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No, Melis, I don't have Hold Still. Is it by the same publisher as Fire? There's a chance I could get it. They just arrive randomly.
Viola wrote: "Morris Award...
I'm excited about The Everafter because Melis has recommended it. Graceling was nominated for the Morris award last year."
I have Everafter checked out right now...am hoping to get to it after I finish the book I'm currently reading. It looks really good!
Viola - did you get Hold Still from the publisher? I received a copy of the ARC in the mail but haven't gotten to it yet.
Morris Award...
I'm excited about The Everafter because Melis has recommended it. Graceling was nominated for the Morris award last year.
Jenn,
For categories, how about something with a beautiful love story for February? Not in the romance genre, but literary fiction maybe? Something like...Atonement or even The Tea Rose. I always like to read a heart-breaking love story in February.
How about a classic one month?
YALSA announces Morris Shortlist
December 2, 2009, http://www.ala.org/yalsa
YALSA today announced the five titles for the 2010 Morris Award shortlist. YALSA will name the Morris Award winner at the Youth Media Awards in Boston at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting on Jan. 18. YALSA will also honor the winning title, as well as Morris shortlist titles and YALSA Nonfiction Award winners at a reception on Monday, Jan. 18 from 8-10 p.m. at Westin Copley Place Essex Center South.
Congratulations to this year’s finalists:
• “Ash” by Malinda Lo, by published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• “Beautiful Creatures” by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• “The Everafter” by Amy Huntley, published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
• “Flash Burnout” by L.K. Madigan, published by Houghton Mifflin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• “hold still” by Nina LaCour, published by Dutton Children’s Books, a Division of Penguin Young Readers Group
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The William C. Morris Award honors a book written for teens by a previously unpublished author.
January will be here before you know it and along with it, a new BOTM selection.
Does anyone have any suggestions for books and/or categories? Because of the (end of) the holidays, would people prefer if someone just picked a book, or would you all rather go back to a vote?
Any suggestions, preferences or opinions are greatly appreciated! Thanks everyone!
Viola wrote: "Man, I cannot believe everyone is nuts about Beautiful Creatures. I'm SOOO glad Melis and I are totally in sync on this one. It's all the rage, and I genuinely don't get it. Those Dark Side hate..."
I would love to talk to someone who absolutely loves it too! I'm really interested in knowing what all the buzz is about because I just didn't get it.
Man, I cannot believe everyone is nuts about Beautiful Creatures. I'm SOOO glad Melis and I are totally in sync on this one. It's all the rage, and I genuinely don't get it. Those Dark Side haters who thought Bella Swan was a Mary Sue...they'll have a field day with those characters in BC. Truthfully, I won't recommend it to anyone, but if somebody here reads it, I would love to hear thoughts on it. I won't argue with anyone if they love it! I would just love to know exactly what is so great about it if they genuinely like it. For me, it was BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA about people I didn't care about.
Brooklyn is on my list. I'm asking for that one from Santa. Wolf Hall is on that list too. Woohoo!
AMAZON's Top 100 Editors' Picks
We know: ranking books is crazy. How, for example, do you compare a 32-page picture book warning you, charmingly, of the world's most dangerously cute creatures with a 1,344-page intensely personal history of the California-Mexico border? Well, in our top 100 editors' picks we've done just that, and more. The bottom line? Whatever the order, these are the books we've loved the best this year. Start browsing with our top 10:
1. Let the Great World Spin
2. Strength in What Remains
3. Wolf Hall
4. Brooklyn
5. Beautiful Creatures (WHOA VIOLA!)
6. Crazy for the Storm
7. The Girl Who Played with Fire
8. The City & the City
9. Stitches
10. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
I would just like to suggest Rampant - I think someone else on here has read it. It's about girls training as hunters of... killer unicorns! I was always a big unicorn fan as a kid but I'm really enjoying this book. I'm about halfway through - reading on my phone when I'm on break from work, etc... very enjoyable!
Jenn "Awww Yeaaahhh" wrote: "Amazon's Best Books of 2009 - Top 10 Books: Teens
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_85925631_15?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000446581&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-7&pf_rd_r..."
I've read five and have Beautiful Creatures right now! Wahoo! I've loved all of them that I've read.
Ahenry wrote: "I signed up for updates from my library, and thought this sounded like a good YA book...
Prophecy of the Sisters - by Michelle Zink
Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/..."
I actually read this a few months ago. It wasn't bad but it was not nearly as good as I hoped it would be. The concept was good but I think I have spoiled by those really, really good YA books that have come out lately.
Notice how many are familiar....
ALA Top Ten Young Adult Books
The Best Books for Young Adults committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, has chosen the following books as Top Ten Young Adult Books.
Paper Towns
By Green, John
2008-10 - Dutton Books
With his trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty, the Printz Medal-winning author of Looking for Alaska returns with a novel about a teenage girl who has mysteriously vanished, and the boy who looks for her by following the clues she left behind just for him.
Breaking Dawn
By Meyer, Stephenie
2009-08 - Little, Brown Young Readers
This special edition of the fourth book in Meyer's riveting vampire love saga includes a full-color, pull-out poster and other exclusives that fans of the Twilight series can sick their teeth into. Consumable.
The Hunger Games
By Collins, Suzanne
2008-10 - Scholastic Press
The acclaimed author of the New York Times-bestselling Underland Chronicles series delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in a stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to the present.
City of Ashes
By Clare, Cassandra
2008-04 - Margaret K. McElderry Books
In this breathtaking sequel to "City of Bones," Cassandra Clare lures her readers back into the dark grip of New York City's Downworld, where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation.Margaret K. McElderry Books
Identical
By Hopkins, Ellen
2008-08 - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Kaeleigh and Raeanne are the twin daughters of a district-court judge and a politician mother. They are identical in almost every way, but each girl has dark secrets. The bestselling author of Crank gives voice to victims of childhood sexual abuse, in a moving and disturbing novel.
The Graveyard Book
By Gaiman, Neil
Illustrator McKean, Dave
2008-10 - HarperCollins
BookPage Notable Title
2009 Newbery Award Winner
A CCBC Selection of the Week
2009 Hugo Award Winner: Best Novel
In his first full-length novel for middle-graders since the international bestseller Coraline, Neil Gaiman introduces Bod, a boy who is the only living resident of a graveyard. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?
Wake
By McMann, Lisa
2008-03 - Simon Pulse
For 17-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche--she is a participant.Simon Pulse
Untamed
By Cast, P. C.
Author Cast, Kristin
2009-09 - St. Martin's Press
Zoey Redbird's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested and shocking true intentions come to light, in this spellbinding fourth novel in the House of Night series.
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
By Lockhart, E.
2008-03 - Hyperion Books
2008 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature
The acclaimed author of Dramarama and The Boy Book now delivers a story about a girl who goes from being mildly geeky to a teenage knockout to--a criminal mastermind?
Graceling
By Cashore, Kristin
Translator Diaz-Guerra, Mila Lopez
2009-03 - Roca
With elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, a debut author creates a mesmerizing medieval world, a death-defying adventure, and a heart-racing romance that will captivate readers.
This one sounded good too.
The 7th Victim: A Novel - by Alan Jacobson
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/23/2008
ISBN-13: 9781593154943
ISBN-10: 1593154941
Psychological Suspense. Lucky Special Agent Karen Vail: the first female profiler in the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, she's been assigned the case of the incredibly creepy Dead Eyes Killer, who uses steak knives to forcibly remove his female victims' eyes. While the serial killer gets increasingly confident, Karen struggles with a personal life that threatens her investigation and her career, especially after the seventh victim points to the possibility that Karen herself might be the eighth... Look for this story to hit theaters eventually, as film rights have already been sold.
Ahenry wrote: "I have When You Reach Me on hold at the library. Glad to see it on this list."
I have it at home! LOL
Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Books for 2009: FICTION
Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking)
A powerful exploration of anorexia, dysfunction and death, Anderson's story of a friendship ripped apart is moving and haunting.
Going Bovine
Libba Bray (Delacorte)
An angel, a dwarf, cults, wormholes and mad cow disease all factor into the surreal cross-country road trip that teenage Cameron takes, in a satirical story that's as memorable as it is funny.
Fire
Kristin Cashore (Dial)
Introducing Fire, a human “monster” with psychic abilities, this companion novel to Graceling expands the scope of Cashore's fantasy world and offers twists, intrigue and romance aplenty.
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
This much-awaited sequel to Collins's dystopian bestseller, The Hunger Games, doesn't disappoint; it's immersive, voracious reading as the ramifications of Katniss's actions in that book spread.
If I Stay
Gayle Forman (Dutton)
Masterful characterizations make the tragedy at the core of this novel all the more devastating, as narrator Mia weighs the decision to live or die.
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly (Holt)
With a detailed, evocative setting and an authentic, relatable protagonist, this turn of the century coming-of-age novel teems with humor, spirit, and energy.
Purple Heart
Patricia McCormick (HarperCollins/Balzer & Bray)
This timely and provocative thriller, with a teenage American soldier at its center, is a nuanced exploration of war, heroism, and morality.
The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness (Candlewick)
Set on a planet colonized by men and now wracked with strife, Ness's sequel to The Knife of Never Letting Go entwines themes of sexism, terrorism, genocide and human nature, while bringing the action to a fever pitch.
A Season of Gifts
Richard Peck (Dial)
The singular Mrs. Dowdel from A Year Down Yonder and A Long Way from Chicagobrings humor and heart to this holiday story; as ever, Peck's writing has a comforting, evergreen quality.
When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead (Random/Lamb)
Every syllable feels rich with meaning in this atmospheric mystery involving a girl, her former best friend, and her mother, set in 1970s New York City.
Shiver
Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)
Lyrical and thoughtful, this paranormal romance between a girl and a werewolf offers wit, an intriguing mythology, and dual (but equally honest and compelling) narratives.
Marcelo in the Real World
Francisco X. Stork (Scholastic/Levine)
Artfully crafted characters form the heart of this riveting novel about a 17-year-old with Asperger's syndrome, who grapples with issues of ethics, love, and other real-life conflicts.
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Shaun Tan (Scholastic/Levine)
Tan proves that his prose is every bit as hypnotic as his artwork in this wondrous collection that reveals the banality and strangeness of the suburbs.
Lips Touch: Three Times
Laini Taylor, illus. by Jim Di Bartolo (Scholastic/Levine)
In lush prose, Taylor offers three utterly captivating stories, each centered on a kiss; comic book–style prequels from Di Bartolo, her husband, add to the enchantment.
The Uninvited
Tim Wynne-Jones (Candlewick)
In this thriller about a college student uncovering twisted family secrets, Wynne-Jones expertly draws his characters and setting while ramping up the tension and the creepiness.
Ahenry wrote: "I've read 3, and have one on my to read list :)"
I've read 5 and loved them all! (Except I thought If I Stay was super sad.)
I signed up for updates from my library, and thought this sounded like a good YA book...
Prophecy of the Sisters - by Michelle Zink
Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316027427
ISBN-10: 0316027421
Dark Fantasy. Soon after their father dies under mysterious circumstances, orphaned twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe discover that an ancient prophecy has pitted them against one another in a mystical battle between good and evil. One of them will save the world--if she can prevent the other from bringing about its end--but which one? Set in a small town in upstate New York in the 19th century and written with a distinct Victorian air, this haunting novel features richly drawn characters, psychological nuances, spells, fallen angels, and murder most foul. Shiveringly delicious.
Amazon's Best Books of 2009 - Top 10 Books: Teens
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/re...
1. Beautiful Creatures by Margaret Stohl
December 1, 2009
2. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
3. Going Bovine by Libba Bray
4. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
5. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose
6. Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
7. Fire by Kristin Cashore
8. The Ask and the Answer: Chaos Walking: Book Two by Patrick Ness
9. Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins
10. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
I'd like to read The Slynx... it's one of the only ones I've actually heard of before perusing the list.
Sans wrote: "A lot of those books sound really interesting! Thank you for the suggestion, Dominique!"Thank you! I hope that we can get to read some of them - it would inspire me to read additional books from the NYRB classics list and actually have some goodreads-buddies to share the books with. YAY!
I have read few books from this category. Anyone else interested?http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/browse?subca...
I just finshed Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell and thought some of you might be interested in reading it. It is about a 16 year old girl in Ozark's who has to find her father who used their house as bail and has now skipped out and she and her mentally ill mother and two younger brothers will loose the house if she doesn't find him.
I was supprised by how much I liked this book because it is so heavy and graffic but the main character Ree is amazingly strong and very real. It was very well written and even with such a heavy story it was only 200 pages. I think for me it was easier to take because it was so short (more like ripping off a bandaid instead of pouring salt over and over into a wound)
I will be thinking about Ree and this book for a while.
Dominique wrote: "Aaaahh! No more books! LOL You know it's bad when the librarians know you by name. My TBR is getting looong."
My librarians ask how the kids are doing, is Sam still reading as much, how's my dad feeling these days...
Jenn "Awww Yeaaahhh" wrote: "Dominique wrote: "*singing MIA lyrics* No one on the corner got swagger like us...
LOL Couldn't resist"
This is why I love Dom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyRSvF-Ci...
http://www.ime..."
Right back at ya! ;-)
Dominique wrote: "*singing MIA lyrics* No one on the corner got swagger like us...
LOL Couldn't resist"
This is why I love Dom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyRSvF-Ci...
http://www.imeem.com/backyy/music/DcTDgd...
Aaaahh! No more books! LOL You know it's bad when the librarians know you by name. My TBR is getting looong.
Julie wrote: "I would love to read The Book Thief."
The Book Thief is WONDERFUL. Absolutely heartbreaking and unforgettable. I stuck my copy right on the shelf beside To Kill a Mockingbird. I really, really recommend this one to anyone.
Here are a few that i've read that I particularly enjoyed....
"The Wedding Dress" by Virginia Ellis
- A relatively short book set in the post civil war era. A cute story about the power of faith, family and love.
" The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet.
- A rather long book set in the middle ages (maybe earlier). The story follows a family through the years as they endure hardship and happiness.
" Firestorm" by Nevada Barr
- A medium length book set ruffly around now. This story follows Park ranger Anna Pigeon as she battles danger and tries to solve a murder at the same time.
" Liberty Falling" by Nevada Barr
- A average to short length book set in the here and now. This is another Anna Pigeon story. This time she is in new York visiting her sister Molly who is ill. When there she gets caught up in two murder mysteries. "
Books that I haven't read but will.
" The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Munk Kidd
- Length unknown. Set around the time of the human rights movement. this book follows a young girl and her struggles with love, family, and racism.
This one sounds interesting
Blindspot: A Novel by a Gentleman in Exile & a Lady in Disguise
By Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
The most recent one I read is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and I can assure you that it will be one of the most incredible stories you have ever read. I LOVED it. Also... A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray series which I am sure all of you probably are aware of by now :)
Excuse me ma'am? I would really like a fantasy book one month. Preferabbly one with unicorns.We could always do the Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle, as it is universally amazing, as well as one of the best films of all time. But a new one would do as well.
Carrie,
The tormented soul??? Hmmm. I might know who it is, and if so, that is really weird about the Edward thing because when I picture this character, I always think of Robert Pattison. Not RPatz in Twilight with his crazy (yet adorable) hair, but more like a combo of him as Edward and an older, more stylish Cedric Diggory. Perhaps I should just post to you and not the whole group so we can talk without ruining it for those who haven't read it. Anyway, yes, there are two male characters in that series that I lurrrve very, very much. I would love to see a movie of those books.
Carrie,
Now you have me excited about Envy again. I couldn't remember exactly when it came out, but I am looking forward to it. I did enjoy The Luxe and Rumors very much, and if anyone looks at my reviews, they'll see I gave them both a three. I really did enjoy them very much, but I can't put them on the five (or even four) level by some of my books I have ranked in those categories. That said, I enjoyed the time period and descriptions as well as the characters and many of the surprises that come up. They both are fun, easy reads.
After The Gargoyle, Seduce Me at Sunrise, and The Host... The Luxe is my next book to read. :-) So hopefully it stays as November's fast read!
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