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Read On The Go… A Song For Summer…And A Rant ‘Bout Wuthering Heights

{ February 3, 2010 @ 11:01 pm } · { Books }
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I’ve all ready done a quick post on this book by Iva Ibbotson, ages ago. I’m re-reading it again. This has to be one of my favorite books ever. EVER.

P.S. While re-reading Wuthering Heights, yet again I fail to see the amazing love story that has entrapped many avid readers over time… all I can find is some seriously depressed, self-harming nineteenth century people lost in the moores… Am I just unable to see the profound amazingness in this book that everyone else sees? I mean, parts are really good, but come on!
XX Maeve

Read on the Go… Small Minded Giants

{ January 31, 2010 @ 10:24 pm } · { Book Reviews, Books }
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I’m curently reading Small Minded Giants by Oisín McGann. This is a Science Fiction type book, not really my style- but I’m enjoying it. Two words come to mind: disturbing and interestingly freaky.

It’s set in the uture, and the whole world is gripped by an ice age that has destroyed most like. Solomon Wheat lives in Ash Harbour, perhaps the only remaining civilisation on the planet. Ash Harbour, a crime-ridden city, is built underneath a huge glass dome, and is kept habitable by a huge machine.. yet this life-supporting machine is falling apart…

Poems You Should Read…

{ January 31, 2010 @ 10:13 pm } · { Books, Weekly Poet }
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I think every week I should post one or two ideas of poems that you should read… Maybe a poet a week- just added a category called that.

The first should definitely be Seamus Heaney…

Due to being afraid of infringing copyright, I can’t actually post his poems here, but I can give you a few titles you can reasearch:

Requiem For The Croppies- this poem is about the Croppy Boys, talking about their death.

Mid-Term Break- a very sad poem, about Heaney’s  four-year old brother dying after being hit by a car.

Both these poems are sad, but they are very beautiful: they use such visual imagery.

I know Mid-Term Break off by heart: we learned it in school. It contains sibilance, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia and aural, tactile and visual imagery.

The last line uses alliteration beautifully when describing his brothers coffin: ” A four foot box, a foot for every year.”

I swear, I wrote about four six-page essays on this poem… but I never got sick of it.

Read on The Go…

{ January 24, 2010 @ 10:42 pm } · { Books }
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Currently reading The Twig Trilogy, from the Edge Chronicles… I’m on book 1, beyond the deepwoods.

Read on the go…Bis(s) zum Morgengrauen

{ January 23, 2010 @ 8:33 pm } · { Books }
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Re-reading this bok for the second time in German, have read it hundreds of times in English. It may not be written as well as some books, but it’s an amazing story. In English: Twilight

The Quint Trilogy: The Edge Chronicles

{ January 17, 2010 @ 7:21 pm } · { Books }
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Over the last week, I decided to re-read the first trilogy of the Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. I haven’t managed to read either of the other trilogies yet, but I will!

 

Although these books are though to be just for children, they so are not! Just like the Magyk series, these books are amazing to everyone who reads them.

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The ice, the snow, and the fog.

{ January 14, 2010 @ 6:04 pm } · { Books, Rantarooneys }
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Slightly like in “The Winter Knights”by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, we have been gripped by what seemed like a never ending winter blizzard, but it’s over. The ice is melting, the snow’s already gone, and a thick, soupy blanket of fog has descended, swaddling the land like muslim. It’s really spooky, you can’t see anything further away than a few yards. School was back on yesterday, but was cancelled today. It’s on again tomorrow, like a yo-yo… they can’t make up their minds.

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Read on the go…

{ January 11, 2010 @ 11:35 pm } · { Books }
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Thinking of adding this section to the site, just saying what I’m reading right now, and giving marks so far out of five…
Well, I’m re-reading curse of the Gloamglozer by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell (Isn’t Riddell such a cool surname?)
and I’d give it 5/5- kind of guessable, since I’m RE-reading it
–MaeveXX

The Amulet Of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

{ January 10, 2010 @ 11:05 pm } · { Book Reviews, Books }
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This book is the first in the Bartimaeus Trilogy.

When young Magician Nathaniel summons a powerful djinni to exact revenge on his sceptical master, Mr Underwood, and a loathsome magician, Simon Lovelace, he gets more than he bargains for. Nathaniel orders the djinni, Bartimaeus, to steal The Amulet Of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace, against whom he has a grudge since Simon publicly disgraced Nathaniel. However, after getting Bartimaeus to hide the Amulet in his Master’s study, he suddenly realises what danger he has put them all in. Nathaniel doesn’t care about his master: Mr Underwood is a second-rate magician who believes Nathaniel is stupid and has no potential- but Nathaniel finds out he has put the only person who cares for him in the whole world, Mrs Underwood, in trouble.

The seriousness of this book is made light by the partial narration by Bartimaeus himself- he writes witty footnotes explaining all things magical and mystical. This adventurous story is very gripping… I’m already looking out for the second in the series, The Golem’s Eye

No School Until Monday

{ January 6, 2010 @ 2:35 pm } · { Rantarooneys }
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No school until Monday because of Big Freeze!

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