American Gods is one of my favourites. It is awesometastic.

FuzzyLobster wrote:That's just awesome.

I'm doing panels of different things and then stiching them together with a machine, but the actual panels will be done in silk screen, silk painting, fabric paints etc, because that's the stuff we've been learning. Going to have to work really hard on it though; turns out I have a 73 in that course, which is the second lowest midterm mark I've ever had...

oh that's going to look awesome. I demand full details after! With picture of finished product!

wrote:Um, I'm reading American Gods. It's been a very strange book so far, not that that's bad.
'COIN TRICKS COIN TRICKS COIN TRICKS'

haha...Couldn't finish that book because I kept getting distracted and having to go on youtube to try and l see if I could learn them. (couldn't) And then I started getting squicked out and just read the summary on wikipedia.

Luciene wrote:haha...Couldn't finish that book because I kept getting distracted and having to go on youtube to try and l see if I could learn them. (couldn't) And then I started getting squicked out and just read the summary on wikipedia.

American Gods squicked *you* out? I'm afraid your image has been irreparably damaged.

Epic_Footstool wrote:Hmm...I didn't think it was that terrible, but the first book and Lost Colony were undoubtedly better.

[+] Spoiler

There could have been a bit less cringe-worthy flirting from Orion though. Then again, seeing as there was a hint of a relationship brewing between Trouble and Holly, I'm still hoping that something will happen between them in the next book. I just don't understand Holly and Artemis shippers. :-/

I hope the next book (which I think is going to be the last) is up to the standard of the first ones in the series, or else it would have been a complete waste of time. Eoin Colfer; you have expectations to live up to.

I guess I went about the book with high expectations as usual and so ended up very disappointed.
Yeah, the first three books were brilliant indeed (I liked the fifth too). I would love the last to be as good as first three. See, I'm still having hopes of him delivering a good book. And definitely no Arty/Holly.

wrote:oh that's going to look awesome. I demand full details after! With picture of finished product!

Same here.

wrote:American Gods squicked *you* out? I'm afraid your image has been irreparably damaged.

I haven't read the books, but don't be so harsh with her. =p

I have a copy of American Gods on my bookshelf waiting to be read. Hurr.

Foootstool wrote: I just can't understand Holly/Artemis shippers

Oh, why? I lov'em two together. Because I'm weird like that and I generally like HumanxNotHuman pairings.
Besides,

[+] Spoiler

ArtemisxMinerva is boring, and Holly and Artemis kissed.

n&B wrote:It was bad

Not surprised. The Arty series keeps getting lamer and lamer. I loved the first two books. Third was okay. The fourth one was pretty annoying, with the over-used villian comeback plot. The fifth one was just average. And I haven't read the sixth one, nor the seventh one, but if the seventh one has no awesome Arty plan, then it has to suck.

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On a different note, I'm reading:

The Amulet of Samarkanda ~ God.

Sixth or seventh time I read it, and I can't get enough of Barti and NattyxBarti. Too much yaoi, i guess.

Hmm
Yeah, even as a kid I thought that the AF books started getting pretty lame about halfway through the series, and it felt like you were being whacked over the head with the morality hammer with every other sentence. Take care of the environment, save the fairies from Spelltropy!
And the main character definitely 'became a better person' way too fast. OTL There's good character development, then there's the strange magical transformation he went through.

Man, American Gods is squicky. I'm reading it the same time as I am Anansi Boys, and it's creating a rather odd effect.

wrote: Sixth or seventh time I read it, and I can't get enough of Barti and NattyxBarti. Too much yaoi, i guess.

/spit take
Thanks, I was drinking tea.
Oh goodness, memories. I remember being rather incredulous when I found my friend the real life N/B shipper and wondered what on earth her basis was. Allowed her to point take me through a point-by-point slash reading of the books. Started facepalming at the library bit in AoS and bade her to stop before any more yaoi fodder came up that would allow her to go 'I TOLD YOU SO' at me. The ruthless girl refused to. (though it really wasn't anything you wouldn't find in any other book, she just read it in an exceedingly creepy voice)

Ignore Sent, Anansi Boys is better. :D Also, A Study in Emerald, which is complete genius.

n&b wrote:73 is your second lowest midterm mark ever? I envy you. Anyway, what all stitches have you learnt? I did stitching [embroidery and knitting (hardly) included] for a few years, and, while I really didn't enjoy it much then, I like it now. Do you just stitch with a machine?

Well, the Canadian school system is nowhere near as crazy as yours is... :P Knit stitch and straight stitches are the extent of my knowledge. I like doing things like that with my hands while I watch movies and stuff, so I enjoy it. Trying to get into using a machine (my grandmother leant me hers), but I'm still a little scared of them. XD

Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel

Half of me really likes this book, the other half thinks that the author is a spoilt brat who just needs to stop whining. Since clinical depression is a serious issue for many people, this probably makes me a bad person...

FuzzyLobster wrote:Ignore Sent, Anansi Boys is better. :D Also, A Study in Emerald, which is complete genius.

n&b wrote:73 is your second lowest midterm mark ever? I envy you. Anyway, what all stitches have you learnt? I did stitching [embroidery and knitting (hardly) included] for a few years, and, while I really didn't enjoy it much then, I like it now. Do you just stitch with a machine?

Well, the Canadian school system is nowhere near as crazy as yours is... :P Knit stitch and straight stitches are the extent of my knowledge. I like doing things like that with my hands while I watch movies and stuff, so I enjoy it. Trying to get into using a machine (my grandmother leant me hers), but I'm still a little scared of them. XD

Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel

Half of me really likes this book, the other half thinks that the author is a spoilt brat who just needs to stop whining. Since clinical depression is a serious issue for many people, this probably makes me a bad person...

Oh don't worry about any guilt. Naturally she's going to want to go for the attention-grabbing diction in whatever she's writing. I mean, in the cover of the novel the author is clearly strutting a modelesque pose. So she was really going in for the kill on entertaining the public and getting some profit.

Not necessarily a bad thing though, since marketing is marketing I suppose. I can't really comment on contents until I actually read it. But woo for the author if Prozac actually works for her. Seriously, I would have been more likely to kill myself while on it rather than off.

Reading Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:

wrote:American Gods squicked *you* out? I'm afraid your image has been irreparably damaged.

I haven't read the books, but don't be so harsh with her. =p

A vagina ate a man alive. You have to draw the line somewhere.



Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris is out and I get it if I do well on my midterms next week.

Heh. When I read those scenes in American Gods, I was like o_O, then O_o, then xDDD, but the book still sucked.

FuzzyLobster wrote:Also, A Study in Emerald, which is complete genius.

I love that one so much.

Mwamba wrote:Well, the Canadian school system is nowhere near as crazy as yours is... :P Knit stitch and straight stitches are the extent of my knowledge. I like doing things like that with my hands while I watch movies and stuff, so I enjoy it. Trying to get into using a machine (my grandmother leant me hers), but I'm still a little scared of them. XD

Oh, that is it? We did a lot, lot more (and since I ah changed school midway, I did stitching for only three years instead of six). But I think I forgot nearly everything (it was nearly 8-10 years ago).

Luciene wrote:A vagina ate a man alive. You have to draw the line somewhere.

Yikes! I don't blame you at all then.

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:

Luciene wrote:A vagina ate a man alive. You have to draw the line somewhere.

Yikes! I don't blame you at all then.

Technically, it was the vagina of the Queen of Sheba.

She's a trashy diva and nightmare fuel.

Oz wrote:Started facepalming at the library bit in AoS and bade her to stop before any more yaoi fodder came up that would allow her to go 'I TOLD YOU SO' at me.

Oh, the library scene... *drools*. Although you HAVE to admit that there was no need for Barti to get so close... :ermm:
Nah, I know it's sadly a total crack pairing Noooo why, God? Why? :( . But I like it.

Doom Patrol. Binging on Vertigo

Watchmen - Alan Moore

I started reading Ptolemy's Gate again.
Honestly, I keep forgetting how awesome the book is.

RoS

:D