I have read two books in two weeks! I even finished them both! One was The Raven King, and the other was called Before I Fall (by an author called Lauren Oliver).
It's a book about a girl who dies in car crash, but then has seven days to redeem herself in a series of groundhog day loops (because she relives the last day of her life over and over). I don't know about you, but I am a sucker for this sort of thing! I love the way you can take a scenario, then change it and twist it. I think it's great. And honestly, I liked the way the redemption thing worked out, too.
( spoilers! )
Anyway, I really enjoyed it, and I didn't know if I would or not, and I almost didn't read it!
Now I am reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, which I hope I will like because it sounds interesting. I'm not sure about the other two books, though (as it's a trilogy. They're all so short(ish) I'm not sure why he didn't just make it one book? Or maybe two?) They sound interesting to me, from what I read on TVT, but I read a few of the reviews on Goodreads, and most people didn't seem to be as impressed. Also my library doesn't have them, so I'd either have to ask for them to be bought, or get them myself.
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Been watching more Buffy! I missed four/five eps last week because I went to the con, but I didn't think any were on because it was a bank holiday weekend (and they were advertising other stuff! What was I supposed to think??) Mum said if she'd realised they were on, she'd have set them to record for me, which was really nice of her. Anyway, I said I'm definitely going to get the DVD boxset, so I can watch them whenever.
Xander is STILL a passive-aggressive jerk, and is getting worse now (the way he patronises Buffy at the end of Helpless made me so mad. I hoped she punched him HARD when she got her strength back). Also I'd forgotten how come Wesley turned up (I thought he'd been assigned to Faith), but nope, the events of Helpless are what brings him to sunny Sunnydale.
(I am, like, the worst fan of everything and, as much as I love Buffy, I haven't watched it consistently since it aired. In fact, apart from the odd episode, I probably haven't seen much of season three since it aired (and I didn't see all of it then, because of real life shenanigans. I didn't see all of the final ep until within the last ten years).
Also still totally seeing X-Men references where there are none. I wonder if Willow is Jewish because Kitty Pryde is. I wonder if Buffy temporarily loses her powers because Storm did. There was another one, but I have since forgotten it. (I probably wouldn't have even thought of these, had I not known for yeeeears that Joss is a massive X-Men fan).
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I am near the end of Lightning Returns???
I've only got eighteen hours of the 12th day left, although I have no idea what to do with them (I've got one sidequest to fill in, the others I can't figure out, and then it's all running about until the final boss shows up, I guess).
It's a book about a girl who dies in car crash, but then has seven days to redeem herself in a series of groundhog day loops (because she relives the last day of her life over and over). I don't know about you, but I am a sucker for this sort of thing! I love the way you can take a scenario, then change it and twist it. I think it's great. And honestly, I liked the way the redemption thing worked out, too.
( spoilers! )
Anyway, I really enjoyed it, and I didn't know if I would or not, and I almost didn't read it!
Now I am reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, which I hope I will like because it sounds interesting. I'm not sure about the other two books, though (as it's a trilogy. They're all so short(ish) I'm not sure why he didn't just make it one book? Or maybe two?) They sound interesting to me, from what I read on TVT, but I read a few of the reviews on Goodreads, and most people didn't seem to be as impressed. Also my library doesn't have them, so I'd either have to ask for them to be bought, or get them myself.
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Been watching more Buffy! I missed four/five eps last week because I went to the con, but I didn't think any were on because it was a bank holiday weekend (and they were advertising other stuff! What was I supposed to think??) Mum said if she'd realised they were on, she'd have set them to record for me, which was really nice of her. Anyway, I said I'm definitely going to get the DVD boxset, so I can watch them whenever.
Xander is STILL a passive-aggressive jerk, and is getting worse now (the way he patronises Buffy at the end of Helpless made me so mad. I hoped she punched him HARD when she got her strength back). Also I'd forgotten how come Wesley turned up (I thought he'd been assigned to Faith), but nope, the events of Helpless are what brings him to sunny Sunnydale.
(I am, like, the worst fan of everything and, as much as I love Buffy, I haven't watched it consistently since it aired. In fact, apart from the odd episode, I probably haven't seen much of season three since it aired (and I didn't see all of it then, because of real life shenanigans. I didn't see all of the final ep until within the last ten years).
Also still totally seeing X-Men references where there are none. I wonder if Willow is Jewish because Kitty Pryde is. I wonder if Buffy temporarily loses her powers because Storm did. There was another one, but I have since forgotten it. (I probably wouldn't have even thought of these, had I not known for yeeeears that Joss is a massive X-Men fan).
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I am near the end of Lightning Returns???
I've only got eighteen hours of the 12th day left, although I have no idea what to do with them (I've got one sidequest to fill in, the others I can't figure out, and then it's all running about until the final boss shows up, I guess).
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