Place your hold today!
Brisingr, the third book in Christopher Paolini’s blockbuster “Inheritance” series, is scheduled to be released on September 20, 2008. But you can place your CADL hold today by clicking here!
The long–awaited follow–up to Eragon (which inspired the film by the same name) and Eldest, Brisingr continues the saga of Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, in their desparate fight against the Empire. Oaths are sworn… loyalties tested… forces collide…. Can this once–simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?
Feel free to share your excitement and anticipation for this long–awaited volume by posting a comment below!
March 27, 2008
Books, movies, music and everything else!
Another month, another all-purpose blog entry! This is your opportunity to share with us the books, movies and/or music you’ve been enjoying recently.
In the book department, I’ve been enjoying a slew of titles, from Stephen King’s latest, Duma Key; to the period mystery Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades, starring the legendary curmudgeon and author of The Devil’s Dictionary; to Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, a dark fantasy about a young girl who finds herself in a mirror world filled with fantasies and horrors — a phantasmagorical feast for the imagination!
But the book at the top of my list right now is Pearl S. Buck’s classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Good Earth. It tells the tale of Wang Lung, a poor farmer, and his family as they struggle to survive and ascend in social status in pre–revolutionary China. It’s an incredibly compelling read, vividly realistic, informed by Buck’s own experience as a daughter of missionaries living abroad. Not difficult to read or overly long, it’s also a great candidate for book reports! (And if, by chance, you’ve already read The Good Earth, you may be interested to know that Buck wrote two sequels continuing the family saga: Sons andA House Divided.)
As for multimedia: as a movie music buff, I’ve been enjoying the delightful and energetic Pixar film scores of Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles, Ratatouille). A rising star in the industry, Giacchino also wrote the music for J.J. Abrams’ Alias, Lost, M:I:III the recent Cloverfield (yes, we have a waiting list for the DVD already!) and the forthcoming Star Trek relaunch movie (Summer, 2009).
How about you? What have you been enjoying lately?
March 14, 2008
