Boy's Life by Robert McCammon. I've actually forgotten what the plot is but I'm loving it so far.
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The ending of that book rendered my immobile for ten minutes. I know that if I moved I would break down in tears.
Started on Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross. (Just finished Invisible Sun by the same author. Enjoyed that)
Will you be following that up with Nun's Life?
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At any rate, I'm still in Second Chronicles.
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Ha! We just watched that movie the other night. (We'd also recently watched the 1975 film "Airport 75," of which "Airplane!" is a direct spoof, so I got a lot more of the jokes this time around.)
Actually, it's a spoof of all the Airport movies, as well as a remake (verbatim in many places) of the granddaddy of all airline disaster movies, Zero Hour.
Finished Second Chronicles on my lunch break. This evening, I crack the KJV Apocrypha Supplement for the first time this Lent, with Prayer of Manasses, before moving on to Ezra.
Finished Second Chronicles on my lunch break. This evening, I crack the KJV Apocrypha Supplement for the first time this Lent, with Prayer of Manasses, before moving on to Ezra.
It has nothing to do with Ezra Pound, Ezra Bridger, or Ezra the Mad.
Huh--will have to check out "Zero Hour." We've seen the other "Airport" movies too, but it was obvious how many scenes in "Airplane!" (like the nun with the guitar) were directly copied from "75" specifically.
In my own reading, I've been working my way through the non-Oz stories of L. Frank Baum. I loved the Oz books as a kid but never got around to reading most of his other works until now; they're of variable quality, but many are surprisingly good. Just finished "John Dough and the Cherub."
In my own reading, I've been working my way through the non-Oz stories of L. Frank Baum. I loved the Oz books as a kid but never got around to reading most of his other works until now; they're of variable quality, but many are surprisingly good. Just finished "John Dough and the Cherub."
Having gotten through Second Chronicles, Ezra, the Prayer of Manasses, Nehemiah, Tobit, and Judith, I now have the Post-It Notes in place to integrate Canonical and Apocryphal parts of Esther.
Lent is nearly 40% over. And I was tired of it two weeks ago. Which is as it should be. If you're not tired of Lent by the first Sunday, (to put it in LOLSpeak), "UR DOIN IT RONG."
Lent is nearly 40% over. And I was tired of it two weeks ago. Which is as it should be. If you're not tired of Lent by the first Sunday, (to put it in LOLSpeak), "UR DOIN IT RONG."
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I just read Sea Fairies and Sky Island to my son. The first is soso, but the second is one of Baum's best fantasies. Wish I had read it as a kid (I had most of his other Oz-adjacent books).
Yeah, "The Sea Fairies" was pretty bland, but its sequel "Sky Island" was excellent. "John Dough" and "Queen Zixi" were also quite good. It's too bad that many people only know Baum for "The Wizard of Oz"; some of his Oz sequels and non-Oz books turn out to be just as good, if not better. (I'm also enjoying the way he crosses over characters from his various fantasy series--like how a couple of Oz characters show up in "Sky Island.")
Yes, and my understanding is that Trot, Cap'n Bill, and a few other characters who figure prominently in the Oz canon, originated in other books.
Are there any currently in print editions of Baum's non-Oz works? I have the Ballantine/DelRey editions of the canonical 14 Oz books (with the absolutely stunning Michael Herring cover paintings), but none of his non-Oz works.
But back to the topic, Job. Much less tiresome than First Maccabees, which bores me for the same reason that the whole Dominion War arc in DS9 bored me.
Are there any currently in print editions of Baum's non-Oz works? I have the Ballantine/DelRey editions of the canonical 14 Oz books (with the absolutely stunning Michael Herring cover paintings), but none of his non-Oz works.
But back to the topic, Job. Much less tiresome than First Maccabees, which bores me for the same reason that the whole Dominion War arc in DS9 bored me.
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I have all the Del Rey Oz editions from when I was a kid, but Dover Publications sells reprints of the original editions of most of Baum's works, both Oz and non-Oz. According to their website, a few are no longer sold in print form but are available as e-books (though my wife is a genius at finding used books online and found me a bunch of the print versions for Christmas). Many of Dover's Baum editions have an introduction by Martin Gardner giving interesting historical background on each book.
And yes, Trot and Cap'n Bill originated in The Sea Fairies and Sky Island (Button-Bright joins them on an adventure in the latter, though for some reason he's much more articulate than in the Oz books!). According to Baum's preface to The Scarecrow of Oz, young readers' letters convinced him to bring them both to Oz. They pass through the Land of Mo (from Baum's The Magical Monarch of Mo) along the way. I guess Baum had the concept of a "shared universe" down long before it became popular.
Psalms.
TOS: The Rings of Time by Greg Cox. I'm really getting into this one.
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