Working on them. Maintaining these reviews does not work with my procrastination issues. :/
Speaking of procrastination, I also really need to get the WoW stuff in order.
Working on them. Maintaining these reviews does not work with my procrastination issues. :/
Speaking of procrastination, I also really need to get the WoW stuff in order.
Super-quick Synopsis:
After his family is killed, Nobody “Bod” Owens grows up in a graveyard.
The Review:
This book won a Newbery award and it’s easy to see why. It’s very well written, entertaining and just an all around great book.
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Background:
Susan Andersen is another author I’ve been reading for a while. I don’t generally follow her books quite as faithfully as other authors. I usually get or borrow her books as I find them. This is the 2nd book in a series. The first book is Cutting Loose.
Super-quick Synopsis:
“Hippie” Poppy and straight-laced Jason (unsurprisingly) do not see eye-to-eye on a community project for teens.
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Background:
I can’t remember how I got started on this series but it’s likely something that was a “If you like Harry Potter, you’ll like this” type of recommendation.
I’ve had a bit of a weird “relationship” with this series, mainly due to two things. First, the author gets very, very descriptive. To the point of distraction occasionally and it has caused me to get out of the story a bit. Secondly, for some reason, it takes me forever to finish each of the books. I’ll be reading the book and be into it but the minute I put it down I will leave it sitting there, sometimes for days. I rarely feel the compulsion that I MUST finish right now.
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Background:
This is yet another series that I’ve been reading for a very long time. These are usually just good fun and super-fast to read. It’s generally what I refer to as “brain candy”: not exactly challenging to the mind, maybe not that good for you but it sure is fun.
Super-quick Synopsis:
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum deals with her day job while helping Ranger at night and assisting Lula and Grandma Mazur in their latest scheme. Inevitably, chaos ensues.
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So, yeahhhhh….I got a bit behind on updating. I’ve gotten several books read so need to get those reviews done and update the different book lists. I also have another book-related page I need to put together. And I really need to get the WoW stuff in order; being way lazy on that.
But in good WoW news, my mage hit 70 last night. I’m having to hold myself back from leveling more so I can build up more rest XP. The combination of rest XP plus heirloom shoulders is awesome. Add to that the occasional Wintergrasp buff and that makes me stupid happy.
I came up with this quickly one day and….I like it but I don’t think I write poetry well at all. A friend said it felt incomplete, that I had a beginning and an end, but there seemed to be something missing in the middle. Perhaps that’s so but I haven’t been inspired to add anything to it since. Anyway, here it is….
All the pretty faerie lights
glitter against the inky sky
That they might carry me away
to that magical land in my mind
Background:
I started reading this series back in 2003, two years after this book was first published. I have read all books in the series previously, including the most recent title, Dead and Gone.
I recently started watching True Blood and my interest was sparked to reread the series. Not only because I had never done so, but also to try to determine the exact changes that had been made to the show.
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Background:
Since I’ve not written about this series before, I feel some background is needed.
I discovered this series when there were only a few books book published. To say I have a love/hate relationship with the series would probably be overstating. I have loved many of them but also been either disappointed and/or ambivalent about a few of them. I don’t believe I have ever hated one, though. I’ve been through a lot with these characters and so I have kept reading them.
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We are not altering the emblem system, as you suggested, because it’s easier than changing the way loot tables are generated. We are altering the emblem system to allow players to choose more how they spend their time at level 80 while gearing up, increase the appeal and relevance of 5-player dungeons, and allow newcomers to the end game a better chance of getting geared for the next tier of raiding.
We feel the loot system is as fair as it is unfair and adds a bit of a need for diligence on the part of the player to seek a certain piece of gear. The Vault in particular would be a little bit too convenient if it very intelligently dropped items for the players who are present. The items that drop in the Vault are extremely good when compared to the time and effort required to kill the bosses that drop them, and we do not necessarily want players walking in with a great chance of getting such items every time they run the instance. ~Source
FTMFW!! He said everything I want to say to all the whiny asses bitching about the emblem change.
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