Booknook Friending Meme

[quillpunk]

Hello, hello! booknook is tossing its hat in the ring for 3weeks4dreamwidth in the form of a friending meme :D

Copy and paste the text from the little box below into a new comment on this post. Feel free to remove the questions that aren't relevant for you! (If you want to fill this out in a post somewhere else, you're welcome do so, simply credit booknook :D)

<b>Name:</b> <b>Pronouns:</b> <b>Age Group:</b> <b>Dealbreaker(s):</b> <b>I Recently Finished Reading:</b> <b>A Book I Want to Reread:</b> <b>Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List:</b> <b>A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About:</b> <b>Related Book News I've Got My Eye On:</b> (adaptations etc.) <b>My All-Time Favorite Book(s):</b> <b>My Favorite Book Genre(s):</b> <b>A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s):</b> <b>A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s):</b> <b>A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out:</b> <b>Link to My Latest Book Review:</b> <b>Link to My Reading Log:</b> <b>Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About:</b>

Comments

[ambyr]

Oh dear. Is that a disrecommendation? (I have very conflicted feelings about the Divine Cities books, which I gave up on after book two.)

[hamsterwoman]

It's not a disrecommendation (although I reread my write-up and I guess I was even more conflicted/negative than I remembered, lol), but I did not continue with the series (I did at least finish book 1, which I did not do with Divine Cities). There's stuff about Foundryside I really enjoyed -- there's some neat magical worldbuilding (although other aspects of worldbuilding bugged me a bunch), and I liked a couple of characters, and thought one twist was interesting in principle at least. Weirdly, the thing that bugged me the most was how dialogue was written -- specifically, it reminded me of someone trying to do Brustian Vlad-and-Loiosh mental banter but with whatever makes it work in Brust missing XD

But, hah, and I'd completely forgotten this, one of my random remarks on this book was "[X and Y], early on, gave me a Varrick and Zhu Li (from Legend of Korra) vibe, although this wore off after a while". So, you know, that's now two unrelated things I'm curious to see if you'll also be reminded of :)

[ambyr]

Well, Zhu Li is my fave, so that is a selling point. . .

[hamsterwoman]

Hehe, I thought I remembered that right :) (The character who reminded me of Zhu Li in this is someone I liked throughout the book)