#book discussions

Los míos por ejemplo:

magic circus/carnival settings

mc that uses blood magic, especially if treated or revealed to be morally neutral in the end

Mine is Grograman from the Neverending Story from Michael Ende ,A lion made of multi colored flame so hot he makes all around him a desert,but each night he dies and becomes a statue,but a great jungle grows around him .He is such a neat fantasy concept,his friendship with Bastian is sweet and the fact he is touched that anyone would weep for him .Hes important as he is the first character Bastian meets when he enters Fantastica and teaches fim of its nature

I get why he isnt in the first movie or the second ,simply cause the effects didnt EXIST in 1984 or 1990,as apart from cel animation ,I really dont think that type of effect necceasssary to make a lion made of fire was doable before CGI hit its stride ,that said he is a great character and its sad most dont know him if youve only seen the films(Third movie is so off the rails,it hs very little to do with the book )

He IS in the cartoon though ,without being multi colored and the cartooon takes fromn the book AND the movies .....Anyone else REMEMBER the cartoon ?

Grograman isnt even the only character cut but simply my favorite ,(One of the bigger character cuts is Ygramul the Many ,a shpe shifitng spider like monster who attempts to eat Falkor but thats a story for another time )

Share your favorite book character who was cut from an adaptation

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I have zero idea what the premise is, I grabbed it at the library while being possessed by a greedy ghost of I need everything here. Tbh I'm scared it's not gonna be the best thing but oh well

Basically, the way it worked was we would read two chapters of The Chronicles of Narnia every week and discuss it - we discussed what happened, what we thought of it, and what we thought it meant; we analyzed it and discussed the symbolism it had, as well as the Biblical parallels, what we understood about them, and what they mean to us as Christians (most of us who discussed are young Christians, as well as Homeschoolers).

This blog series is very close to our heart. As Christians, these books really spoke to our hearts and touched us in ways no books have ever managed to so far. And besides getting to talk about one of our favorite book series ever with my friends, re-reading Narnia and writing these posts truly benefitted our spiritual life. We were hoping we could share our experience with you guys.

Here's the link to our last discussion, where we discussed the series as a whole:

And, if you would like to read from the very beginning, here's the link to the very first post we had in our discussion series:

The rest of the posts in the series can be found here!:

so, i've been thinking about doing a thing, and maybe someone finds it interesting, or maybe it's just for me to order my thoughts and i'll get bored to it before march, but we'll see. basically, for the last two years i've been keeping track of the books i read (or audiobooks i listen to) bc i felt like i'm not reading enough (except for fanfiction). and while i'm far behind people who actually read a lot, and woefully behind how much i used to read when i was a teen, i'm actually pretty happy with the progress. made it to 34 in 2022 and 40 in 2023, and hope to get more done this year. 2024 is starting off strong, just finished my first book of the year, and usually when i do that, i have thoughts. so what's the point of blogs if not to put that out there, so it stops haunting my head? or maybe even get someone else's thoughts on things? so i decided to blog about the books i read (unless i forget or don't feel like it), starting with general feelings and then going into spoilery feelings. so, yeah, this is what this is going to be. let's go.

Hi back lovely,

I'm so glad you're visiting me for a little book talk. :)So happy too that you share the same conflicting feelings about this book. It's sometimes a burden to like certain books when you don't know what to think about their bad sides, and it helps a lot when a book friend says, "me too."

It is a testament to the strength of my feelings for this book that I managed to write these tags in my current state of apathy.

My memory is poor and I tend to easily forget the books I read if I don't keep track of them, but this one haunts me. It's like a symphony with its narrative centered on the darkness of the human soul and the descent into the abyss of these characters driven mad with despair by their greed and quest for gain, which keeps repeating like a pattern in my head.

It's a strong experience that's not for everyone but I would still recommend it to everyone, because it's a test of maturity to be able to appreciate a book like this, which can be a threshold in your reading life, depending on how and when it hits you.