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Just started LOSING FAITH by Denise Jaden.
Read The Adoration of Jenna Fox yesterday. Amazing.
And, incidentally, not contemporary.
Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway - it's fun!
I've just started BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, which is okay. Not quite believing in the male narrator at the moment as he seems such an idealised stereotype.
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I just finished Trash by Andy Mulligan. Wow, it was good. It's a great boy book--I actually cannot think of any hypothetical boy anywhere who would not love this story (um, and it appeals to gals too I reckon). It's about 3 kids who live and work in a garbage dump sorting garbage, when they discover something really good and have a bunch of thrilling adventures. The extreme poverty is really striking but it was not even a teeny bit preachy--the story speaks for itself. One of the MCs is a 10 year old orphan named Rat who lives alone in a hole at the dump and scavenges trash to survive (and you thought Harry Potter had it rough!)
And now I'm reading Will by Maria Boyd. It's hilarious, it reminds me of that show The In-Betweeners on BBC, like how comically gross and awful can high school boys get. There's also a good gay friend in there. The Something Bad Happened To The Protagonist's Father But We Won't Tell You What And Now The Protagonist Is Troubled subplot is getting tired, I have to say, but other than that this book is fun. Australian kid moons a girls' school bus and is forced to participate in the school musical's orchestra as punishment.
I finished it earlier today, Niki G -- it's truly amazing.
I'm moving on to THIRST by Christopher Pike, at the request of a friend who doesn't want to have to read it to decide if it's worth reading or not, and wants me to test-run for her, instead. I don't think it'll stack up in comparison, purely because I'm not in a hugely vampire mood.
I finished it earlier today, Niki G -- it's truly amazing.
I'm moving on to THIRST by Christopher Pike, at the request of a friend who doesn't want to have to read it to decide if it's worth reading or not, and wants me to test-run for her, instead. I don't think it'll stack up in comparison, purely because I'm not in a hugely vampire mood.
ONE of the reasons I couldn't finish that book. What 16 yr old male talks/acts/thinks like that? Srsly.I've just started BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, which is okay. Not quite believing in the male narrator at the moment as he seems such an idealised stereotype.