Give me your book recs!
Monday, February 27th, 2012 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemeninaboatLast night I started a book that was listed on the "Best Young Adult Fiction" list. I lasted 3 pages (The Poison something or another). "I can't believe how much this sucks."
I try to read fiction so I don't totally turn into my father. But I mostly dislike fiction.
I also try to read books that are popular with my patients (no, not twilight) or ones that I think they might like so I can recommend them.
Maybe I'll just go back to reading the banned book list, but they are such a bummer. Slaughterhouse Five and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Cripes.
Suggestions?
I try to read fiction so I don't totally turn into my father. But I mostly dislike fiction.
I also try to read books that are popular with my patients (no, not twilight) or ones that I think they might like so I can recommend them.
Maybe I'll just go back to reading the banned book list, but they are such a bummer. Slaughterhouse Five and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Cripes.
Suggestions?
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Date: 2012-02-28 05:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-28 07:10 am (UTC)http://rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com/233940.html
She has reviewed YA at other times, or collected lists...
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Date: 2012-02-29 02:38 am (UTC)I liked them :)
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Date: 2012-02-29 02:18 am (UTC)Let me know how The Night Circus goes.
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Date: 2012-02-29 06:32 pm (UTC)Night Circus, so far, isn't bad, but isn't amazing either.
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Date: 2012-02-29 02:27 am (UTC)Dad hates fiction. Won't read it.
I want to like fiction, I do like a bit. I wish I liked more but I have a hard time with imaginary and unrealistic concepts.
I have to mull this over more. I am hungry and not sure what I mean.
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Date: 2012-02-29 06:36 pm (UTC)I love history, for example, but sometimes I find that I love historical fiction better, because it feeds the reader information in easy-to-swallow and attractive bits and requires me to fact-check on my own, which leads to better lines of inquiry and research. Straight non-fiction history can be dry and boring and often presents too much information without imaginative framing.
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Date: 2012-02-28 05:43 pm (UTC)I just joined Goodreads (tinymammoth) and their recommendations are OK, and you can get them broken down by genre.
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Date: 2012-02-29 02:37 am (UTC)if you follow me prepare for a flood of non-fiction :)
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Date: 2012-02-28 11:15 pm (UTC)lol. I liked that book. Have you tried Percy Jackson?
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Date: 2012-02-29 02:15 am (UTC)Yeah, I read them all. The only good part about Percy Jackson was the Party Ponies and Dionysus.
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Date: 2012-02-29 02:23 am (UTC)I hear that Divergent or whatevs is good & it's YA.
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Date: 2012-02-29 02:30 am (UTC)I'm on the wait list for Divergent at the library.
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Date: 2012-02-29 02:49 am (UTC)<3
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Date: 2012-02-29 03:02 am (UTC)A Prayer for Owen Meany is a 4 star fiction book!
So is A House of Leaves
AAND The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
PEOPLE WHO COOK!
The last cookbook I read got no stars because it sucked.
Do not even get me started on what you read.
Fight Club 4 EVR.
Luff.
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Date: 2012-02-29 01:31 pm (UTC)<3 <3
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Date: 2012-02-29 05:59 am (UTC)Anything ELSE by Richard Adams. Traveller, Shardik ...
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Date: 2012-03-01 04:54 am (UTC)Did you read Incarceron?
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Date: 2012-03-11 04:20 am (UTC)Looking forward to seeing you soooooon! :)