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rachelmanija) wrote2005-06-05 03:24 pm
rachelmanija) wrote2005-06-05 03:24 pm
Book Swag (partial list; advance copies)
Comment if you know of the author, heard of the book, hate the author, etc.
Audrey Couloumbis, The Misadventures if Maude March. YA Western.
Gail Carson Levine, Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg. Illustrated fairy tale by the author of Ella Enchanted.
J. R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar. A bar memoir.
Rick Moody, The Diviners. A novel about a film shoot. If it has lots of production stuff, I will probably like it; if it's a lame satire on eeeeeeevil shallow liposucked LA, I will not.
Starling Lawrence, The Lightning Keeper. Historical novel about "the dawn of the electric age in America."
Stephanie Meyer, Twilight. YA vampire love story, already optioned for film. From the first few pages, a teenage girl moves to a perpetually overcast small town and immediately notices five preternaturally beautiful pale teens, three boys and two girls. I immediately knew which one would be her boyfriend because one has blonde hair, one has dark hair, and one has bronze hair. People with metallic or gemlike colors of eyes or hair are always the romantic lead, unless it's late Laurell K. Hamilton, in which case they're just one of the entire cast of characters.
Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide. A first novel involving the ocean.
Sharon Creech, Replay. YA novel by Newbery winning author whom, oddly, I've never read.
Kitty Fitzgerald, Pigtopia. Hugely hyped novel about a deformed guy with pet pigs who befriends a teenage girl and gives her a piglet; I bet tragedy ensues due to society's inability to see beyond his looks and to understand their special and innocent friendship. (I am a bad, cynical person.)
Audrey Couloumbis, The Misadventures if Maude March. YA Western.
Gail Carson Levine, Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg. Illustrated fairy tale by the author of Ella Enchanted.
J. R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar. A bar memoir.
Rick Moody, The Diviners. A novel about a film shoot. If it has lots of production stuff, I will probably like it; if it's a lame satire on eeeeeeevil shallow liposucked LA, I will not.
Starling Lawrence, The Lightning Keeper. Historical novel about "the dawn of the electric age in America."
Stephanie Meyer, Twilight. YA vampire love story, already optioned for film. From the first few pages, a teenage girl moves to a perpetually overcast small town and immediately notices five preternaturally beautiful pale teens, three boys and two girls. I immediately knew which one would be her boyfriend because one has blonde hair, one has dark hair, and one has bronze hair. People with metallic or gemlike colors of eyes or hair are always the romantic lead, unless it's late Laurell K. Hamilton, in which case they're just one of the entire cast of characters.
Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide. A first novel involving the ocean.
Sharon Creech, Replay. YA novel by Newbery winning author whom, oddly, I've never read.
Kitty Fitzgerald, Pigtopia. Hugely hyped novel about a deformed guy with pet pigs who befriends a teenage girl and gives her a piglet; I bet tragedy ensues due to society's inability to see beyond his looks and to understand their special and innocent friendship. (I am a bad, cynical person.)
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Say more about the Couloumbis? The snip you pricks up my ears.
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Pigtopia. Hugely hyped novel about a deformed guy with pet pigs who befriends a teenage girl and gives her a piglet; I bet tragedy ensues due to society's inability to see beyond his looks and to understand their special and innocent friendship.
Sounds like the set-up for a Wodehousean romp to me. But I am an odd, whimsical person.
---L.
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