However, it has recently occurred to me that it's been an incredibly long time since I've
A. read a young adult novel
or even
B. been a young adult
SO, in between everything else I'm trying to accomplish, I'm going to start reading some young adult books again.
Here's the list of check-out-ables so far:
* Harry Potter (I know the early books pretty verbatim, but 5, 6, and 7 I've only read a handful of times)
* Series of Unfortunate Events (Have you read Daniel Handler's other stuff? soooo good)
* Artemis Fowl (I've heard good things about this?)
* The Golden Compass (wasn't the "church" upset about some anti-Christian overtones or something?)
* And then some stuff off of this list here:
http://www.awardannals.com/wiki/Honor_r
And if anyone out there in the blogoverse has some good titles that should be read, please let me know. 'Preciate 'cha.
(Also in the dream was Gary when he was still young and sweet. He asked me if I wanted him to bring me flowers. I said "At this point, it doesn't matter." I'm pretty sure my subconscious is trying to tell me things all the time and I'm just too dumb to figure them out.)
Last Summer I read all of the Scott Westerfeld "Uglies" series- they were REALLY good- I would totally recommend. -e
ReplyDeleteI read all the Scott Westerfeld books too. I recommend. Off of the linked list, I've read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Speak, The Giver, Maniac Magee, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter (obv.), The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Watership Down, (I heard Out of the Dust was really good), The Midwife's Apprentice, Ender's Game, and The Westing Game. (out of the first 100)
ReplyDeleteI would like to give the Giver another chance. I think the significance was beyond me at age 12, but I remember it being significant.
Speak is haunting.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time was UNC-A's freshmen reading book the summer that we started school. It was okay.
His Dark Materials is awesome, and I have all of them if you'd like to borrow.
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle was one of my fav books in 5th grade.
Watership Down is one of my fav books of all time.
Ender's Game was awesome. The writer actually examined all sorts of schools to find out how schools work, and one of them was Watauga College. He uses it as his example of one of the most loosely structured schools in the U.S.
The Westing Game was clever. I really liked it when I was younger.
I loved Madeleine L'Engle books when I was younger. I have a couple of these too if you'd like to borrow.
I also really liked Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and Anne Frank. I want to read Little Women again pretty soon. It has been popping up in my life really frequently.