Adorable
Posted: March 18, 2009 Filed under: Dangerous Book for Boys 4 CommentsI really didn’t expect to be like this – and in fact, probably told myself specifically that I wouldn’t be like this – but, my baby is utterly adorable. Seriously.
I submit as evidence:
Learning early to use an iPod
Sleeping peacefully (with storkbites)
Still sleeping peacefully
And last but not least, the Bwun’s very admirable attempt to crawl today:
The Sea of Trolls
Posted: March 16, 2009 Filed under: Book of Sand 3 Commentsby Nancy Farmer
This was on a list entitled something like “Fantasy books every 6th-grader should read.” It was one of the few I hadn’t read (as a 6th-grader or otherwise), and one of the books on my list that was available at the library. Thanks to the Bwun’s voracious appetite, I was able to start reading Saturday and finish today.
The first 100 pages were miserably predictable and therefore boring. But I kept reading, because if I got through The Eye of the World, I’m convinced that I can finish almost anything. Eventually the story did becoming intriguing, although I disliked the protagonist and his twelve-year-old mind. Annoying.
The ending was sappy and bleh, despite a plot twist I ought to have picked up on and missed. I have no intention of reading the sequel (or the third book, if there is one). But at least I can cross it off my list!
Now 5% complete with my 2009 goal of reading 100 books.
Krondor the Betrayal
Posted: March 16, 2009 Filed under: Book of Sand Leave a commentby Raymond E. Feist
After finishing The Dangerous Book for Boys, the only English book left in our house that I hadn’t read was Krondor the Betrayal. When the Romgi and I were in high school, he let me borrow the Riftwar Saga; this book is part of the Riftwar Legacy. According to both the Romgi and Wikipedia, it was written after Feist helped create the computer game of the same name. So, yes, this book is based on a game.
I confess that the story was thoroughly tedious for the first hundred pages or so. I didn’t want to read the book at all, but I had to read something. And I noticed for the first time that while Feist tends to have very interesting plots, his writing could use a little help. The more I read, in fact, the more I became convinced that he’s actually a rather mediocre author.
But, finally, I got to a point in the book where I was involved in the story, and actually felt like continuing on.
Now that it’s been about two months since I finished reading, I have no idea what the book was about. So I’m going to rate this one as altogether meh.
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