Alexie Rules

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As you may remember, I was a judge for the National Book Awards this year. This meant reading 256 books in four months and discussing them with the other judges: Pete Hautman, James Howe, Patty McCormick, and Elizabeth Partridge. All of these folks are wonderfully smart and fantastic to talk about books to, which made the crazy-making reading schedule not only survivable, but a real pleasure.

They are all also terribly polite, which is a good thing. Here’s why: the judges meet the DAY OF THE AWARD CEREMONY to decide the winner of the award! We had lunch at a secret location and spent three hours hashing out which of the five nominees was the winner. It was stimulating and wonderful, and also heart-breaking to pick only one.

(Rumor has it that the non-fiction judges argued all the way up to that night, with many insults and brickbats thrown. But we were all very nice. That’s YA for you.)

There was barely time to rush home and get into black tie for the gala ceremony. Justine and I did the whole prom night thing and took photos of ourselves. It was also our sixth anniversary, so we had two excuses for frocking up!

And, of course, the only thing that’s more fun than wearing black tie is wearing black tie on the subway. Here we are in our finery en route to Times Square:

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The best thing about selecting the winner that day was that I only had to keep the secret for five hours. So now the news is out: The winner in the young people’s category was Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, who gave a lovely and heartfelt speech about how much cooler it is to write YA than adult fiction. Amen, dude.

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Alexie on giant screen and as a tiny bright blob on the right.

The book is about a Spokane Indian kid who commutes from his impoverished reservation to attend a relatively wealthy all-white school. It’s wickedly funny, an incredibly easy read, and yet has all kinds of epic emotional impact. Great cartoons as well.

But I must mention that all the nominees were great. Here are the other four in alphabetical order:

Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One
Two stories, set decades apart, intertwine and show how magic reenters the world. Dark and fascinating, and one of the more complex narratives I’ve read in years. (12 up)

M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow
A teenage girl in a Hatian family in the US tells how she killed her abusive step father. A darkly funny glimpse into a brutal immigrant experience, with a vast emotional wallop. A first novel! (14 up)

Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Told half in gorgeous pictures and half in text, a young boy discovers mechanical secrets inside the walls of the Paris train station. Magical storytelling, completely original. (10 up)

Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl
A seventeen-year-old girl in a small town lives with a bad reputation. Pitch perfect realism. Another first novel! (12 up)

Go read them all!

171 thoughts on “Alexie Rules”

  1. yeah more books to read… must put on christmas list!!! o uh i think i got number 1! yippie… sry been wanting to do that since summer 🙂

  7. Oh my gosh 256 books in 4 months thats is soo crazy-making ❗ Those books sound really good.
    Now my list of books is even longer ❗

  12. i was on the thing that goes from long island to manhattan (forgot what its called)with my dad in my nicest and only dress it was weird

  13. Congrats Scott-sensei!! procrastinating is so fun. not that you were procrastinating but still. its nice to hear that you made some new friends. and you look ever so classy in that bow tie. 😛
    😀

  14. Well, i had heard about the book of the idian but it sounded kinda boring, but if you insist. Today was book fair for our class. We had 2 cases out of the 50. Wow, 2 cases of middle school, the rest all little kids.

  15. Sounds like fun. hehe. The whole “meeting in a secret place for lunch” thing for some reason gives me the image of the scene in So Yesterday when Hunter is supposed to meet Mandy with Jen. Congrats to Alexie. And now I have books to read! yay!

    Happy anniversary, too!!

  16. Awwww… You look so cute together! Happy Anniversary! I wish I could’ve read all of those books…

  18. I really need to find Skin Hunger… Justine talked about it so much! I’m having a hard time finding it though…

    Y’all look so pretty! I love the subway pic!

  19. well, i must say, that’s THE CRAZIEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD. i mean, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX BOOKS—in FOUR MONTHS?!?!?!

    *scrambles for calculator*

    that’s…that’s approximately 2.1 books a day (if two months had 31 days, and two had 30)!
    that takes skillz, man, skillz.

    and lucky middle school people, we don’t even have a book fair past 6th grade in my town.
    but the thing that depresses me most? that our jr high/high school library has only 2 scott books: specials, and the last days. i told the librarian (in my nicest little voice) that there are two books preluding specials in the trilogy/series/whatever-you-choose-to-call-it, plus another book following it, that the last days is the sequel to another book, and that our library would greatly benefit from the purchase of those novels.

    she said, “oh, i’ll look into it. ” well, nearly a year later, THERE’S NO OTHER SCOTT BOOKS THERE.

    but back to the original topic…i already requested four of the five books from my town (much more wonderful) library!

  22. Well all my library books of
    scott-las are Uglies and Pretties. I mean, COME ON! Theses people have no taste in books!

  23. i so read stroy of a girl! it was like bogus good! i read it in less than 12 hours. my family would call me pathetic, but i would call it an obsession. btw, im reading extras finally, and i love it! good going scott!

  24. hey umm, how if i was lookeing into it woule i be able to do the award thing. like i mean me reading all those books and doing what you did. that would be cool and fun in my eyes. especially since you get all the books free!

  29. wow. 😯 57. so what’s the first one on the list, lizzy-wa?

    and bran-la: at least they’re in order! lucky…but that’s what town library’s are for! i heart mine…it’s so wonderful i remember when i was in like 2nd grade and the magic treehouse books were popular…my library had nearly every book, and i read them all, thus, my reading obsession was born! lol 8)

  31. number one on the list is twilight. but im trying to avoid it by reading Magic or Madness r…e….a….l….l…y…slow. yeah.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😮

  32. I was going to read twilight but i don’t think i’m going to. They started a twilight club at my school and its only open to 8th graders. lol

  37. oh, serifina zane, my mom does that, too! when she has a good book to read, the highest compliment is to say “put it in the bathroom…” hmmm…same w/magazines, but the only problem is that the things sometimes get covered w/water…it’s sad…
    oh, and about the “to read” lists, another book is really good: it’s called, “i’d tell you i love you, but then i’d have to kill you,” then the next book is called “cross my heart and hope to spy…” it’s about a girl who goes to a boarding school for spies….
    oh, and scott-la! so good to have you back again!! and happy anniversary!! you look totally kick in that black tie thing…
    oh, i keep on saying “oh…” totally random of me… 😳
    oh ( 😳 ) and totally bogusly long post, too! 😳
    oh, ( 😳 ) and flower-child-something-ah says hi…she’s my sis…one of them, neways…
    gtg! have to do my chore 🙄 URGH!
    -Riderchild-wa :mrgreen:

  38. it’s gotta be said,
    there’s something insanely fun about being dressed up on the metro (subway, muni…)
    only it can be dangerous,
    to be a teenage girl in a dress,
    at night.
    cause the homeless people stare… O_O

  39. hehe. hobos. there are a bunch of hobos at the albertsons my scool bus passes. we named them. theres Bob, Billy Bob, Billy Sue, and Nicole. nicole is a guy. but we thot he was a girl when we named him, so the name kinda stuck. hehe.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😯

  40. Haha I can’t imagine being dressed up on the subway(Though it should be hilarious)

    Story of A Girl is actully really good. I just finished it

  41. well, i’ve read like 50+ books in three months without a deadline…..i read waaaay fast.

    knew today was gonna be a good day when i got home from school to a free copy of uglies on my doorstep. (i’ve already got one, but still)

    my middle school librarian would buy whole lists of books i made. i will never forgive her for thinking Peeps was the third in the Uglies trilogy though.

  42. I loved that book! I bought it in the airport on Sunday morning (I spent a lot of time on planes over the weekend) and finished it on the trip from Boston to Chapel Hill. It was amazing. Sherman Alexie is brilliant–I’m so glad that he won.

  43. haha, on sunday i went to the city w/ a bunch of friends, and we took the suway to get to canal street. none of us had ever been on a subway before, and there were no open seats when we got on so we had to hold onto a pole. unfortunately, we weren’t holding on tight enough when the subway first started moving, and at the first jerk we screamed and almost fell.

    it was pretty fun though, b/c on the way back we had gained better balance and were spinning around and between the poles. yeah there was no one else in the car that’s why we were able to… :mrgreen:

  44. EEK! I just saw him speak in Austin at the Texas Book festival (You should come down one year!!! It’s amazing>) and got the book signed. Yay. He’s just amazing. I’m glad you choose his book. 🙂

  47. last question…then i must go to bed…are you ‘joy from manhattan’ or is that just an account that you liked??? fawesome photos either way…

    i wanna sign up for the simon pulse thing! darn i must’ve missed the link; was it in a blog post?

    sry that was two. oh well off to sleep!

  48. scott that is amazingly fawesome.
    im sort of late commenting cus the teachers decided that right before thanksgiving break would be an excellent time to pile on the homework and projects.
    i am so ready for a whole week of sleeping in.

    scott i think you should post the list of the 256 books you read in the past four months.
    we can all read them adn pick our own winner.
    or just read them all in four months..

    anyway. ive got projects to finish..gak

  49. hey! i wanna sign up two! hehe. thats pretty wierd Taylor-wa…you just said everything i was going to say…except the apologizing. i never apologise for tallking to much. hehe.

    but yeah. those pics are so kick. i have yet to post my costume for i cannot get it to copy and paste. stupidness.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😆

  51. I gotta read those. Especially ‘Story of a Girl’, I’ve been wanting to read that one. YA totally rules 🙂

  52. wow…serafina’s got skillz! seriously when the whole lolcat contest was going on i hearted your winning entry (eyeball tattoo…lol), although at the time i didn’t know whose it really was! but you should really go into art—but you probably already know that.

    anyway, i’m gonna go do some obsessive googling on that offer, even if it is too late for uglies!

  53. ahh I HATE missing out on so many comments b/c there are so many things I want to say…like how I loved I’d tell you I loved you but then I’d have to kill you” (finished it 4 the 2nd time 2day) and cant wait to get “Cross my heart and hope 2 spy”…and how I TOTALLY HATE how teachers always give u homework rite b4 Thanksgiving break and evry other long break from school…and how I don’t think my school has even one Scott book (lame, lame LAME!!)…and how i have ttly started making a list of books I need 2 read (I just started it around 12 today) – with Twilight at the top!! Along with “Snakehead”, which just came out the 13th (so it’s bound to be good, of course, coming out on the 13th. And I’ve been waiting for it for a whole year.)…And how you aren’t missing out on much if your school doesn’t have book fairs, they suck badly)

    But i can’t say any of that because its bringing up a subject that has already come and gone.

    Plz tell me i’m not the only 1 w/ this problem. maybe if I stayed up latr, I could-…or is 12am already 2 late? (I was up til 1:15 exact the othr night then woke up at 6:30 the next mrning 2 do homework I forgot 2 do.)

    This why I always have such long comments!!! I srsly need my own blog but parentals would kill me if i did…

  54. Well im about to eat a brownie. Oh, not just any brownie, a brownie with an inch of whip cream and a layer of chacolate. Oh, and i got the last days. Um sad its not about Lacy and OMG I FORGOT HIS NAME! Someone please tell me his name. the point is i loved them together!

  55. bran-la: you mean Cal! and yeah it’s not about them but it’s just as good anyway, i loved the last days

    allie-wa: i have that problem too…and then (b/c i’m JUST THAT OBSESSIVE) i have to read through all of the comments that have gone up since i’ve last checked, too—unless it’s like 100 or something, and then i skim. :mrgreen:

  56. OOOO YA! I knew that somewhere deep down i knew his name, just coulnt think about it. O and i read the first to chapters. At first a thought Moz was a girl, guess not. Pleas correct me if it i a girl. But i think its a guy.

  57. moz is a guy. a pretty cool guy. the last days rocks. and yeah, it’s Cal.

    thanks taylor! glad u liked my entry. and thanks for the compliment! i never think i’m that good at art…especially not people. but writing will always be my first choice of a career, of course…..

    i ttly have that prblm 2, allie-wa, whenever i leave for a while. i just kinda comment on them anyway or regret it. then again, i got no life so i’m on here all the time.

    i’m eating banana bread. and reading Maddigan’s Fantasia (post-apocalyptic circuses pull me in, even if they are MG) and watching fuse.

  59. Ya i should be doing something useful right now but, w/e. Im lazy. Lol. I like cinnamon bread. Have you ever tried. The best! So far, the last days id good (so far as in chapter 3).
    serafina Zane: Im pretty sure you have a life. From just hearing you comment on Scott-las blog i wish you were my friend or at least new you! You seem like a fun person!
    They say that the worst critics are yourself!

  60. yeah, but you might notice that i’m commenting on a blog on the internet. that in itself shows i have no life.
    people like me better on the internet then in real life. that’s slightly sad. but then again i am awesome. lol.
    and i don’t mind. i’m tremendously antisocial.

    i’m not a cinnoman bread person. i made banana bread today for the second time this week….and i smell mexican food now.

    the last days rock.
    i confuse this guy in my math class because i’m always making last days logos and stuff.

  63. You seem fine to me!
    You dont seem antiscoical, those are people who literally were muzzles.
    im pretty sure ur not a dog.
    I like bananas. YUM!
    I will now bore my self some more. yeah. whoa. (bored face and unexcited yells)
    There is no one on to talk to!

  67. Yeah i check the blogs on here all the time and if leave for a while i have to read all the blogs that were posted when i wasn’t constantly checking the computer screen. Yup i have no life. 😆

  72. mmm, banana bread, my favorite!!!! my dad makes the best!!!! i like to put peanut butter on mine. some people think that’s weird, but it’s really good!!!!

    yay, more books to read!!! a while ago someone commented on here and talked about alot of good vampire books, so i wrote them down, and i’m just now getting to them all. blue bloods was one of them, and is completely AWESOME!!!! it’s right up there with all of scott-la’s books!!!

    in earlier comments it sounded like some people on here are already on thanksgiving break. are you? i have only 2 days next week!!! it’s completely flip flopped!! 2 day week and a 5 day weekend!!! and my school is pretty nice about homework over school breaks. except freshman science. last year spring break totally sucked. we had to do a stupid rube goldberg project. and my teachers are just lucky that me and my partner don’t ever go anywhere on spring break, cuz if one of us did, my mom would have to yell at them. and she would. anyway, cya!!! this was a long post. but so fun!!!

  74. hmmm….person listing lots of vampire books…..funny feeling that was me.
    if so, yes! i influence the world.
    if not, WHO? who has book reccomendations they have been hiding from me?!! gimmie!

    i got 2 and a half days of school next week but i’m skipping 2/3 of one.

    i have a 10 paragraph essay to write that i don’t know the topic of on a book i haven’t read and lost my copy of and it’s due monday.

  75. we just got out todayy..
    full week of sleep yess.
    i have to do a book report this week, but thats nothing compared ot what some teachers give out over break.

    hmm..i plan on sleeping adn reading. a lot.

  77. ooh, that’s bad, serafina zane. if that happened to me, i would be freaking out so much i’d go insane. and i don’t think it was you who recommended those books. the name was way shorter. i don’t even remember what post it was on, so i can’t tell you.

    yeah, i’m gonna read alot too. i mean, what else is there to do on a school break? you know, except obsessively watching and recording the 3 things the jonas brothers are gonna be on in the next week!!! yeah, i love them, they are sooooo awesome!!! ah, my 2 obsessions, books, and jonas brothers. i will get alot of both this thanksgiving!! ha, guess what i give thanks for!! lol!!

  81. yummm…banana bread. i make the most fawesomest banana bread! i rule at cooking stuff. but i dont do it to often cause my mom makes me clean it up.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😀

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  86. hehe. yeah Co-Prez-la. your were fawesome. i hope you get better! im always sick on the weekends. it stinks! like, i wont feel so brite an shiny when i get home from scool on friday. then on saturday i have a fever and have to miss EVERYTHING! then on sunday i feel kinda bad but im getting better. then on monday im coughing up a storm and needing to blow my nose every two seconds, but the parentals make me go to scool anyway! just cause im not running a fever or puking! wazup with that?!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 💡

  88. oh, serifina zane, in answer to ur previous question about snakehead, i think it’s another alex rider book…and i totally know how you feel, allie-wa from comment 53…see? the fact that i’m talking 2 u right now is living proof that i hate it too…
    i finished i’d tell u i love you but then i’d have to kill u…i’m waiting for cross my heart and hope to spy to come from my liberry…i ordered it WEEKS ago! pain and suffering!!
    i have school on monday, tuesday, and somewhat on wednesday…but then have thursday, friday, saturday, and sunday off too!! yay!! and i don’t really have homework over long vacations…i’m homeschooled….
    well, right now my sis, flower-child-something-ah wants me to turn on some music…gtg!
    -Riderchild-wa :mrgreen:

  90. Err I have to go to school 2 days next week. It’s pointless, really.

    I can’t wait til I see if my Special pictures came out…I used a really crappy disposable camera so I’m not sure how they turned out…

    But I can’t wait to see!!!!!!

    hehe I’m home right now. alone. its fawesome. Cause I blast my music on three different stereos in the house.

    Serafina, why do you search obscure things on Wikipedia? I actually edit the articles sometimes. I have an account. But I can’t say what it is b/c the peoples there probably think I’m 18+. Which is kinda cool yet sad, considering…well, I’m not. And I don’t want them to find out. It would kinda ruin reputation.

    Scott-la has his own category on Wikipedia. Go to the Uglies article and go down to the bottom where it says Category:Novels by Scott Westerfeld. Fawesome, huh?

    I actually love being sick. Unless I still have to go to school. Like this week – I’ve had a sore throat all week, my temp is 99.0, but I STILL have to go to school. But at least I didn’t have to play stupid games in PE and run around the gym floor. That would suck. Especially since I have giant blisters on my feet. I mean, they cover my whole heel.

    ok, was that disturbing/nasty/tmi?

    hooray for long comments!!

  91. Yes! Alex Rider! i took so long on my comment that I didn’t see yours, Riderchild-wa!

    If you want to read Snakehead, then you must read Stormbreaker, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, Scorpia, and Ark Angel first. I’ve been waiting for Snakehead for forever. And its finally out and I’m getting it today!! yay

  92. i haven’t quite finished ark angel yet…heh, heh…but i have read all of the rest!!
    oh, and lizzy-wa…if u want to read cross my heart and hope to spy, u have to read i’d tell you i love you, but then i’d have to kill you…(oh, and they’re by allie carter)
    ull really love them!!
    oh no!! u guys have given me the obsessive-checking disease!!! AUGH!!
    well, i’ll probly be back in like five minutes…
    -Riderchild-wa :mrgreen:

  93. okay, this won’t be a long post, i promise!! i just forgot 2 mention something…(u know, we would be able to cut the amount of comments in half if we didn’t all post evry five minutes…)
    i’m just gonna check the liberry to see if cross my heart and hope to spy, because i’ve been waiting for t for WEEKS, WEEKS, i tell u, WEEKS! my sis, warriorchild-wa, just woke up, and it’s like 1:35…and almost 100 comments…hmm….this is a sign that scott-la should like post again…
    i do this homeschool science-club thingey, and by our next meeting, we have to classify the horse, cat, and human (like the kingdom, phylum, class, species thing…) actually last year we did this classifying thing and i chose the horse, and i still remember the species…equus caballas…i have all of this pointless stuff stuck in my brain now…poor me.
    right now we’re listening to les miserables…good movie, about the french revolution (i think)
    okay, i know…very long post…sorry…i’ll shut up now…(meaning like five minutes…)
    -Riderchild-wa :mrgreen:

  94. URGH!!! 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 i just checked!! i cant believe it!! it hasn’t arrived…only another alias prequel novel (actually pretty good, but i want cross my heart and hope to spy! i’ll now start pouting, and i don’t think u want to hear me…
    -Riderchild-wa 😡

  97. yeah. i think some of us (like, say, me) need to cut back on commenting.

    and yes. sickness sucks. have spent whole day on couch.

    oooh….that’s an alex rider book. suspected as much.
    same thing happened to me with Valiant, Riderchild. weeks and weeks and weeks and then it turned out that the stupid library system had me chasing after the one paperback copy when there were like 80 available hardcovers. arrrgh!

    and i think we digress pretty fast.

    and i was looking up Code Lyoko cuz i was just remembering how i used to watch that show and it was awesome. it’s funny, looking back, but all those themes (teenagers at boarding school with other world defeating stuff getting possessed, emo main guy character and goth girlfriend, blond slacker guy, geeks, ect) have all really influenced me. crazy.

    i hope i get better by monday—i want my braces OFF!

  104. my school is still gonna be in session on monday and tuesday, but then we get a five-day weekend from wednesday to sunday.

    luckily, I’M GOING TO THE ATLANTIS RESORT TOMORROW!!! seriously google it. it’s ah-mazing! yeah i haven’t been on vaction in 2 years so i’m flipping out over this…and i can get a tan. i heart tans. i heart summer/hot weather in general. it’s just my parents and me that are going from tomorrow to friday, but i’m so talkative that i’ll probably make around 10 friends there. seriously, on our last vacation we went on a cruise, and by the time i got home i had fifteen email addresses/phone #s of new friends. so i guess i can’t really include myself in the “antisocial” category.

    on the other hand, being overly social has it’s cons…for example, people get annoyed if you talk too much. i babble. a lot. like right now…

    i convinced my dad to bring his laptop there, though, b/c that’s how addicted to email/this blog/the internet in general i am. so hopefully i’ll get a chance to use it and comment on here a bit.

    k i linked my name to the website for it. click! click now!

    are ya seeing the annoying-ness yet? are ya?
    😀

  106. Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh

    I have to convince my mom that the internet isn’t evil. Any ideas? anyone? anyone?

    *crickets chirping*

    well, geez, don’t all speak at once! lol jk.

    but srsly she thinks that i’m like gonna commit suicide like that girl on the news

  107. oh one more thing that’ll probably be the opposite of serafina: i’ve been accused of having ADHD more times than i can count. seriously, i NEVER. STOP. MOVING. i’ll just be sitting in class, tapping my feet or swinging my legs, anything! and then i’m pretty random too, but—lucky for me—people don’t get annoyed at that very much.

    but no, i’m not one of those girls who downplays their intelligence.
    really.
    ask any of my friends, they’ll vouch for me :mrgreen:
    so yeah, don’t think that. i’m just a teenager with a yet-undiagnosed case of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

  108. and why do you need to convince your mom of that, allie-wa?

    but i suggest telling her about how schools can have websites, and (at least on my schools) they have a sex-offender registry that’s available online, as well as at the building, that any parent can check.
    which checks out at non- 👿 in my opinion!

    and how authors can have websites, not just “bad people,” and who can disagree with the idea that authors make good role models?

    does she have any favorite stores/companies that have websites? does she ever shop online? is THAT evil too?

    hehe. hopefully that was at least a little bit of help! 😀

  109. OK Scott I know you look at this sometimes so hopefully you’ll read this.

    OK I love the Uglies books and I reallly want to audition for the part of Tally. In the movie being Tally would be so insanely bubbly/icy I would scream for a good hour. So do you have any information? Thank you so much for taking time off of your busy schedule to read this. =)

    -Callywa

  110. thanks for posting, Taylor!!
    yeah, it would be SO bubbly/icy {as Cally-wa says} to be in the actual uglies or midnighters movie/s!!
    y am i so hiper?i’ve been adding !s all day.sheesh.even i’m annoying to myself…
    ok, well, yeah about the persuasion of the internet for your mom,”MOM!YOU DON’T LIVE IN MY SHOES…IVE BEEN DOING HOMEWORK LIKE ALL DAY!!!AND WHAT DO YOU THINK I DO IT ON?YEAH, THE COMPUTER-SMART ONE!!”jk.try writing it down.think of ideas is much easier when it’s written.good luck!

  112. Yeah! A fourth midnighters would be awesome. Especially with Darkling Werewolves. Which is why we have an HQ: http://chasingmidnightwerewolves.wordpress.com I always mess that up so hopefully it works this time.

    My mom hates the internet because she thinks I’m doing dangerous stuff. She hates fanlib just because she saw the word f*cking on a thread. That I wasn’t part of.

    And then she saw that story about the girl that committed suicide b/c of a Myspace friend, and totally used that to support her ‘internet is evil’ thing. Which isn’t fair!! need I even say why?

    hmm…I don’t think she knows actually what this is. she just says “Westerblog” (It sounds really dumb when she says it) She doesn’t know about the HQ…well, she does, but she doesn’t know what it is (A blog to persuade Scott to write another Midnighters book – yeah.). She says I am “addicted” and I ask her what is so bad about that, and just says “Its not healthy”. Why isn’t it healthy? well, “anything you do that much isn’t healthy” according to her. I was on 15 minutes yesterday before she told me to get off. ttly NOT fair.

    And trust me, I’ve tried everything I can think of.

    *moving on*

    hmm…I don’t know. I wouldn’t want to be in an uglies movie. If they are actually going to have one, because at this state, I’m not even sure they will ever make one.

    It might be better that way. I mean, I don’t want them to ‘ruin’ Uglies by making a crappy movie.

  113. i dunnno….it probably is unhealthy, but who says that’s a bad thing?

    and actually, i do that too Taylor, i’m like always tapping my fingers or stuff like that. constantly have songs stuck in my head too.

    and, like, the internet’s not evil if you aren’t an idiot about it. like, avoid people who seem like pedophiles. don’t mention your age/location/ect. don’t keep a public myspace page and then post that you’re having a party where everyone can see it. don’t get TOO invested in it. do something else (once in a while). don’t like post pictures of yourself, especially not stupid slutty ones. don’t talk to people you don’t know about wierd stuff.
    DON’T BE AN IDIOT.

    see? really not that hard. but yeah, some people are just crazy about that sort of thing. they want to blame everything on tecnology.

    i’m cynical about the movie-production process, so i kind of hope there isn’t an uglies or midnighters movie.

  116. you also got 104, a multiple of 13. So…lucky you.

    And I’m not an idiot on the internet. I mean, people here know my age (some of them)…but so what? as long as they don’t know where I live…its not like I tell people where I go to school…and I would never post pictures of myself (unless its just like my hand to show flash tattoos or whatever. hard to identify a person by their hand…)

    hehe. I have a confession to make. Allie actually isn’t my birth name. But it is my nickname…what I go by.

    I’m not even on here all that often. I do other stuff. lots. of. other. stuff. Like, SCHOOL for example.

  118. I kinda used my real name.
    Yeah, i think it is dangerous. It is. There are some really creepy people in this world!

  119. Im soooo glaf i dont have school this whole next week. YES! i mean, hello!, no school. Who wouldnt pass up thsi great offer. I can acculy read, do things, read, shop, read, see my friends, and read! Did i say read? OH, only 4 times!

  120. OOO, and i know how you guys got the Fawesome thing, The Last Days. I love how he says fool instead of cool. Thats so fool. I love it. Yeah. Everyday my language becaome so much fooler because scott-la has a lot of book words, that no body else knows about!

  126. I agree with the first name. but there are some names that are kinda one in a million. Like, if there was a guy named Zane, he would be easy, you dont no that many Zanes. I am really likeing the last days. I havent read much, distractions, but i will get to it, i promise.

  130. What’s the essay about?

    You know, I would make a longer comment and all but my sister would ttly tell…

  131. yeah….sad thing is that it’s only been two days. we post waaaay too much. i mean, friday to sunday 128 posts.

    how bout some more Hiro chapters?
    or an Extra name post? (or a Last Days or So Yesterday or Peeps one, for that matter)
    or some fanart…perhaps from me??? or some stuff about Levithan?
    or (while i’m being demanding and hopeful) some sort of…fourth midnighters? with some sort of…darkling werewolves????

  132. the essay’s on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. except i haven’t read the book. and i lost my copy. and i’m 600 words below the goal. and it’s due tommorrow.
    i am so doomed.
    i’m great at making crap up though. and inserting “i like pork” and song lyrics and that ever-useful phrase “And then the giant hail rained down upon the Tokyo buisnessman in revenge for his sins.”

  133. Well, i am sitting here, fun. I was going ot floss my teeth but decided not to. you know. i think im going to make fan art and send the pic to scott-la. There something fun, useful, and will make me famous. No, jk. I do it because i love scott-las amazing powers. BOOKS!

  135. My mom never even buys ice cream…but I did have a large size Wendy’s frosty yesterday while reading Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz…fun…instead of using periods for this comment I have to use ellipses…the dot-dot-dots…lol I can’t even believe I know what they are called…Yes, I want more Hiro chapters…better yet, fourth midnighters…

    how many of these comments does Scott-la actually read…

    And the Tokyo-ma-phrase-thing makes me think of that scene in The Day After Tomorrow with the giant hail in Japan…is that where you got it from…or is it from somewhere else…that I’ve never heard of…and does your teacher actually rad the report…

    I didn’t use one period in this whole comment…

  136. i wonder…probably not past 100.

    and yes, that’s totally what i was watching as i typed that. u win the prize. i’m testing to see if he actually reads it, in fact. or just freak out whoever has to peer-edit it.

    ellipses rock…

    we only got ice cream cuz my throat hurt a lot yesterday and i couldn’t talk so my mom decided to buy some.

    i’m working on a City of Bones fanvid right now! yeah!

  137. HI 😛
    i am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
    sleepy 🙁
    HAPPY ANIVER :clueless: (i hope that that works)
    I HAVE NOOO CLUE HOW TO SPEEL THAT BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
    board so now i must go back to sleep

    even so that it is 3:35 pm
    i lust read i’d tell you that i love you then i’d have to kill you
    great book you should read it i will read cross my heart hope to spy
    (the sequal) did i spell that right ❓
    after that i will read these books that i just got called
    i forgot the name but whatever
    i just know that it has the word barcode in it
    i lost my voise
    not fun
    it hurts to talk
    i am feeling very random right now so i just have to say that
    i hate hanna montanna +tha jonas bro.
    sorry too lazy to fix
    gtg
    sorry about the long post 🙂

  139. Its not four here! Ha.
    Im getting sick. I have to always blow my nose and i sneeze a lot. O and Steph-la! you made the page weird wil you so…….. thing! URG! I hate it when people do that, its all weird looking now!

  142. That would come in handy…cause my dad won’t let me use his laptop for another 4 weeks, and there is no othe way to charge it…

    And I will be on the road 12+ hours for Thankgiving.

    Jesus help me.

    I was giong to read the Barcode book but I sorta forgot about it. It looks stupid or a ripoff on Uglies.

  143. no, it seriously wasn’t. i’ve read it—ttly different. plus, i’m pretty sure it was released BEFORE uglies was.
    like, it’s hard to explain without spoilers but it’s really totally different than uglies. i mean, if you’re going to be all general like that than every fantasy book is a ripoff of Harry Potter and every sci-fi book is a ripoff of Uglies. but they aren’t.
    true, they’re both govermental futuristic distopias, but they’re totally different in what the goverment is doing.
    arrg! so hard to explain why they’re different without spoilers.
    and it’s not stupid. first one’s a little detatched and formulaic, but the second one (the Barcode Rebellion) is awesome.

  151. O my gosh I’m soo excited I got one of my cousins to read the uglies seris! i didn’t spell that right. Whatever. Anyway she loves it! I finally got someone else to read scott books ❗ 😆

  152. hey Lizzy-wa tell us if you like twilight cuz i’m debating weather or not to read it

    Im going to read all of scott-la’s books first tho

  153. Serafina, put “In the dark, it’s less dangerous” Sorry, but I HATE Nirvana. But my ELA makes us listen to them.

  154. When I get home from school, I have terrific news…about me…that I just found out last night

    The anticipation is KILLing me!!

  155. Ya me to. Twilight sounds like a good book but i dont no if ill like it. So let me know to lizzy-wa.
    I dont have school!!!!!
    YEAH!
    O, and allie-wa, i want to know whats killin you. TELL ME!

  156. i didn’t like twilight. i mean, everyone on earth loves it but i got really sick of it and eclipse sucked. totally book crack. also crap. like, if you want to read it i won’t NOT reccomend it, but i can think of so many better books to read. i mean, everyone who reads it seems to love it but bella swan gets on my nerves she’s annoying and moony and the book has no plot and sigh. it’s like crack. good the first time, not as good as you remember the second, increasingly stupid and disgusting if you take the time to think about it, and eventually you grow to hate yourself for ever liking it.

    Allie-wa—i only put in Nirvana cuz i was being faithful and writing down what i was listening to during the essay-writing and my parents were watching Classic Albums-Nevermind. i also put in arbitrary Against Me! lyrics that fit waaaay too well.

    i got my braces off! i is free! and missing school!!!

  158. Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One
    that one looks the most interesting to me … right now i am finishing extras and then over break ..i am going to try to read a certain clant of light and start my book list that i made … well you wil be happy to know that midnighters and peeps is on there .. my friends say that they are wonderfull

  160. and here it is.
    WARNING AWESOME EXPOSE POST AHEAD POINTLESS YET SOMEHOW INTERESTING AND I LIKE WRITING IN CAPSLOCK. HI!
    now let’s see…in front of me i have two copies of uglies. one i bought a few months ago (pre-extras release) when i decided to buy the whole trilogy. i got sent the other one last week. they’re the same book. same cover. both paperback. same first chapter of pretties in the back. even the same add for tithe and valiant on the last page. same tagline. same synopsis. same everything.

    they’re exactly the same, in fact, except for one thing—the newer one has a little box on the top that announces it is “The New York Times Bestseller” (odd phrasing not. not “a” new york times bestseller. “THE” new york times bestseller. something oddly egotistical there…)
    and the back is different too—the suggested retail price on my old copy is $ 7.99.
    and the one labelled as an NYT bestseller is $8.99
    same book. two months later. a dollar different.

    either the cost of paper is going up, or that little phrase—that sentance fragment—is worth an extra dollar.

    people often ask what the price of fame is. the price of success. the price of a lot of people buying your book.
    i’ve found the anserw.
    the price of being on the new york times bestseller list?
    one dollar per book.

    think about THAT.

  169. *happy dance* more books.. must put on booklist… i’m a sucker for books. that’s all i want for x-mas is books/giftcards (for borders or itunes)/and more books!

  171. Hi Scott-la~
    Please believe me when I tell you that I am your number one fan I costantly check my e-mail to see if you have sent me anything please e-mail me!!!!! You are the most inspirational author EVER!!!

    Thank-You For Your Time,
    Ashley-Wa

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