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ClaraOswald wrote:I just read The Inheritance Cycle through for the second time. Again I'm reminded of how much I love the characters, and again I'm reminded of HOW MAD I AM ABOUT THE ENDING
Eesh. I keep hearing foreboding things about that ending. Fingers, toes, arms and ears crossed it's not as bad as people seem to warn.
I literally only finished Mockingjay yesterday, I promise not to spoil it for you. ;)
Hah! Wow, well, we all go at our own pace. Isn't HG brilliant?
I actually have only read the first two Divergent books, hopefully I'll get around to the third, I do like them a lot. I'm not sure I'll ever get to Maze Runner or Fifth Wave or anything though, I think I'm finally boarding the getting-over-dystopia boat.
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I started Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris.
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Hmmm I haven't read for fun in such a long time. I legit just finished the last book in the Cinder series, Winter, even though I started it at Christmas. :cry:
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Bethany Shepard wrote:I started Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris.
You're only starting that now? And you call yourself a good Christian girl! :twisted:

Black Butler volumes 13-19. Edward Midford is awesome. Also, now I know how to play cricket. And "taking a wicket" makes so much more sense. Thank you, Baldo. :P
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My mom bought me a copy of Anxious for Nothing by John MacArthur. I'm looking forward to reading it, what with me feeling like I'm having an existential crisis every other minute these days. ^_^;
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I just finished Surprised by Christ, a book the Priest at the church I'm currently attending, wrote. \:D/
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I just got into the series, The Quest for Truth, by Brock Eastman. They are really good!
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Comic books. I read comic books. I am such a child. I lived through the deaths of Billy and Snake-Eyes in one night. It. Was. GUT-WRENCHING. Curse you, Larry Hama. *shakes fist* Also, Aeternus Mallum. Forever Evil. In which Lex Luthor is somehow cooler than Batman. "And I've just discovered something that will change...everything. Bruce Wayne is Batman." New 52, you have done many horrible things, not the least of which is Harper Row, but this....this was gold. Pure gold. So much gold. :twisted:
Mickey wrote:I just got into the series, The Quest for Truth, by Brock Eastman. They are really good!
Oh my goodness. OH. MY. GOODNESS. This series is awesome! SOOO GOOOD!!! *faints* I will never look at the name Snookums the same way again. :D
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I'm reading Divergent right now... what kind of book is it anyway? Does it have fans? O.o
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Miss Friendship wrote:Does it have fans? O.o
*laughs hysterically*

Your naivety is refreshing.

But yeah, it's like one of the big ones, like Hunger Games. They made movies out of it. O.o
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Wow glad I found someone who likes them, I don't know if I can wait fro HOPE to come out! I'm borrowing them from a girl and she said TANGLE ends in a big cliffhanger!
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Oooo! I can't wait to read Tangle! I've got only the first two books, and I've read like the first two chapters of Unleash. One thing I love about the books is that the weird names and phrases are all Latin/German mixes. (I love the German language, so I totally fan-girled over that). I think Brock Eastman is a really cool author to use it in his stuff.
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I agree I think Latin Greek, and German make good names for this genre of writing! I am almost finished with Unleash, and I love it!!!
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Tell me your favorite books and series! Please. :P

I will make a list of my favs.
Anything by Louisa May Alcott
Little house on the prairie series; all of them
Anything by bodie theone
James Herriot's books
Pollyanna
Anything by L M Montgomery
There are more, but I can't think of them at the moment. :P
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Woah, we have a few in common!
A few of my favourite books are -
The Chronicles of Narnia, and no I'm not too old
Anne of the Green Gables, and all in the series
Pollyanna
The Little House on The Prairie series
Ths Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
All Sherlock stories, preferably written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Nancy Drew books
The Books of Bayern by Shannon Hale
The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
Ella Enchanted, and Fairest, by Gail Carson Levine
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, and the sequels
The Homelanders series by Andrew Klavan
The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz
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Well, I see none of my favorites here.
Anything by Brandon Sanderson especially the Stormlight archives
The Book of Deacon
The Circle Trilogy
Cast of Stones trilogy
Blood of Kings trilogy
Dreamlander
Debate Vampire

Everyone (Blitz doesn't count) fears ninjas, except for one: I, Ninjahunter

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Oh my favorite... BOOKS!!!
The Chronicles of Narnia
Lord of the Rings
The Secrets of the Manor
Geronimo Stilton [ I know there pretty little kidish but I like 'em anyhow! ]
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Dragons in our Midst Series -Bryan Davis
Goose Girl Series -Shannon Hale
Princess Academy Series -Shannon Hale
Isle of Fire Series -Wayne Thomas Batson
Hunger Games Series- Suzanne Collins
Gregor the Overlander Series -Suzanne Collins (read these WAY before Hunger Games)

Can you tell that all I read is Fiction? "What do you think fairy-tales are? They are reminders that our lives will get better." -Mary Margaret
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Blitz, you like Blood of Kings? How have we not discussed this before??? O.o

Narnia
Tolkien's Middle-Earth stuff (I'd say LOTR, but I love Children of Hurin and the Fall of Gondolin, too)
Alex Rider
Little House on the Prairie
Hardy Boys
Princess Academy
The Missing
Shadow Children
Anne of Green Gables
Bracken Trilogy
Peabody Adventure Series
Sugar Creek Gang
Quest for Truth
Voyage of the Jerle Shannara
Lady Grace Mysteries
Vikings Quest Series
Black Butler
Naruto
The Books of Umber
Christian Heritage Series
Archives of Anthropos
Spectrum Chronicles
MindWar
The Darkest Age
The Hypnotists

*buries head in hands* That last one is written for little boys, but it's still so awesome! Gordon Korman does the Haddix thing, only better. :twisted:
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WOW! Thanks for giving me ideas!!! I will definitely check some of these out!!
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