Young Adult Fiction for Adults discussion
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Ok Brittany. Finish your others first. :)
I was just telling my sister about the Gale/Peeta controversy going on in this book group and she and my niece were having the same discussion. We spent a good fifteen minutes going over the merits and shortfalls of each and I am still in Camp Undecided (feels like one of the cabins in the Lightning Thief).Also, I have another audio book recommendation: "Alice, I Think". Very tongue in cheek and self deprecatingly humorous. The characters are well drawn and the reader is perfect as Alice.
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Of course I'm currently only reading King Lear so I can read The Fool (notice the 2 word title with one of the words being The) by Christopher Moore, and I'm reading Dracula because it's a classic and all those are must reads for me, but also so I can read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostiva(sp). And then Christopher Moore's 3rd book in the San Franciscian vampire trilogy (LOVE) just came out so I need to get that one ASAP too. Not to mention that I found this really amazing group in goodreads that now occupies large amounts of time (and that's a good thing).
Sigh... so many books, so little time.
Seems like you are going to be busy Brittany! I forgot to add once my favorite non YA books
. I really like that book. The movie - not so much.
I have read Lisa Lutz's Spellman books. They are:
I love them so much! They make me laugh out loud and the protagonist is one of my favorite characters of all time!
Kelle that is hilarious that you mentioned those books! On my cozy mystery group AND my audiobook group I just heard of the series and added the first book (Spellman Files) to my tbr pile!
Heidi- you have to read them- they are perfect! :P I read VERY little adult books, but these are ones that I could not put down. I just finished the 4th and final one and I still do not have anyone to talk to about it. If you read them, let me know what you think. :)
Brittany - You have to read The Help. It is a great book!
Kellee wrote: "Heidi- you have to read them- they are perfect! :P I read VERY little adult books, but these are ones that I could not put down. I just finished the 4th and final one and I still do not have anyo..."Will do! I'll post on here when I listen to the first one (I plan to get the audio - as I heard it is good that way).
Bluemoon wrote: "in between books...maybe i'll read City of Bones some other time...hehehehe...^_^"Don't do it! (hee hee)
I won the book
on Goodreads and actually really liked it. It is really well written chick lit and I plan to read the authors other books now because of this one. If anyone likes chick lit - please give it a try. I think the release date is in April.
LOL.Hey The Book Thief and The Help are practically required reading for this group.
Peep wrote: "LOL.Hey The Book Thief and The Help are practically required reading for this group."
As they should be Peep. As they should be. :)
Heidi you asked if I had read the book Thief. Yep, listened to it and loved the "narrator". Did I see a mention of an audiobook group here on Goodreads? I'm already a member of the Cozies. I have listened to so many books that now when I pick up an audiobook at the library I pay attention who the readers are. I like C.J.Critt and Lorelie King the best. They have done most of the Plum books. I'm starting a new Janet Evanovich book today that is called The Rocky Road to Romance by Janet Evanovich for the Spring Seasonal Challenge that I am deeply involved in here at Goodreads. I've only been on GR about a month and it is taking over my life!Both The Help (another point) and The Book Thief are books chosen by my RL book club here in Illinois. Now we are doing Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky.
The Thief? I'm reading the Lightning Thief does that count? Let's see,
The Thief.
The Lightning Thief,
The Book Thief.
There seems to be alot of thievery going on here!
Bluemoon wrote: "hehehehe...read the Book Thief but not The help. I think Hunger Games is also a required reading here and the Thief."Bluemoon - stop slacking! Read The Help!
Shiela- I did not know you were in the cozy mysteries group too! My recent favoritie audiobook cozies are The Agatha Raisin series (love that narrator) and the Goldy Bear Catering audiobooks. I just started on the Aunt Dimity series and am listening to the first on on audio -- so far I like it too. It is not a cozy, but another good audio series is Whiskey Sour. Oh and yes - there is an audiobook group on here. That group, the cozies, and this group are my only groups, but this one is by far my favorite right now (no offense to my cozy people - they are good too, just not as snarky).
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Heidi, I also loved Memoirs of a Geisha. I thought it was fantastic. I didn't see the movie but I heard awful things, like they were mixing up Japan and China?? seriously! Sheila, good observation with the thievery. I'd say it fits this crew pretty well.
Melodie - I have never read JD Robb -- are they any good?
Okay so A Silent Ocean Away by DeVa Gantt is super good. The story was originally self published as one book but when the writers (two sisters who wrote the story over a number of years during family get-togethers) they broke it down into three books. Fantastic. I also love me some Marian Keyes - she's an Irish writer and I totally recommend you start with Watermelon. And I also push for anything by Megan Crane because I love her - try English as a Second Language.
Jaimie - those all sound really good. Ugh! I will add them later. I am trying to wait to add anything until I have finished 2 or 3 of my current books.
Jaimie - those all sound really good. Ugh! I will add them later. I am trying to wait to add anything until I have finished 2 or 3 of my current books.
Heidi wrote: "Melodie - I have never read JD Robb -- are they any good?"This series has been recommended to me for a few years now, and I finally decided to give it a shot. I read the first one a couple of weeks ago and liked it well enough to try the next and so far it's pretty good. I don't really care for Nora Roberts, but these aren't quite like other books of hers that I've read. And there's a really hot character in them named Roarke. Almost worth reading just for him!
Another good non YA book is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - it is also good on audio.
I have been a part of a book club for the last year that has really expanded my horizons. A bunch of friends of mine really didn't read until now, so our book club is called, "All the books I should have read in high school." We've read a ton of classics and I'm really starting to dig them. "Gone with the Wind" and "Pride and Prejudice" have been my favorites so far. I guess you could say when I'm not reading YA fiction (which is pretty much ALL I read) I read the classics and award winners.
Becca wrote: "I have been a part of a book club for the last year that has really expanded my horizons. A bunch of friends of mine really didn't read until now, so our book club is called, "All the books I shoul..."GONE WITH THE WIND is one of my all-time favorites, both as a book & movie. The book is SO different from the movie, tho. I mean Scarlett has 3 children in the book and only has Bonnie in the movie.
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Becca wrote: "I have been a part of a book club for the last year that has really expanded my horizons. A bunch of friends of mine really didn't read until now, so our book club is called, "All the books I shoul..."Becca, I love the classics. I was so busy in high school that I didn't read many of them, but now I'm loving them. P&P is one of my favorite books of all time. I'm also I big Dickens fan. Great Expectations is another fav. We should chat and compare sometime because I'm always looking for the great classics to pick up.
You should try "Rebecca" by Dahne de Maurier. I liked it, not loved, but it was worth reading. I'm working on "Emma" and "Madame Bovary" right now. I LOVED the movie Emma with Gwyneth Paltrow in it. I'll give you updates.
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Emma is fantastic. I loved the book. I've also read Persuasion by Jane Austen. And again, also good. I'm working on Dracula right now.
I've been debating about Dracula, let me know how you liked it. My hubby got me the complete works of Jane Austen for Christmas and I've been working my way through them slowly. I loved Sense and Sensibility and really like Persuasion, Mansfield Park was good, but not great and of course P&P was phenomenal. I haven't read the others yet, but I'll finish it up in the next few months. If you like Jane Austen, you might get a real kick out of Austenland by Shannon Hale. I loved it, made me laugh, especially at myself since I had so many of the same sentiments growing up about Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy.
I fell in love with the Black Dagger Brotherhood Series by J.R. Ward. I came across them on a list on Goodreads for Best Adult Vampire Novels or something like that. They are actually really good. I recommend starting with book number 3 in the series first. I really think it's her strongest book and you can get a taste of whether or not the series is for you.Amber
Amber we've got a thread for BDB started. Totally agree with you about Zsadists story. That was the best!
LOL. After I posted that I found the BDB thread! Should've looked first! Thanks! :)Amber
Becca wrote: "I've been debating about Dracula, let me know how you liked it. My hubby got me the complete works of Jane Austen for Christmas and I've been working my way through them slowly. I loved Sense and S..."DRACULA is one of my all-time favorites. Read it the first time the summer before 4th grade and read it every summer after that until I started high school. It got me well on my way with my vampire fixation!
I plan to start Saving Ceecee Honeycut on audiobook on my trip home Monday -- anyone read that one?
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Becca wrote: "I've been debating about Dracula, let me know how you liked it. My hubby got me the complete works of Jane Austen for Christmas and I've been working my way through them slowly. I loved Sense and S..."Does Austenland have spoilers for other Austen works? I'm always a bit cautious about that kind of stuff because I haven't read all of her books and I hate spoilers. I still need to read Mansfield Park, Northhanger Abbey, and Sense and Sensibility. Is Austenland a bit like Bridget Jones fascination with the Colin Firth version of Mr. Darcy?? He will always be my Darcy too.
As to Dracula, I've really enjoyed it so far, but to be honest when I have other options it's not my first choice of books to pick up and I can't think as to why. While I'm reading it I think... oh right, this is really good, but then I don't pick it up for a week or so. I'm not glued to it wanting to know what happens next.
Ugh Bluemoon. You are making me feel really old! I had to take typewriting class in high school. I hated every minute of it. Spell check is my friend.
@Brittany - nope, no spoilers really, except maybe Persuasion. It's about a woman who is quite literally obsessed with P&P and what her great aunt does for her in her will to help her get over her obsession. I was laughing almost the whole way through because I could totally see myself in her shoes.I'll put Dracula on my TBR list.
Becca - I saw a BBC series called Lost in Austen where this modern day woman gets brought into P & P -- have you seen it? I really liked it, except the very end.
Bluemoon wrote: "Reading Pacific Vortex by Clive Cussler...so far so good. It's talking about the present time, but they're using typewriter machines. hahahaha...I was a bit shocked and looked at the publishing dat..."Boy, are you trying to make me feel old or what?? I'll have you know I was a typing whiz back in the day. Got A's in all my typing classes, including medical transcription. When I was still in high school I had a co-op job working as a ward clerk at the VA hospital in my hometown. It was right at the tail end of the Vietnam War, so it was quite the sobering place for a "10-foot-tall-and-bulletproof" teenager. Anyway, I remember typing up history & pyhysical and discharge reports on the ward when the transcription department was really backed up. We used dictaphones, which were high tech at the time, and did our typing on IBM Selectric typewriters. On another note, PACIFIC VORTEX is a great Dirk Pitt read!
I'm with you on the typewriters Melodie. All these young pups on here! Guess you were a better typist than me - I hated it! To this day I still do the shunned upon "looking at the keys" while I type - the biggest no no with my typing teacher. Huh - 20 years later and I still do it, so I guess I showed her.
Heidi wrote: "Becca - I saw a BBC series called Lost in Austen where this modern day woman gets brought into P & P -- have you seen it? I really liked it, except the very end."I haven't seen it, but I would be interested. I'm gaga over just about anything Austen these days.
Heidi wrote: "Becca - I saw a BBC series called Lost in Austen where this modern day woman gets brought into P & P -- have you seen it? I really liked it, except the very end."I have, it was super cute!
Becca - do you have Netflix? I am sure they have it. You need to watch it! I watched it on the Ovation channel, which is some rare channel we get. Otherwise your library probably has it.
I saw it on Netflix and liked. Just beware that it was a mini series or something like that so it is long. Huh, Mr. Darcy in the fountain!
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I'll have to check that book out then. Thanks for the rec Becca. I'll throw it on my TBR pile as well.
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P.S. Heidi, while I do enjoy audiobooks now and again, I love my podcasts so I feel like I listen to then during prime audiobook times, and I'm not willing to give them up. Sorry! And I do trust your judgement when it comes to good books b/c you're picky, so for you to be raving about a book says a lot about it I think.