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imperfectletter101. A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (280)
This is one of my favorite books. Here's the review I have posted previously:
The narrator is...a dog.
His master is...Jack, who wields 'the knife'.
The characters include...a witch, a vampire, a werewolf, 'The Good Doctor', and 'The Great Detective'.
This is a fun, totally non-serious, absolutely enjoyable book about what happens when 'the right people' gather when there's a full moon on Halloween.
102. Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (310)
I felt like reading this book once more before I get rid of it, maybe to see if I'm making the right choice. I am. I didn't like it as much the second time even as I did the first, and I didn't like it all that much the first time.
103. *Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (335)
Zoe's Tale is another fantastic book in John Scalzi's Old Man's War universe. Zoe is the adopted daughter of John Perry and Jane Sagan, who are chosen to head up a colony on a new planet. Except things don't go exactly as expected and along with the normal hazards of colonizing a new planet (unfriendly lifeforms, inedible vegetation, etc), they suddenly discover that they've been made pawns in an intergalactic war.
This book is a retelling of the timeline of The Last Colony from Zoe's perspective. Because she's a teenager, she isn't privy to everything the adults know and do - and, likewise, they don't know everything that happens to her - so Zoe's experience of that time is quite different from her parents'.
Scalzi writes the Old Man's War books so that each of them is a stand-alone as well as part of a cohesive story, and Zoe's Tale is no exception. Also, although I found it shelved in the adult science fiction section of the bookstore, this was intended to, and in my opinion does, bridge the divide between adult and YA. It is also hysterically funny throughout much of the book. Scalzi wrote Zoe as a brilliant, sarcastic, irreverent character who talks back to adults (human and alien alike) and uses her wits to save the day, yet still manages to act and sound like an believable teenager.
103 / 110 books. 94% done!
47 / 75 *new books. 63% done!
3 / 10 ^non-fiction. 30% done!
28591 / 33000 pages. 87% done!
Audiobook time: 25h49m
This is one of my favorite books. Here's the review I have posted previously:
The narrator is...a dog.
His master is...Jack, who wields 'the knife'.
The characters include...a witch, a vampire, a werewolf, 'The Good Doctor', and 'The Great Detective'.
This is a fun, totally non-serious, absolutely enjoyable book about what happens when 'the right people' gather when there's a full moon on Halloween.
102. Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (310)
I felt like reading this book once more before I get rid of it, maybe to see if I'm making the right choice. I am. I didn't like it as much the second time even as I did the first, and I didn't like it all that much the first time.
103. *Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (335)
Zoe's Tale is another fantastic book in John Scalzi's Old Man's War universe. Zoe is the adopted daughter of John Perry and Jane Sagan, who are chosen to head up a colony on a new planet. Except things don't go exactly as expected and along with the normal hazards of colonizing a new planet (unfriendly lifeforms, inedible vegetation, etc), they suddenly discover that they've been made pawns in an intergalactic war.
This book is a retelling of the timeline of The Last Colony from Zoe's perspective. Because she's a teenager, she isn't privy to everything the adults know and do - and, likewise, they don't know everything that happens to her - so Zoe's experience of that time is quite different from her parents'.
Scalzi writes the Old Man's War books so that each of them is a stand-alone as well as part of a cohesive story, and Zoe's Tale is no exception. Also, although I found it shelved in the adult science fiction section of the bookstore, this was intended to, and in my opinion does, bridge the divide between adult and YA. It is also hysterically funny throughout much of the book. Scalzi wrote Zoe as a brilliant, sarcastic, irreverent character who talks back to adults (human and alien alike) and uses her wits to save the day, yet still manages to act and sound like an believable teenager.
Audiobook time: 25h49m
