I Always Have a Question well, questions

For the past couple months I have been keeping a list in the front of my Kobo case (yes I do own a kobo, I’ll chat about it later). This list details the various sequels coming out this summer, because when it rains it pours, so my sequels must all come out within two months of each other. You see I used to be quite set in my book reading ways, only buying authors I knew and reading what I could find at the library. So the next big thing in books was never quite an option. Then last summer I invested a hundred into my kobo and a whole new world was found, sing it with me now, *A Whole New World, A New Fantastic Point of View*. Suddenly any book I wanted was at my fingertips and all for the low, low price of the internet.
One such author of discovery was Kelley Armstrong, who has now become one of my absolute favourites. Whilst I started with and adore the adult series, mainly because it filled the dark hole that was my self requirement to grow up my reading (that plan didn’t quite pan out), but it filled it none the less. The Calling, however, comes from her equaly popular teen series, dubbed the darkness rising series (I also appreciate the assumed maturity the author brings even to teen books). The Calling exists within Armstrongs universe of the otherworld and revolves around a group of teens who have had long dormant powers reawakened in them. I fell for this trilogy, even over it’s proceeding collection, because of the creatures we’re introduced to. Rather then relying on her preexisting ideas of werewolves, witches and half-demons, Armstrong draws on mythology I had to look up and learn about, rather then falling into well known ideas. This new exploration and ideas made the story fresh for me, despite an almost rythmic similarity to the previous series’ major plot points. So this book succeeds in giving me a warm fuzzy of creative growth, with a slight tinge of over framiliarity with the plot. However, I do look forward to the next text where they will hopefully meet the two groups up and a plethora of hijinks will ensue. Until then great series, remember to wikipedia a xana before reading, I spent the first bit looking up selkies addictively wondering why they weren’t more scottish.

So, for those of you who haven’t spent two seconds with me, I like to read. For those who have, you’ll know how much of an understatement that is. So because I feel the need to write, I thought I would update all of you on what I’m reading this summer.
I started off with the excellent school detox that is Tamora Pierce. That is not to say in any way that her books are fluff, I’ve just read them so many times that I can quote them from memory. My personal favourites are the Circle of Magic books, similarly to never forgetting your first doctor, you never forget your first Pierce book, for me it was this series. The characters are my favourites, and I love the use of the different main characters, it avoids an issue I often have with hating a great character due to overexposure. Additionally, I love the use of magic within the universe, unlike others where magic is a fix all, here magic is an extension of yourself and your talents. It only appears within that to which you are connected, I love the idea of that. Also, I believe that if I lived in this universe, I’d get to manipulate water, which is like my first choice for a super power. I mean it’s in everything, me and magneto team up, there’d be nothing we couldn’t mess with…and we just realized why I can’t have super powers, two seconds of text and they’re already dedicated to evil. But ai digress from my…digression, these books are great, and yes they fall in the 9-12 age range, but hey, who doesn’t want to be 9 years old sometimes, especially post school. Therefore the moral of this story is read these books and never embue me with super powers, thank you.

If you could collect anything what would it be? (this one is courtesy of my father and an antique store in st. Jacobs)

Response:

I would collect old world war II literature like the history nerd I am. I would get government issue pieces for soldiers including instructions on hand to hand combat and cooking in your own hat. It was the way to get around training them and I find it fascinating how often these things were flat out patronizing, and you know the instructions were occasionally odd or convoluted. Unfortunately, to do this I would need proper storage and supplies which I lack both the cash and space for, so alas it willnot happen anytime soon.

What about you?

despetitesvictoires asked: MMORPGs? that's a pretty long acronym that doesn't quite make sense to me?

oh I know this one. An MMORPG is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Play Game. It essentially consists of creating a character then living a whole life on the internet. Most have to do with fantasy battles, while some like sims and second life consist of doing the extreme things you wouldn’t do in real life. I’ve tried some free ones and either stopped because they started costing money or the other people scared me, aka I got asked to be someones skype friend after teaming up with them for one quest

Do You always have a question?