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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."
or the spectacular Great and Terrible Beauty trilogy
Oh, I did not enjoy those. I thought the first book did a great job portraying the sort of changeable and complicated alliances of teenage girls. I thought the third book was WAY too long. And yes on the India fail.
Thanks for the recs, Amy! I've been adding them to my Goodreads list and it looks like S. hasn't read a few of those (which means she wouldn't have covered them in her blog yet).
I guess she agrees with you about Laurie Halse Anderson. One of her reviews was simply, "Nobody does historical fiction like LHA."
IIRC, the sequel's hero(ine) was the psychic/medium girl from the first book, and she gets involved with ghosts from the Titanic.
Yes!
And yes on the India fail.
I don't remember any India scenes except in the first book, really, but I do remember thinking they read like someone who had simply seen movies about India, or read The Secret Garden a lot.
One of her reviews was simply, "Nobody does historical fiction like LHA."
Her historical fiction is fantastic, but Speak was the first book of hers I read, and it's about a girl who was raped. It's ... there are no words for how good it is. Absolutely a must-read.
One of my mother's friends was an elementary school teacher and she came to visit and while she was staying with us she taught me to read using The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. That was sometime before kindergarten, I think.
Her historical fiction is fantastic, but Speak was the first book of hers I read, and it's about a girl who was raped. It's ... there are no words for how good it is. Absolutely a must-read.
Interesting. She wants me to pair up books, so that might make a good partner for 13 Reasons Why.
All that said, I love those books. (Possibly because my embarrassing ignorance allows me to overlook the faily parts.) I recently re-read them, and I have to learn to not read to the end of book 3.
Hey, I am Teppy! I re-read the first book fairly often, but book 3 kinda makes me twitch.
I taught Speak, and it is fabulous.
My grandmother was an elementary school teacher (2nd grade), and lived across the street from us. She taught me to read using Fun with Dick and Jane from her classroom when I was 4. The coolest thing was playing "school" at her house had real books and stuff like that. Also? Helping set up her classroom at the end of summer was very fun. Not so fun? Her red-lining my letters home when I was in college oy!
My first books were The Pokey Little Puppy and The Enchanted Egg. I loved those books. My poor mom had to read them over and over and over to me. I still have them along with my World of Pooh, Misty and Stormy books.
All that said, I love those books. (Possibly because my embarrassing ignorance allows me to overlook the faily parts.) I recently re-read them, and I have to learn to not read to the end of book 3.
Hey, I am Teppy! I re-read the first book fairly often, but book 3 kinda makes me twitch.
Book 3 doesn't make me twitch; the end makes me cry like a baby. Every. Time.