Well fuck, I finished Divergent today. I didn't realize I would read it that quickly. It has been a long time since I finished a book in a day and a half.
Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.
Harmony ,'First Date'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
le nubian - Jul 15, 2013 3:28:21 pm PDT #21086 of 28371
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Kat - Jul 15, 2013 4:14:09 pm PDT #21087 of 28371
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Matched is nothing like Hunger Games except dystopia. It actually, weirdly, has more in common with ... oh shit, the book that Lois Lowry wrote where everyone gets placed in a job? And he was the.....not seeker, but the repository for all feelings?
Shit. My brain is mush. Matched had slightly more in common with that.
A good LA based dystopia that I thought was interesting was Starters by Lissa Price. Old people rent out and take over young people's bodies.
Kat - Jul 15, 2013 4:14:09 pm PDT #21088 of 28371
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Matched is nothing like Hunger Games except dystopia. It actually, weirdly, has more in common with ... oh shit, the book that Lois Lowry wrote where everyone gets placed in a job? And he was the.....not seeker, but the repository for all feelings?
Shit. My brain is mush. Matched had slightly more in common with that.
A good LA based dystopia that I thought was interesting was Starters by Lissa Price. Old people rent out and take over young people's bodies.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 15, 2013 4:16:51 pm PDT #21089 of 28371
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The Giver?
Kat - Jul 15, 2013 5:08:55 pm PDT #21090 of 28371
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
That's it! Thanks, Sophia.
Amy - Jul 15, 2013 5:11:15 pm PDT #21091 of 28371
Because books.
A Summer to Die, her first book, is still one of my all-time favorites. Still makes me cry, too. And Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye (about an adopted girl who goes in search of her birth mother) is just as good.
But those were my YA era. I didn't keep up after that -- I've still never read The Giver, although I'd like to.
Kat - Jul 15, 2013 5:20:08 pm PDT #21092 of 28371
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The Giver was dystopia before it was a thing in YA. The same with MT Anderson's Feed which is Ah-May-ZING.
I'm swiping my way through a book written by the parent of a former student. Not impressed and should just abandon. Then I'm going to read Wildwood, which is middle grade fiction I think.
Some days, I miss reading for the awards committee because it forced me to increase my breadth of what I read in middle grades fiction and YA.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 15, 2013 5:35:55 pm PDT #21093 of 28371
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wait--so all YA dystopias *are* the same, or they might as well be the same? That's what I don't understand. If you keep selling A as B, you do risk a backlash.
Seriously? This is Hollywood. Instead of development hell, this is development fast-track to jump on the pile. Does this really surprise you?
Frankenbuddha - Jul 15, 2013 5:38:33 pm PDT #21094 of 28371
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I should add, that I'm in the middle of (and enjoying the hell out of) TALES FROM DEVELOPMENT HELL, which has my Hollywood cynicism on code red.
I suspect there's a companion book that could be written such as TALES FROM DEVELOPMENT TOO-FAST TRACK for getting like minded movies out for things that were phenoms.
Polter-Cow - Jul 15, 2013 6:02:35 pm PDT #21095 of 28371
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The same with MT Anderson's Feed which is Ah-May-ZING.
Oh boy, I disagree. I wanted to like it! It has a great premise!
The Uglies series was pre-Hunger Games YA dystopia that seemed to be pretty popular but didn't make as big a splash, but Scott Westerfeld said that the books have been selling a lot more since Hunger Games.