Amazon and U of Michigan to reprint rare and OOP books...and sell them. [link]

Just finished reading The Strain.

It was a real horror book. and the Vampires were not attractive. Oddly the younger vampires seemed to have a lot of Zombie traits.

Not sure it can last three books.

I also just read The Hunger Games, whic is YA. Very very good. and I was horrified to realize it was part of a series becaus 1) post apoclyptic books arre harsh 2) this was extra harsh ( 24 children enter -- only 1 leaves alive -- all broadcast on tv) and 3) the next book isn't out until September.

Spoiler fonted parts are vague, but because I have a few friends that want to know Nothing I am extra careful

I really liked The Strain. I agree, it might be a bit insustainable. I think, though, the idea that the new vamps go after the ones they loved the most and therefore the son is targeted is even more heartbreaking than going after you spouse.

I'm meh on Hunger Games, BUT, students LOVE it. It's sort of like Battle Royale in premise.

For zombie books (zombies apparently being the new black), I liked Carrie Ryan's Forest of Hands and Teeth. Bleak, though.

I freaking LOVED The Hunger Games. I thought the writing and worldbuilding and characters and plot and relationships were all fantastic, and it was one of the few books I've read in the last few years that I just couldn't put down. Definitely one of my favorite books of the year.

Ok so I did have nightmares last night -- not anything that was Actually part of the Strain , but related. And even though the worst night mare was this morning , the worst part of the night was where I kept dreaming that the putting in of the patio was a big part of the fight of good vs. evil. That was just stupid.

Did we already know about The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making?

Because I've only read the first chapter, but I am charmed to death.

I need hivemind help. I'm trying to find a young adult novel I read, heaven knows when. I'm fairly certain I read it in junior high or high school, so it predates the 1980s and the setting for the book itself is either late 50s/early 60s. The lead character is a young half-Romany/gypsy girl who grows up in either Chicago or New York with her parents among the Romany community. After her white mother dies (the girl is about sixteen or seventeen at this point), her Romany father fulfills a promise he made to her that he'll take their daughter to get to know her maternal grandparents from whom mom has been mostly estranged. He takes her to stay with them in Wisconsin during one summer where she finds her grandfather welcoming and her grandmother cold and closed off and definitely embarrassed by her granddaughter's very gypsy-like exterior. She tells her if she's going to be staying with them, she'll have to put away the colorful clothes and jewelry and act like a respectable girl.

During this summer, she learns a lot about her parents, how her white mother came to run away with the gypsy boy, how her grandfather is extremely sympathetic to the Romany-- he's accepted as one of them-- at a time period where they were looked upon with deep suspicion as thieves and charlatans. In the meantime, our heroine has met a young local and is falling in love-- the Dark Moment of the book is when a fire breaks out at the family farm-- I'm fairly certain it was vandalism-- and she risks her life to save the animals in the barn. Afterward, her grandmother is very forgiving because of course, it was her Bad Attitude that prompted the vandalism and she nearly lost her granddaughter the way she lost her daughter, and the local boy proclaims his undying love and asks her to marry him (this is one reason I'm so certain it was set in the 50s/60s) and it all ends Happily Ever After.

You'd think if I could remember all these details, I could remember the freakin' title, but alas, no.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

I do not know the title,but I am pretty sure I read it!

Did we already know about The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making?

Fay, have you read Palimpsest? That's the novel that Fairyland comes from (although the author never intended to write Fairyland).

Anyway, I'm reading Fairyland, and it really is lovely.