Showing posts with label TV series related. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV series related. Show all posts

Saturday, 4 September 2010

Wicked, Killer and Burned

Posted by Letty at 19:19 0 comments
Yay! Now there is only one book from my order that haven't arrived yet, for 3 books just came in! They are:

The fifth and sixth books from the Pretty Little Liars series (which I talked more about here)


The seventh book from the House of Night series.
The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampyres have always existed. In the first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through the Change. Not all of those who are chosen do. It’s tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends, and on top of that, Zoey finds she is no average fledgling.  She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx.  But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers.

Friday, 3 September 2010

Dead in the Family and Cyrano de Bergerac

Posted by Letty at 18:35 0 comments
Two new books today:

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
The 10th book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels (which originated the popular HBO TV-series True Blood). I have only read until novel #5... The show is on the end of the 3rd season, which corresponds, more or less, to the end of the novel #3 with some elements of #4, eventhough there are some info that are different, so I don't know if some I haven't read yet or it is only different... Either way, I really like the books, more than the show, so... Just trying to complete my collection =D
Goodreads: 3.62 stars


Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
That's my 2nd assinement for this semester at French, already getting mine eventhough I am not done with the first one yet... But... Better to be safe than sorry...
Cover text: "Aimable jeune homme et auteur à demi-succès patronné par Sarah Bernhard, Rostand devient du jour au lendemain avec Cyrano de Bergerac un héros national, sur-le-champ décoré de la Légion d’honneur. Somptueux divertissement poético-militaire, pièce historique qui rappelait à la fois Les Trois Mousquetaires et le monde des précieux, drame en vers d’une ahurissante virtuosité où parut revivre le meilleur de Ruy Blas, Cyrano conquit sans peine un public lassé du théâtre d’idées, qu’enflamma le patriotisme culturel de l’auteur. « Ainsi, il y a un chef-d’œuvre de plus au monde », écrivait Jules Renard le soir de la générale. Il faut sans doute en rabattre un peu, mais un peu seulement : bien que né dans le sérail de la plus bourgeoise des bourgeoisies, Cyrano demeure la plus grande réussite de théâtre populaire à ce jour connue et le dernier acte, avec son couvent et ses feuilles mortes, est aussi émouvant qu’un final de Verdi."
English version: "Edmond Rostand's bittersweet melodrama tells the tale of France's master swordsman--Cyrano de Bergerac, a valiant soldier cursed with the face of a clown. Gallantry, love, poetry, and failure all combine in this timeless classic, further enhanced by Kyle Baker's captivating illustrations."
Goodreads: 4.01 stars

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

Posted by Letty at 20:50 0 comments
Today arrived the first 4 books of the Pretty Little Liars series here at home... *_*
They are sooo cute!! I can't wait to start reading them... I have been dying to read them ever since I found out that this new abc series I really liked (and that I already talked about here), also called Pretty Little Liars, is based in a series of books by Sara Shepard... But for now I still need to finish what I am reading at the moment...



Monday, 23 August 2010

Le Petit Prince (Little Prince), Dante's Inferno (Graphic Novel), Fringe (Graphic Novel)

Posted by Letty at 12:58 0 comments
3 new books arrived at home today! The 2nd package of an Amazon order from last month! :) I'm on a graphic novel phase... Probably because it is hard to find all kinds of graphic novels here in Brazil, and when you do they are either translated into Portuguese, or really expensive... That is why in the last months I have been ordering several graphic novels from Amazon. Le Petit Prince was actually a mistake I made, I was trying to order its graphic novel version, but ordered the classic version instead... Well, at least now I have a brand new book, instead of the old one that belonged to my mother... Dante's Inferno is a graphic novel based on the EA videogame of the same name. Fringe is based on the TV series from Fox that has the same name...

Dans cette fable charmante, l'auteur raconte ses souvenirs de sa rencontre avec 'un petit bonhomme tout à fait extraordinaire',  habitant d'une autre planète qui n'est pas plus grande qu'une maison. Peu à peu nous apprenons l'étrange histoire de cette créature miniscule ---le petit prince--- et comment il a commencé ses voyages vers sept planètes, qui l'ont apporté enfin à la Terre. En ce dernier lieu il apprend, grâce à un renard, le secret le plus important de sa vie. (Book cover)
A lovely story....which covers a poetic, yearning philosophy--not the sort of fable that can be tacked down neatly at its four corners but rather reflections on what are real matters of consequence. (The New York Times Book Review)

Based on the upcoming EA video game of the same name, this classic epic poem is brought to life as never before, courtesy of writer Christos Gage (WILDCATS, X-Men/Spider-Man) and hot new artist Diego Latorre. Dante Alighieri is re-imagined as a holy warrior who has returned from the Crusades to find his beloved fiancée Beatrice murdered. When her soul is ensnared by Lucifer, only Dante has the strength and courage to break open the gates of Hell and save her. But at what cost to his own immortal soul? And is Dante himself pure enough for this impossible task? Find out in this sizzling new series. (Goodreads)


FBI Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant scientist Walter Bishop and his estranged son Peter investigate the world of "fringe science"(telepathy, time travel etc) following a series of unexplained events, which begin to raise suspicions that a large scientific research company Massive Dynamic is experimenting on the general public.
The secret history of Walter Bishop and his onetime scientific partner William Bell continues in this exclusive tie-in to the hit Fox show Fringe! Witness their first attempts at pushing the boundaries of science and reality! (Goodreads)
 

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