#1 31 Mai 2011 12:08:09
Hello my little english-reading-darlings, after the last two more-or-less-successful LC in VO, it's time to come back with new proposals for the next one!
You can suggest as many titles as you want, if the book is not published in French it's even better but it's not a requirement either. For the date, let's take one that satisfies the most people - I would say around July but let us know what you'd like!
So as a start, here are a couple proposals from me:
<image>It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, it's not one she expects. Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live on the horns on his head), leaps into the surging waters and is carried away.
Where? To the ABARAT: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from The Great Head that sits in the mysterious twilight waters of Eight in the Evening, to the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of Gorgossium, the island of Midnight, ruled over by the Prince of Midnight himself, Christopher Carrion.
Candy has a place in this extraordinary world: she is here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart. Forces older than Time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered.
This one is the first of a series, 2 are out and the 3rd one will be soon (I think there'll be 5 in total). It's one of my absolute favorite that I want to reread it anyway, a fantasy story with a lot of great characters and a wonderful universe. It's available in hardback and paperback, but the massmarket paperbacks are not illustrated and you lose half the charm without the author's illustrations.
Another:
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This is World War I as never seen before. The story begins the same: on June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated, triggering a sequence of alliances that plunges the world into war. But that is where the similarity ends. This global conflict is between the Clankers, who put their faith in machines, and the Darwinists, whose technology is based on the development of new species. After the assassination of his parents, Prince Aleksandar's people turn on him. Accompanied by a small group of loyal servants, the young Clanker flees Austria in a Cyklop Stormwalker, a war machine that walks on two legs. Meanwhile, as Deryn Sharp trains to be an airman with the British Air Service, she prays that no one will discover that she is a girl. She serves on the Leviathan, a massive biological airship that resembles an enormous flying whale and functions as a self-contained ecosystem. When it crashes in Switzerland, the two teens cross paths, and suddenly the line between enemy and ally is no longer clearly defined. The ending leaves plenty of room for a sequel, and that's a good thing because readers will be begging for more. Enhanced by Thompson's intricate black-and-white illustrations, Westerfeld's brilliantly constructed imaginary world will capture readers from the first page. Full of nonstop action, this steampunk adventure is sure to become a classic.
(Sorry for the long summaries...) This one many of you probably knows it, it's available in French too, first book of a series with illustrations. I can't tell you how it is, I didn't read it, but it looks pretty nice - pretty heavy too, but available in paperback.
And last one:
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Can a ghost from the future save a life in the past? A chilling tale of dark forces and revenge! The ghost turns up one summer day, alone in a world she once knew, among people who were once her family. She knows she is one of four sisters, but which one? She can be sure of only one thing -- that there's been an accident. As she struggles to find her identity, she becomes aware of a malevolent force stirring around her. Something terrible is about to happen. One of the sisters will die -- unless the ghost can use the future to reshape the past. But how can she warn them, when they don't even know she exists?
I didn't take the first book of the Chrestomanci series because well, it's seven books altogether (which doesn't mean I don't wanna read it), but this one is a oneshot and looks pretty damn nice! (available in paperback of course)
Let's wait a week or so for everyone's proposals and we'll do the vote after that. Have fun!
Dernière modification par Miss Spooky Muffin (05 Octobre 2011 11:26:46)