Young Adult

Twilight

6 Comments / 2007, Favorites, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

Woo! Two vampire novels back to back! Two totally DIFFERENT vampire novels back to back. Two totally different and totally fabulous vampire novels back to back. Life just doesn’t get any better!

Twilight finally made it to the top of my TBR stack. I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to get it. I wish I had just bought the darn thing instead of waiting for it to appear on my library reserve shelf. Maybe I’ll go out and buy it today so the kids can read it at their leisure. It’s another one worth having on the colorful library shelves!

And, the sequel, I cannot wait to read the sequel! It’s on the shelf right now – but there are a dozen in front of it… should I let it jump the line and read it right now? What do you think?

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A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl

2 Comments / 2006, Books in Bed, Young Adult /

Well I guess A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl, maybe. If you learn your lesson and don’t keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again. Tough lessons to learn and it drives me insane to think that girls (and young women and old women) keep having these same types of issues with men. You’d think, by now, the female species would have evolved and created some better defense mechanisms or something. But no, we keep letting boys (and men) do these things.

It’s the patriarchy.

Nice book, the notes inside of “Forever” were a really nice touch. And as sassymonkey says, if it hasn’t been challenged yet, it’s only a matter of time. So if you like banned/challenged books, beat the rush and read this one now.

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The Rules of Survival

2006, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Young Adult /

TW was pretty troubled by the idea of her kids reading The Rules of Survival. Not that they’ve read this, they haven’t. It’s just the idea that this book is a young adult book – something RJ might pick up off of the shelf – that idea troubled her. It didn’t trouble me at all.

Some kids do live this way and I think all kids should know this. Life isn’t all peaches and cream and sometimes people who say “I love you” are the ones who are doing their damnedest to hurt you. That. Is. Life. For some kids.

Nicely written book. Good ending, which is often not the case with “problem books”. Possibly triggering for kids who’ve lived with abuse or adults who have survived it.

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The Book Thief

7 Comments / 2006, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Young Adult /

Wow! A fictional story set in Nazi Germany that I loved. Amazing. It’s been a very long time since that happened. The Book Thief was excellent. If you haven’t read it, push it up to the top of your “Must Read List”. Skip whatever is on your Summer Reading Challenge list and read this instead.

Maybe it’s the whole “death” thing, how many books are narrated by “death”? Not many that I’ve read, that’s for sure. Death is a good thing, I’ve always known that but The Book Thief has proven it.

Wow!

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Are We There Yet?

2006, Books in Bed, Fiction, Young Adult /

I misplaced Dinner with Anna Karenina so I just grabbed the first book from the pile… Are We There Yet? It’s a young adult book about two brothers (a high schooler and his older brother) who get “tricked” into taking a trip to Italy together. The brothers were close when they were young but as often happens, they aren’t close now at all. There’s lots of brother angst, usually not vocalized but internalized. And, there’s a happy ending, which was sort of nice.

Quick read, easy read. I liked it. Now, back to dinner with Anna

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