I didn’t expect to enjoy Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging but I did. I enjoyed it very much and I laughed out loud a lot. Now that I’m finished, I’m also anxious to know what happened with the Sex God.
I’m so glad that the books on my Printz challenge have been really good, not like a lot of books that make the adult awards short lists (or long lists, for that matter.)
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Kit’s Wilderness written by David Almond (author of the fantastic YA book Skellig) wrote this one and it was good but not quite as good as Skellig.
Creepy but maybe a little too creepy? Or maybe a little too “much”? I’m not sure what it was about Kit’s Wilderness that made it not quite as good as Skellig – but it was something.
I did love Grandpa and Allie and Kit and even John. It wasn’t the characters – it might have been the dream woman and the baby.
Yep, I finished it. Finally. I started Bridge of Sighs months ago and got about 50 pages into it and then it was due back at the library – with other holds on it so it could not be renewed. So, I took it back and then immediately added it to my reserve list again. It’s taken me awhile to get to it but I did. And then it took me a good long while to read it, because it’s been one hell of a long week, but I did finish.
And, I really enjoyed it. Another winner from Richard Russo.
Reaching for Sun is another great YA book. Written in prose, about a teenager with cerebral palsy. She has a mom and a grandmother and finally, a friend. Really nice story.
The House You Pass on the Way is a super-fast YA read. It’s also about inter-racial relationships and lesbians. It’s also about teens and growing up and sorting out where you came from.
Great book.
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When I picked up Sequesterd Hearts from TW’s side of the bed and asked her if she’d finished with it, she asked me why I was going to read it. I couldn’t figure out why she asked until I realized she thought it was just a trashy romance novel. It is a trashy romance novel but it is also a trashy lesbian romance novel and that’s why I wanted to read it. We lesbians just don’t get enough trashy romance in our lives, ya know?
And it was good. Fun and not depressing, and it could have been very depressing since one of the chicks is an artist recently diagnosed with MS.
I’m glad I read it.
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hahahaha. I can’t even type the title of the book without laughing which shouldn’t really be a surprise because everything about The Fake Steve Jobs has always amused me. I’m so glad Options didn’t disappoint.
I’m not an Apple fan, but I love my iPhone and my big kids love their iPod Touch. I’ve never longed for a MacBook but I have purchased one for two of the big kids because they had to have them. I did have an Apple computer, way back in the late 70s and early 80s and never did switch to Commodore like most of the cool kids. Then the PC explosion arrived and I never looked at Apple again.
But something about The Fake Steve Jobs makes me want to toss aside my Toshiba Tablet PC for a MacBook. (Don’t worry little Tablet, I still love you and I’m not going to give into those horrible urges.) I twittered about that the other day and my friends and co-workers and former coworkers reminded me that it’s because I love satire and sarcasm. Right on.
That’s why I like Gates better than the real Jobs and the Fake Jobs better than both of them.
Whatever.
The book was awesome. You should read it.
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For some reason I think Karen’s friend Kit Cat did not like the other books in the May Bird series and I’m wondering why. But I don’t have time to surf her blog to find out if I’m imagining that or why she didn’t like them. Maybe I’ll get caught up enough at work later today and figure it out. Or maybe not. Whatever.
I liked Among the Stars (book two) a lot. I’m so glad her mom ummm would that ruin the story if I said what I’m glad her mom did or did not do? Probably, so I won’t say anything. Very glad mom did what she did. Also glad about Beatrice’s mom. I’m just glad about the moms in the story, in general. Also glad about the good characters who aren’t all good and the bad characters who aren’t all bad.
I just like these books. Enough to stay up far too late in order to finish book 2 just a few hours after I started it. heh.
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I have been in bed almost all day. Sort of an accidental participation on Bring a Book to Bed Day due to some combination of exhaustion and a cold or something. I slept a good bit but I also read quite a lot.
I finished Wednesday Wars, which I discovered when I was looking at the list of YA finalists for Cybil Awards.
I laughed my way through it. I laughed a lot more than TW did when she read it. Possibly because of the “rats” or possibly because of the Shakespeare. Or maybe it was all of the death threats a 7th grader can get.
Great book.
Way back in January when I created my From the Stacks challenge my mom sent me email (or maybe we talked on the phone?) and started questioning the books on my list. In doing so, she asked whether I had read this or read that and my response was either “No, should I” or “Duh, you don’t read my blog, do you?”
Peony in Love was one of the books she asked about. No, I hadn’t read it. Hell, I didn’t even know Lisa See had a new book. Once I found out, I reserved it. TW read it a couple of weeks ago, I finished it last night.
It was good. Not as good as Snow Flower and the Secret Fan but still very very good.
Lovesick girls. Women poets. Ghosts.
That ghost thing, particularly the hungry ghost thing, was an excellent idea for the lovesick girls/women poets story line that this book follows. Brilliant.