Kate Flournoy

@catwing, are you the friend that @rochellaine is talking about?

@rochellaine, I knew they were similar, but not they were the same. I have to say, I was a bit confused when you said Ashley died in book 4 but I just translated it as journal four. (each part in Robot Wars is called Journal 1, 2,  3, etc.) But I guess for y’all it was actually book 4

For me, even just dancing and a kiss on the cheek was a lot…[Read more]

@rochellaine, oops, didn’t see the first part of your post.

I have noticed that. I love it when the futuristic books are realistic with what might happen. Especially when they are only set a few years into the future.

@rochellaine, Robot Wars. I haven’t had the chance to read Mars Diaries yet, but I wan to.

I keep trying to get a friend of mine to read them, but she has a huge list of books to read already and she keeps going back to her favorites so I don’t think she is going to get around to them anytime soon

My mom got us the first one to see if we would…[Read more]

@rochellaine, I’ve read them, and love them. I kinda claimed the family copy of book one for myself since I own the rest of the series. 🙂

I actually based this book idea on a mixture of those books and Ender’s Game. (just saying, I don’t really like the ender’s game book or movie but the movie provided some cool visual ideas).

@rochellaine, Its a sci-fi/dystopian story. The world has been at war for several decades. One of the groups goes around secretly testing kids and then kidnapping the smart ones at 9 to fight as their soldiers. At first the kids think it is a computer simulation until they realize that the bots they are controlling are actually killing. But if…[Read more]

@catwing, I’m pretty excited about this one, but because it deals with a lot of psychology and medical things I have to do a ton of research

@catwing, @rochellaine, I’m here outlining and researching a new book idea

@rochellaine

At least we’ll never run out of books to read….

Of course I’ll warn you. What sort of queen would I be if I didn’t?

Gracious goodness. 😛

Goodnight 🙂

@rochellaine

Well, I’ll have to put them on my list to read (as if that list wasn’t long enough already 😛 ).

Sounds interesting, I’ll have to look into that one as well!

Oh my word. Are there really people that…uneducated? Unfortunately, I can’t stop snickering about that now. And Australia’s something like 16 hours in front of you, so we’re…[Read more]

@rochellaine

In no particular way, one of them is pretty old. But Josh decided he was terrified of them and couldn’t ride until they were all gone. Apparently, in his eyes they are monsters who might eat him.

I’d have to check, but I believe its one on Sir Francis Drake, but I could be wrong. We could have a few actually.

What’s Lydia…[Read more]

@rochellaine

My littlest brother was just demonstrating his use of bicycle brakes and showing off. Of course, I pretended to be all excited about his remarkable abilities.

Me: Whoa, you can use your brakes, Josh!

Him: No, I was not using my brakes.

Me: Oh, did you stop using your strong imagination?

Him: No, I used my back brakes.

Me: That’s…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Sorry, I just had to save my brother from the tyrannical rule of the Shetland ponies and then he fell off his bike and I had to deal with that as well 😀

I have heard of Henty. I’m pretty sure I have one of his books as well, but I haven’t read it. Oh, who’s your favourite actor?

😛 Love the Princess Bride quotes 😛 if it actually…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Yep, its after Napoleon was exiled and Louis XVII (maybe? there’s so many Louises I get them mixed up) is on the throne. No, I’ve never heard of the Haitian revolution.

I don’t necessarily mind people getting married young, say if the girl was seventeen and the guy eighteen or nineteen, and I don’t necessarily have a problem with…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

You aren’t alone in thinking that 😀 The June Rebellion, which was what it was called, happened in 1832 and it was mostly led by students. See, after the French Revolution, the monarch eventually was restored to the throne and things got even worse from then on (for the poor at least. For everyone else, things were dandy) and there…[Read more]

@rochellaine

The 1830s. 😛 My inner history nerd must correct you.

Very true, but our culture is hypocritical in the extreme. We still see prostitution as a bad thing in the present day, and a shameful thing, even if we don’t have any morals regarding pregnancy and children out of wedlock like we did back then.

I can see that Jonas, Quillon and…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Actually, I’m surprised by the inconsistencies and problems you guys have pointed out to me, when it seems that you missed the two that have bothered me the most.

a). Jean leaves his daughter all alone in the trench in order to rescue Justice who he doesn’t even like.

b) Justice was originally seven years older than Chessy.

And…[Read more]

@rochellaine

True.

It has to work with the story, okay? Eponine is fifteen/sixteen when she goes to the barricade, so there we go. 😛

Poor Kendall. No one cares about him.

I’ll try to fix it up. In another draft. Not now.

@rochellaine

I truly think that Justice doesn’t care. Not necessarily that he doesn’t care about her, but that he doesn’t care she’s underaged. Revolutions aren’t usually made of people of military age after all, especially people’s revolutions and since most of them are students, even the people they’re riling up are going to be quite…[Read more]

@catwing Goodbye!