Member: Schehezerade

I'm still reading Eldest, and also Their Eyes Were Watching God for class and a few others here and there like The Red Dragon. I've been pretty good and officially accepted and am going to enroll at college next year! :) And I'm going to go for the higher scholarship cuz my GPA is higher :)

How have you been?

posted by QueenAlyss at 11:37 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2009

Lol, I think that the holidays get lamer and lamer every year, the only exception is of course Christmas. Unfortunately it means that Christmas has to take over every other holiday in order to do so... I mean, we barely see Thanksgiving stuff! And oh god yes, the Christmas music that plays for 3 months lol. I do hope that this year the prices will be lower because of the economy, which is great for my family!

Halloween is amazing and I wish people were still dedicated to it! I barely see Halloween stuff except for candy and the lame-o bowls and generic scary things. Lol the only way to get a good costume is to visit Halloween USA and you have to get there 2 months before Halloween to find a good one, if it's even in your size. I wish I could sew so I would be able to make my own costume :) You going trick- or- treating?

Yea, right now I'm reading A Map of the Known World and Eldest (the second book in the Eragon Inheritance Cycle). A lot of people think Paolini is unimaginative, but I think he does great work. Some other good ones are David Copperfield (going on a year to read it lol), Inkheart, Tithe, Faerie Wars... lol there is a lot. Have you read Augusten Burroughs? Or Terry Brooks? Oh, and if you like reading fictional works about real authors try Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens, The Poe Shadow, and The Dante Club... as well as The Fight Club lol

posted by QueenAlyss at 12:27 pm (EST) on Sep 27, 2009

Lol, yea it's Things Fall Apart :D See, it's that horrible

Yea, I get your point and I didn't want to sound like "that" but I just wish that the way they examine it was different. I understand racism and crap, I do see it quite a bit because we don't have a lot of minorities in my school, the ones that we do have get hit pretty hard. Plus, me being pale means that I get the albino joke, and I seriously think that some people are albino (which, isn't technically racism, but discrimination lol)... Then I also get the red head joke, blah blah (gets old fast).

I just think that we should examine it from a US stand point and how it affects us, not another country. How can we possibly grasp the issue if we are given the detachment because it's from a different country, especially Africa which has all the problems in the world. Home front attack first then broaden, teenagers can't cope with the worldwide thing very well. Besides, when we read these books, we're not even analyzing the racism part, that is the smallest degree of what we are taught... the racist part is the only reason we're reading it. The 90% that we analyze is structure etc... all the english stuff and then add in some life lessons like what it means to be a leader and how to express your voice adequately. Beh

Haha, I would read it if I actually got on the computer once in a while, with school and homework... I hardly have time to get on, which is annoying cuz I like to relax and check on things. Oh, I did get a job though through my school, a co- op so I'm getting paid! lol awesome.

How's your life at wonderful Walmart?

posted by QueenAlyss at 6:06 pm (EST) on Sep 23, 2009

I'm glad you enjoyed the Enchantment book. I figured the 1001 Arabian nights might interest you even if it was from a Freudian perspective. The Goddess book is Jungian. "Heart Aroused," may surprise you; it has a lot of perspective on Beowulf and some Grail stuff. It may have use if you ever have to do a business paper. One paper I have thought of but never written is the Trickster-like style seen in the founding principle of our economy.Look up Adam Smith's, "Wealth oh Nations," and the, "invisible hand." I didn't think you had that Campbell book and I have the video. Keep the books, I don't collect and all are accessible to me at a local library. No problem with the time between communication. I'm not into small talk so, I normally write when I think there may be something vaguely interesting. I'm reading something that may interest you, [The Traveler] by John Twelve Hawks.

posted by rareflorida at 8:58 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2009

Lol, I actually haven't read any of them yet, I'm going to for English. Right now we're reading Things Far Away (pretty sure thats the title) and I am not stoked cuz I had to read Cry, the Beloved Country... not impressed with the issue or the style of writing that the issue comes with... SO over discrimination and racism... not to sound harsh or anything lol, but I really think we dwell on it too much and dont allow ourselves to branch away from that and move ON

posted by QueenAlyss at 4:57 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2009

Haha, I actually have read it before and I re-read it to be sure. Yea, I really did like it, although it wasn't the most exciting read I have ever had. It had a personal air that I couldn't help but enjoy xD

They seem to be in the habit of releasing manga to accompany the anime, as in Code Geass and maybe Deathnote, though I'm not too sure on the last one. My repertoire on anime isn't quite as deep as manga, though I have seen more anime. I just tend to know more about manga lol.

Oh, well I am terribly sorry lol... I suppose it was to be expected from his brother(s?), eh? Lol, I was not expecting that last part! Yea, we are doing pretty good... he's just worried about us going away to college, so he absolutely refuses to speak about it at the moment lol.

Haha, tell me about it. I don't usually buy books myself cuz I have parents that love to at the moment and I probably buy way more than I should since I have a huge to be read pile... though there was one point in which I had read everything! Isn't Barnes and Noble great!? I absolutely love that store, I think they can just be amazing. Borders followed their suit of offering books on sale in a bargain bin. If you go to a larger Barnes and Noble they actually have an entire section dedicated to used books, and they can have some pretty rare ones too. You should try to find one!

Hmm... things are going pretty good, my summer is almost over unfortunately. However, I am going to see Trine this Monday (Angola, Indiana) so I'm really psyched about that. My mom is actually (maybe) more excited than me, she keeps saying how she wished I could go, lol. Her opinion used to be that I needed to go to community college first then to a university but I think she loves this place so much that I can go next year... way weird. She also wants me to consider dropping my work on the Questbridge application (which I may win a free scholarship to schools like Yale, Princeton, and MIT!!) so I can go there lol.

Other than that, I just have to prepare myself for going back to school. It's already been a mess so I have no idea what school will actually be like for my senior year. I'm really going to miss having a ton of time to read. I have so many books that I want to finish before school because I know I wont be able to read them during the school time except maybe on weekends.

I saw that you recently rated Charlotte's Web... wow, I haven't read that in forever, talk about childhood lol. Which reminds me, I went into the Disney store yesterday and I definitely miss being a kid! They had Cinderella on so I think I'm going to watch that. I've gotta say that anime still doesnt live up to my love of old disney movies and everything classic cartoons lol.

posted by QueenAlyss at 1:35 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2009

Hey, I haven't heard from you in forever... you okay? lol, having a fun life?

posted by QueenAlyss at 7:47 pm (EST) on Aug 5, 2009

Hey, I was wondering about your Mythology (World of Culture) book cz it doesn't seem to be very well known anymore... Amazon has one copy of it for $0.01 lol... is it any good as a mythology book?

posted by QueenAlyss at 4:38 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2009

Haha, yea I was waiting for you to reply to me, silly! I just figured you were busy and could never really get online or something, ya know. But yea, things are going okay, my friend from Brazil is going to be leaving in a few days and my dad is going back to a mental hospital because we got in a really big and pointless fight... so... meh :D

What's been up with you? Anything interesting?

posted by QueenAlyss at 4:33 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2009

Wow, don't you just hate obnoxious kids? :D Yea, they'll leave soon enough and you'll have peace and quiet like nature is supposed to be. Awesome, I've never known only 2 seasons lol, Michigan has all of them and they can go to the extreme, usually! I love seeing fireflies, but i havent seen many this year... :(

Haha! Those are cute squirrels lol I love squirrels personally... I think they are cute and very smart... sometimes too smart, they can cause issues lol. My fat cat Rocket (Pictured on my profile) is continuously badgered by squirrels cuz they always talk to him and they just don't like him... which is funny cuz he would never hurt them and he's so relaxed! I actually had a friend who had a pet baby squirrel... and they (oddly) had a neighbor who was an expert on squirrels and they took care of it so it could return to the wild.

Ah, I see, yea that's probably a good idea, lol. My cats always want to go outside... we caught Tweety from outdoors and he just wants to live out there :D Aw, that would be a great job! I do hope that you actually get to spend your time cuddling kitties lol.

I've seen quite a few of the movies you have on ur account, and do you like Castle in the Sky? I havent seen it yet, but I love the author! I really like anime, dark fantasy type stuff, comedy, and lots of horror... and of course you have to add in the childrens and disney movies. I wish we had Netflix, but we dont watch movies that much

posted by QueenAlyss at 8:45 pm (EST) on Jun 21, 2009

It actually sounds pretty nice down there. Although you don't have a lot of stores and malls, etc... around your house immediately, it's still nice to have landscape and peace. I personally don't really care for living in a town except that it's a little more eco- friendly to do so, but then you have to deal with all the stop signs (bad) and slow drivers (worse, accidents!) and annoying neighbors who have waaay too many kids, lol.

I think I would go outside more if I lived in an area like you do. And animals are so amazing, it's awesome that you can actually watch all of them and etc. That's so cute about the squirrels, so I take it your cats are indoors always? Can you tell the difference between all of the squirrels? Is it beautiful during that season?

Wow, it's sounds very nice down there, i love butterfly places, it's amazing to see all of them just enjoy the surroundings and land on people! I've always wanted to volunteer at the humane society, but I just don't get around to it cuz it's in a different town, I don't know where it is, and I would be sad to see the animals stay, but put down, or be adopted (but also happy!)... lol

Do you go to the movies a lot?

posted by QueenAlyss at 5:02 pm (EST) on Jun 18, 2009

Oh, and are you or were you ever into paganism/ wicca?

posted by QueenAlyss at 12:51 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2009

I actually own a large number of the books that I've read and I have a surprisingly good memory on the books I have read, besides when I was really young cuz thats a lot of little golden books, lol.

I'm already having issues! lol, I think its just me... no one else has had my issue where all my books that are my wishlist or read but unowned have become part of my actual library... oh the troubles lol

Besides that, I do enjoy the feature, but now i think im going to have to search the library for books i have read... dear god!

posted by QueenAlyss at 12:49 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2009

I'm so excited that they finally have the collections thing up!! Now I can go back and try to find all the books I have ever read!! lol... this is going to suck

How have you been?

posted by QueenAlyss at 3:07 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2009

:( lol, we're supposed to start in 5 minutes but no one has joined the chat room so i think im going to be all alone, :D oh well, ive never seen it so its a great way to not be interrupted. i just saw the third underworld movie last night for the first time and thank god my friends werent loud mouths for that movie, lol.

You have fun at work, and all. Maybe we can have a daytime movie night sometime

posted by QueenAlyss at 9:27 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2009

lol, wow, sounds like incredible fun! At least you have a job and you some what enjoy it lol. Are you going to join me at the Hogwarts Xpress chat room to watch running with scissors? if you dont have it, you can just chat, lol

posted by QueenAlyss at 9:21 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2009

Oh, you should join Hogwarts Express lol... I'm hosting the movie night on saturday at 9:30 for Running with Scissors

posted by QueenAlyss at 11:11 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2009

Really? I haven't gotten around to reading it, lol. I've read Dirty Job: A Novel, The Stupidest Angel, and Fool. I loved all of them but I actually think Fool has become my favorite before Dirty Job, it's hilarious!

I used to love the book, I bought it a few years ago cuz I loved it!

Awesome! So yay, job! lol now you have no worries in that department. I wish I could find a job, but being a teen puts me a huge disadvantage

posted by QueenAlyss at 10:32 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2009

Wow, that sucks. Why won't he let you back? Can you file a suit?

Um, i really don't have a favorite band and I haven't been listening to music too much lately. But I do love Children of Bodom even though theyre not "heavy" metal, theyre more industrial/ progressive. Watev lol. I think my favorite classical artist is Beethoven cuz his stuff is just amazing, lol. I never really know the names of the artists because I hear it but never catch the name lol. Tchaikovsky is pretty good too :)

But my favorite band that I never seem to tire of is The Offspring, I mean they are just so cool!

Haha, you have the rainbow fish, that was a good book! And have you ever read a novel by Christopher Moore?

posted by QueenAlyss at 12:50 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2009

Hey, where've ya been?

posted by QueenAlyss at 8:23 pm (EST) on Jun 1, 2009

Btw, I had a friend come up to me once with a picture like yours and asked me to find X. Lmao, I actually pointed to the X and he was like, "Finally! Someone with a brain figured it out!"

posted by QueenAlyss at 3:21 pm (EST) on May 18, 2009

The old animals are usually the sweet ones though... they no longer want to do anything but be near the people they love and enjoy the sun! Daisy was put down because she had an auto- immune disease and I guess one night she just got really bad and they put her down.... I wasn't home. I was extremely upset about it and I still can't talk about it person- person. I remember once last Christmas, someone asked who Daisy was because we had a stocking for her still and thank god for my old friend cuz she helped close that situation up. That was maybe 6 months after she died. Oh well...

Why did you move with your aunt? And why Oregon? Geez lady that can't be that much better, lol. You would definitely do well with the government if you get in. I hear the CIA is hiring, lol, you could be a correspondent for mistakes they should avoid, it might help! Good luck with that of course! The only bad thing is that you would be a dog of the military, as they refer to it in Fullmetal Alchemist, lol.

Did you have the horse in California?

posted by QueenAlyss at 3:20 pm (EST) on May 18, 2009

Lol, I would most likely buy a previously owned property and tear down the house. I'd send the materials away for re-use and then use sustainable wood and have my house engineered to capture the heat in the winter and cold in the summer, it's really cool cuz it's kinda like thermoengineering. There is no solid ceiling in the house, this allows the air to circulate throughout in the winter because it is moving the warm air from sun and circulating the cold air up. Then the summer uses the cold air from the basement to cool. I'd also use solar panels for my electricity, more thermoengineering to use the ground's maintained heat of about 65 degrees to heat my water, and all sorts of stuff so essentially, I wont be paying for things and ill be earning money too by selling to the grid.

Wouldn't the amount in the lottery by smaller because of the smaller population? Your chances may be larger but you can't compete with the $3million jackpot here in michigan, lol. It's the snow... it makes people buy things!

Awesome! I've heard a lot of good things about both countries, especially that Australia likes to have a good time, lol. At least you can afford to go, which is amazing because if you never get the opportunity later on in life, you will LOVE that you at least had once... well, twice... :). Yea, that history stuff seems interesting, but I've always been interested in the odd places. I want to go to Sweden some day because they are becoming one of the most sustainable countries in the world and they are one of the cleanest! lol You should visit Machu Pichu before they close it from the public.

Professional book reviewers? Well, they must not have been so for a while if they can retain that kind of ignorance. The likes of J.K. Rowling, HA

Lol, yeah I have plans but I have no idea what college I want to attend and I just can't get the nagging feeling out that I just won't be good enough. We'll find out I guess! And no, you don't sound like an old woman cuz I give that advice to people sometimes and I had the same experience when I went to china because if I had planned better I would have been able to buy more things, save more currency for my collection, etc. But hey, I have a lifetime to do it again!

I love Bleach! I love the style of drawing, the drama isn't over- done, it has original artwork and ideas, and I love the context. The people on here are not the i am evil or i am good. And you see this network of characters that is so broad and affects so many people as the series progresses. I also love how the dialog is current and doesn't try too hard.

Yea, manga is a little expensive, but it is still cheaper than normal books and you can always try finding it at comic conventions used, or at used stores, used online, etc.

posted by QueenAlyss at 4:54 pm (EST) on May 12, 2009

You seriously heard that Meyer was even comparable to J.K. Rowling? Were these fans of Twilight, because it wouldn't surprise me then. People who are in love with that series seem to be some of the dumbest people I know. Meyer has some ability to write, since she was able to draw people in... the hopeless romance of an amazing gentleman boyfriend... but she is so juvenile.

Yes, China was amazing and I wish I could go back. And yea, I hope I can do it. Chemical Engineering is a tough job to get and I just hope that I'm smart enough to do it, lol. If it does work, I would definitely be set for life and I would travel. I would create the greenest house ever, cuz I'm a huge eco- fan :)

Do you have some place you want to travel to?

posted by QueenAlyss at 9:01 pm (EST) on May 11, 2009

Wow, I have to give you props for your review of Twilight. That was one of the best slams on that dumb series I've read! lol

posted by QueenAlyss at 9:15 pm (EST) on May 10, 2009

I have really been enjoying the VHD manga. The artwork is very good, and the stories (so far) follow the novels fairly closely. There is some cutting in order to squeeze a novel's worth of story into one manga, but they are big manga, and the novels sometimes feel a bit overlong to me anyway, so some condensing doesn't bother me.

posted by codyne at 10:38 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2009

My dreams went into rerun so, things must be boring. I got a laugh when I realized Burton helped translate the "Priapeia." I downloaded a copy before you brought my attention to Burton. I always thought it funny that priapism was so, common a condition among the gods. The thought of old Greek philosophers gathered around cracking such jokes isn't the common perception.

posted by rareflorida at 11:33 pm (EST) on Apr 8, 2009

Just read a book that may interest you. [Silverlock] by by John Myers Myers and the Meyers Meyers is not a typo. I'm not going to sell it because the review on librarything should be enough for you to judge if it interests you. Some of his allusions are obscure like having the main character surviving a shipwreck of the Naglfar. You may be familiar with the Naglfar because of your fondness for Loki but few would catch the allusion. Some sites on the web give the answers to the literary references. SF greats Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Poul Anderson are fans. C.S. Lewis had it in his library so the book is respected. The bard songs could be a fun inside joke at festivals.

posted by rareflorida at 8:44 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2009

Wow! That was super fast! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Do you think I should give it another try?

Jennifer

posted by RainbowsEnd at 10:27 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2008

Hey! I just wanted to let you know that I mailed out Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat last Wednesday, so you should be getting it soon. It was a tiny book and shipped first class.

Enjoy!
Jennifer

posted by RainbowsEnd at 5:01 pm (EST) on Dec 15, 2008

The Fabulous Riverboat is a science fiction novel, the second book in the Riverworld series by Philip José Farmer.

While googling for the book I thought up my first answer to your facinating person question. Cyrano hit my mind and no surprise he plays a part in Farmer's book. I like the swashbuckler/poet persona. He fought for the
My computer has developed an overheating problem and I don’t think I have much time left so I can’t send much. My email needed to be reset so I used this instead. I guess I'm getting a new computer for Christmas. I don't envy your work in retail. I worked at a department store for my first job and got fired for not being aggressive enough.
Inquisitors as a real and fictive character and that rules him out because religous fanatics are not my fave. Gabriel Montgomery, the knight that accidently killed Henry II of France in a jousting tournament wins the contest on an integrity level and as a personification of heroism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Mon...
Alexander Dumas had to be an interesting person and even his minor works pique my interest. Dumas wrote about Montgomery and I'm very impressed by how well the history in, Queen Margot," was written. Dumas wrote about an incident called the, "Affair of the Diamond Necklace," that I find interesting because of the charlatans and the time period. The Count of St. Germain is an interesting figure and Dumas probably based, "The Man in the Iron Mask," on him. I would pick Dumas as best dead conversationalist.

posted by rareflorida at 4:54 pm (EST) on Dec 13, 2008

No hurry in replying back. Understandable, things get busy and nerves jangle during the holidays. I like quality of communtion rather than quantity and rush should be only for emergency. Happy Thanksgiving.

posted by rareflorida at 12:14 pm (EST) on Nov 27, 2008

Jungian synchronicity and your vast number of books logged into this site probably explains some of the similarity in your library and what I’ve been writing but I can’t help but be intrigued. Hesse interests me because of his mescaline use and I use a drug induced vision quest to access the genetic memory that I mentioned in an earlier post. The other member of the mescaline 'Hall of Fame,' Hunter Thompson has a bit more relevance to me because of similar writing style. Your trickster appreciation relates, as well. I’m doing the frame story format, which was born from 1001 nights; and I suspect also gave birth to the name you use on this site. I even recognized, Aristophanes, because he came up during my research. Another coincidence is that I use a festival that mirrors Dante’s version of hell as a primary setting. I write about Florida history but I use this area as a center of convergence because religions and diverse cultures had some early battles here. The use of drug-induced visions lets me use gods and symbols from anywhere so, I read much of what you do. I would like to use something from early Eastern mythology the complexity and lack of good source material makes it difficult. You seem to have some knowledge in that area. I’m about two thirds done of a very rough first draft and I believe your input would be good but I believe getting hit in the head by a falling star is more likely than being published and making any significant money. If you really are interested in reading what I wrote, I will send you some. I noticed your email name of pyrogirl coincides with the picture I’ve been using with me on fire. You list a love for linguistics and the first page of my story has a linguistic event. I tend to look for similar interests but I don’t expect to see much more than a couple of things. You have a Ted Bundy book and of course he has to in my version of hell. I bet your opinion of Clive Cussler is the same as mine looking at your ratings; he has great ideas but the writing could be better. One last thing the SA Friends site we made contact on is shutting down at the end of the month, if you want to log back in before it closes.

posted by rareflorida at 7:44 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2008

Thanks for adding BannedBooksLibrary to your Interesting Libraries. Happy Reading!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 7:23 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2008

"The Man Who Laughs," can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg if you don't mind reading from some type of portable e-reader or your computer: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12587
Feel free to write me anytime. I'm not very good at initiating conversation and I consider writing as a kind of therapy. Reading and listening come more naturally to me than writing or talking. I love your 'Renaissance Faire' pictures and I suspect that is from California, not South Dakota. You would probably enjoy a trip to Florida because of all the pirate festivities. California has much more interesting terrain, though. Your tag, ‘null’, stumps me but I could see we have similar taste and appreciation of variety. I recommend Orson Scott Card's, [Pastwatch] if you have not read it; yet, because it has the Sci-Fi and historical fiction aspects.

posted by rareflorida at 8:37 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2008

Thanks for the info on the book. I did read A Clockwork Orange years ago. I think that I will check The Black Dahlia out. :)
--BJ

posted by billiejean at 6:41 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2008

I'm fond of many of the same authors that you have listed and Piers Anthony is someone I have planned on reading. I've added to my fave author list by using your list of faves because I had listed only my mere recent favorites. I see we both joined the Gary Jennings group. I went to your site when you posted some comments but I was shy to post back. My Spanish ancestor was married to an African American woman and gets mentioned in many books with the more famous, Anna Kingsley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kingsl...).
I'm trying to write a book using using my Spanish ancestor because of his link to Africa, Native Americans and early colonization but honing my writing skills has been difficult. My idea is somewhat interesting because it uses the genetic memory found in Dune and a similarity to Niven's 'Inferno." I hope you get through your tough period. I have similar experience. I'm going to browse your shelves some more but I can see we have much in common. I have a love hate thing with Clive Cussler and I didn't finish Battlefield Earth but like you I jump genres.
http://www.shelfari.com/o1518031669

posted by rareflorida at 2:59 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2008

Thanks about the library, and it seems you have books I'd forgotten about in yours so I will have to see if I can add them to mine somehow...last time I was around here, I couldn't do manual adds anymore. But as far as my favorites, I must say that I have a tendency to reread The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, my X-Wing books, selected Dragonlance, and Welcome to the NHK! the most. But I love them all. Mostly.

My major...well that's something that has changed numerous times throughout my college career but is currently Management Information Systems and will probably stay that way. I think that one line about books in college might be a little misleading....though I do have my Spanish Lit. books in there as well as some I did for my brief stint as an pseudo English major. I've been in college since fall 2001...so much for that 4 year degree.

But all that aside, thanks for taking a look at my library!

posted by callindead at 9:47 am (EST) on Jan 6, 2008