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figuring it all out
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: los angeles
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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. |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Dream Boy.
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Honey Badger don't give a shit.
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Los Angeles
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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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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Is the random.
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Kate brought me.
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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!
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stay young at heart
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Where the screams are silenced
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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.
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crushing on fictional characters
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Canada
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I'm reading North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley right now. Really good!
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Cleaning is overrated
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 2,250
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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. |
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figuring it all out
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: los angeles
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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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Honey Badger don't give a shit.
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 3,188
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Doubt very much I'll try the sequel, but hey, you never know! |
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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I am reading A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber.
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stand-back-up
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Canada
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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
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Water resistant
Join Date: Aug 2008
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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.
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Daytona Beach, Fl
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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 :P |
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Not your kid brother's YA
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Your face
Posts: 8,965
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I didn't care for A Great and Terrible Beauty either, but the sequel is pretty good. Haven't read the third book yet.
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#417 |
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i busy reading sleeper code which is part 1 in the sleeper conspiracy by Tom Sniegoski
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My Worlds Are Building
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: In dreamland, wishing I were in California.
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And I'm on to Prince Caspian in the Narnia series.
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Bites - YA book review blog full of honesty and snark Gritty YA Fantasy - Re-Write Snarky YA Fantasy - Re-Edited |
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bam pow zap.
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Magic America
Posts: 12,665
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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. |
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Honey Badger don't give a shit.
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 3,188
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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. |
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Tired and Disillusioned
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Here and there
Posts: 3,156
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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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Is the random.
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Kate brought me.
Posts: 1,692
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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.
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Not your kid brother's YA
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Your face
Posts: 8,965
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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.)
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City of Shadows: The only thing worse than a defect who is allowed to live is a defect who dares to love. Strange and Beautiful: Magic never comes cheap. Seven: In Dead Horse, Colorado, his story repeats itself. |
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My Worlds Are Building
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: In dreamland, wishing I were in California.
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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.
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Bites - YA book review blog full of honesty and snark Gritty YA Fantasy - Re-Write Snarky YA Fantasy - Re-Edited |
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In the Center of things
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: The Outer Limits
Posts: 1,223
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Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen.
I wanted an example of first person POV with a female MC.
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