Title: Bad Boy’s Bridesmaid
Author: Sozie Frost
Publication date: 2016
My Grade: D
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Tag: books
Book-it 2012
Once again, I am going to be doing Book-it. For those of you new to reading this blog, Book-it is a reading goal. We call it Book-it after the elementary school reading program where you got free pizza if you read a certian amount of books. It was meant to promote reading in younger people.
THe Book-it we have here doesn’t really have any prizes except being able to say you read 50 books in a year. I suppose if you want to, you can make your own prize levels if you so wish.
This year I’m also going to attempt to review books that are new to me. I have a few books I tend to re-read every year so I won’t be reviewing them unless someone specifically asks me what I thought.
The Book-it runs from Jan 1 to December 31, and the goal is to read 50 books. The guidelines for books are that it be able to be bought on its own (Short stories can only be counted as individual books if you bought it separately. A book thats a collection of seperate short stories is 1 book, not whatever number of shorts it has). Text books can count if you do alot of reading in it (so no to math books, but lit books would count. I’m counting my history books this year).
Graphic novels if they have a good bit of text to go with them can count. Comic books don’t.
There is a sort of cheat system I’ve developed. ONe semester I had to read a bunch of selected readings. It wasn’t a full book so I didn’t feel I could count it as a book, so I develped a method so that they can count. Basically 5-10 of those can count as a book as group. It depends on the length. Shorter ones have a higher group #, longer ones smaller.
I’ll have a page with a list of books that I have read. As well as my 100 movies goal.
I’m always open to book recommendations if you have any.
Anne McCaffery’s Pegasus Trilogy (review, and general Fan babble)
One of my favorite series was Anne McCaffery’s Talent series. It was the story of The Rowan, an orphan girl who had strong telepathic and telekinetic powers which her children and grandchildren inherited from her. The first book is about The Rowan (The Rowan), The second is about her daughter (Damia). The next three books (Damia’s Children, Lyon’s Pride and The Tower & the Hive) are about her grandchildren and their friends/family.
I thought this was the end of the story (though I wanted it to continue, as it was (and is) my favorite sci-fi series), but as I was wondering through the book store a few years back, I stumbled upon ‘Pegasus in Space’. I noticed the name Peter Reidinger, a name I recognized from the Talent series as Rowan’s boss and Father-figure. So I picked it up, but I never ended up reading it till recently.
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Book Review: Fantastic Four (Movie Novelization, Peter David)
Title: Fantastic Four
Author: Peter David (Based on Screenplay by Mark Frost, Simon Kinberg, and Michael France, who were inspired by Marvel)
Genre: Action/Adventure, Movie Novelization, some romance
Summery: Reed Richards, Victor Von Doom, Ben Grimm, and the Storm siblings go up in space to hold experiments with a cosmic cloud. Things don’t go as planed, and the crew is hit by the cloud instead of being protected by the stations shielding. Suddenly Reed can stretch his arms further then natural, Susan can be invisible, Johnny can turn into fire, and Ben has transformed into a man made out of rock. Victor seems unharmed, but slowly he is transforming into a metal alloy, which turns to to be a bad combination with his mood.
Yeah, bad summery. You can probably get the gist if you watch a cartoon, or read the comic. I tend to stick to the film when it comes to Marvel stuff. And I should probably mention that there are slight spoilers here if you are a Fantastic Four newbie.
I have read Peter David novels in the past. He wrote one of my favorite Star Trek novels, Imzadi. That was slightly different then this, as Imazdi was based within that universe while Fantastic Four is based directly on a script. I bought this after watching the movie so I already had the characters set in my head as the actors. I liked it the first time through. I decided to re-read it for this year’s bookit 50, and liked it again.
There was one issue I had with this book this time through. Since the second movie hadn’t been out before I read the first movie’s novelization it didn’t phase me the first time, and I don’t think I even realized it till this time reading it. The novel has a Frankie Raye, which if you have seen the second film you know she’s a character in that film. One quite different then the one in this novelization. Although this does give me ideas for a fanfic where they ARE the same person (I doubt they are. I just think it was a matter of Peter David doing his homework and the writers of movie II not taking his novelization into account when they wrote it. Movie trumps book in this case)
Like with Willow, this book had some scenes that never made it to film or were cut during the final edit (and there are a few in the deleted scenes on the DVD). Some scenes were completely different. Like the scene where Reed and Susan talk about their relationship? Happens in a different location then in the movie.
I enjoyed it. Its a good novelization.
Rating: 4/5
Bookit # (2/50) of (1/52)
Book Review: Willow (Wayland Davis)
Title: Willow
Author: Wayland Davis (based on the screenplay by Bob Dolman who inturn based it on a story by George Lucas.)
Genre: Fantasy/Movie Novelization
Summery: Willow Ufgood, A Nelwyn farmer (and aspiring magican), is sent on a journey to return a baby Daikini to its people. As always, this journey goes differently then planned. He ends up teaming up with swordsmen Madmartigan, two brownies named Franjean and Rool and a transformed Sorceress named Fin Raziel to protect the baby from the evil Queen Bavmorda of Nockmaar who wants to kill her.
Apparently for the month of January, my theme for book reading is Movie Novelizations. These are books derived from movies (as opposed as books on which movies are derived.)
I borrowed this book from a friend because I loved the movie. And I love this book too. It follows the course of the film nicely, and as with all novelizations, has scenes that were cut out of the movie. Many I wish had been included. Like Madmartigan’s back story. Or the back story of Bavmorda and Fin Raziel’s animosity towards each other (Not only is Bav evil, but she also stole Fin’s boyfriend!).
Anyway, The Pros/Cons
Pros
– Madmartigan’s Back story (he apparently was a weapons prodigy)
– Bavmorda Backstory
– The Nelwyns have more screen time
Cons
– The flashback style is kinda awkward
– It feels like it needs to be longer.
Rating: 4/5
Bookit # (1/50 of 1/52)
(I promise these will become better as I go. Its been along time since I did a book review that was more “Eh, it was good”, so I need time to learn how to do it again.)
The 2010 Book-it
Remember when you were younger and the library had special summer reading (or during the school year sometimes) that if you read so many gooks, you’d get a gift card to Pizza Hut (or whatever)? Well, my friends and I, seeing a similar non-organization based version of it, decided last year to have what we called ‘The Fellowship Book-it”. The Fellowship is a nickname we gave our group after seeing LOTR. Don’t ask. Anyway, the point of the Book-it is to get back to reading. And reading something that isn’t on the screen of one’s computer (Basically that news article on Britney Spears doesn’t count). If you have a Kindle, or an ebook program, that’s different.
The Goal: 50 books during the year. That is basically 1 book per week, with two weeks off.
Time Frame: January 1st – December 31st.
The Rules (of the fellowship version, its not exactly a standard):
– This is not a competition, its a goal line
– The story you read must be able to be found by itself somewhere. So a packet of short stories doesn’t count as five books. You can count it as one book (But point it out that its a group) If its an exceptionally long short story, an exception might be made (like the 28 page excerpt of St. Augustine I read last year. I counted that by itself)
– Text books count if there is reading involved. Math books do not count, there are more numbers then words.
– A book counts once. If you read it twice in one year, it still only gets counted once
– You can count books you’ve read before, as long as you actually read it again and don’t count it twice in the same year.
– If you start a book in 09, and finish it in ‘10, it can count.
Most people just keep a list of what they read. We are using a facebook group thing to keep track of what is what, and when someone reaches 25 we *plan* to have a pizza party. (we kinda forgot last year). Some people write reviews as they go along, and that is what I’m going to try to do
So I’m off to read. Expect my first review to come soon. Also, I read alot of Fandom fiction (movie novelization, spin off books etc) so expect some fandom talk as well.
If anyone would like to do this and has questions, feel free to comment or email me. Its just a fun thing to do. There is also a movie and TV episode versions I’ve seen, and I;m doing the 100 movies in a year one. Its my first year. So far so good, except I keep rewatching movies:)
Sokorra Lewis 