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  • the tags lols

  • COME BACK. WE MISS YOU.

  • Tomorrow When The War Began is such an amazing book!

  • OMG did u go to st ritas????

  • I've read The Hunger Games. I'm guessing you know they're being made into movies (: Ummm TWTWB. I've read 5 of them. I love them. From an outsiders perspective I think it's probably the same as reading them in Australia ?

  • i only have the 1st 3 books!! they arent available in th uk! :(:(:(:(

  • Hey, I'm an auzzie living in England and came to this site after been linked here by Nerimon (surprise surprise) and I was so pleased you asked this question as I love TWTWB. I got my english friend to try reading it and they loved learning about and kinda being able to get a look into Auzzie culture. I have exactly the same enthusiasm for the book and I'm also a fake Ranga/ Amy Pond look-a-like Hoorah! Awesome vlog. Tim Minchin, Doctor Who and John Marsden; what more could you ask for?

  • I read books about other places all the time and I don't really think my context influences them. But that might be because I'm not the kind of person who pictures the whole thing in my head. I never do, so it doesn't matter if I know what it looks like in real life... Although when I'm reading a book that takes place which I know, in my mind I go like, o yeah, i know that building or something likewise...

  • Just wanted to say I'm 16, I read there series when I was 13, sexual stuff included (lost a bit of innocence as far as that one goes) And I'm from New Zealand. I loved the series and my dad had read the first couple of chapter to my brother and I ( loved to read but my brother no so much) And after that I stole the book and finished reading it in a couple of days, still listening to my dad read. I <3 This seireis and read the ellie series afterwards. I always wondered who had invaded Oz...

  • You're a fan of Tim Minchin :D

  • More videos please!!! X

  • I like your wall of stuff. Please make more videos. I really enjoy them. :)

  • You seem so lovely!! :) I love all of your videos!! X

  • Please make more videos!!!!

    You're awesome!

  • So, she is pretty much a girl version Charlie.

  • Please make more videos Lily! :)

  • the Hunger Games trilogy is amazing!

  • tomorrow when the war began is AMAZING.

  • I loved Hunger Games (just finished the first book, waiting for the second and third). I think I have a kind-of crush on Katniss, maybe it will become Twilight for guys?

  • I c the photo of Alex(nerimon) and her on the top shelf LOL

  • Lily, have you read the Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody? Another fantabulous Aussie series, and it's fantasy so that's double whammy points of awesome right there! I'm sure you have read them, but if not - READ! NOW!

    Also, your read hair looked very pretty

  • why did anyone in australia read twilight?^^

    the cover scares me :S

    i wouldnt have bought it xD

  • the hunger games is so SO good! EVERYONE should read it :)

  • love those books so much i read them when i was 10 which was probably a bit young but awesome.

    you have great taste.

  • The Hunger Games is AWESOME, I can't wait for the last one to come out

    =D

    Sort of in relation to your question; every time we reread a book we come back to it as a slightly different person. It amazes me, actually, that it is completely possible to start off tight with a character, come back five years later and have polar opposite feelings that lead you to like a different character.

    It reflects how much you've changed and/or matured and I find it all pretty interesting.

    Keep making videos! x

  • This is going to sound stalkerish but; I want you to post more videos :(

  • Are all 7 books made into one movie? Or will there be 7 movies? :)

  • The Hunger Games is awsome! :D <3

  • We read Tomorrow, when the war began in class and so many of my friends were freaked out that we'd be invaded. It was funny. I'm Australian too so I can't really answer your question but I love those books. They are amazing. I love your hair colour too. :D

  • thumbs up for loving harry potter! Also, I completely agree with your views on Twilight, I'm getting kind of sick of this whole "let's hate the twilight fans!" as I've read the books myself and while not a fan, I don't have any problem with people liking them. keep uploading!

  • My best friend Natalie made me a list of heaps of books I have to read and this was on it! And then I read it when my other friend was over from Australia cause she had to read it for school and I loved it! But I lived there for 7 years, so it's still pretty easy to relate. :) i ordered the first 2 off amazon a couple of weeks back!

  • I just realised I love the austrailian accent, it sounds so smooth (I'm swedish)

    I'm know very little about the place though, when i think austrailia I basically think; steppe(and some exotic forest a little here and there), sun and kangaroos, what more is there down there really? What is it like where you live?

  • Now I have some books to read over break :)

    All the clippings behind you are neat

  • wooh i watched The Eleventh Hour last night!!

  • Seriously, who doesn't want to be Amy Pond?

    What's weird is i borrowed those books just last week. Creepy. Not started reading them yet but looking forward to it, more so now they have your approval. :)

  • Haha, The girl on the Twilight cover looks like she's anorexic and high? Odd.. or foreshadowing? ;) and YES, the Hunger Games is amazing :) and really fun to describe to people! and it's being made into a movie :) yay! Oh, and Tomorrow when the war began was like the first book I ever read.. when I was like 6 ^^ I stole it from my mum :) AND now I'll stop rambling

  • The Hunger Games is our school book, but I haven't read it yet. I really want to, but all the copies are always checked out. ):

  • LOVE JOHN MARSDEN BOOKS! Ah, I read Tomorrow When the War Begun in year 8 as we were actually studying it for English. :D

  • The Tomorrow when the war began novels are amazing!

    His uncanny ability to get inside the head of a 17 year old girl is amazing.

    They're not even the type of books I read, and yet, I love them. SO much. But I'm Australian so that doesn't answer your question....

  • WOO I love The Hunger Games as well. :}

  • Hey Lily, I'm from England and read Marsden's illustrated book, 'The Rabbits', in secondary school. 'The Rabbits' deals with interesting post colonialist themes, such as how speech is subverted by the author to articulate a repressed 'other'. Reading as an outsider, my context was vastly different; yet I still enjoyed its message. Hope this answers your question. How are the essays going? (Oh and good choice on the Amy Pond hair!)

  • Hi.

    I read that book years ago, and funnily enough reread them a few weeks ago, its brilliant isnt it?

    That book hits home, but not because I live in Aussie. Im across the ditch in NZ but I spend alot of time away from home camping with friends, ALOT of time so I know what its like to be totally cut off from love ones for weeks at a time and after I read this book i got a tad paranoid

    Wow the cover of twilight is... screwed up?

    Good luck with the essays =]

  • I'm American and I've read the first book, but I don't know of anyone else who has. I think I understood the book perfectly well, but I don't think I connected with it very much because the entire story revolves around a coed camping trip, which a 17-year-old weould never be allowed to participate in without adult supervision. Plot-wise, I think it was a lot like Pretties (by Scott Westerfeld) in that they all go out in the wilderness and try not to get caught.

  • @thewormiest

    A coed camping trip isn't that odd...is it?

    I mean, I don't camp, I've been once (and it was coed) but I have lots of friends who camp and their camping trips are always coed....and have been since the age of like 14....

    Odd.

  • I live in Toronto, Canada and I haven't read TWTWB, however I'll pick it up on my next bookstore visit! Oddly enough, I find that I prefer books that take me somewhere different than where I'm familiar with. Mostly because I love traveling, and don't get to do much of it, but I find I can do it easily when reading a book. Harry Potter for example. I've never been to England- but I get such a better picture of it seeing the characters live there, and the point of view of a native.

  • I live in Ontario, and I've only ever been to Quebec. I really connect to books and television shows (i.e Degrassi) that take place in parts of Ontario because I can really put my shoes into it and escape into the book.

    P.S Good luck on the essay and once you're finished keep making video's!

  • Huger Games!!! just finished reading Catching Fire..Peeta or Gale..? :)

  • Yeah I can relate to books that are set in the country I live in and generally I can relate more to books that are set in my region area or state. Like I live in Louisana. So naturally anything set in Louisana, the southwest or the south parts of America I can relate more to. And I will try and see if I can find that book to read.

  • I dont tend to read books about the world we live in. i dont liek the concept of the term and word 'if'. Id rather get a book set on another world (scie fi or fantasy) as you are free to picture it as you like with images of your own experiences and i just think they have more depth....im not sure this answers your question per se but hey, i wanted to comment :) How about yourself? real world or fantasy immersion?

  • @theGreenaffect I'm a massive fan of both - fantasy is great because it gives the author freedom to construct a whole new reality, however it's more challenging to create a realistic plot/characters/story when there's magic involved, I think.

  • The context definitely mattersss... if you read something like A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini as a young women in a westernized society, it intensifies the shock factor enormously because the thing that happen to the protagonists are so alien and strange! Also, totally agree with you on Twilight. The fourth book ruined it with its terrible ending and Bella's complete personality erosion, Meyer should've quit while she was ahead.

    I'm looking forward to my uni essays in Sept... yaay.

  • THE HUNGER GAMESSSSSSS :D

  • Ooooh picture of us! Picture of us! The Australian cover of Twilight is odd. The Hunger Games is amazing. Amy Pond is win. The end :D

  • @nerimon another win by nerimon, and btw quick question, do you think Amelia Pond is the most attractive companion?, This is meant for lilydreamer and nerimon, my opinion is that she is :) The scottish accent helps :D

    (its 4 in the morning my grammar/spelling is odd :D)

  • @14TheSilentType I think Amy Pond is beautiful indeed. :) I love her personality mostly, though.

  • Woah TIM MINCHIN :D

  • Setting navigation coordinates for central library...will report back in approx 200 hours

  • Oh, I not only loved this series, it literally made me feel for these people. I was so depressed after reading certain chapters, then very happy after others. I had NO idea that they were making a movie... but, you know... YAY!

  • Back to the original point you were trying to make... I remember watching "Children of Men" and finding it a lot more harrowing given that the places in the film - London, Bexhill, the English countryside, are familiar to me - the whole dystopian plot became more of a reality to me because of the cultural references and filming locations. But that's a film, not a novel.

    PS Twilight was rubbish, but I enjoyed it. At the time. Then I forgot what happened. And stopped caring.

  • Ha, it's funny because in the UK everyone has "reading week" at uni which is a week where you're supposed to catch up on reading and the assignments you haven't done yet, except everyone treats it as a mid-semester holiday... swapsies!

  • *Minchin

  • Random question, but is that a picture of you with Tim Minchen behind you?

    If so, that's AWESOME. :D

  • @321ishan It is! Although I'm actually on the other side of him, the girl you can see is my best friend. :)

  • I have not read "Tomorrow When the War Began" and I am Australia and eighteen...

    Do I get some special badge? :D

    I have been recommended it quite a few times though... I just never really thought of picking it up for some reason.

    And as far as context goes... I read Memoirs Of A Geisha, (A japanese book, obviously) and I basically just got really into the novel- I didn't feel like I was an outsider, once I learnt how they operated in that society, and at that time.

  • I'm an Aussie and I haven't read it.. I've been meaning to for a while. Because of the praise you've just given it, I'll make it my next series.

    I'm really into long series, so this will keep me entertained for a while. :D

    Thanks.

  • I go to john Marsden's school!! he used to be my English teacher... now he's my maths teacher.

  • I'm more Amy Pond than you! Shame on your for enjoying Twilight.

  • this book sounds a lot like Red Dawn (not that it's a bad thing, I liked Red Dawn)

  • Torts? Delicious (bad joke)

    and yes you just have well read friends, I live in Washington State (Seattle area)

    and Twilight is pretty popular because it's "local"

  • I have read tomorrow when the was begun! :D I live in Norway ;D They are amazing :)

  • Continuing my thoughts:

    There's another trilogy, following Ellie postwar. (SPOILERS!) In these books, Ellie basically does lots of hard farm stuff and deals with raising a child with severe behavioral problems all on her own. And I found this trilogy deeply boring and unfulfilling because I couldn't place myself in her shoes at all anymore, and don't have the farm background or find farm life at all interesting. So I guess that did effect how I read the books in that way.

  • Holy crap, they're making a movie based on those books?! That could be so amazingly awesome.

    I'm a city girl from the U.S., and I actually found learning about such a different society really interesting. But mostly what got me hooked on the books was the fact that these teenagers suddenly have to start making some very serious, very adult decisions without any adult contact whatsoever, and they actually do a shockingly good job of it (better than the adults would/do!).

  • You actually made that book sound interesting, and I also hate reading books about war. I think I'll check bookmooch for a copy.

  • the Hunger Games is the best book in the whole world !!!!!!!!!

  • I didn't really enjoy the book when I read it which was a couple of years ago, but I think that if I was to read it again, it would probably have a bigger impact on me. However I'm still not a 17 year old girl, so who knows.

  • I'm from Russia, but I live in the US.

    Overall it doesn't really affect me either, but having not grown up in a place with a defined "pop culture" does make me feel out of the loop when reading books that are specifically focused on it. (Like Douglas Coupland's, some books by David Sedaris). I can't really relate to it, but it's interesting.

    Why do you have to write so many papers, what are you studying?

  • @hpcoldplayfan Law and Psychology :)

  • Tomorrow When the War Began <3 I'm reading through them again at the moment actually, I'm loving them just as much the second time through. I really hope they don't make a mess of the movie.

    I can so relate to the Amy Pond thing. One of the best companions!

  • people love amy pond (and don't get me wrong she is amazing) but we've only seen her in one and a half episodes. how can you judge just based on that. It confuses me :)

    I'd say she set to be one of the best companions :) lol

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