Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I liked The Magicians quite a bit. To me it was a more realist mash-up of HP and Narnia, with a more adult, contemporary feeling to it. I love that it actually references HP directly.
Speaking of YA, I just started Hunger Games and recently read Thirteen Reasons Why (a mystery thriller about suicide if that makes any sense), which I highly recommend.
I also have The Book Thief on hold at the library.
I really liked The Book Thief. The characters had a lot of depth and you didn't want to let go of the book at the end.
I also recently finished The Thirteenth Tale which is a "a very English ghost story" and had a nice twist.
Currently wending my way through John Joseph Adams' sci-fi anthology Federations. For those who like Lois McMasters Bujold, her story "Aftermaths" (which is wonderful) is in that one. Lots of old friends in there - Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card (one from Ender's universe), George R. R. Martin, Harry Turtledove...
I loved Thirteen Reasons Why even if the narrator of the story SHOULD have just put on her big girl pants and gotten over it.
I keep meaning to read Hunger Games. I suppose I should just put it on hold at the library. I just re-read the Attolia series (The Thief, The Queen of/King of), since I was informed there's a new book in the series coming out (which I HAVE put on hold...but am like, 100th in line for).
I was surprised how quickly I got The Hunger Games off of hold, which means I'm reading it at the same time as Lord of the Flies, one of my should-reads. An interesting juxtaposition to say the least.
I loved both The Hunger Games and Thirteen Reasons Why, although the latter is more for the writing and the execution and the former is for the conflict and characterization. I need to get the sequel to Hunger.
I need to get the sequel to Hunger.
It's pretty good. The third book comes out in August.
Third and final, right? Maybe I'll try to read the first two in time to read the third when it comes out.
I'm reading Soulless right now, and the second book comes out in a couple weeks.
I'm reading some early George R.R. Martin short stories in Dreamsongs: Volume 1.
Most of them are pretty good. It was funny to read his REALLY early works (as in, written while in high school) that were only published in comic fanzines. He was such a huge dork!
Holy crap... Monkey See ran a convo as part of their new "I will if you will" book club. They are talking Twilight. [link]
My favorite part?
It's just this wildly florid prose that's wielded with the subtlety and repetition of a jackhammer, all in the service of a story that's going nowhere being told by a girl who seems to be fighting me for the gold medal in a not-liking-her contest.