Quotes

I have just received my library card for Richland County and have consequently been reading a lot. Some of the new books I have grabbed from the shelves to devour are:

The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech

Mister Monday by Garth Nix [Book I of the Keys to the Kingdom series]

Taggerung by Brian Jacques [part of the illustrious Redwall saga]

The Prydain Chronicles [5 books] by Lloyd Alexander

I have also started keeping a notebook of quotes that I really like from the books I'm reading, or movies I've watched, or professors that I love listening to in class on Friday afternoon and then eat lunch with them to discover that they share my love of Ugly Betty which makes me wish I'd had classes with them freshman year because my whole school experience could have potentially been very different. And better.

Anyway: Here are some quotes of the week from the books I've been reading:

"For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are." [Dallben of Caer Dallben, from Lloyd Alexander's third book in the Chronicles of Prydain, The Castle of Llyr]

"I want to be recognized!" Eilonwy cried. "I want to be me!" [Princess Eilonwy in The Castle of Llyr]

"How will the world change if we do not question it?"

"The world cannot be changed," said Gloria. "The world is what the world is and has forever been."

"No," said Leo Matienne softly, "I will not believe that. For here is Peter standing before us asking us to make it something different."

[from The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo]

What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?

[also from The Magician's Elephant]

If you have never read any books by these authors, I highly recommend them. Most of them are on the short list of authors that I always try to read everything they write. [Contrary to what one may imagine, I am an author/subject/series hopper. I rarely stick with a favorite author b/c I don't always like all of their books.]

Here's the short list of writers I always read from:

Sharon Creech
Cameron Dokey
Jane Austen
L.M. Montgomery
Agatha Christie
Joan Aiken
Natalie Babbitt
Andrew Clements
Gerald Morris

Notice that some of my favorite stories do not belong to any of these - Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lowry, Lloyd Alexander, Avi, Garth Nix, and Kate DiCamillo have some of my most favorite stories, but I just can't like everything they write. Madeleine and Avi, especially, have written some detestedly boring books.

Books I am interested in reading [now that I actually have a library card]:

The Keys to the Kingdom Series by Garth Nix
Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques [have to play some catch-up]
Artemis Fowl series [I'm just curious]
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
Replay by Sharon Creech
The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech
The Wolves Chronicles by Joan Aiken [haven't read all of them yet]
Belle by Cameron Dokey
The Wild Orchid: Ballad of Mulan by Cameron Dokey
Snow Child by Cameron Dokey

What books do you want to read? Do you prefer buying them first or borrowing them and then purchasing if you really like it?