Monday, November 24, 2003

Substitute Teachers ROCK!!!
I have a sub in Accounting, so here I am. ^_^

Pex asked about the Immortals series. I know he asked like last Thursday, but I've been on the busy side. Better late than never, right? I'd feel horribly rude if I hadn't responded at all.

Anyway, The Immortals is a series of four books by Tamora Pierce. It's of the fantasy genre. This is the summary on the back of the first book, Wild Magic:

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Young Daine's knack with horses gets her a job helping the royal headmistress drive a herd of ponies to Tortall. It soon becomes clear that Daine's talent, despite her struggles to hide it, is downright magical. Horses and other animals not only obey the mysterious girl, they come to her and seem to listen to her words. But Daine will have to learn to trust humans before she can come to terms with her powers, her past, and herself.

Set in Tortall during the reign of King Jonathan III and Queen Thayet, Wild Magic is the first book of The Immortals series, which chronicles the time when the world is invaded by immortal creatures and a girl is born with a magical gift that could restore the very balance of nature.
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The Immortal creatures are things like dragons, griffins, winged horses, winged apes, spidrens(giant spiders with human heads and torsos) and stormwings (giant birds with human heads and torsos) They can only die by being killed, like in combat.
Basically the story of the series is about the kingdom of Tortall fighting against everything the empire of Carthak sends their way to weaken them; war was never officially declared. Besides the great plotline, the interactions between the characters are very interesting and enthralling, among the animals as well as the humans.

I absolutely love the series. I can't imagine how someone wouldn't like it, honestly. Unless they hated reading or hated fantasy. (Which are also pretty foreign concepts to me) I hope that satisfies your curiosity, Pex, as well as anyone elses. ^_^ Maybe Sara will add anything important that she thinks I left out.


Ok, now on to my own boring, pathetic life. Tomorrow is a half-day, then we have the rest of the week off. Tomorrow night I'm going to the bookstore and buying a whole bunch of books: The rest of the Chobits manga series, hopefully the next volume of Inu Yasha, and the Song of the Lioness quartet, if not Protector of the Small as well. Then I'll hole up in my room for the next few days and just read, taking a break to share a thanksgiving dinner with the family. We're not having any guests, and our extended relatives are too far away from North Carolina (WA and SD, and S. Korea). I'm really looking forward to the reading marathon. ^_^ Although, this is also a good time to start on the summer reading crap for English next semester. >.< I'll just convienently forget that I ever remembered that. ^_^ I've got plenty of time to do the (4) book reports druing Christmas break. (Even though I'm not going to want to do it then, either) ~_^
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