Riley ,'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 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.
That was a great book.
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.
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.
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.
What about Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist? Were they still in high school? I can't remember.
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.
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.
Oh, a friend just recommended that book to me! It sounds pretty cool.
Born Confused takes place the summer before senior year.