I think the Traveling Pants girls are in the summer of their freshman year of college in the last book.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Apr 04, 2009 10:33:36 am PDT #8657 of 28431
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Sue - Apr 04, 2009 1:39:42 pm PDT #8658 of 28431
hip deep in pie
I saw this book at the bookstore today:
I am the Messenger - ZUSAK After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
Jesse - Apr 04, 2009 1:53:12 pm PDT #8659 of 28431
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That was a great book.
Polter-Cow - Apr 04, 2009 3:29:52 pm PDT #8660 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
askye - Apr 04, 2009 3:58:10 pm PDT #8661 of 28431
Thrive to spite them
I've just finished two books, Kushiel's Dart and Kushiel's Chosen the first two in a series by Jacqueline Carey. Has anyone read these? They are fantasy-alternate history, although not really alternate history. It takes place in a fantasy version of France and the main character is Phadre, who is a courtesan and becomes a spy.
Kat - Apr 04, 2009 5:10:35 pm PDT #8662 of 28431
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Can y'all give me titles of young adult novels where the lead character is either just out of high school or in college proper?
Barb,
Megan McCafferty books. (Sloppy Firsts is the first in the trilogy....but in the second book they are in college). Paper Towns by John Green is graduation summer before college. I Love You Beth Cooper is also around graduation.
beth b - Apr 04, 2009 5:18:49 pm PDT #8663 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Barb -- Shift by Jennifer Bradbury. 2 time periods the summer between high school and college and freshman yr. So Good. Very much a YA book. And even more unusually -- the main characters are boys.
Steph L. - Apr 04, 2009 5:20:15 pm PDT #8664 of 28431
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
What about Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist? Were they still in high school? I can't remember.
Steph L. - Apr 04, 2009 5:24:46 pm PDT #8665 of 28431
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Also, has anyone read The Forest of Hands and Teeth yet?
I thought it would be like The Village (the M. Night Shyamalan movie), and it has similarities, but fortunately it isn't mind-numbingly stupid in the way the film was.
Reasonably good, although there were things that I wanted to be more fully explained that never were. Still, I liked it.
Kat - Apr 04, 2009 6:04:31 pm PDT #8666 of 28431
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Were they still in high school? I can't remember.
Yep.
I'm trying to remember if Abundance of Katherines, by John Green is early college or high school.
ETA summer before college. LOVE that book.