Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me

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Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me is another book that I picked up while walking through a strange library. The title called to me but I was worried about whether I’d like it or not – no worries, I loved it. It was almost midnight and I had about 70 pages to go – I wanted to keep reading and see what happened to the wolves – and the boys – and the town. Great characters – kids who seem real and not too perfect or too flawed either.

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Before I Fall

2010, Books in Bed, Fiction, Young Adult /

My friend, coworker, and fellow YA aficionado, Diane from Teen Book Fanatics has been trying to get me to read Lauren Oliver’s books for a long time. Just about every time I talk to her she asks if I’ve read one – or if I’ve read the new one – or just in some way mentions Lauren Oliver. So – finally I reserved one at the library way back in August but I kept putting off reading it because it’s long and it looked like it might be a little depressing (you may remember I was reading a lot of depressing YA there for awhile…)

Our library book supply has dwindled down to less than 10 books and there’s not much left to choose from so I started Before I Fall on Tuesday night. I read about ¼ of it because… it was indeed feeling depressing. It also has a “Groundhog Day” type of theme and while I’m a fan of the movie and I liked that other YA book I read with that theme – I wasn’t feeling this one. So I put it down for the night, picked it up again last night after Survivor… and I couldn’t put it down.

I’m still tired of the Groundhog Day type of theme and it doesn’t really have the happiest of happy endings, though it is the right ending – I liked it. I see now why Diane is such a fan. And, I’ll be reserving another Lauren Oliver title this weekend.

Thanks for the recommendation, Diane!

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The Bride’s Farewell

2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Young Adult /

I have such a love/hate thing for Meg Rosoff that I didn’t think I was going to read The Bride’s Farewell. In fact, after hearing from Sassymonkey that she didn’t like it I was sure I wouldn’t bother with it. But a funny thing happens when your library is closed for more than a month – you get punchy and panic over the idea of not having enough to read. And when that happens and you see a Meg Rosoff on the shelf… it jumps into your library bag. Even so, you wait almost a full month before you decide to read it… when your choices are getting slim and it’s Nancy Drew or some book about how to find a job using social media or a really long Lauren Oliver book that you’re pretty sure is going to be depressing. That’s how I came to read The Bride’s Farewell.

And it’s also how I realized I loved The Bride’s Farewell. Rosoff still writes like Rosoff but this book is nothing like How I Live Now or What I Was. It’s not even like Justin Case. It’s another kind of book entirely. And I really enjoyed it. Bucking the patriarchy is my thing, after all. So is saving children. And poaching off of wealthy landowners. Oh. Wait. Go back to the patriarchy thing. Also, I like gypsies.

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