Follow Friday (8)

Feature and Follow Friday is hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee

Q. If you could have characters from a particular book meet and form and epic storyline with characters from a particular TV series, which would you choose and why?

My family and I watch a lot of television.  However, most are younger kid shows because a. I have two younger brothers and b. I quite honestly prefer that kind to others.  So I can pretty much just tell the basis of how the TV show should be...

How about the HP gang on a reality TV show where they have to do all those obstacles (Harry, Ron, Hermione, the Weasley twins for some fun, some Slytherins for some fighting)  but they can't use their wands?

Or how about Deryn from the LEVIATHAN series on Say Yes To The Dress?  This character HATES dresses, but maybe she would be forced to shop for a wedding dress by her mom or something, but she would by no means like it, making it funny:)

Whoops, I just noticed that no TV characters were mentioned...I'm a failure:(  Oh well!

Book Of The Month: September

Book Of The Month is a monthly meme hosted here, at Lost In A Book!  It is where you can show the book that you are most looking forward to coming out during the current month, or your favorite book that has been previously published during the month.

Want to join?  I'd love it!  All you have to do is grab the button and link back here!

My Book of the month:

Goliath

Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Air Service.) And if they weren’t technically enemies. The tension thickens as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic on board: secrets suddenly unravel, characters reappear, and nothing is at it seems in this thunderous conclusion to Scott Westerfeld’s brilliant trilogy.

As I know I have said before, I am avidly awaiting the release of this book, which is the twentieth of this month!  I've got it pre-ordered, and it can't come soon enough!

Waiting On Wednesday (1)

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Breaking The Spine to showcase the novels and books we have been waiting for.
Release Date:  September 20, 2011
Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Air Service.) And if they weren’t technically enemies. The tension thickens as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic on board: secrets suddenly unravel, characters reappear, and nothing is at it seems in this thunderous conclusion to Scott Westerfeld’s brilliant trilogy.


Why I'm waiting:
I read and loved the first two books in the series, LEVIATHAN and BEHEMOTH.  They have excellent writing, cool plots, plus I learn things in them-they are period novels, no matter how AU they are.  I've been waiting since I first finished BEHEMOTH, which was almost a year ago.  And now, it is less than a month until the release date!  (An added bonus:  The cover is amazing.)

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Amazon Description
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.

I had heard about this book long before I read it.  It sounded interesting, but not interesting enough to get.  And then my book club was reading it, so I got it...and loved it!

Prince Aleksander is on the run from the Germans. With his parents dead, he flees to a secret safe house in Switzerland. Deryn Sharp is disguised as a boy named Dylan, so she can fly. When the ship she works on crashes on a Switzerland glacier, things don't look good. Until she meets a mysterious boy named Alek... Alek is a clanker; Deryn is a darwinist. But when they work together, they might just be able to find a way off of the glacier. A steam punk fantasy about World War one that never was...

Besides the amazing plot, this novel is also beautifully written.  The second novel in the series, 'Behemoth,' is just as good, and the third and final book in the series, 'Goliath', comes out September 20, 2011!

Market: YA
Sensuality: None/Mild
Violence: Mild/Moderate
Language: None
Adult Themes: Death, War