Inara ,'Serenity'
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."
Sox,
I am going to deviate slightly from the recommendations above and suggest the Suarez novels: Daemon and Freedom (tm).
The pacing of the novels is pretty quick and Suarez's novels have that kind of dystopian feel to them that the Hunger Games does.
Buffista authors MUST try to arrange signing at Joseph-Beth in Cincinnati if possible. It is a) awesome and b) a short walk from my house. (I faced out Cold Kiss in the YA section this morning.)
Aw, thank you, flea!
Also, hey! You're in Cincinnati! Yay!
I'd recommend Glass Books of the Dream-Eaters.
I just read erin's interview with the author of Cold Kiss Are we keeping it a secret>
- and I want to laugh because every time we talk about the book I get the song "Honey" by The Hush Sound stuck in my head and it IS named after the song.
Erin, Amy, loved the interview!
That was a kickass interview! I'd buy the book on that rec alone.
Thanks, guys! Erin made it easy -- she asks kickass, fun questions.
Woo! Glad you liked it, guys; Amy's a wily one, but I penned her in with my mad interviewing skillz.
(i don't think we're keeping it a SEKRIT, sophia -- i just prefer to err on the side of semi-caution?)
Gotta love a all-out pan, in this case of a "update" to How to Win Friends and Influence People [link]
Carnegie’s great virtue, beyond the simplicity of his core ideas, was his unadorned prose....
That homespun virtue has been obliterated here. This new adaptation seems to have been composed using refrigerator magnets stamped with corporate lingo: “transactional proficiency,” “tangible interface,” “relational longevity,” “continuum of opportunities,” “interpersonal futility,” and “our faith persuasion.” ...
The following sentence is so inept that it may actually be an ancient curse and to read it more than three times aloud is to summon the cannibal undead: “Today’s biggest enemy of lasting influence is the sector of both personal and corporate musing that concerns itself with the art of creating impressions without consulting the science of need ascertainment.”