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So in between all the excitement of shopping, I've been reading two very good books. The first one is called Illuminae. It's science fiction novel about two teens who's planet is destroyed and are then caught in the middle of a war.
It is told through files, IMs, and other classified documents. It is like nothing I've ever read before, to be frank, and I am totally hooked. The characters are coming out through the texts and it's really cool because you don't learn the characters in the same way you would in a traditional novel.
You have to rely on the writing and exchanges between the files. Kady reminds me a lot of Cassie Sullivan from the 5th Wave or Tris Prior from the Divergent series. Ezra well, Ezra is definitely Zombie aka Ben Parrish from the 5th Wave. But these are good comparisons because all of those characters were 3 dimensional, and you really learned to care about about them all.
The second book is called Roseblood by AG Howard, author of the Splintered trilogy. It is a re-telling of The Phantom of the Opera, and I gotta admit, it's a little harder to find my groove in this one. I love it, though. I'm glad I'm not rushing to read it. Even if I read it slowly, I have other books I'm reading faster, and I might still make my goal.
Tonight, we went to a birthday party next door, and it was sort of bittersweet. I found out they were moving to Dade City, and that's pretty far for someone who can't drive. Jim did agree to come and get me sometimes if I wanted to hang out or do stuff with his son Beau.
I found out that my copy of Puyo Puyo Tetris shipped from Fingerhut, but not Splatoon 2. Starting to get a little worried. Hoping it ships by Tuesday. I had to order things on Labor Day weekend. Even my Switch got pushed back to being shipped on Tuesday, but that was because someone messaged my seller to try and tell him to send it to New Jersey. What the hell. Thankfully the seller messaged me to verify. And we got it all straightened out.
Time to get ready to go to sleep, and hope I'm feeling better by tomorrow. Can't call anyone at least till Tuesday because of the holiday. Goodnight, everyone!
It is told through files, IMs, and other classified documents. It is like nothing I've ever read before, to be frank, and I am totally hooked. The characters are coming out through the texts and it's really cool because you don't learn the characters in the same way you would in a traditional novel.
You have to rely on the writing and exchanges between the files. Kady reminds me a lot of Cassie Sullivan from the 5th Wave or Tris Prior from the Divergent series. Ezra well, Ezra is definitely Zombie aka Ben Parrish from the 5th Wave. But these are good comparisons because all of those characters were 3 dimensional, and you really learned to care about about them all.
The second book is called Roseblood by AG Howard, author of the Splintered trilogy. It is a re-telling of The Phantom of the Opera, and I gotta admit, it's a little harder to find my groove in this one. I love it, though. I'm glad I'm not rushing to read it. Even if I read it slowly, I have other books I'm reading faster, and I might still make my goal.
Tonight, we went to a birthday party next door, and it was sort of bittersweet. I found out they were moving to Dade City, and that's pretty far for someone who can't drive. Jim did agree to come and get me sometimes if I wanted to hang out or do stuff with his son Beau.
I found out that my copy of Puyo Puyo Tetris shipped from Fingerhut, but not Splatoon 2. Starting to get a little worried. Hoping it ships by Tuesday. I had to order things on Labor Day weekend. Even my Switch got pushed back to being shipped on Tuesday, but that was because someone messaged my seller to try and tell him to send it to New Jersey. What the hell. Thankfully the seller messaged me to verify. And we got it all straightened out.
Time to get ready to go to sleep, and hope I'm feeling better by tomorrow. Can't call anyone at least till Tuesday because of the holiday. Goodnight, everyone!
