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slemslempikeThere is a FIFTH Janie book by Caroline B Cooney, a final (possibly) sequel to The Girl on the Milk Carton. I had no idea. Based on my relative enjoyment of current Cooney to classic Cooney, I do not have high hopes, but OBVIOUSLY I shall be buying it anyway. Apparently Janie finally comes to terms with what happened to her. I'm not sure I'd ever come to terms with it myself, but there you go.
Finished Bring Up the Bodies last night, which I didn't love as much as Wolf Hall. I'd still be eager to read more, but it didn't feel as immersive. I know people had complained that just being "him" or "he" instead of Cromwell was confusing, but I hadn't found that so, whereas I did find "he, Cromwell" jarring. Now I am reading An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, after I loved A Fault in Our Stars. So far I am a bit untaken with it, though perhaps that will improve once I am further in.
I went to a pub for lunch for my birthday today, but I was too full and pressed for time to have pudding. I am sorry about this, I was going to have the guinness and chocolate sponge.
Finished Bring Up the Bodies last night, which I didn't love as much as Wolf Hall. I'd still be eager to read more, but it didn't feel as immersive. I know people had complained that just being "him" or "he" instead of Cromwell was confusing, but I hadn't found that so, whereas I did find "he, Cromwell" jarring. Now I am reading An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, after I loved A Fault in Our Stars. So far I am a bit untaken with it, though perhaps that will improve once I am further in.
I went to a pub for lunch for my birthday today, but I was too full and pressed for time to have pudding. I am sorry about this, I was going to have the guinness and chocolate sponge.
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Date: 2013-05-23 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-23 01:54 pm (UTC)The third book is voice on the radio, where her boyfriend uses her story to boost his college radio show ratings. The fourth one is where she Finds Something in her bio-dad's stuff.
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Date: 2013-05-23 02:20 pm (UTC)It is a fairly standard Kellie Martin tv movie. Lots of crying. A terrible Reeve who was possibly also on My So-Called Life if I remember right.
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Date: 2013-05-23 02:26 pm (UTC)(Also in Buffy as 'Way Cool Guy'. Strangely don't remember that one.)
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Date: 2013-05-23 02:32 pm (UTC)I loved an Abundance of Katherines, but I just found it fun. Unlike The Fault in Our Stars, which is heart wrenching.
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Date: 2013-05-23 02:58 pm (UTC)I had exactly the same reaction to 'he, Cromwell', which I felt Mantel had just put in because so many people mentioned that they didn't like the 'he's in Wolf Hall (like you, they didn't bother me at all - though she does the same thing in A Place of Greater Safety which has THREE protagonists, and that is way more confusing).
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Date: 2013-05-23 03:03 pm (UTC)I have to say, that had it been three protagonists I'd likely have been begging for a differentiated he.
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Date: 2013-05-23 03:31 pm (UTC)I haven't tried An Abundance of Katherines, I like Paper Towns quite a lot but I think A Fault in Our Stars is his stand out book.
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Date: 2013-05-23 03:48 pm (UTC)I should read Wolf Hall - I even have a copy - but I fear the opening icky stamping scene. Various friends have advised me to power on through. (You may have been one of them, my memory's not ideal.)
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Date: 2013-05-23 03:50 pm (UTC)You could totally skip the stamping scene, really. All it does is provide context that he comes from hardship and violence, that his Dad's a badun and he, Cromwell, is resilient.
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Date: 2013-05-23 06:06 pm (UTC)The John Green books was never going to be very taking because the spelling of the name is wrong in the title.
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Date: 2013-05-24 12:49 am (UTC)I trust you've had pudding by now.
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