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[wispfox]

OK, random reading speed test thingy that ladytabitha posted a link to.

http://mindbluff.com/askread2.htm

43 seconds for the first... (reading at light fiction speed, although still reading every word. Gods, that was a boring story! Entirely too many details about the house!)

700 - 750 w/m for the second, reading at non-scientific textbook speed.

And I don't know how much the fact that I'm exhausted and not reading a paper book affects those. I read faster when I'm not tired, and I _think_ I read faster when reading on paper rather than a computer screen.

Neat!

Comments

[majes.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you want any book recommendations, especially if you want to try some good fiction.

I probably should start reading again. Ok - here is your challenge, fiction girl. Pick one book out of all the books that you would recommend - just one - and I will read that book. On my honor.

Oh... sssshhh! sssshhh! I think we're chatting in wispfox's lj again. *glances around nervously*

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

chatting in wispfox's LJ again

Yay! Chatty people!

*bounces*

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

*hands you a bouncy ball for extra bounciness*

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/romeball.html

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Yes. You should. Everyone should read. *nods firmly*

One book? Oh, that's really easy! really hard. Thus, I have a counter-challenge for you. You must give me a short list of things you like in books (length, intended audience level/age, plot, character, setting, themes, fluff/seriousness, etc). It's easy to give recommendations, but I try to give recommendations that the person will actually like, based on what they already do like.

I have a few books in mind though, if your interest in the mind extends to psychic powers/magic, especially how possessors and "normal" society interact.

[majes.livejournal.com]

Hrmmm... let me see. Well, I've enjoyed fantasy more than Sci-fi, though stories set in modern times work fine with me (even alternate reality modern times). I tend to like authors that are fairly richly detailed. I'm not above some comedy, but tend to be more drawn to the serious. I like well-developed cosmologies, that have an intrinsic logic that could (in some ways) map over onto our own reality. Characters need to be consistent to their own logic, and they have to maintain character throughout the writing, save changing via natural development (which they should also do - damn you, Robert Jordan!)

It's interesting reading what I wrote above - it's my writing environment. I guess I could just read my own chapters. >:-)

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Young Adult or Adult?
Series or Non-series?

*snickers about Robert Jordan*

[majes.livejournal.com]

Adult.
Series or Non-Series, either can be good. Whichever.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Okay.

*picks semi-randomly from pool of good adult books*

Song & Silence by Elizabeth Kerner

(I also picked something that's still in-print and easily available via Amazon, if not a library. Aren't I nice? :P)

[majes.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming it's "Song in the Silence" by Elizabeth Kerner. I'll procure it tomorrow at lunch.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Oops. Yes. Song in the Silence by Elizabeth Kerner. I looked it up to confirm title wording (as I knew Song & Silence is D&D), but forgot to change title in actual comment.

Let me know if you don't like it, and tell me why, and I'll find you a better one.
Let me know if you do like it, and tell me why, and I'll find you another one (for after you finish the trilogy).

*steeples fingers* So basically, let me know how you like it. :P

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I have a few books in mind though, if your interest in the mind extends to psychic powers/magic, especially how possessors and "normal" society interact.

Did you already suggest something along these lines? 'Cause I'm interested, even if my book list (both owned and to-read, and to purchase/borrow) is insanely long. ;)