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Thalia @ Pictures in the Words

I'm Thalia! I run a book blog called Pictures in the Words and I hope to be an editor for YA fiction. I'm a GoodReads refugee!

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The Martian
Andy Weir
Progress: 31/369 pages
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter
Progress: 193/432 pages
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
Progress: 43/766 pages
The Children of Húrin
J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien
Progress: 313/313 pages

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A little better, but the grammar and writing continue to be atrocious. Soooooo many words that are really one word have been split up. "Ladylike", "fingertips", "awhile", "halfway". ARG.

 

Or you know, there are things like this:

 

To call it anything familiar would be an injustice. This place was different, something new. They had created a place like nothing I'd ever seen before. The architecture was strange adn foreign to me.

 

Please, by all means, tell me four different ways how different the room is. Please.

 

...moved like a fog... (just one fog, though)

 

The field was dry of snow... (??!?!?!?!?!)

 

How was it possible that just the touch of his hands, made my skin burst with sustenance? (Okay, just what. AND WHY IS THERE A COMMA THERE?)

 

"I guess it is--Ch, Darcy!" I responded. (I don't know what that's supposed to mean.)

 

Aaaand the last one for now, because I have to leave.

 

The rope was now taught against the cement lip...

 

*sigh*