[Custos Morum]

Can't say I have... but right now I'm reading Oliver Twist by - who else - Charles Dickens. It's quite good so far! Dickens writes it with a wry, underlying sense of humour and/or sarcasm... makes it enjoyable to read.

[Tari]

anyone read bloodtide and bloodsong by melvin burgess? they are really good.

Nope but the titles sound interesting care to share wat they is about . . . . . if you know?

~ Tari

[whitesilkbreeze]

Can't say I have... but right now I'm reading Oliver Twist by - who else - Charles Dickens. It's quite good so far! Dickens writes it with a wry, underlying sense of humour and/or sarcasm... makes it enjoyable to read.

I want to read that. I watched the movie recently and I want to see how close the movie was to the book, but also because I've always thought I should read Oliver Twist... sometime.

I just finished Sabriel and Lirael by Garth Nix recently - great books! I think fantasy readers will enjoy these. I'm eager to start Abhorsen, but I'm taking a break from fantasy right now (mostly because I've got a reading list for school to tackle!).

(Wonder why so many great new YA books, fantasy or otherwise, are by Australians? There's John Marsden, Garth Nix, Alison Croggon and whoever it was that wrote Feeling Sorry for Celia. I don't really see many famous Canadian authors in comparison...)

[Bridie]

both bloodtide and bloodsong are based loosely on the volsunga saga a viking myth. both are set many years into the future.

this explains bloodtide http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/book.php?id=4

and bloodsong http://www.londonbooks.co.uk/shop/product.php/1420/0/

they are both brilliant, you wont be able to put them down.

[Custos Morum]

I want to read that. I watched the movie recently and I want to see how close the movie was to the book, but also because I've always thought I should read Oliver Twist... sometime.

I just finished Sabriel and Lirael by Garth Nix recently - great books! I think fantasy readers will enjoy these. I'm eager to start Abhorsen, but I'm taking a break from fantasy right now (mostly because I've got a reading list for school to tackle!).

(Wonder why so many great new YA books, fantasy or otherwise, are by Australians? There's John Marsden, Garth Nix, Alison Croggon and whoever it was that wrote Feeling Sorry for Celia. I don't really see many famous Canadian authors in comparison...)


Ah yes! I really want to see the movie... it looks really well done! And ooh you read Sabriel and Lirael... I absolutely love those books, read them this summer. I especially loved Lirael - the plot, the characters, just everything really really appealed to me.

And yes, there are a lot of YA books by Australians... but there are lots of Canadian authors out there, too! Kenneth Oppel, L.M. Montgomery, Alison Baird, and then all the Canadian writers who just write fiction (I can't remember any at the moment, though, since I'm mostly into fantasy).

[Firefall]

have any of yuo guys read Isobelle Carmody?? she - is - brilliant!!!! she and Alison are my two all time favourite arthurs!! she's written the Obernewtyn Chroicles and The Legendsong saga plaus more, but there her better writtings. does that last part make any secne???

It made sense to me! :D I ADORE Isobelle Carmody's works; up until I discovered Alison Croggon just recently, she was my absolute favourite author and the Obernewtyn Chronicles my favourite books. I also loved the Legendsong Saga, and the Gateway Trilogy's good too - I prefer them to some of her other stuff. Have you read her latest one, Alyzon Whitestarr?

I also agree about Australian writers being some of the best. Most of my favourite YA fantasy authors are Australian.

And I love The Old Kingdom Trilogy – particularly Lirael, mainly because I love the Library of the Clayr! Have any of you read Garth Nix’s collection of short stories, Across the Wall? I love those two Old Kingdom-centred stories, especially The Creature in the Case.

[Tari]

both bloodtide and bloodsong are based loosely on the volsunga saga a viking myth. both are set many years into the future.

this explains bloodtide http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/book.php?id=4

and bloodsong http://www.londonbooks.co.uk/shop/product.php/1420/0/

they are both brilliant, you wont be able to put them down.

thanx Birdie i'll hav to hav a look l8r though. they sound like something i might pick up though so crossing fingers.

~ Tari

[owleye]

ooo they look good, im reading chronicles of narnia

[Bridie]

been there read that like a billion times. i love them the movie looks sooo good! except wasnt the snow queens sled pulled by deer or something like that?

[owleye]

its my first time readin them lol