Sunday 20 December 2009 at 9:07 pm
Ok. So here were the rules for this one.
1 - Choose 3 or 4 books from your bookshelf that, when put together, form a sentence.
2 - Take a picture of your books / sentence.
3 - Post you sentence and your picture on your blog.
I had a little trouble because I didn't have many books that had verbs as titles or at the end of their titles. I got it figured out, and here it is:
I know, I cut off Paper Towns, but I had to fit everything the best I could and my camera was having trouble focusing. So my sentence reads (my commas added): Paper towns, where the sidewalk ends, disgrace the wanderers.
Sunday 20 December 2009 at 11:07 am
Note: I actually only read Vol. 10-12 during the challenge.
Having "bizarre" in the title shouldn't give a book free reign to do whatever it wants, but it helps. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure certainly does whatever it wants. Whatever it wants including, but not limited to: a vampire with a human's body, spirit warriors, tongue devouring bugs, gamblers who play for souls, a foul-mouthed/tempered dog, and more vehicle wrecks than any Hollywood action flick could dream of.
Hirohiko Araki schizophrenic epic manga series works though, because it sets up the rules of the bizarre adventure and rarely, if ever breaks them. So it's easy to accept anything and everything, as long as the reader isn't betrayed. It doesn't hurt that JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is packed with blood, humor, and pop culture references (the title itself inspired the Beatles song, "Get Back.") Also, as the kid who sold me on the series noted, the characters in JoJo's don't become magically stronger or gain a coincidental new skill to fight a stronger enemy, instead, they must use the skills they as a group or as an individual possess. While the outcome of the fights are sometime resolved unconvincingly, the series always relies on the characters using their brains to guide their brawn.
Sunday 20 December 2009 at 10:58 am
In an alternate history, the thriving Gold Rush has driven a contest, held by the Russians, to find a way to drill through the thick ice of the Klondike for Gold. Dr. Leviticus Blue builds such a machine, but on its first trial run it destroys most of downtown Seattle and releases a blight gas that turns anyone who breathes it into "rotters," the living dead.
Sixteen years later, a wall has been erected around Seattle to keep the gas in and to keep the country and survivors safe. However, Dr. Blue's teenage son, Ezekiel Wilkes, has some questions about his father's guilt in the tragedy that left thousands of the undead wandering around inside the wall. So he travels into the city for answers, leaving his mother, Dr. Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes with only one choice. She must enter the city she escaped to face zombies, air pirates, and more to save her son.
Can I help it if I love zombies? Or that steam-power fascinates me to no end? I have recently discovered that I love SF (I even found out that is how true fans write Sc-Fi). And among SF sub-genres steampunk is my favorite.
So it should come as little shock that I absolutely loved Cherie Priest's Boneshaker, an steampunk novel with zombies and pirates, not to mention loads of action and great characters.
Not much else to say. (Zombies+Air Pirates)Steampunk=AWESOMESAUCEANDEPICWINABONANZA
Friday 18 December 2009 at 1:50 pm
Synopsis: The Stolls homeschooled their daughter, Anne, her entire life, limiting her exposure of the outside world to an hour of cable news a night. Now she's eighteen and wants out from under the thumb of her oppressive parents. She pleads with them to let her move out and attend college like a "normal teenager." When they resist, she is left with no choice but to run away from home.
Anne quickly discovers her parents weren't "oppressive," they were trying to keep her safe. What she thought was America in 2010 is actually 2050 on Planet Sadien, the new world order of Planet Earth created by Doctor Sadien Drake. Drake took control of Earth, enslaving 90% of the human race, and creating an army of mutants and robots to wage war on the universe. A few escaped his control, including the Stolls.
Still wanting freedom, Anne opts not to return home, and instead joins the ranks of The Great Militia, an underground group working to overthrow Drake and restore order.
Could it be the greatest mistake of her life?
Venture, the debut novel by Daniel D. Evans, mixes humor, sci-fi, machine guns, tanks, grenades, teen angst, punk rock, secrets, lies, robots, zombies, mutants, mutant zombies, zombie robots, mutant robot zombies, and more in an action-packed thrill ride that will keep you guessing.
I know I made that up, but that is a book I totally wanna read.
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Friday 18 December 2009 at 10:20 am
So I like to do reading challenges. They make me feel challenge. . . wait for it . . .dary. That's right, challengedary (That's right a
portmanteau of challenged and legendary.) Take that,
Barney Stintson.
Anyway, I was hoping to read The Road and maybe one or two other things over break anyway. Plus, with the daily challenges and its focus on using the time off from school/work/etc., I couldn't wait to share it with ya'll. So come back here to see what I'm doing over the break, and leave a comment to tell me what you are doing.
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