well, one good thing about work...

[wildcard_47]

...It's usually so slow that I can pull out a book and get fifteen to twenty minutes of uninterrupted reading done at a time.

Today, I'd forgotten my usual reading material (the horror!), so I stopped by Waldenbooks to pick up a Jodi Picoult novel I've been itching to read. (It's "The Tenth Circle", if anyone's wondering.)

There are three majorly cool things about this book:
1. It's AWESOME, because Picoult is a great writer.
2. One of the characters is a graphic novel illustrator; Picoult had three and four page excerpts from his graphic novel (there were probably five or six sections of these in total) scattered throughout the book.
3. THERE IS A SECRET CODE HIDDEN IN THE GRAPHIC NOVEL PAGES.

You think I'm lying about #3. I swear, it's true! Within the illustrations, eighty-six letters are hidden; they spell out a quotation by Demosthenes; it's supposed to best represent the theme of the book.

Not that the theme of the book really mattered to me at that point, I was too busy squeeing about 'secret codes' and pretending acting six years old again. If only I'd had my trusty Carmen Sandiego decoder with me....I'm sure I would have discovered the quotation much sooner that way!

Comments

[amaz0n-princess.livejournal.com]

LOL, Carmen Sandiego... those were the days....

[wildcard-47.livejournal.com]

Seriously, Carmen was the bomb.

She's a spy. She got to travel the world. AND she had her own Rockapella theme song....the woman had it made.

[dozmuffinxc.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Jodi Picoult! "My Sister's Keeper" is one of my absolute favorite reads.

I'm reading one of Mary Renault's historical fiction novels ATM, but when I'm through (and it'll be soon)... well, I have to spend my B&N gift-certificate some way or other!

[wildcard-47.livejournal.com]

Jodi Picoult is slowly becoming one of my favorite authors, ever since I read "My Sister's Keeper". I loved her work.

EXCITING...a B&N gift certificate!

[dozmuffinxc.livejournal.com]

Mhmm! I really enjoyed her style, though MSK is the only one of her novels I've read. I literally came upon it by chance: I was assigned to write a book review for my high school's paper, so I meandered over to the library and grabbed whatever looked good. Lo and behold, that's the one I picked out! It had me sobbing at the end, huddled outside the newspaper office on the dusty floor.

[dozmuffinxc.livejournal.com]

Little tidbit of irony: at mum's school, the teachers swap books. She came home with a few, and one of them was The Tenth Circle! I was tempted to buy it when last I was at the bookstore (still hanging onto that gift certificate), but it seems that good things come to those who wait :)