Stephanie’s Comments (group member since Mar 10, 2014)

Stephanie’s comments from the That's What She Read Podcast Reading Group group.

I do both, but prefer to have the book in my hands. I just bought Asylum by Roux and Dark Places by Flynn.

No, absolutely not. Everytime you kiss your children you would see their deaths, every time you hug a friend goodbye or shake a hand? Oh hell no. I would however love to be able to predict lottery numbers =D

Ok seriously, I would not want any psychic ability, as they all come with some pretty horrible down sides, but if I HAD to pick I would want to know when someone was lying.

I change my reading habits for two weeks in the summer when we go to my parents house. I can then ignore my children and tackle stuff that I would not have the attention span to do with kids running around. Last summer I read Little Women and March along with a couple other classic books. Yes I know March isn't a classic but it went with Little Women! Other than those two weeks, and if we do a beach trip which is not often, I just read what I can when I can. I have no clue when I will decide which classics I will read this July...any suggestions?

I loved Maddaddam by Atwood and really enjoyed Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour book store. If you haven't read Penumbrae you should. plus the Trade paper cover glows on the dark. how much better can you get than that? oh wait...this should go in the judging covers discussion :)

I loved the first LoTR movie which was pretty close to the book. The changes they made were minimal and made sense. I think I saw it 3 times in the theaters which is nutty. Movie two sucked ass when you compare it with the book. Half of the stuff in the movie was made up and well I won't get started. I was Ok with movie three, maybe I just lowered my expectations.

The Hobbit now, I have loved those movies and they don't really follow the books and made a lot of stuff up. Yet somehow it was Ok with me. I think my love of the Hobbit, as it was one of the first books I remember, reading and rereading, lead me to ignore the movies liberties.

Serena, she is a teenager just a tad early. She can roll her eyes like a teen so that's good enough for me.

On a side note, thank you for this. I love talking books again...books that aren't Captain underpants. On a side note, Just to make you all share my pain, Cordelia turns 10 on Tuesday.

I have never read fanfic and likely never will. I get pissed when they make movies of my favorite books which thy inevitably change to bring something stupid to the big screen ie The second LoTR movie!
I can't I.magine reading something where they mix 2 books together or otherwise alter the stories. Makes my OCD flare

I kept erasing it and having discussions with myself on various directions...so finally I just left it in.
Scarlet, holy crap how many times have I yelled at a book saying Why the hell don't you ask X about what happened? In our new age of technology where these misunderstandings dont need to happen, why do they keep happening? Especially when they drag the issue out over the whole book.

Edited to fix crap. Stupid auto correct made it crept

The Damsel in Distress. While I can enjoy a nice Epic battle over a chick, I get tired of the wishy washy women of these epics. I also read a lot of High Fantasy which seems to be full of girls needing saving. Now, while I will admit that it is better than it used to be it still gets a little old.

The Lone Wolf literally - at the risk of having Ravena throw something at me, if I have to read about another Vampmire vs Werewolf saga I may cry. Maybe the correct trope would be the reversal of the battle of good vs evil since the vampire werewolf battle is more like evil vs evil..I'm not sure. I guess I should have thought about it some more before I opened my mouth!

Scarlet wrote: "I might read a classic. :)"

I am always up for a classic. Let me know what you decide to read

If I do not like the cover of a book I will not read it...I won't even read the blurb to see if it is something I would like. I just put it back. I am with Scarlet, if it's pastel I won't read it. I also check the cover before I buy something on the kindle. I need a reason to spend my hard earned money on this book, so if you give me a crappy cover you didn't want me to read it badly enough

I am rereading the Sparrow so I can read Children of God. I also have Truman's In Cold Blood.

Chick flick is the same to me as chick lit but it doesn't bother me much as I don't watch movies much...well unless they have singing and animated characters. I would prefer to just read fiction and leave the chick lit category by the wayside. Ravena that's what my biggest problem is, chick lit keeps getting expanded to include things that don't fit the category but either are written by a woman or are about women. They lack the fluffy nature that seems to be required for a true chick lit book yet they get lumped in and then discounted by many

That tends to come from within though Scarlet...I am guilty of it myself. If something is labeled chick lit, it would take a recommendation from someone I really love to make me read it. Intellectually I realize this ends with me missing out on some books that are probably pretty good and yet the name fills me with loathing so much I am unable to get past it

If 'chick lit' was used for the Sophie Kinsellas and Emily Giffins of the world so be it, but it seems to creep further and further into anything that that is written by a woman and has a woman in it. Since I can't rely on the label to be applied correctly I would rather they do away with it. I guess that means I don't mind labels as long as they fit my view of things? Not sure that makes it any better ;)

I'm with Ravena. I judge quick within 50 pages...but it had to epically awful for me to stop reading it. However if I don't like the cover I won't try it