#ya fiction
As much as I think Orson Scott Card is a d*ck, I really loved Ender’s Game. Both book and movie.
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I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’m really excited for The Seventh Son. Even though it looks nothing like the Spook books (and Alice is completely wrong), it looks really cool.
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I hate Celaena Sardothien with a mighty passion.
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(Art by walkingnorth)
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Has anyone else noticed that cats always feature in Middle Grade, and dogs always feature in YA?
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(Cover from There is No Dog by Meg Rosoff)
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Anna Dressed in Blood and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children are my guilty pleasures in life. They take me back to the gothic days.
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“Alien Secrets” by Annette Curtis Klause, “Keeper of the Isis Light” and “The Game” by Monica Hughes, and “Winter of Fire” by Sheryl Jordan were some of my favorite YA Fantasy/Sci-Fi books growing up…but sadly it seems that nobody knows about them now, because they’re lacking in Love Triangles and Dangerous Pretty Boys. Ugh. So sad!
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“There are nights when she cannot sleep, moments when she lies awake and dreams of dying. But then she wakes, and sees the pink and orange dawn against the clouds, or hears the lament of a lone fiddle, the music and the melody, and remembers there is such beauty in the world. And she does not want to miss it—any of it.”
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“Small places make for small lives. And some people are fine with that. They like knowing where to put their feet. But if you only walk in other people’s steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark.”
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“Books are wonderful, portable, lasting, but sitting there, in the darkened theater, the wide screen filling her vision, the world falls away, and for a few short hours she is someone else, plunged into romance and intrigue and comedy and adventure.”
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» The invisible life of Addie Larue ; VE Schwab
“That time always ends a second before you’re ready. That life is the minutes you want minus one.”
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When people ask me why I like reading books :
Me to Sarah J Maas about her books :
This part was so sad oml
Nobody :
Lou Le Blanc :
Something other than Acotar, Tog and Chain of Gold lol
I’m waiting for a situation where I need to fake date, I’m ready to be romanced
Dry
by Neal Shusterman & Jarod Shusterman
Drop everything right now and get this book and a liter of Smart Water.
It is not surprising that Dry is an unblinking-eyes-glued to the page-terror-filled car-crash that you can’t look away from type of read. It does, after all, have Neal Shusterman at its helm. Co-written with his son, Jarrod Shusterman, I suppose is proof that genius may in fact be genetic.
You may remember Shusterman from earlier entries about the incredible and terrifyingly possible world of The Unwind Dystology. If you were a fan of that, you will surely be a fan of this. A little Michael Grant’s Gone Series paired with Emmy Laybourne’s Monument 14 world but wholly Shusterman in eloquence and verisimilitude to our world today.
Dry opens with a sputtering faucet, as the Morrow family tries to fill Kingston’s water bowl. The tap is dry. So begins the “Tap-Out,” a water crisis for all of Southern California. Seemingly not an unsurmountable event- well if it weren’t for all of SoCal becoming a dust bowl in recent years and the Frivolous Water Act draining all swimming pools, fountains and the like. Because people can survive for a time without transportation, electricity and adults - but every body needs water.
So embarks the tale of three misfits: the stalwart Alyssa, her younger brother Garrett and the survivalist creepy kid next door, Kelton. Three shortly turns into four and then five once a gifted street urchin and preppy spoiled business kid join the mix. This motley collection of characters proves that even the unlikeliest alliances can form during a catastrophe.
Shifting in narration amongst our rogue troupe while alternately periscoping outside into the unraveling martial law mob landscape compounds the growing tension in the narrative. We learn the sum of all the stories whereas each character only sees from one perspective, and in this case, maybe ignorance is bliss.
I almost started to reread this book as soon as I turned the final page. It was that good. It made me simultaneously want to stock up on perishables and take shorter showers. But this is the type of book-satisfying hydration that is not just skin deep. It is worthy of book-group discussions about mob mentality, about what lengths people will go to in order to survive, about conservation and climate change. But then, this at the core of all Shusterman novels: a serious question about humanity disguised as a YA page-turner.
And doesn’t that make you a little bit thirsty?
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Books I’ve read this year:‘One of Us is Lying’ by Karen M. McManus, YA Mystery, 3/5
“I guess we’re almost friends now, or as friendly as you can get when you’re not one hundred percent sure the other person isn’t framing you for murder.”
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