The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I've always loved the Musketeers and the many stories built around them. Having a chance to get to know Dumas' characters was amazing. Unsurprisingly what I enjoyed the most was the friendship between the four musketeers. Their adventures are not particularly interesting but their misadventures and playfulness more than makes up for it. In the end, it's a book of boys being boys, so of curse it's hard not to like.

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I've been slowly posting my fics in my An Archive of Our Own page.

I still have a long way to go and lots more fics to post but I like the site so far. It has many useful options like placing fics as part of a series, so now I can have Masterminds and College not-an-arc neatly organized in a same place. The importing is easy too and tagging is quite helpful.

Another thing that's really great is that you can add who you wrote a fic for and then the person has all the fics written for them appear in their "gifts" section. While posting fics there I noticed that a lot of my fics have been written for someone, for example, merith practically owns Masterminds ^_^

So is anyone else using Archive of Our Own? What are your usernames (so I can correctly put you as the receiver of a fic if I have written something for you)? So far I've been using LJ names or personal names... For me, I'm using Misanagi, as always.

And now a book review:

( I finally read Picture of Dorian Gray )

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
I liked this book from the first chapter. After all, there's nothing like a story about books for a booklover. The characters are interesting and real but I didn't develop that strong connection I do with the characters I really like. The story and the way it was presented was well crafted, keeping the tension and the interest in the story. I do feel that it isn't very elaborated plot wise. For a 600 page book not a lot happens but the story still is captivating and the narration works very well. I especially liked the quotes at the beginning of each chapter and how those and the book itself urged me to read or reread some other books. All in all, a very good read.

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xposted to whales_tooth. Sorry to those of you who got it twice.

And let me take this oportunity to pimp two things:

1. whales_tooth. It's a great book comunity and there are regular posts. If you are looking for books to read, this is a good place. also, I remember some of you wanting recs for gay fiction and Anne and I think Lil have been posting reviews of those.

2. Goodreads. I know I've pimped this before but it's a great side to keep track of the books you've read, share reviews with your friends and get some wonderful ideas on what to read next. You can find my books here, so come on and share some books with me.

I hope everyone had a good weekend *hugs*

The 100 Book meme thing going around is quite fun to read. I get to see what my friends like to read and what not. I've noticed a few things:

1. None of my friends (who did the meme) has read One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Marquez. I'm not pimping the book only because he is Colombian. I tell you, it's a very good book so if you get a chance, give it a try.
2. I'm apparently the only one who has braved Joyce's Ulyses.
3. His Dark Materials seems to be a favorite. I started reading the first one years ago and got bored, so maybe I missed something... then again, I didn't manage to get pass the prologue of Lord of the Rings *dodges tomatoes*
4. It took me 20 minutes to remember why Of Mice and Men sounded familiar and a whole day to remember what it was about... and I only read it last year.
5. There's no Stephen King there and that makes me sad.
6. There aren't many Spanish speaking writers there either...
7. I guess for English speaking people many of these books are school requirements, very few of those were included in my school reading list, though.
8. Where's Milton?
9. Where's Don Quixote?

I'm catching up with all the meme I missed so…

( Book Meme )

( Fic name meme )

( Lyric Challenge and song meme, all in one. )