Bailey Anne Bravely

I used to be able to wake myself up at four in the morning. When I was very little, that was standard for much of December. At least, I remember it being frequent. Christmas trees: I love them. The smell, the greenery, the ornaments, but mostly... the lights. I would wake up and creep into the living room, turn on the tree, and curl up on the couch to watch the shadows on the wall. The lights themselves are pretty, but the colored feathery shadows on the wall are the best. When I was little we had a little box with a button to change the blinking pattern of the lights on the tree. It was mesmerizing. The shadows and lights were so beautiful. One of my favorite toy stores had a selection of cardboard-framed glasses that would break tiny points of light up into prismatic shapes. Put them on and suddenly the tree is full of shining colored snowflakes. When the bus drives over the river at night, I look off the side of the bridge, down at the dark water, to watch the patterns of ri...

Living airships made from the DNA of a whale and consisting of a symbiotic flying ecosystem involving a hundred species? Giant mechanical walkers and enormous Tesla cannons? A courageous airwoman disguised as a man to join the British Air Service? Characters like Lord Churchill, Nikola Tesla, William Randolph Hearst, and Pancho Villa? A perspicacious loris? You've landed in the midst of Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan  trilogy.  I just finished reading the final installment, Goliath , and I am so happy. I found it in the "used" section of Barnes and Noble (yes my Barnes and Noble has a used section and escalators and YES IT IS AWESOME) and snatched it up like gold. Let me tell you a quick history of my experience with the previous two books. A very good friend of mine recommended the first book, Leviathan . I read all of its over 400 pages in about a day. Holy fiddleheads. It ended practically in the middle of a vital conversation, and this friend of mine hadn...

" Thinking of you, wherever you are. We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend. Now I will step forward to realize this wish. And who knows? Starting a new journey may not be so hard, or maybe it's already begun. There are many worlds, but they share the same sky: one sky, one destiny." ~Sora and Kairi, Kingdom Hearts II My brother may lament that his blog falls by the wayside at times, but when he does post, boy is he ridiculously   awesomely   fantastic . I've started blogs a few times. I've stopped blogs a few times. My brother and I do keep in touch relatively well, but I'd like to add one more consistent element to that link. This is probably the worst time to start this, because I'm already several thousand words behind for NaNoWriMo this month. Whoops. If I'm posting in November, I'm procrastinating and you should probably tell me to get back to my story! Ah well; at least I'm doing something semi-productiv...