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Have you read some great YA books?
Ever unsure what YA book to read next?
Need some YA inspiration?
Then Welcome to the Young Adult Pay it Forward Challenge!
How this works
Each person posting will "pay it forward" by agreeing to read the book posted by the last member, and posting a new YA book that they loved for reading by the next person to post.
Rules
This is NOT for author self promotion. Any posts considered as promotional will be deleted without warning.
You must have read the book you are recommending, given a 4 star rating or higher, and it must be shelved by a minimum of 100 GR users as "Young Adult" (this can be found on the book page, to the right, under "genres")
For books in a series you need to post book 1. If the next person has already read book 1, they can move on to any book in that series that they are up to
When you post you are agreeing to read the book posted before you within the next month
Please update your post when you have read the book, and if possible, provide your rating (and review)
If you have already read the book posted before you, then just "compare books" with that person (instructions under spoiler)and chose another book from their shelves.
(view spoiler)
You can "play" as many times as you like. Once you have read the book given to you, just come back with a new post to read another book and "pay it forward" with another YA book you loved
Example
Post 1
Perks Moderator posts
Post 2
Kristie posts thereby agreeing to read Under the Never Sky within the next month. She also posts
for the next member
Post 3
Karen has already read Legend, but she has not read book 3 in the series ; Champion. So she agrees to read Champion and posts
for the next member
Post 4
Annie has already read Will Grayson, Will Grayson, so she "compares books" with Karen and chooses to read The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery instead and posts
for the next member
and so on, and so forth.....
AniSsina wrote: "both covers show nice abbs XD ..."lol!!
This is the place to discuss our August BOTM Looking for Alaska by John Green.
Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
After. Nothing is ever the same.
This is the place to discuss our August BOTM We Were Liars by E. Lockhart.
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.
We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.
I was hoping we'd get to 100 books for the month, but we already have over 30 in a week! What do you think we can try and aim for?
Wow 3 books already Sandy. Nice work!
Woohoo! We've started. Nice work ladies being first on the board on the first day of the month :)
THE PERKS OF BEING A BOOK ADDICT MEMBER UPDATE
Hello everyone,
Just a quick note to let you know we are currently reviewing our group pages and based on your feedback we are re-organising folders and discussion threads and looking at new ways to spark book discussion and chats with our members. You may notice we have a new moderator, Karen and we've also added a generic moderator account that you can add as a friend to receive updates about what the group is reading.
If you have some feedback to give, please feel free to visit this thread to drop us a note :)
JULY BOOKS OF THE MONTH
The Light Between Oceans by M.L Steadman discussion thread
Under The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi Discussion thread
GROUP READ-A-THON
During the month of July we are having a group Read-A-Thon. Check out the details here. We'd love for you to join!
Final Group Tally 214
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IT'S A PERKS CONNECTED READ-A-THON
As a group let's see what we can read in the month of July and have a Read-A-Thon with a twist!
How this works...
* Each book needs to "connect" to the last one posted
* "Connects" can be based on by genre, author, title, character names, colour of cover, same award won or number of pages
* As soon as you have a book that you have read in July 2014 that can connect to the last one, post it with the reasons it "connects" and the running tally for you, and for the group for the month, and let's see how many books we can read and connect in the month!
EXAMPLE
Post 1:
Kristie posts:
Mr. MercedesKristie's tally - 1 book
Perks Group tally - 1 book
Post 2:
Karen Posts
The Girl Who Saved the King of SwedenConnected by: "King" (author and then title)
Karen's tally: 1 book
Perks group tally: 2 books
Post 3:
Kristie posts:
The Girl with the Dragon TattooConnected by: Cover colour is yellow
Kirstie's tally: 2 books
Perks group tally: 3 books
.... hopefully you get the idea....
NOTE: You can read any book of any length, children's books and graphic novels also count. Please just remember to check the tally of the book ahead of you and add up the tally as you post
Books need to be marked as "read" between July 1 and July 31, 2014. (It doesn't matter when you started)
For an extra bit of fun, I wonder how many books we can read in a month? Any guesses?
