Right now, I'm reading an alternative-uniiverse history - "1634: the Galileo Affair."
(not sure quite what you call this style of sci-fi; I think that's it.)
These authors clearly like history and were CLEARLY having
waaaay too much fun 'playing' with the world they envisioned... they've come up with some HILARIOUS situations... if anyone wants to know what the basic premise of this series is, ask away.
Cambo wrote:Mockingjay- the last book in the Hunger Games trilogy. I've been unable to put them down, read the first two in three days.
SoulBiter wrote:Just finished the three books myself. I enjoyed them thoroughly.
Very good, very good! Carry on, folks!
Yeahhh... when I got to Mockingjay, I was determined to be "disciplined" and not read it all in one big gulp / ignore my children for about 24 hours straight.
So the habit of putting it down at the ends of chapters... helped me to notice just how
consistently the author would put a cliffhanger that I was NOT anticipating at the end of every chapter!
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"