What YA book are you reading RIGHT NOW?

Kathleen42 said:

Curse you Hunger Games! I couldn't put you down and got no writing of my own done.

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I can relate to this! I enjoyed that book so much (well, both of them really).

selkn.asrai said:

Coraline. Before that, I was reading My Brother Sam Is Dead and Stonewords.

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My Brother Sam is Dead is one of my favorite books, I read it first in the 4th grade and I've just read it again.

Dream Boy.

A Great and Terrible Beauty. Having same problem with it I've had with a few other YA books lately - love the world-building and the characters, but the plot is weak. Seriously weak. Like it was written to set up a series with a little plot sprinkled on top. I hate that.

Blondchen said:

A Great and Terrible Beauty. Having same problem with it I've had with a few other YA books lately - love the world-building and the characters, but the plot is weak. Seriously weak. Like it was written to set up a series with a little plot sprinkled on top. I hate that.

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I kinda know what you mean. I read a book called Wasteland (author's name escapes me, but it was YA). The writing was BEAUTIFUL but there was like, no plot. At all. It was like the author wrote down a bunch of great poems/passages and then sewed them together into a novel.

Another fan of Hunger Games here. I started it last night and finished it . . . last night. Just couldn't put it down. Do I really need to wait until September for the sequel Arg!!

I just hope the next book isn't overly romantic. I like a little bit of that ol' fashioned romance, but the end of Hunger Games really drifted down into it. Keep it action-packed!

Now rereading Tantalize [I need to go to the library!] and trying to finish Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot. I gave up on it around September.

Blondchen said:

A Great and Terrible Beauty. Having same problem with it I've had with a few other YA books lately - love the world-building and the characters, but the plot is weak. Seriously weak. Like it was written to set up a series with a little plot sprinkled on top. I hate that.

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I had the same issue. Gave it to a friend's daughter without finishing it.

I'm reading North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley right now. Really good!

I was trying to listen to A Great and Terrible Beauty on my iPod while working out, but found it was too irritating to be appropriately distracting and gave up on it. Another example of a book where I can't understand the popularity...oh well.

Just finished The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which is MG but I am still adding it to the list because it was so wonderful.

You know, I really had to FORCE myself through Great and Terrible Beauty, and it ended alright. It's worth the read if you've got nothing else lying around.

saeglopur said:

You know, I really had to FORCE myself through Great and Terrible Beauty, and it ended alright. It's worth the read if you've got nothing else lying around.

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I've got a hundred pages to go and it's been a good, entertaing read up til now, but suddenly I've realized (a) I know the big secret of the series already and (b) there aren't enough pages yet to set up a decent pay off. I had the same problem with the first House of Night book.

Doubt very much I'll try the sequel, but hey, you never know!

I am reading A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber.

I've got many series on the go. Some of my favourites:

House of Night
Okay, I actually dislike this series. I only keep reading it for the love triangles, and 'cause all my friends love it and we need something to talk about. Fourth book totally annoyed me, though. The only part of it I can even remember is that Aphrodite got a cat. Uhhhm.

The Mortal Intruments
Again, I don't actually like the series... It just amuses me. The characters are lovable, but stupid. <3 Jace, Clary, you're not related. Figure it out, please.

Uglies/Pretties/Specials
Actually finished this series a while ago; gotta say, I loved it. Heart heart heart. Read it. Read it now.

The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
Only read the first one. I found it... slow, I guess? I'd recommend it, though. I enjoyed it--it just wasn't life-changing. I agree; I fail to see why it's so popular.

Wicked Lovely
Loved it. <3 Melissa Marr really pulls off the whole fairy thing, I think. Just stay away from Ink Exchange.

Vampire Academy
Yet another vampire highschool romance--so shoot me? I like it way more than House of Night, though it took me a while to get over the cover art. Seriously, nobody's boobs have to be that big, Rose. Anyways, I'll admit it--I'm hooked. Dimitri stole my heart.

I also recently finished reading Evernight, Need, and various other fantasies that I sort of liked, sort of didn't. And some other this-world teenage dramas. Yay for vague. As of this moment, I'm between books. I may give Shadowmancer another go, perhaps?

Oh, and I once heard Jodi Picoult described as YA. Don't know if she counts, but if she does, her books definitely deserve to be on the read list. <3

Just finished Hunger Games. It was so different from anything I've read. I couldn't put it down, but I'm not sure how much I liked it. I think it needs to process.

tomothecat said:

I kinda know what you mean. I read a book called Wasteland (author's name escapes me, but it was YA). The writing was BEAUTIFUL but there was like, no plot. At all. It was like the author wrote down a bunch of great poems/passages and then sewed them together into a novel.

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Ohhh!! I read that book, it's by Francesca Lia Block. It's supposed to be about two siblings who had sex wiith each other, and how the brother is so overcome with the guilt of it that he kills himself. I do agree that the writing was beautiful, but it got very confusing at times. I think towards the end that's where things began to make a little sense.

I read Geek High not too long ago-forget the author's name. it was alright. Kinda boring because it was a little predictable. I mostly read it out of boredom. As of right now I am reading, Love by Toni Morrison. Not a YA, but could be added to the list of YA's

I didn't care for A Great and Terrible Beauty either, but the sequel is pretty good. Haven't read the third book yet.

i busy reading sleeper code which is part 1 in the sleeper conspiracy by Tom Sniegoski

And I'm on to Prince Caspian in the Narnia series.

I'm currently reading Diana Wynne Jones's Dalemark Quartet. It makes me all nostalgic for when I was just discovering her.

Okay, I guess DWJ is technically MG, but I thought I would share anyway.

I finished A Great and Terrible Beauty. I really enjoyed the first 2/3 and was completely ambivalent about the last third.

Starting Graceling now.

I'm reading Shadowmancer: The Curse of Salamander Street. I can't decide if it's MG, tween or YA, but I'm not sure it matters because I want to throw it against a wall and jump up and down on it until it dies.

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Just finished The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner. It was okay. There were lots of interesting subplots that she touched on but never went into very deeply and I was left rather unsatisfied. I also thought the writing needed tightening up.

Lol, it sucks to be a writer. You can't just sit down and READ a book. You have to say things like "the writing needed tightening." (I only say this because I thought something similar earlier today, lol.)

Yeah, reading for fun has definitely taken a different street and I think my car might be driving backwards. I can read for fun but I have to beat the editor back even when I really like what I'm reading. I need to buy the beast a ball gag or something.

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen.

I wanted an example of first person POV with a female MC.