Sara’s Comments (group member since Mar 02, 2011)

Sara’s comments from the BGGWW Books group.

I tried to read book two of Through the Universe but only got about halfway until it just got to be too cheesy for me.

I read Before I Fall which is a teen book about a mean girl who dies at the end of a normal teenage day and then relives it 7 times. Surprisingly deep and well done for the age group and nothing about her life or mean girlness changes as easily/quickkly as expected when you know there are only 7 days.

i am ALMOST done with Dance with Dragons finally. This was a slog.

I am currently re-reading The Hunger Games before the movie comes out and just started how to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe which I think I am going to like.

hmmm, that would actually be pretty disapointing. there is a lot of buildup and things that point to a pretty grand world affecting story. and then, it's not? we'll see. I am not going to judge book three before I read it. :)

I feel the same way you did marco. I felt like book two was book one take two-lets try a different location. I liked it, don't get me wrong, but I really felt the story hardly moved and that there is now WAY too much to fit into a third book.

The thing is that i still liked it. but I liked it as an independent story and don't feel at this point that it did much for the trilogy.

I'm around. i am actually reading a bunch, but for some reason i just never update them in here. I am going to try and change that.

The cool thing now is that some libraries actually have books to lend on the kindle and with there being a 79.00 kindle now i think it's pretty afordable. I know that not everyone can plonk down 79 bucks at any time, but it is more afordable then the 200 is was. The one thing i don't like is that i can't delete books from my account. i would love to get my mom a kindle for christmas and have it link to my account so she can access all the books I have but there are a couple on there that, well, i wouldn't be comfortable with her knowing I own. but there is no way to keep them from going to her kindle at the moment. Anyone have any solutions for that?

I read book one years ago but never went past it. The TV show was so good it made me start the series again. I am now on to book 5. I didn't enjoy 4 as much as the other three but I am willing to take his word that he made a mistake splitting the characters and hope book 6 will be back to what i love.

I am thinking about the fire, but really, I don't know what I would use it for. I have an ipod touch and a regular kindle so I don't know what else the fire could do for me.

Also not excited about the kindle touch. I touch the screen with my thumb while I am reading and I am not sure how much that would interupt the book.

I just finished A Clash of Kings. I have SO MANY theories! And probably most of them are wrong. He also managed to surprise me in spite of myself so that was pleasant.

All I can say is that if they follow the book for this one as well as they did in season one on HBO it is going to be awesome!

I first read this about 9 years ago but for some reason never continued with the series. Erin and I watched the full first season on HBO and it was so good it made me want to read the book again. Reading it through i am even more impressed with what HBO did. I am now about halfway through the second book and i have SO MANY THEORIES! but either someone hasn't started the series yet, or they have already read so far ahead they know if my theories are right or wrong. I am going crazy having only myself to think about these with. :)

I have a lot of friends who have read the survival guide. If i recommend this book will that have spoiled it at all? Just want to give fair warning if it has.

This is an audiobook.com book for me and I wonder if it just didn't translate well in audio form. This is normally a genre I would think I would really be into but my interest. . . .tailed off. It's not that I consciously put it aside, it is just that I have so many audio books and when it was time to listen to one this one just stopped being at the top of the list. I only read your up to chapter 7 post because I am not quite sure where I left off, but maybe tomorrow at work I will try this book again.

Am I the only one who wants to be able to give half stars? There are so many times I am caught between a 3 and a 4, or a 4 and a 5. Maybe I obsess over the accuracy of my ratings a little too much. :)

I love some of the descriptions which I've never had in other books before. The shores of India during their great panic really led to some nightmares for me which means I think it was described in a very realistic awful terrible horrible wonderful way.

I also liked how this style let the author hint at something that wasn't integral to the story you were reading, but then later when it is laid out in another story the horror of it just slaps you across the face. there were a couple of times i gasped out loud I was so shocked-and none of those were at zombie attacks.

I absolutely love by kindle. Erin got it for me for my birthday last year and it falls into one of hte best presents I have ever gotten. When I went shopping for a new purse i wouldn't buy one unless it had a "kindle pocket". It's pretty much never more than an arms length away.

I have about 160 books on it right now and i think i paid for less than 60 of those. There are so many classics to get for free I have been having fun doing some rereading of books I loved and just for some reason haven't read in a long time.

i did get the kindle with wifi only and I have never missed having a constant internet connection available.

Dawn wrote: "Hello all :) Dawn/SelenA here.

Currently reading:
Margaret Atwood is my author girlfriend right now. Recently finished "Year of the Flood" which is the se..."

You picked a good girlfriend! She has my favorite literary quote ever. And it was something just written on the wall in a bathroom in one of her stories. "F**K Vegetarians, all Gods are carnivorous"(no offense meant to vegetarians. )

By the way, I am mirarian(mir) who could have guessed? :)

I jsut finished this book and I found it very intrigueing. i almost don't think it fits in the horror genre(although it contains some horrific things). I feel like it fits more in the Utopia/Dystopia genre in a way. It's about a man(i am not clear if he is actually a reporter-he is working for the U.N.) who travels the world years after the zombie apocalypse has happened and he interviews the survivors. I felt it came at the zombie war from several new angles. There were problems(and solutions) that I hadn't seen before and it was an intereting view of worldwide impact of zombies.

People who know me personally know that zombies are one of the things i fear most. It's irrational, I know, but it's true. I always say though, that I will be one of the people that survive when it happens because I will have the most important thing down: I will BELIEVE it is happening. I won't have to see someone eaten in front of me to get a move on with my survival plan. So yes, the fact that I have a zombie survival plan and a strong fear of zombies might have made this book a little more in my wheelhouse then the average person but I still think it was an interesting and new take on something that has been done a million times before. Not an easy task to accomplish.

by the way-I am usually pretty logical, it's just, zombies are freaky. :)

I liked a Handmaids Tale but I like Canticle for Leibowitz more. And for some reason in my head those are linked as like books even though they are only similar on the broadest level.

anyone tried this on audible yet? Want to know if it is a good speaker or not. I've had pretty good luck so far, but there was one book I got that i just could NOT finish with the speaker.

Goo wrote: "Sounds like a Spinal Tap album.

So, now I have a decision to make. I was considering starting A Game of Thrones in the next week or so, but now there's this. They are both about the same length ..."

this sounds like maybe you should have a pages to read this year goal instead of a books to read this year goal :)