Giveaway

Ok, I don't know if that many people actually read this blog, or would be interested in this book for that matter (it's slightly controversial), but I thought it would be fun to do a giveaway!

I bought a digital copy of the audiobook "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman and I burned a copy to CD for my brother. He was taking a long road trip and I thought it might entertain him. I don't think he ever listened to it and he gave it back to me the other day. I already have it on my iPod, so I have this extra copy on CD to give away.

I loved the "His Dark Materials" Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass). I love a good story and this is a fantastic story with awesome characters! My favorite of the series is "The Subtle Knife". The audiobook is also amazing! One of the best that I've listened to in fact. It actually has a cast of characters reading and not just one person, which helps distinguish the characters and makes the crazy worlds in the story come alive.

Here is the amazon description of the trilogy:
In the epic trilogy His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman unlocks the door to worlds parallel to our own. Dæmons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universes--if it isn't destroyed first. Join Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and the rest as they embark on the most breathtaking, heartbreaking adventure of their lives. The fate of the universe is in their hands.

I read this blog entry by Sheri Lynch a long time ago and she describes so perfectly in a way that I could never articulate how I feel about reading (hence this crazy long run-on sentence) and she also talks about "His Dark Materials" - post link

Ok, ok, enough rambling, back to the giveaway! Here are some quotes from a few books I have read in recent months. The first person to correctly identify the title, author, and character the quotes are from wins! You will really impress me if you can do it without Google!!

Oh, someone please participate, so I don't feel lame! :)

Quotes

1. "The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed."


2. "I am going to love this boy more than the girl but I mustn't ever let her know. It is wrong to love one child more than the other but this is something that I cannot help."



3. "If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"



4. "I bit a pillow. Or two."

The Host is headed for the Big Screen

They are going to make Stephenie Meyer's The Host into a movie, yay!! I'm excited to see who will be cast and I wonder how long it will take them to make it. It's being directed by the director of Gattaca and I really liked that movie, so it should be good!

Article about the movie

What's everyone reading??

Good job Nick for posting the last book review, you've probably read the most books this year out of all of us. We've really neglected this blog, so I wanted to find out what people are reading.

John is still reading "Angels and Demons." He has about 80 pages left, but we went and saw the movie anyway. Pretty good! I have picked up "Breaking Dawn" again, remember I never finished it. I am going to read "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" next for the RS book club. "My Sister's Keeper" is next and then I was thinking about trying one of the historical fiction books that Nick likes so much. I was also thinking about reading the "Kite Runner". We were supposed to read it for book club last month, but I never did.

So, whatcha reading, or planning on reading??

Let the reading commence . . .

I'm so excited about our new "exclusive" book blog! LOL! This is a place where we can share what we are reading whether we love it or hate it. We can maybe rate the content of the books we read. I'm sick of picking out books that have too much profanity or other bad things without any indication or warning. I guess if we do that we'll have to come up with a rating system. We could also do ending spoilers like Jessie suggested. Since that time she was trying to find out the ending of "The Thirteenth Tale", but couldn't find any spoiler sites!

Jessie, you should write about "Breaking Dawn" since you were probably the first person in the world to get a copy and you finished it first! :) Please wait till I'm finished reading it, though. It shouldn't be too long!

So, I'm putting the following out there for labels/categories:
reviews
spoilers
random

That's all I can think of for now. You can change or add labels as you think of them. I just wanted to get the ball rolling!