(Inspired by posts on the main page’s Revisit Day thread)
This is meant to be an informal discussion about books we are reading/have read. On the other thread, there was talk about how a person can get different things from a book at different parts of their lives.
SPOILERS ABOUT THE BOOK THIEF BY MARKUS ZUSAK
The Book Thief was such a book for me. When I first read in for school in 7th grade, what really stuck was the message about the power of words, from how Hitler’s propaganda in Mein Kampf and in his speeches influenced others, while Max’s words in the book he made for Liesel were beautiful and healing. Rereading it this year in 9th grade, the DEATH DEATH DEATH that’s so prominent in the book made an impact on me. The fact that the book is narrated by Death makes it clear how pervasive it is in war. The impacts of Rudy and Eric’s death brought a really human aspect to it. Reading it two years later, I really felt that.
SPOILERS OVER
You guys can contribute however you want. Talk about a book you’ve reread and experienced differently each time. Talk about The Book Thief. Talk about a good book you’ve read that has affected you in some way. Move the topic along to something else entirely (maybe something lighter). And remember to give spoiler warnings.
I’m excited to see where this goes (if it goes anywhere at all)!
If you’ve read that, then the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon). (I’m assuming you’ve also read Harry Potter at this stage.) Literally just message me and I’ll rattle off a billion YA fiction serieses for you to read.
If you like stand-alone books, Sarah Dessen’s are quick flicks, Blue Plate Special is deep and nice, The Shakespeare Stealer is awesome, An Abundance of Katherines is really funny…
L.M. Montgomery has some GREAT short story collections. www.gutenberg.org has a lot of them. Her stand-alone novels (there are five) are great too… My favorite is A Tangled Web, which I’m currently re-reading. Her stories are usually set in Prince Edward Island, Canada in the late 1800s-early 1900s. Please read Anne of Green Gables, the whole series, and the Emily of New Moon trilogy after that. They’re great intros to her work.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a really, really good book. I adore it. :') Whirligig is a short, really cool novella type thing, and the Outsiders is mind-blowing.
Shamelessly going to promote The Mediator by Meg Cabot and The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, which both rank among my favorite book serieses!! (they’re more of a slight romance type, so I think they’d be more suitable for girls?)
Okay, that’s all for now, folks. I love this thread so much. Will post more soon.
Anybody ever read “The Selection” series by Kiera Cass? A lot of my friends recommended it to me, and apparently it’s the “Hunger Games” meets “The Bachelor”?
@thelittleswimmer I’ve read it. A couple of my friends have, too, and they liked it a lot. I thought it was cheesy and cliche and that it read like a decent fanfiction (I love fanfiction, but I usually expect more from a literal book). It is like Hunger Games meets The Bachelor but I think the ideas in The Selection are over done. A lot of other people liked it though, so I could be wrong.
I strongly recommend Legend by Marie Lu (and another book of hers, The Young Elites) and Graceling by Kristin Cashore. I dont really like YA and I’m a picky reader so for these books to have my attention means theyre pretty good!
Some classics Ive enjoyed (and ones we’ll probably need to read at our schools) are Great Expectations and Silas Marner.
I just picked up a good book called Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman. So far, it’s a pretty amazing book and I am very impressed by Shusterman’s writing style! (It goes without saying that I recommend it )
@Jec7777 I’m a fan of Neal Shusterman for sure. I haven’t read Challenger Deep yet, but the Everwild and Unwind series are fantastic. His stand alone books like Full Tilt and The Schwa Was Here are great, too. Neal Shusterman books (at least for me) aren’t the incredible, mind bending, super true that the best of the best books are, but they are consistently really solid reads. I kind of see him as the Andrew Clements of YA.
