Six-Sentence Saturday 08/10/2013

I don't know about you, but my feet are cold this morning. I don't like this changing August weather. It's supposed to be HOT, y'all!

1.) I am prowling through the house trying to find a worthy book to read.

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2.) Have you ever read THE MARROW OF THE WORLD, by Ruth Nichols? (Trina Schart Hyman illustrates it. GORGEOUS stuff!)

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3.) I think I'll read that one.

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4.) Now that I've finished Season One, I think I'm liking Supernatural.

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5.) All of a sudden, the episodes are ending on cliffhangers... what's up with that?!

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6.) I want to watch Grimm now, which is similar to Supernatural, but it deals with Fantasy monsters instead of Demon monsters.

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That's all for today, crazy people! Hope you all have a good weekend. Me, I'm going to listen to some medical dictation before heading off to work. Mumble mumble-ino and all that. (Brownie points to anyone who got that reference. It's from a book.)

God bless!

Cat

Six-Sentence Saturday 10/08/11

Here we are again.

First, an announcement: I've been so busy I just haven't been able to get in my three blog posts a week, so I'm whittling it down to two posts on Wednesday and Saturday.

Now, here we go!

1.) I went to the library today, looked up a couple books I really love, and turned to the back to see who the author credited as their agent, and compiled a list.

2.) I got some lovely critiques back on a PB that I want to sub, so I'm going to be working on that over the weekend.

3.) My next two seasons of Psych came in the mail today... HOOT HOOT! I'm so 'cited!

4.) I just finished a rather remarkably good book called The Lost Conspiracy, by Frances Hardinge, and I utterly LOVED her descriptions.

5.) I just started the first chapter of Maximum Ride... very interesting.

6.) I think I'd like to seriously learn how to do sepia illustrations.

That's all for this week. See youse all on Wednesday! God bless

Wednesday, Words and Worlds

You know what I love? When I pick up a book and the setting is so believable you can't stop reading.

I just finished reading the Stoneheart trilogy, by Charlie Fletcher. What I loved about this is that the story begins in modern-day London, but after the MC, George, commits an act of minor and semi-accidental vandalism, the story is catapulted into another layer of London, a mysteriously similar and different London where statues come to life. It was really interesting, and though I didn't like some of the language that peppered the book, I couldn't stop reading until I'd finished the whole trilogy. Took me about five days to get through all three books, and that's because I (unfortunately) have to work some days of the week. :-)

Another book I read, and one that is part of a series (or perhaps a trilogy. I can't be certain about that) is called The Fire Within, and that was another really engaging, don't-stop-until-you're-done kind of read. The author, Chris D'Lacey, plants you in a normal, everyday kind of world where a tenant, David Rain, moves into a house for rent that specifies the tenant must have a tolerance for cats, kids, and dragons. That in itself is engaging, but when you discover the landlady, Liz Pennykettle, actually creates the dragons out of clay, and that they are, somehow, alive, WHAM! You're in a suddenly different world where everything is normal except for the fact that dragons are existing in one house.

What was the last book you read, where you really connected with the worldbuilding that was created for the story?