What YA book are you reading RIGHT NOW?

I read half of The Summer I Turned Pretty, never got to finish the book because I was borrowing it from somebody and they wanted it back, so I think I just might buy it.

Drummer - Memoris of a Teenage Amnesiac sounds like a good book. I might have to check that out too.

And right now I'm reading Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles. I originally bought it because I love the cover and people kept telling me how good it was. I'm only a few pages in, and I'm in-love with. I guess I'll just have to give it time for it to grow on me.

I'm reading "Feed" by MT Anderson. So far it's even better than I expected. YA sci-fi FTW!

Started the first Vampire Academy book last night. After seeing the latest one fly off the shelves at work, I figured I was missing out on something. I'm already 100 pages in. I kept thinking, 'Oh, I can stay up another half an hour... another ten minutes... okay, this is the last chapter... do I have to go to work tomorrow?'

So, yeah, I'm hooked.

V - That's how I was when I started reading VA. Awesome book. Wait to you get to the other books in the series....WOW.

Elysium said:

V - That's how I was when I started reading VA. Awesome book. Wait to you get to the other books in the series....WOW.

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Haha, I've already started calculating whether I can afford the rest of the series this week or not. I also checked to see if Last Sacrifice is being released in Ireland/UK at the same time as the US, and it is, thank god!

vfury said:

Haha, I've already started calculating whether I can afford the rest of the series this week or not. I also checked to see if Last Sacrifice is being released in Ireland/UK at the same time as the US, and it is, thank god!

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I read the entire series UTD in 3 days! Can't wait for Last Sacrifice to be released on December 7, 2010. It's the last one in the series!

This week I read Gentlemen and Incarceron.

I'm reading a book called Ondine. It's pretty cute - simple, but funny, haha

I'm reading The Dark Divine right now. I love the main character and Daniel...yum. I heard a lot of great things about this book, so I'm glad it wasn't a huge let down.

I am currently beginning the Pendragon series, after many months of strong encouragement to do so by my girlfriend. So far it is good, though I am not so sure it is amazing like I was led to believe.

I haven't read the books yet but I've been hearing that Miley Cyrus has been cast as the lead in the movie adaptation of Wake by Lisa McMann. I think I'm already NOT going to see it.

I'm reading The Fool's Girl by Celia Rees. It's a historical novel set in 1601 that draws on the story of Twelfth Night and has fantasy overtones. I'm really enjoying it.

MM

I'm nearing the end of Maureen Johnson's The Bermudez Triangle and I'm spotting the similarities with my own WIP Partings and Greetings and feeling a little inadequate as a result.

Just recently finished Melissa Marr's Radiant Shadows. Not as great as Fragile Eternity, but still a fair read.

DonnaDuck said:

I haven't read the books yet but I've been hearing that Miley Cyrus has been cast as the lead in the movie adaptation of Wake by Lisa McMann. I think I'm already NOT going to see it.

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If she is cast, I'm out too. Can't stand that girl.


I just finished Life As We Knew It. Not as great as I had hoped.

Reread Everything Beautiful by Simmone Howell, and now I'm reading her first book, Notes from the Teenage Underground.

AlishaS said:

Just picked up The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
This is a little outside my usually genre, it's still YA but from what I can tell, it's just a straight up romance. No Vampires, or were's or fae here lol

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I read that last week (?) I really liked it. Such a nice relaxing read I hope you like it

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Started the first Vampire Academy book last night. After seeing the latest one fly off the shelves at work, I figured I was missing out on something. I'm already 100 pages in. I kept thinking, 'Oh, I can stay up another half an hour... another ten minutes... okay, this is the last chapter... do I have to go to work tomorrow?'

So, yeah, I'm hooked.

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I've considered checking them out (library has them all). Am not really a YA vamp fan, but I am a fan of good books And I've heard they are great story regardless of the vampire genre.

emma_kate said:

I'm reading a book called Ondine. It's pretty cute - simple, but funny, haha

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Oh, yeah, I liked that book. It was definitely different

DonnaDuck said:

I haven't read the books yet but I've been hearing that Miley Cyrus has been cast as the lead in the movie adaptation of Wake by Lisa McMann. I think I'm already NOT going to see it.

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Oh, poor Miley. I actually think she's pretty cute But I can;t imagine her being Janey in Wake? Seemes like a really odd choice to me. I do think she'd make a cool Laurel in Wings though (one of those generic disney-esque type tween things )

elissa said:

Reread Everything Beautiful by Simmone Howell, and now I'm reading her first book, Notes from the Teenage Underground.

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I just picked up Notes From the Teenage Underground too

Just picked up Ironside by Holly Black today. Halfway and I still can't put it down.

Reading Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd with short stories by Holly Black, Sara Zarr, Scott Westerfield, etc. This is totally my kind of book!

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I've considered checking them out (library has them all). Am not really a YA vamp fan, but I am a fan of good books And I've heard they are great story regardless of the vampire genre.

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I do like paranormal stuff, but I remember the first book came out here right when the Twilight effect was hitting full-force; I was too jaded by vampire books to give them much notice, though there was several customers who told me how much they enjoyed the series.

I'm glad I finally gave them a try. While their covers may not stand out, the story does. It's different enough from most of the paranormal I've read in the last year or so.

I've just finished The Bermudez Triangle and liked it a lot.

The last two Carnegie shortlistees still haven't arirved from Hampshire Library so I won't get to read the whole shortlist before the prize is awarded on the 24th. Next up is a beta-read (adult SF) which will probably take me the best part of two weeks as it's 165k words long. The author is a member of the same writers' group as me (and is on AW as well) - I liked her previous novel a lot so I am looking forward to this one.

I am reading Obernewtyn...it's taken me two days to get 28 pages. Im trying to follow the story, but keep getting lost.

DrummerGirl:
It's killing me, waiting for Stolen. It's in my lilvrary's catalogue, but not set for release until after the announcement of the YA book of the year (August). The librarians are reading it atm, and loving i

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I think that Stolen is one of the best YA books I've read all year. It's up for the Branford Boase award and I've got my fingers crossed that it wins.

MM

Finally got my hands on Twilight. (Bought it at the library book sale for 25 cents.) I'm finding it hard to plod through. I'm bored but reading it to try to figure out what's so great about it. Maybe the angsty-ness? But that's another thread here on AW.

Carry on.

finished Ondine! It was very different from my usual reads but I thought it was cute and funny!