My Own Personal Book-of-the-Month Club

[saanen]

Nathan Bransford, a literary agent whose blog I read obsessively and who I wish was my agent because he's terribly funny and if he was my agent I could call him up whenever I liked and get him to say something witty--as I say, Nathan Bransford recently posted about networking. He says there's no longer an excuse for writers to be poor networkers,

Comments

[zoe_1418]

Wow, good review! Maybe I'll finally read Wind in the Willows. I was given a copy (beautifully illustrated) when I was nine, but never got past a chapter or two.

I read The Golden Compass a few years back, plus the next one, and maybe the first part of the final one. They're REALLY good. I was excited to see that they're going to be movies.

[saanen]

Yes, I hope the movie coming out this fall is as good as the book. The preview looks really marvelous, but I'm not convinced by the girl who plays Lyra--and of course, I don't recall seeing her daemon at all in the preview.

[kevin251]

You know, I picked up a cheap used copy of Kidnapped a few years ago (during a Victorian-era fiction buying spree inspired by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel), and never got around to reading it. It's in a box here somewhere... I'll have to dig it out...

[saanen]

I hope you like it as much as I did! It's perfectly thrilling. But then I like everything else I've read by RLS too.