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Another thumbs up for the league :) gonna have to check it out!
I still haven't read 50sog. I probably should at some point.The kids at my school (I'm a teacher librarian) were crazy during the twilight hype. I had to read it and fast because all they wanted to talk about was twilight. Normally I prefer to let the hyped stuff sit for a bit so I can make my own determinations. I don't generally get that choice with YA stuff, because I need to have read most of what the kids are interested in (plus I don't have to wait for it to be in stock... I just don't put it on a shelf for borrowing until after I've read it!)
I'm a bit surprised to see that I haven't given any books 1 star yet and only 1 with 2 stars. Vast majority for me seem to fall in 3/4 stars. I try not to give a 5 unless I finish the book and want to start it all over again immediately.
My friends daughter is 14 and all she talks about is the hunger games. So far I haven't read it yet.
Yeah there was a big hunger games phase for a while. It's okay, I had some issues with it in places but I enjoyed it. My girls in particular are on a big dystopia kick at the moment. Can't keep the Uglies or Divergent series on the shelves. (If you're going to pick one, Go Uglies IMO :P)
haha! Sorry :(- Short version - Scott Westerfield's Uglies series is good if you're into YA Urban Fantasy.
Hunger games is still going strong though. Oh and thanks Manuela! Lol
Even though I may not like a lot of the books the teens are reading nowadays, I'm super glad their has been a resurgence in the last few years. When I was in school, they didn't read much!
I agree! I love that my library is almost full. Even kids that normally wouldn't dream of reading seem to be picking up books at the moment. I also love that there is such a range of YA fiction at the moment, so It's getting really easy to find the right book to get a reluctant reader interested!
Well guys, 2012 was the year of reading and Nathan Fillion (known from Firefly and Castle) is promoting reading this year!!!! So I like to see kids and teens to read even if I cannot really get warm to those books. I do have the Vampire Academy series but I haven't read it yet. (At the moment I am in the hot and steamy phase and need my daily sex fix).
Too true Tara! Hopefully though more writers will come out with more adult books than YA because these kids will grow up. And while a lot of adults like to read YA, so many authors are flooding the market with YA. I started with YA, was a BIG Lurlene McDaniel fan, as well as J.K. Rowling, but we weren't saturated with them.
Manuela wrote: "At the moment I am in the hot and steamy phase and need my daily sex fix"This! <3
I love all the YA and the stories are great, but I like a little hot and steamy in my reading!
Lol Manuela! Ya, I can't read YA. I just can't take teen drama. My books need the steam and pleasure. Then I'm happy! Lol
Also not as into YA like I use to be but it helps me and my younger sister bond especially because of our 10 year age difference. We have few things in common but if I find a really good YA book or series I have her read em with me and we discuss and she feels coming home with a book from her school library and sharing it with me.
Woot glad to see we are really chatting it up around here. That's what I like to see. :) I have to say I have checked out the stats portion of GR. It's actually what inspired my question as I checked it out a few days ago. I have tons of 2 and 3 star books lol.
I'm also glad more teens and kids in general are getting out there and reading more. I know not so many were doing so when I was in school. But hey these days YA has really taken off. I know when I used to read it more when I was a teen there were a few series or a book or two that was good. But now there does seem to be quite a sweep from Hunger Games, Uglies, Harry Potter, etc. Which is really awesome. I just wish that some of the adult authors would take more chances with stories like the YA authors do. Meaning, the original idea concepts and actually fleshing them out thoroughly enough to actually give us quality stories. Might even challenge some of the fanfic writers to create something just as good on their own maybe.
Another new question. One inspired by another group I'm in-
If you were allowed to take just one pill to experience it's effects for a year which would you choose and why?
Ok, it won't upload the pic with the effects on it and the colors. But here they are in written format.
Yellow Pill: Gives you the ability to read and search the minds of any one you can see, even if it's a picture. Can also turn their minds "off" to put them into a coma.
Green Pill: Gives you the ability to shape shift into any animal.
Blue Pill (and no not viagra, lol): Gives you the ability to fly, swim, and teleport to any area while being impervious to any physical dangers.
Orange Pill: Gives you the ability to master any sport, job, activity, martial art, etc. that a human can do.
Red Pill: Gives you super speed, strength, and rapid regeneration (not invincible)
Pink Pill: Gives you the ability to make any person love you with a single touch. Can turn off the ability by retouching the person.
Grey Pill: Gives you the ability to control any machine or any electronic using only your mind. Also have the ability to generate powerful electrical discharges by touch.
Black Pill: Gives you the ability to see up to one month into the future.
Yes yes, the convo is going good. LolIt's a tie for me. The yellow and the blue I would like. The reasons to yellow is I always want to know what people are thinking. Especially in regards to what they think of me. Plus it would fun to sneak around and snoop ...hehe. Don't think I would use the coma though. The blue pill mainly for the teleportation. I could go anywhere in the world and see all I wanted to without having to get a passport or pay for airfare or hotels. Hell ya! That would rock my socks off!
Hey I've seen this on facebook but it was a bit different. Each pill had side effects to them.I'd definately choose the green pill. I could be all my favorite animals and it seems like the only ability I wouldn't have to share with people and no one would really notice right away what I could do
Haha! I didnt even think about that Carlena in regards to the blue pill. No passport needed indeed
I wouldn't want to be an animal. What if you shifted into a lion in the middle of Miami. You'd probably be shot or captured. I hope someone couldn't tell I was reading their mind. That would be a bit awkward. Lol. I'm sure that wouldn't cause anyone to turn their head.
:-) I'd just shift into an owl when everyone was sleeping and hightail it out of there.lol what if they were thinking something that made you angry and you just went off on a rant?
Well it could make me mad but I would just go find someone else to read. OR just put then in a coma. Lol
What if I take a cocktail of all the pills? My mind would fry and I go to a lunatic asylum for a year to get the rest from this hyperagrassive and fast computer driven world. Holiday, here I come. HahahahahaCan't decide for one, have a tie on yellow green and blue.
Hmmm.... Just make sure I am there to see that trip. That would be an interesting sight!
I would have to say its a tie, between yellow and black for me, both would be super cool and having seen 'next' I think there is an awful lot of scope for seeing into the future, but I too would love to know what people are thinking
Everybody's tryna make cocktails, I see someone needs to be on standby just in case it makes y'all loopy. LOL
You as the wise owl would know what to do if that happens ~grin~.
:-) Detox would not be fun for you guys but it would be for your own good lol
Lol Shari! I'm already loopy!
Love this group. I too wish I could combine some of these pills. Shifting into animals, definitely being able to swim or teleport, above and beyond read some minds and learn any job or skill instantly. And regeneration? Who wouldn't want some of that? But yea, I can only imagination the detox from taking all these beauties together lol.
New Question- When starting a series, do you begin with the ending in mind? Meaning that before you even start book 1, you want to know how many books there are in the series, when the author plans on wrapping things up? Or if there will be spin-off series to get into as well? Or do you just it normally cause the book sounded good and you wanted to learn more?
I never think about books in the long run. It sounds good, I read it. :)
Carlena wrote: "I never think about books in the long run. It sounds good, I read it. :)"So do I Carlena, so do I.
I think I have elaborated on my way of reading in almost all the threads. I really really try to read series in chronological order, they just don't want to be read that way. Books come to me when they want to be read. Some of them deceive me to be read, hiding the fact that they actually belong to a series, that they are not even book no 1. I do miss the days when good books where just that, ONE good book. I think that's what turned me off reading fantasy and science fiction (in the 80ies) because a lot of them came in trilogies. Nowadays writers seem to have so much in their heads that they plan a series before they even start to write LOL.
What happened to "Black Beauty", "The Count of Monte Christo" and "Dracula"??? Good ole days they were. :)
Manuela wrote:So do I Carlena, so do I.
Its the best way to find an author or new series you love. I try not to be an author snob. lol
I am a cover junkie. Doesn't matter if it is in a book store, the local library, online it is the cover that attracks me first. Sometimes titles can deceive as well and with paper books I have to be aware of the title if I want to take it out in public. So all the free porn has to stay on my kindle or at home. LOL
Haha, at least you try not to be Carlena. I know when I have read some damn good books by fave authors, I can't help comparing them to whatever else is in the same market. I know in some respect that is unfair to the new author I'm trying out. But at the same time I'm still used to a certain level of quality and I'll be damned if it gets sacrificed just cause someone new is doing something weird in their story, lol.I also never consider the length of a series either. If I'm interested from book one, it is a safe bet that I will continue, unless there gets to be more and more silly things or annoying things going on that I don't agree with then I'll stop. So what inspired me to ask this question cause I was checking the discussions tab on the home page and scrolling through a few (as I typically jump in on ones related to books I've read) and noticed someone asking about how many books are in a YA series I'm reading. So far I've read just the first 2 books and I think there is 4 or 5 in the series so far. But it truly boggled my mind that someone who hadn't even cracked into book one yet, was already wondering when the series was going to wrap up already. I guess most readers like to plan ahead. But at the same time, felt a bit premature to worry about that when she didn't even seem to know if she liked book 1 or not yet.
I guess I'm a bit of a book snob lol, either that or I'm too lazy, I think the second might be closer to the truth.I don't tend to look at how long a series is but generally, like you said, if I get into the first book then I'm going to want to read the rest, in which case the longer the better (to some degree)
I do wonder how many years we are looking at SK bringing out books, it could well be a life long love for all of us ;)
I don't care how long the series is, I just wanna love the new world I'm being shown. If I like the series, I'll read everything (including the shorts)
Pat, I totally am with you. I wanna be taken somewhere else and be immersed!Ally, one could only hope we have it for a lifetime!
I usually start with a recommended book, in the middle of the series. Then if I liked it I'll go back and read the first one.A lot of the series I've read haven't really hit their best writing until the third or fourth book. The other side of that is more than a few have their writing quality fall off drastically after ten or so books.
back in the days, i usually prowl bookstores for hours searching for books to read. at least these days, i have goodreads to recommend me books to read. Other than that, things didn't change much. There are still days when book covers just call my attention far more than the book blurb. And when it comes to books series, I still get a bit obsessive-compulsive, like I need to read the books in order.
Arianne I still prowl bookstores. ^_^ I spend hours in the paranormal romance section.
You guys are lucky. I haven't seen the inside of a bookstore in ages. I almost forget what they look like. :(New Question- If you could have one area of your life totally mapped out, which would it be and why? Love life? Career? Family? Friends?
Career. I think its best to have structure and a clear path to what you wanna do in life. At least I do career wise because overall I'm very impulsive and make rash decisions that could be more harmful than good. I'm more than capable of handing those decisions in other aspects of my life except career though. I feel like I've wasted valuable time. So a clear mapped out plan for my career would be perfect.
Definitely career. Just so I know I can take care of bills and go on vacations. Money is a huge stress I would like to not have. I don't want to know who my friends and spouse will be. That takes the fun out of life.
That's a hard one for me, when I was younger I would not have hesitated, it would have been career without a doubt.But then my life took a totally unexpected path and at 27 I'm only just starting to look at my career again.
Part of me wishes that I had been really firm and gotten my career sorted (like you've said carlena for the money side of things, it really is a big stress and to be without it would be a dream come true) but then I would risk not having my husband and little girl who I love with all my heart.....
So given that I met my hubby at 16 and 10 years later I'm finally getting the opportunity to sort my career out, and family.....well lets not open that one ;) , I'm gonna now say friends......it's the one thing I really miss at the moment. Or maybe health, if I could I would love to know what was coming with that as its so up and down all the time!!
Career. even before, i always knew that i would continue studying. i think i was 20 when i told myself that i will graduate with a Phd degree preferably before age 30.Today, I'm already 27 and I'm still working real hard for my degree.
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OMG, Dhfan, you haven't read them yet??? I can't believe it!!!!!
The League is Awesome, Cool, Wow, Great, Hyper-everything!!!
Hi Carlena, I haven't greeted you yet officially, as we are already friends :)
New Question: Have you guys checked out stats (on left hand side) in "my books". Apparently I haven't given a star to one of my last years most fav books (must have been because I couldn't give it 6 stars ~smirk~.)
I had 12 books in 3 stars, 2 in 2 and 1 in 1 star categories. This year so far I have rated 1 book with 1 star, 3 with 2 stars and 23 with 3 stars. Mind you, I just joined last year!!! The reasons for my ratings are as stated by most of you already. My this years 1 star book falling definitively under Dhfans TSTL category!!! LOL So far only 8 books received 5 stars from me out of 87 that I rated.
I do agree with you guys about books being hyped up. I was positively surprised by 50sog as I didn't even wanted to read it when it came out and was topic no 1 everywhere. Unfortunately I really wanted to read "tangled" and "trophy husband" and was quite disappointed with both books. They did not blow me away :( as they have done with so many other readers.