set in an environmentally and economically ravaged Britain. Citizens are forced to be registered in cities where they are assigned work for the good of the state. Contraception is mandated and every female is fitted with a device for that purpose. Not only that, but they must also submit to periodic checks to insure the device is in place. Unable to remain where she is under such circumstances, “Sister” escapes to an all-female commune that she knew about as a child. Her reception there is at first strained, as the members of the group want to insure she is not a spy sent by the state. As “Sister” gains their trust and tells them of the conditions in the nearby city, it becomes uncertain whether the group will be able to remain in their isolated location for long. A decision must be made to stay or fight.
by Art Spiegelman (1986, 161 pp.)
by Taichi Yamada (1987 [2003 in U.S.], 203 pp.)
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by Vladimir Nabokov (1955, 327 pp.)