Young Adult Fiction for Adults discussion
What are you reading now?
Heidi (the original) wrote: Heidi (the original) wrote: "Well to be honest paranormal is my least f..."It's OK. As long as you like Harry Potter I won't throw things at you.
Jaime wrote: "Reading Eragon is on my to do list - I can never seem to pick it up. I am still reading Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials". It's amazing! But I only like it as one book, not as three."While I liked the Golden Compass books, I LOVED Eragon and the two after it. And I wanted to kill Christopher Paolini for making what was going to be a trilogy into a series of four--so what if the third book had 1500 pages! :)
Blanca Nieves wrote: "Hello ¡I've just joined this group. I'm reading the second book of the book series "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan and I like it so far, it is called "The Great Hunt", but if I had to recomm..."
I couldn't get through "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell".
Emily Harry Potter rocks! As does anything by Melina Marchetta, the Chaos Walking trilogy, and Hunger Games :)
Scott wrote: "Megan wrote: "just finished 
"Megan, how was this? I got it cheap for my Nook and just haven't gotten to it yet."
It was really amazing, in my opinion :D
I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell on my 2nd attempt. Not many books actually get a second try from me but I was glad to finish it...don't know what I'd do it again.
Soooooo my whining can stop. They're going to release
on Kindle on April 26. Now I'm debating "pre-ordering" or just waiting until the day since who knows what happens between now and then.Either way this is major YAYness!
Heidi, you know what's funny about The Mortal Instruments? I had absolutely no problem reading them the first two times.. I loved every second of it. Then you guys started talking about how wordy she is and so when I went to reread them again before City of Fallen Angels came out, all I could focus on was how extremely wordy they are. Sooo many similes, too. I still love the books but I can totally understand why people would be turned off by them. It was almost hard for me to get through them.... almost. :p
Cassi why can't you load audiobooks on your Kindle? You could have got Piper Son weeks ago on audio.
Traci wrote: "Heidi, you know what's funny about The Mortal Instruments? I had absolutely no problem reading them the first two times.. I loved every second of it. Then you guys started talking about how wordy s..."I feel vindicated! (kinda :)
Heidi (the original) wrote: "Cassi why can't you load audiobooks on your Kindle? You could have got Piper Son weeks ago on audio."I could. But I don't know when I would listen to it on my kindle. I normally listen to audiobooks while driving (hence why I prefer CDs). And my ipod is broken (And I just need to buy a new one or something else new because it's been out of order for months now).
I've thought (and rethought) about downloading the audiobook but I wanted to make sure that I would use it before I did.
Oh ok. Makes sense. I use my ereader all the time for audiobooks because it has an external speaker so I was just wondering. I walk around the house with mine, listen to it before I go to bed, and even listen to it in the car! I love items with external speakers (as long as you have good hearing :)
I used to use my Kindle for my Audio books, but then it got shocked once when I was cleaning and it went Haywire with only have the screen showing and my items slowly deleting. I had to do a harddrive reboot in order to fix it and now I'm too nervous to walk around with it cleaning, so I switched to my iPhone.
The Book Thief by Zusak&
Feast of Fools by Caine
Always seem to be reading two books at once, with just finishing The City of Bones the other night. New to goodreads so any tips and tricks would be great. =]
reading
I was liking Dark Mirror then it took this turn where it went from the 1800's to WWII at least now I get where the mirror comes in since she fell through a mirror, but I just wasn't expecting it so I don't know how I feel. :(
Carmel wrote: "Stephanie, my daughter's about 3/4 the way through, I heard her mourning & groaning when she was reading it today & I said "don't tell me what's going on" as I'll be reading it next!"Lol :p
Im giving
a try (my first Jasper Fforde novel.)
I have Big Over Easy on audio on my phone to listen to Isamlq. I just need to get to it!
I recently finished
and enjoyed it so much I just jumped right into
. At this rate I'll just keep on going until I am forced to wait for a new book.
Finished
and it was quick and good. Now starting
Definitely good suggestions everyone!
I finished
which was awesome! Now I am reading
.
Valerie wrote: "Just started reading 
"That's another really good one.
Valerie wrote: "Just started reading "i love that book
Reading
on my computer, I really need to get a ereader. :)
started
today for my Apocalypse class. It's okay so far.. but that means I'm not going to be able to get back to
for a while :(
Finished
. Not bad. Better than Gone (which I know some ppl liked and I didn't), not as good as Uglies/Hunger Games/Chaos Walking.It's weird I'm between books right now. Tomorrow I'm supposed to get Piper's Son on my kindle so I don't really want to start anything now. It's weird not to have a real book started.
Heidi (the original) wrote: "Cambria wrote: "Heidi (the original) wrote: "Seriously Cambria no need to give MI another shot! hahaha"Haha! what didn't you like about it Heidi?"
Well to be honest paranormal is my least f..."
LOL. No objects being thrown here. Everyone has different tastes! What books do you enjoy?
Cambria I generally like just normal character books (anything by Melina Marchetta, North of Beautiful, Anna and the French Kiss, Book Thief). I also enjoy some fantasy (Finnikin, Daughter of the Forest) and dystopian books (Hunger Games and Chaos Walking series).
Half way through
thanks for the tips everyone. It is really good so far!
Heidi (the original) wrote: "I have Big Over Easy on audio on my phone to listen to Isamlq. I just need to get to it!"I loved The Big Over Easy. It just "cracked" me up! sorry.....couldn't resist.
I just started
I'm reading my ARC I won from Goodreads and just got in the mail. It's Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma. So far, it's pretty good!
I'm gonna throw a shoe. Just to be a rebel!:)
Jamie wrote: "Half way through thanks for the tips everyone. It is really good so far!"Glad you're enjoying it. I got stuck in another couple of books at the moment, but can't wait to get back to this. This book makes me want to do some character design sketches...
Jamie wrote: "Half way through thanks for the tips everyone. It is really good so far!"Yay! I love this series - maybe I need to do a re-read just to be reminded how awesome it is!
I'm halfway through
. I've been on the waiting list at the library for it since January so I'm not really as excited about it as I was before. It's not bad though, pretty much as I expected.
I'm starting Abandon by Meg Cabot. I've been wanting to read this book for months!
I started
this evening. I wasn't expecting to like it, but ended up accidentally extending my dinner break by about an hour and a half to avoid putting it down! Ah, the danger of books :)
Morgan wrote: "I'm starting Abandon by Meg Cabot. I've been wanting to read this book for months!"
Oh I really want to read this too! Let us know if it's good!
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Haha! what didn't you like about it Heidi?"
Well to be honest paranormal is my least favorite genre, so it was already at a disadvantage before I started. Other than that it was too wordy for my tastes and seemed kind of dumbed down. *backs away and waits for objects to be thrown*