Tommaso Andreaux Andreaux থেকে Vosava, Belarus
GREAT BOOK...Amazing woman--with a US history lesson to go with it.
Ya, that was a little awkward. I'm glad they changed it for the book. This just doesn't seem like Jace. It makes me laugh, quit hard. Merged review: Sebastian is just so screwed up. I noticed though that in COLS Johnathan(Sebastian) says that the real Sebastian fought back, but from this outtake, it doesn't really seem like he didn't mean to kill him. He had the intent of doing it all along. Then again, he could have been lying to Clary to get her on his side? Merged review: I like the final version of this chapter so much better. Too much shadiness going on in this version. Clare is right, it does make Jace go too far on the protective front. This chapter is very well written though. It makes me curious how the story may be different if it started out this way. Feelings between characters may be very different. Merged review: I only liked the end part really because it was funny. I didn't expect Simon to do that, but I'm really glad she changed this part in the book. Merged review: Hot, hot, hot and I loved all of it! I think they should have kept this part in the book. Even though I think it might be a little too much for YA, I still loved it! Anything from Jace's POV is a treat! Merged review: It was just too long. I"m glad she shortened it in the book. Merged review: Another wonderful, compassionate Jace moment. Personally, I can't get enough Jace moments. Especially from his POV. This letter is sweet and somewhat disturbing. I didn't like all the ways he was thinking in the letter, but it was very cute of him to leave it. <3 Jace
I got a great book from my friend, Kathran for Christmas, and I just finished reading it... The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve. Shreve is a great writer... I love her language and use of words. I'm such a lover of language and the ways in which it can be swirled and whirled and encircle your mind making you want to read the same sentence over and over. Shreve is excellent at this task. She makes you think. And I like thinking. Right from the second page of the book she sets the essence of the whole book in motion... "She took careful steps across the floor, as if moving too fast might set something in motion that hadn't yet begun." To think that both the author and the main character, Kathryn Lyons, (the pilot's "wife,") are already in tune with the fact that this could be true makes me think of the many times when I, if I had been more in tune with what surrounded me, would or could have had the same feeling. But, knowing does not change that. Knowing that getting a knock on the door in the middle of the night, meant almost certain dread to a pilot's wife, does not change that there is a knock at the door. Even not answering that door does not change what is on its other side. The stages that Kathryn moves though are as textbook as anyone going through a similar circumstance. And the ease with which this happens is as gripping as it has been for me when I have faced a loss... "And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room." "But it amazed her the way the body kept moving forward, past the shock and the grief, past the retching hollowness inside, and kept wanted sustenance, kept wanting to be fed. It seemed unsuitable, like wanting sex." "'I can't explain it,' Kathryn said. 'I feel as though I've temporarily lost Jack and I need to find him.' 'You're not doing to find him,' Julia said. 'He's gone.'" There is a sincere representation of marriage in this book that really depicts in my opinion how a marriage evolves. There were words that rang true and were well written about the marriage of Kathryn and Jack, or what I would consider a typical American marriage... "But actually she thought that any marriage was like radio reception: It came and went." But, Kathryn's marriage does have its chinks. And they are legitimate. And Kathryn does begin to see the unseen. "She doesn't know precisely what is wrong. She has only a vague feeling of vulnerability, a heightened sense of having been left alone for too many days." The book is also filled with "dream bits," fragments, "like the fluttering glints of silver in the dark." The message is clear, however... "Life could deal out worse than Kathryn had had, and worse than that." It certainly can. "A person is not who he had been the day before, Kathryn thought. Or the day before that." No, we are not. Good read... if you want it, I have it.
A sequel to The Fifth Child...if you bother reading the first one then you might as well read this one just to see how it all turns out. They're both quick reads.