Vox YA

Posted on by scott

There’s a profile of me and Justine in the Village Voice this week! Here’s the photo from it:

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photo by Tina Zimmer

After some slightly red-face-making descriptions of our “haute-bohemian” lifestyle, the article makes some lovely points about why it’s so great to write YA these days:

The nicest surprise amid all this careerist socializing is that the YA vanguard refuses to segregate themselves by subject matter. Authors of dark fantasy or science fiction mingle happily with those who chronicle private-school clique wars or gay romance. In contemporary young-adult lit, realism has no caste privilege over the fantastic. Teen consumers reject the thematic hierarchies that bedevil every other media market, unwittingly creating a utopia for iconoclasts like Scott and Justine, who write teen fiction because it frees their best ideas from the deadly limitations of any adult genre ghetto.

True dat. But the only reason we writers don’t make that distinction is because so many of our readers don’t.

Here’s the whole article.

241 thoughts on “Vox YA”

  4. I don’t know if I will ever enjoy reading adult fiction ( Some is fexcellent – I know ) YA is just so much more “fun” to read.

    When I am an adult, will I read adult fiction too ? — ugg.

  5. Cool picture!

    And of course it’s great to write YA. Adults don’t spam your blog with over 600 commentsin less than a week, do they? Leave that to the young adults. ๐Ÿ˜›

    What does “ironclast” mean?

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  7. Adult Fiction is OK. I like Jeff Lindsay (The Dexter Morgan Series) and Thomas Harris (The author of Silence of The Lambs). Stephen King is boring. Dean Koonz is great when he’s writing horror.
    But YA fiction is amazing not only because of our devotion, but because it isn’t run entirely by sex, which isn’t true for most of the adult fictions I’ve read (Except the ones previously mention. . . Except Dean Koonz, I suppose his are sort-of Romance guided.) And it’s just flat-out interesting!

  8. Even though I’m 20 I still prefer young adult fiction to adult fiction…it’s just more interesting to me. I even still read some books aimed for middle schoolers, like the Montmorency books.

    I have noticed the point that the article made–how YA fiction isn’t divided into subgenres, and I must say I love how that is. (But that may be because I’m not really a fan of adult fiction!:)

  9. That’s really really fawesome!
    ..I totally just finished rereading TLD for the third time >.<
    I like rereading things so much! It lets you catch things that you didn’t the first time. Like, for me, everytime I read a book for the first time really all I get is that big main plot of it, a few little details, and a good take on the main characters. I love second and third reads because you gets so much more of the little stuff! Like, I totally forgot how amazing hilarious Zahler was. I remember he was fawesome, but I didn’t remember he was that fawesome.
    And I totally forgot the whole thing about Abril Johnson not being the real thing.
    And about Alana Ray’s problem with the ‘ethics of signing’ :]
    I forgot how briliant it was!

    Anyhow! The article is really really fool. I read the whole thing and thought it was amazing.

    Oh, my brother says, “Famazing?”

  10. Yay, you posted again!
    I am liking the bubbly picture. Its real sweet. (heh heh).
    I’m glad you like us youths. I think that there is nothing very wrong with adult fiction. Some of it I’m sure is very good. But I think I will always read YA. I’m always telling my mom that she should read Uglies, but she claims that she doesn’t have time. So if I read at all as an adult, it will still be YA. Especially if you write another book, Scott-la.
    I just finished Peeps and it is sooooooooooo good โ— I really enjoyed it. Some of the biology details got me kind of squeamish (I am naturally extremely squeamish), but it was still all very interesting. I loved how you worked with the vampire myths. Up until I read Twilight, I didn’t really know much about vampires, but it was fun to learn about them according to Stephenie Meyer and now you Scott-la. I am totally going to go out as soon as possible to get The Last Days (it is numero uno on my list of books to be read!)
    ๐Ÿ˜€

  12. Firstly, great pic, Scott. You and Justine do seem to lead a very enviable bohemian life. :o)

    Secondly — and I hope I don’t get booed off the website — I am a forty year old woman who still hangs in the YA section and reads everything she can get her hands on. *I’m the one who introduced the Midnighters to my daughters, then the Uglies trilogy, then they rushed to Peeps and Last Days for themselves. I don’t plan on growing out of the YA lit, either. I love the freshness and creativity of it, the break-the-rules-and-see-what-happens of it.

    Keep writing, Scott, and the daughters and I will keep on reading!!!

  13. Unfortunately, so much YA is uninteresting to me, frankly because most of it is written as if YA means “stupid kids who dont care if we write real plots or literature” and I cling dearly to my classics and their complex prose. But most of your stuff is so creative, I keep coming back wanting to know what happens, and that kind of new, fresh and good plot sadly doesnt show up alot in YA. Its so sad. But Im glad my friend introduced me to your stuff, its great!

  14. I don’t think i’ll ever stop reading YA. Its just so much better than other stuff i’ve read. And to think, I only got started on Uglies because of my friend who stole $10 from me and bought it.
    Thanks for writing the books!
    And thanks for actually posting something Scott!

    Hannah

  15. “I like rereading things so much! It lets you catch things that you didnรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt the first time. Like, for me, everytime I read a book for the first time really all I get is that big main plot of it, a few little details, and a good take on the main characters. I love second and third reads because you gets so much more of the little stuff!” — Savvy-la loves David

    I love to reread books, too. I especially like books that you HAVE to reread. My favorite book series, the Pagan Chronicles, by (Aussie author) Catherine Jinks is one that I can reread at any time and I always find something that I missed previously.

    My only problem with rereading books is that it takes out time for me to read new books ๐Ÿ™‚

  16. PheonixKarr– I love classics, too– Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and especially Scaramouche. But I think there’s room for all kinds of reading material.

    And someday Scott Westerfeld may be on someone’s “classic list”.

  17. I like young adult fiction much better than adult fiction, which I can barely stand to read. My sister helped me read young adult fiction when I was little because I didn’t know what the words were, but Junie B. Jones and the Magic Treehouse, which most of my friends loved, bore me to tears. So, my sister helped me read books, and series that weren’t yet finished like Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia (It was already finished, but I still haven’t read the last one.), A Series of Unfortunate Events, and a few historical fiction books that she stopped forcing me to read after I begged for a good two years.

  19. adult fiction is sometimes…i dont no…boring….not fictiony enough. i mean, most adult fiction is just like…murder mystery stuff. you dont see many adult books about fantasy tipe things. you do, but not often enough.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ˜

  20. i havent posted in a long time. I was looking at melissa’s pic on the new midnighters cover and (sorry) I hate it. sorry! I love jess and rex though

  23. I love YA books.

    I think the books you read show your personality.

    Like, for YA your young and fun (hehe that rhymes)and classical-your classy and classical yourself….and so on.

    Which is kinda funny because I read ALL kinds of books. Like I love science-fiction, and classics, and historical fiction, all books in the past and future….and so on. Like I’m not always reading one kinda book, about the same subject. Its always different subjects. Which is kinda good considering all my friends like the other day I was rereading (for about the thousandth time) “Goose Girl” (which is in the past its, about a princess but its not princess like its really really really really good!! she gets these special powers and she’s the crown princess so she’s supposed to get the crown but then her mom *the Queen* behind her back makes an arrangement with a really far away kingdom that she will marry the prince there instead of becoming the Queen but something happens along the way there….. *gasp* dun dun dunnnn but its really good AND IT IS NOT ABOUT A GIRL THAT IS ALSO A GOOSE but I am totally off subject) but I was reading that one day then the next day my soon to come friend (after this, i didn’t really know her till then) was reading it and i was like hey I’ve read that it is sooooooooooo good in fact I read it yesterday and she was like ya I know I got it because you read it and I read a lot of the books you’ve read because you have a really good choice in books!

    Wow this is long, but isn’t that cool!

    Oh and Lizzy-wa sorry about your tooth.

    And (not old older people then me) It doesn’t matter what age you are! I was reading Uglies and my Nani was over and she picked up the book while I was doing my homework and she LOVED it! she ended up taking it home! (I had already read it millions of times before, of course)

  26. It’s Jonathan. Not Rex. Although it looks like Rex. ๐Ÿ˜›

    I think they are all cool. Except for the non-Hispanic mistake thing.

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  28. hehe. thank you for your sympathy…i dont no how to do italics. i want to all the time but i dont no how. so when i put emphasis on a word i just youz CAPS insted of italics. same effect…kind of…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ˜•

  33. ok, I know how to teach the use of italics without them going poof.

    Do this , but put an “i” between them. when you want to close your italics, do this: , except put an i after the slash. for bold, do the same thing except with a b instead.

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  34. grr. do THESE symbols and put an i between them. to close the italics do use but put an i where the 2nd “and” is.

  35. ok, I give up. They just won’t appear. Press shift+comma for the first symbol and shift+period for the second symbol. between the two symbols, put an i. to close them do the two symbols with the i again, but put a slash (/) between the i and the first symbol.

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  40. hmmm… where have I heard that before, the whoo whoo moo moo ow ow thing?
    I give up all I can remember is that it was on a website.. ya know my partial photographic memory sucks, I have to be facing the direction I was facing when I saw whatever it was (teacher saying important answer to test, math work, web pages, ect.) I can barely do math at school if I’m not facing north, which is bad since our classroom burnt down, so for my test I was facing south and I couldn’t picture the board because it is on the NORTH side of my normal classroom and I WASN’T FACING NORTH , so, how was I to see the board in that new classroom that faced SOUTH!!!

  41. uhhh…. Netta-la…… that is weird sorry but it kinda is!

    take no offense ok, but well its not weird it’s strange

  42. I love reading YA. I don’t think i will ever stop even if i do read other stuff. Adult fiction just takes to long to get to the point sometimes and authors just write the same kind of stories over and over but YA is always something new and diffrent.

  44. I used italics all the time when I was in 7th grade and one summer without them wrecked my memory
    Yeah I know it’s weird and strange I have serious issues…

  45. Well, being normal [i]IS[/i] vastly overrated.

    As for classics, I adore YA fiction and even enjoy some of the classics such as Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and so on. But I don’t feel that all YA is badly written, either! I feel that to fully appreciate literature, you need to sample different types. Even though I detest Stephen King, I still read a few of his short stories and I can honestly say I’ve tried every genre of book before saying [b]’I don’t like it’.[/b]
    SOME YA is not that good, I’ll admit. Among these are the novels who seem to say “Hey, all Teenagers are stupid! Let’s take advantage and publish a book with gossip-y girls, unreal relationships, and whores!” [b]Those[/b] are the ones I hate.

  47. grrr… why didn’t it STOP!!!
    I have an anger problem today
    probably because all heck is loose here…

  48. As of this moment, I am being reminded why I will never have children. Ever. I will grow to be an old spinster novelist with a house full of pomeranions and chihuahuas. Two babies running around the house (Both old enough to walk AND drool) and chewing and trying to pet my mom’s cat. . . O_o SOMEONE SAVE ME!

  54. Ok, that was a brain-missing article. I have no clue what it said.

    “Authors of dark fantasy or science fiction mingle happily with those who chronicle private-school clique wars or gay romance.” What the?

    ” Teen consumers reject the thematic hierarchies that bedevil every other media market, unwittingly creating a utopia for iconoclasts like Scott and Justine, who write teen fiction because it frees their best ideas from the deadly limitations of any adult genre ghetto.”
    Do people ever consider writing something………i dont no……….understandable! And what with the ‘deadly limitations of any adult genre ghetto’?

    Am i the only one severally confused here?

  55. AHHHHHHH, why cant the world use smaller words! I have read over the freakin article 70000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times and i still cant figure out the really large words and there appropriate wording.

  56. okay umm…. my long ranting posts aren’t going through so let’s just say that I am baby-sitting 25 little kids

  58. go to dictionary.com
    ps. I LOVE big words……until nobody has a clue what I’m talking about….then they are sad-making….

  60. erm…
    I have a question….
    Where the HECK does gay romance fit into the fact that young adult fiction doesn’t have subgenres?

  62. Don’t worry,Lena-La and Netta-la, I am defiently normal either defiently not even close!

    and Lena-la I like how you put that….”Well, being normal IS vastly overrated.” I like that

    And Bran-la I know so many big words, it’s like they are trying to make themselves sound smart by using words looked up in the theasareous (idk hw to spell it so, whateva) but then nobody understands them so they sound like a nerd trying to sound smart (wait aren’t nerds smart?) anyways I do not know how gay romance fits in, but okay.

  65. Okay, Bran-la here is what the article is saying…..

    รขโ‚ฌย Teen consumers reject the thematic hierarchies that bedevil every other media market, unwittingly creating a utopia for iconoclasts like Scott and Justine, who write teen fiction because it frees their best ideas from the deadly limitations of any adult genre ghetto.รขโ‚ฌย

    here it is in words we can understand….
    Teens that consume, especially teens that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing refuse of or pertaining to a theme of any system of persons or things ranked one above another that worry, annoy, or frustrate every other media market, ; unintentionally; or accidentally creating a …..

    okay, sorry I give up!

  67. here I am trying again

    “teen buyers refuse the current (by the definition it sounds like…) face book (i guess) that irritate every other media market, accidentally creating an ideal for people who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions like Scott and Justine, who write teen fiction because it frees their bes ideas from the deadly limitations of any adult type ghetto.”

    Wow, that took forever but there you go!

  68. Does that sound good to anyone? or bad? I think it’s good, but it sounds bad. Like I think Scott thinks it is good, but it sounds bad.

    Wow, I am very confusing. In fact I am confusing my self!

  70. Yeah, I know Lena-la. But it was entiarly (however you spell it) frustrating and exhausting and annoying. **whew**

  71. i love my YA. it is my blood and soul. i read two books today. i have a pile more i will probably read this book.

    without books and music, i would be that really crazy person. i mean, i still am with them, but my skullcandy, my sansa, and a book are the only things i truly require to survive. screw food water and shelter.

    so many comments to wade through….and i’ve only been gone since 4. actually, compared to some days, this isn’t too bad.

  72. and personally, i classify a certain type of book as YA. like, as part of my policy where i ignore The Clique and Gossip Girl, when you say YA, i don’t think of those fluff-filled books. when you say YA i think Scott Westerfeld, Holly Black, Stephanie Meyer, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, all that good stuff. YA makes me smile.
    i loves books. they fill my life with awesome.

  74. I am still very confused. my mind is going into hibernation.

    You see, i cant use big words. I said to my friend ‘oblivious’. i said to him, “Mrs. Smith is so oblivious.” and he goes, “What? I don’t no what that means.” I had to hit my head in annoyance. WHO DOESNT NO WHAT THAT MEANS!

    I will say to my friends, “He looks (big word inserted here, i cant think of anything).” they will look at me as if I (suppose to be in big bold letter but you cant tell the difference with an ‘i’)were the retarded one!

    Yes, i agree. When you talk about young adult books, i don’t no y u would throw in the fact they ‘mingle’ with YA gay love writers.

  75. Bran-la, have you finished New Moon?

    I am actually always checking on her site and Twilight Lexicon’s site, in fact I’m on both of them now.

  77. Reading Lord of the Rings in 5th grade was a mistake for me. Big words…

    I stick to YA. The books I read aren’t short, but they aren’t complicated either. They are 400 pages of fawesomeness.

    oh man. I just saw Spiderman 3. It sucked.

  78. No, i havent, i am ALMOST dont though. i need to go faster. Its just i got this Wii and i have been so……
    -slap- i needed that.

    At the end of Eclipse, it tells you who she picks right?
    I dont want to no who she picks just if it tells who she picks.

  79. So, I’m sitting in my bed reading The Risen Empire(rereading, actually. Duh.) and squirting weird sour candy in my mouth when my friend comes into my room(I had no idea she was even in my house, by the way. She just kind of walks in without knocking these days) and screams, “She turned Special?!”
    I laughed at first, and then we talked for like an hour about The Uglies and Pretties. The I gave her PEEPS, and she’s going to read it after she’s done with Extras :]
    I love spreading the Westerfeldom

  81. And Bran-la, it definately DOES NOT tell you how she picks. In fact, it leaves it even more undecided.

    Who are you rooting for?! >EDWARD<

  83. I no……i love reading. But have you PLAYED the Wii, talk about 3-D fun. Nah, i like reading better.

    Funny Story time:
    One time, my dad got a pair of 3-D glasses. We werent watching a movie it was just an old pair from a movie. It was the plastic kind not the paper red and blue kind. Sooo, he put them on and he says “Look your in 3-D.”
    There only one problem with this comment. The whole world IS 3-D. so we laugh because it sounds really stupid.
    You may not laugh, it might be one of those things were you just hand to be there. Or he had to be YOUR crazy dad.

  84. WHAT! It doesnt tell you! What a butt head of an author! Hello, i need to no, when i read it. I want it to be Edward, really bad! i like Jacob but………….lets face it………….Edward is better. and his family isnt weird. Billy reminds me of a hillbilly.

  86. >.>
    It does not ruin it!
    Does it?
    I don’t think it does.

    SPECIALS SPOILER*******
    I mean, my friends had the nerve to tell me Zane dies in Specials while I was in the begining of reading Pretties the first time!
    That’s spoiling!
    Saying she’s non-decisive isn’t really spoiling it, because there’s about 20 much more important things.
    It’s insignificant.

  87. so your telling me, Stephanie Meyer or whateva’ her freakin name is, writes a whole story (Eclipse) of who shes going to decide, with out even deciding! That is The most @$%%@@ @$%^#!#$%! Urg!

  88. Hey!

    ** Epipheny time **

    Maybe… his name is Billy… because he’s a hillBILLY!!

    Whoa… that blows my mind >.<
    Nine kinds of paranormal. AGAINST normal, not beside it.

  89. Bran-la you make me laugh out loud (wow that sounded very geeky,and normally I am not a geeky person)

    Billy a hillbilly?-that reminds me of my BFF and her dad, they take me to school in the morning and every morning the conversation always ends up on hobos.

    And no I have never played a WII (although my mom has, how weird)

    And I get you and your dads 3-D joke, funny!

  90. My friends told me Zane dies too. It sucked, i cried. Of course i waited til i got home! what do i ( i cant say look because u cant see me so uhhh) type like, some freakin maniac! i hate crying in school.

  91. Well… actually, yeah, she does. And when you say it like that it is pretty infuriating.
    And somehow I still feel mellow in my anger :]

    Whatever. She HAS to say who in Breaking Dawn.

    OOO! Who wants to know the COOLEST thing ever about Breaking Dawn?!

  92. hey, Good point Savvy-la loves David (about the billy is a hillbilly cause of hillbilly

    And Bran-la it actually does kinda tell you, though you have to get it., And Savvy-la loves David yes it so totally ruin it!

  93. Thats funny i didnt realize that
    Billy
    Hill BILLY, ha!
    Wow, easily amused, need to calm myself. i must laugh at myself because i am sitting here laughing at (1) a joke that is just a simple joke yet i am beating on the desk laughing and (2) because im laughing that im laughing at myself.

  95. Ya’ll ( inner South coming out)! I think we all now that Edward is the best for her. If she choses Jacob, its fine, we’ll just go to therapy for a rapid unusual pacing and outburst behaviors.

  96. Sorry this is totally random, but if you remember my post hold on it is……scrolling up…..its…..post 65 and 67 did you guys know that consumers are a A heterotrophic organism that ingests other organisms or organic matter in a food chain.

    Wait, I know that it’s just for some reason I thought of parasite when I glanced at the definition,ew.

    Wow, this is going to be really stupid to post but whateva!

  97. omjoe my dream come true!!!!!!!
    i mean come on i LUV stephenie and scott and their both being talked about on one blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    i hate the end of eclipse because it leaves it tottaly undecided and sort of unfinished she writes like some other author i no on that characteristic cough*scott*cough. i mean come on !!!!!!! y do u authors do that just to force us to buy the next book!!!!i mean wat if were broke and dont have the money r friends r also broke and cant get the book but to our local library our fave author is just an undiscovered talent!!!!!!!i root for edward 2 he rocks. GGGGGGGOOOOOOOO
    EEEEEEEDDDDDWWWAAAAAARRRR
    DDDDDDD!!!!!!
    im still trin 2 get my eclipse friend 2 b a scott fan 2 she wont read.
    she roots for HIM. which i think is rediculous because vampires r sssssoooo
    ooooo much better. why would scott write about them first????
    ( im not rulin out the possibility of THEM, CERTAIN club WHOSE NAME I CANNOT SAY but to those in this specificlly obbsessed w/ a certain pastry club u should definutly read twilight and im not sayin anymore bout the subject of ur club)
    and i think edward is just better

  98. Bran-la, that is so funny!

    But know that I think about it I can’t decide who I want her to pick. Like of course I want her to pick Edward, but then what about Jacob???!!!!!

  99. So, appearently Stephenie Meyer only has 5 chapters left to write in Breaking Dawn. Did you know that? Cause I sure didn’t, untill…
    I’m sitting in class and my friend Sarah is like, “Guess what I read this weekend?”
    “What?”
    “Breaking Dawn!!”
    I called her a liar, obviously, but that was before I realized what she soon pointed out to me…
    “Nu-uh! My mom works for the company that edits The Twilight books.(I already knew that at the time) So I got to read the almost-finished manuscript of Breaking Dawn! Only five chapters left!”
    I was… mystified. I’m not sure if I belive her completely, but it seems like a likel story to me.

    BRAN-LA, DON’T READ THIS!
    ECLIPSE SPOILER**********
    No, it doesn’t say who she chooses. Cause she tells Edward that she’ll… you-know. In case Bran-la is reading… she’ll fulfill his condition.
    And she says she <3 Jacob

  100. This article is so very true. When adults ask me what genre of books I read, my answer is usually “all of them.” They look at me like I’m lying, but if they asked most other teens the same thing, I’d like to venture that they’d get a similar answer. As both the article and Scott pointed out, there isn’t much seperation in YA book, which is something I love. I love staying in one section of the book store and being able to pick up fantasy, and mystery and fiction and non-fiction and romance and any other type of book that sparks my interest. I love reading all different varieties of books, because my interest is always fresh. I fear that reading in one genre for too long, it would get similar and repetitive, with similar recycled plot lines throughout different books. That’s why I’m glad that YA books aren’t seperated, I love the variety and excitement I get due to the fact that they’re all mixed together.

  101. OMG, no freakin way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    omg i need to shut up cause everyone in my house is asleep and im actually screaming

    uh o, got to go bye

  103. AHH, you guys, you cant tempt me like that. Everythime i scroll down the little devil on my sholder goes “Scroll slower, look quicker!” the angel says “GO FASTER GO FASTER! CLOSE YOUR EYES CLOSE YOUR EYES!” You should be happy that i adore the angel. Ooop, i might have to look at the oter shoulder, nooo, i have to- ,stop no-, yes look- ,no -, turn- , no scroll down-, up-, down-, down-

    PHEW! I didnt see it.

  107. Darn you! I couldn’t resist. I’m so pitifully. Ha! How did you know i could resist spoilers Savvy-la! Well, i have no clue what you were talking about anyways. the whole “You know” No, i don’t no. But i WILL find out (when i read it).

  109. Spoilage is evil! Stupid evil devil! resist the temptation! You can do it!

    hhaha. My grandma says the George W. Bush is the devil.
    She’s a very weird old lady.
    She really doesn’t like him :/
    It was kind of funny though, because she was so serious! She really does think that George W. Bush is the devil!

  110. You live in New Zealand, lotii-wa? You said ‘NZ!’.
    thats a good one Lena-la. Ya, i could totally imagine myself with Twilight, hiding under a tree, getting struck by lighting, the book catching on fire, my body being burned, and it was all because of a BOOK! Very good one infact.

  111. I KNEW YOU WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO DO IT!

    That’s why I used my special Eclipse code-ness. I was prepared for your weakness!!

  112. Hehehe, i am a bad little girl. Teenager i mean. Ya, whateva’.

    Well, lets face it, i am just a very tempted youg lady when it comes to spoilers, i mean, hello, SPOILERS!

  113. haha.
    Hey, I’ve decided that I’m going to marry David.
    I don’t caqre if he’s fictional. I pull some magic crap and make him real!
    And if that doesn’t work out case he’s too Tally-oriented, then I steal Croy!!

  114. I’m going to marry Dexter Morgan and Hannibal Lector (No, I don’t care if he’s a friggin cannibal, Gaspard Ullie is friggin hot AND has an accent!) ! Savvy-La! We can have a double (Triple?) wedding!
    Kidding! I only want to marry Dexter. H.L’s too old. XD

  115. Everytime I think about making them all real, and get so sad! It probably sounds creepy and freaky, like I’m some obsessed carzy lady, but it makes me sad! Cause they’re so amazing, and I wish they WERE real!! AHHH

    And promise I’m not THAT freaky and obsessed

  116. I need advise from you guys!
    What should I read now?
    I have…
    I can reread Eclipse
    reread The Golden Compass and that series
    I can read my Narnia book [which if fawesome cause it’s all … 11[?] books in one big fat book!]
    The Bar Code tatoo
    or a book called A Certain Slant Of Light, which is made my some lady called Laura Mitcomb.
    Or Farenheit 451

  118. Wait, Dexter’s too old too. -sighs- I’ll have to make due with YA romantic dudes, -attacks Edward but cannot seem to get past the thousands of girls covering him-

  119. The ‘A Great And Terrible Beauty’ Trilogy. You won’t have to wait for the third one since it came out yesterday.
    ‘Elsewhere’ by Gabrielle Zevin, a GREAT book on reincarnation (Which is the topic of my YA novel!)
    ‘The Lovely Bones’ by Alice Seybold or whatever. I decided to read a bunch of books that have death as a main focus (As research) and this was a great one.
    ‘Inkheart’ See it before the movie comes out!!!

  120. Wow, I haven’t posted on here in forever.
    But uh, I got the entire Midnighters trilogy for Christmas, and now I’m obsessed. I am determined to get one of those shirts that say ‘you’re so 11:59’. If it comes down to it I will kick and scream and throw a tantrum like a two year old, no joke.

    I’m not too sure what that article said, but I’m guessing it had something to do with how there’s basically no limit when writing YA novels? I don’t know. But I’ve been reading a lot lately (a whole, whole lot, since I got like fifty bajillion books), and it’s made me even more certain that I want to become a writer. Specifically a writer who writes YA books, because they’re my favorite genre.
    Except for those random books about people being sent to boarding schools only to find out that the school is actually a top-secret spy academy, or something like that. That just seems incredibly weird for some reason.

    Savvy-la, I know how you feel. It needs to be physically possible to marry a fictional character. If it was, I’d have about ten thousand husbands right now. xD Alright, maybe only one or two. I’d steal Edward from Bella and marry him, then go find Jonathan and steal him away from Jessica and marry him too. Then I’ll have two husbands! One who’s a glittery vampire, and the other who…flies! YAY!

    *shakes with maniacal laughter that should have the world questioning my sanity*

  121. wow u babysit for a day and suddenly there is 115 comments….well i’m just gonna say i love YA and all the classic books i’ve read are really pretty boring so i’ll probably never stop reading YA…i might give some classics a chance someday…but not anytime soon.

    well i really don’t feel like reading all those comments…& have no clue what you guys are talking about…..so i’m going to bed…*sighs*…goodnight.

  123. Oh, I could just die. TOO MANY CHOICES!

    I’m probably going to end up reading The Barcode Tatoo…

  127. jesus, i leave for TWO HOURS and it goes from 69 comments to 123?! why are you all on here from 10 to midnight when i’m off haunting 3 Evil Cousins and the whole of LJ????

    response to question a long, long time ago. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes wrote some pretty good short vampire books. they’re fool. also shapeshifter books, but only the first one is really good.

    finished TSFT, “Gemma Doyle” book three. loved it. posted review.

    finished Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy. liked it better than the first, actually, because it had more actual spying and missions and spy subplots. the first one was sort of all about Josh, and Josh was sort of boring. Zach was much hotter and led to more plot drama.

    ooohhh Sauvy-la, you want book recs? look on my LJ, i posted my huge “THE LIST” of things people should read. check it out.

    okay, i really go to sleep now.

    if i could marry book characters, i totally would. like, Jace Wayland. or Rath Roiben Rye. or Seth from Wicked Lovely. or Hedge from War For The Oaks. or Kartik. or Zane. or Flyboy. wow, a disturbing number of those guys aren’t human.
    no, if i could i’d want to marry one of my own characcters. unhealthy? maybe. awesome? no doubt.
    even then it’d be hard to pick just one. Jon? or Carter? or Shadow? or Hawk? or Morgan?
    so…many…theoretical…choices…

  129. cant argue with that logic Savvy-la. Jess is just so…math class. im talking my 8th grade algebra math class where we actally learn sompthing like every…16 days or so…*cough* boring *cough*

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ™‚

  130. I love how with Young Adult novels, you don’t have to deal with random big words thrown in or scandalous scenes for the sake of scandalous themes. Plus, there aren’t as many books which I can sometimes find overwhelming…….But anyways, I hope to write Young Adult novels someday! They stay around longer, and can be just as good if not better than Adult novels.

  131. yes, i am from the tiny little country of new zealand WHERE WE DON’T GET EXTRAS YET EVEN THOUGH IT’S BEEN MORE THAN TWO MONTHS SCINCE OCTOBER 2ND AND BORDERS SAID IT WOULD BE HERE BY NOVEMBER 18TH AND IT’S STILL. NOT. HERE!!!!

  135. omg Lotti!!! im soooooooooooo sorry, stupid borders just hnag in there it has to come eventually or use amazon ๐Ÿ˜€

  137. Okay. So many posts that this is going to sound totally random.

    1. The Chronicles of Narnia has 7 books. including The Magician’s Nephew.
    2. A consumer is basically just an animal that eats other animals and plants. Like a human. I learned that in 3rd grade. It is not the type of consumer that buys thing at a store. whole different definition.
    3. do NOT make fun of spy books. or I will hunt you down and make you wish you had never said that. ok, not really. But really…spy books are awesome. Just because the plot sounds wierd on paper doesn’t mean it’s a bad book.

    Just had to clear that up.

  140. Oh my god, I just saw a commercial for yet ANOTHER Kidz Bop CD. Those things scare the crap out of me- they’re ruining perfectly good music. I don’t even see the point, because if it’s the bad words in songs parents are worried about they could always just make sure they buy an edited version of the real CD.

    Anyway, I wish I could be Dess! She’s awesome. Plus I liked her name the best out of all the others besides Rex. I’d probably actually like math (instead of hating it with a fiery passion) if I was good at it, but I suck. Numbers confuse me. I’d be pretty cool to be Melissa, except I think I would go insane from all the noise.

    And now I’m off to read some more. WHEEE!!! I am seriously loving Winter Break.

  142. Okay,guys, this is totally random but since Allie-wa started talking about spy’s this totally stuck in my head (so blame her!) ok so me and my friend (this is totally random remember) we are eachothers……………………………
    ………………………………………………………………..
    …………………………….
    …………………………………………………………………
    …………………………….
    …………….super-special-secret-spy-best-buddy-of-a-friend

    sorry, I told you guys it was random.

    But, ya It’s like a really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really long story, pretty funny too. hehe

  143. but we tell each other that every time we see each other in the the hall.

    sorry, so totally random and childish.

    But ya, I’m not going to say anything more about it because it is kinda embarrassing…….*cough cough*

  144. Oh and, Savvy-la, Stephenie Meyer has already finished the rough draft go to the http://www.twilightlexicon.com it’s like the 3rd post down. But, that is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo not cooool how your friend got to read it before us!!!

  146. If you are hungry, go and eat.

    lol. ok, sry. I just watched like the stupidest video ever. It’s called “alberquerque: the movie”. It sucks. do not ever watch it. If a friend ever sends you the link to it over im, do not click it. 15 minutes of death.

    Well, hey, better than Spiderman 3 – 2 hours of death. And Tony Macguire emo-ness. ๐Ÿ˜›

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  147. man I’m stupid. Tobey macquire. sorry. I used to think of him as Tony, so it’s automatic. ๐Ÿ˜›

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  148. ba hah! See’s how much I know even about my own christmas presents. Thank you Allie-wa! At least I knew it was a prime number :]

    plus… if you put the two number together you get 7-11!! Like the convieniant store!

  152. Yeah. Tobey Maguire emoness is hilarious.

    Pete Wentz emoness is just scary. I like Fall Out Boy and all, but Pete Wentz is just…um…well, I know he tried to commit suicide. 7 minutes in heaven.

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  153. I love Fall Out Boy, but Patrick Stump is wayyyyyy better than Pete. I don’t care if Patty’s a fatty, his voice is like heaven on a stick!

    At least, it would be if his voice were on a stick

  154. Best parts of Winter Break:

    Sleeping in
    Eating whatever I want (I had m+m cookies for breakfast one day)
    No school
    Reading time
    Presents
    No school
    Listening to music
    Talking to my friends
    No school
    Getting a $50 gift card to Barns & Noble (I WILL get Blue Noon now, mwahahahaha!)
    Did I mention no school?
    Oh wait more specific- NO LANGUAGE ARTS CLASS! (I love to write but I *hate* essays, they bore me so much…and reading dumb short stories to go along with that doesn’t help either….)

  158. i have this huge social studies project due soon, and i havent started. the topic is cool because you get to pick your own… but i hate projects. my topic is the history of coca-cola.

    in a couple of months (or sooner) i have to take a writing test. the essay has to be pursuasive or explanitory. that means you cant write just a story. if the topic is the best book ever, i cant say “I went to the school book fair. There were a lot of books there. I decided to get Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.” not allowed! I would have to do something like “The best book ever is Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. That book is the best because of the plot, the characters, and the specials.”

  160. I have a science project and an essay to do. The essay is soo boring. Expeicially since I have to write it on a specific topic that is soo boring!!!!!!!!

  161. i’m so lucky, i actually have NO HOMEWORK for winter break!!!!! because the superintendent said you weren’t allowed to assign any over break.
    except i do have an english project due soon. but…and this is hte awesome part…it’s a short story!!!! and there’s NO TOPIC!!!!! or length or any of that crap!!!!! i can write about anything that the school doesn’t object to!!!!!! now i truly stick it to my moron english teacher.
    my story will so be about werewolves.

  163. i despise my english teacher shes evil. before we do any essay we have to fill out a umbrella chart because the only essays we do r 3.5’s which really r crap bcause u have 2 have 3 subjects on ur main topic built into 5 paraghaphs. i h8 essays. and shes makin us read a mystery novel and i got stuck w/ nancy drew and the mystery of the moss covered mansion b/c i couldnt find a good one in like a day. i despise her. she had us reading summer of the swans and its like a 4th grade book.im in tag and she loads on the work when were gone for it. why cant we read good books for school i managed a good book for the first book report which was a free pick. i did specials cause extras wasnt out yet. i could go on and on but i wont.

  167. Be careful about that, Serafina. My brother wrote about a terrorist invasion once and he had to have counseling because they thought he was mentally distressed. yeah.

    You know what movie rocks? National Treasure 2. I just went to go see it today. It was really good. Except the loud crazy woman sitting behind me kind of ruined some parts. Like right before they find the treasure and they’re on the little square thing that dips under their weight and it started to break, she screamed. She’s just that kind of person.

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  168. yeah i know. which is why i’ll probably write a boring story.
    i mean, not *boring* but not the stuff i usually write.
    all my short stories come out really f***ed up for some reason. like, not bad, but seriously messed-up. like alcoholism and drug use and murder.
    the story i want to write for the project, but that isn’t flowing, is really supposed to end with one of the protaganists getting hit by a train. so i’m guessing that one’s out.
    and the other really pretty sci-fi dystopia one i have has demons and drug use. i mean, the drug use is portrayed as bad, but the main character watches her cousin shoot up. with wierd demon drugs that turn your eyes gold.
    and then i have my favorite short story, which i can’t even consider. i mean, first scene. 16 year old protaganist is totally wasted. passes out. wakes up. first line of dialouge “f*** it. f*** it. f*** it.” ect. you get the point. and yet, it’s also a great story. oh, and it has murder. :mrgreen:
    my subconcious is messed-up.
    i’m surprised i didn’t get called down to Guidance last year, i was so bored i wrote stories about werewolves fighting vampires and demon houses in Copenhagen.

    i want to see that movie.

  169. I’m reading the Alex Rider Adventures and its good, it’s not like can’t put it down good but good. Does anyone know if the 7th book snakehead is out in the U.S. yet cuz online it said it was but one of my friends swore it doesnt come out for another 6 months and i dont want to go to the bookstore if its not even going to be there.

  170. Snakehead is out. It’s been out since like November. ALEX RIDER ROCKS!!! I remember I went to a kid’s birthday party in 5th grade and instead of cut little goodie bags we all got Stormbreaker. I didn’t read it for like a year. I read it last year in like October and then I had to to get the rest of the series, which is what my Books a Million gift card from last year’s Christmas went to. I remember reading them on my mom’s birthday (27th December) after doing community service for the Beta club. Stupid Beta club. XP

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  171. Oops. I meant “cute” not “cut” that changed the whole meaning of that sentence just had to clear it up. Sorry for the double posting.

    I just made an account on the Spanish Wikipedia. So…many…unfamiliar words. I can read minimal Spanish, pretty much just guessing based on Latin stems and vague memory from 4th grade Spanish class.

    Riley Poole is fawesome. just have to say that.

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  172. OMG!! Serafina Zane—Co-President of the Chasing Midnight Werewolves Club – I’m SOO jealous of you!! Your superintendent forbid school work over break?!?!?! Gah, I wish I was that lucky!! I have to read 3 chapters out of my history textbook, answer 25 questions (in paragraph form) on the reading, and be ready for a test on the material the day we get back. Plus I have a six page essay due for english, and two art projects due. Yeah………..I should probably start some of that work, seeing as we only have like 5 days left of break…….

  173. My short stories tend to come out weird too. Actually, pretty much anything I write ends up sounding really strange. Like I’ll have what I think is a really good idea for a story, and I’ll be good way through writing it when suddenly I realize that someone just got stabbed with a butcher knife or something reeking of random violence, and then I’ll immediately want to print out the story, tear it to shreds, and jump up an down on it repeatedly to extinguish its suckishness. I was recently inspired to write a story about cannibals.
    Cannibals! What the…?! I don’t even know how my mind dredged that up!

    I just saw I Am Legend. That movie scared the CRAP out of me! I was shaking when I left the theater, and my mom kept laughing at me. Hmph. I wasn’t the only one who jumped with rabid people things jumped OUT OF FREAKING NOWHERE at the main character! I mean, Jesus! That was some scary s*** right there!
    That movie just really freaked me out. Normally I’m fine. Scary movies don’t bother me all that much, but this one…I have a feeling I’m going to have nightmares tonight.
    Looking forward to it. -_-

  174. I bet you are! Besides, Nightmares are the very best inspiration for something. . . I myself had a nightmare last night about manatees, cannibals (I’ve been reading Hannibal again), and Hilary Clinton!

  176. i have to write a report for p.e. it’s really gay too cuz if u miss a day of p.e. you have to write a 2 pg report about the current sport that we learn about. and just my luck it is basketball, my worst sport, anything else would have been fine. my p.e. teacher didn’t explain what we were suppose to do either. very suckish.

    we finished Great Expectations before break started….it was okay, i thought. not anything amazing. i hate thesis papers….bleh. so very evil. like we had to do this whole note card process where we had to write it all down on the note card and stuff….i seriously thought i was gonna go crazy. other than that i love my honors english class. i have this fawesome teacher…she never gives us busy work….everything has a purpose. and this great class with like a bunch of my friends and people that are just plain foolio. sadly though i only have like 5 more days of that class. new quarter…:( which means i have to take math….yuck.

    i wrote this really fawesome nightmare for english. it was about the brown recluse spider crawling in my mouth while im sleeping and going into my sinus cavities and like i wake up with this awful pressure in my forehead and nose and i grab my face and the flesh just falls right off and its all bloody and stuff…very bone-chilling.

  177. Hi guys, I left for a couple hours and you guys like posted a whole bunch. Winter break is kinda a snore. At least no school!!!

    And Bran-la your right it is weird when people stare over your shoulder while your talking well typing to people on an authors blog.

    Expecially if she doesn’t like to read isn’t that horrible!!!! I have suggested scott westerfleds and stephenie meyers and a whole bunch of good authors books!!!

    Help me!!! What should I do with her!!!

  178. Don’t ya just hate school, we should go have Tally-wa and the rest of the Cutters go blow up all the schools!!!!

  179. 1. slap her for being so ignorant when it comes to good reading habits! (Kidding) But Reading Hygene is JUST as good as Bathing. You must pick good literature (Sometimes, however, this does not mean Stephanie Meyer . . . DON’T HIT ME!) 2. Attempt to reason with the mentally insane person. 3. If these 2 do not work, leave her be. Lost cause. . . . .-mourns the loss of another possible book lover-

  180. Not a very good idea considering that they DO teach proper literature, writing, and so forth. Besides, we wouldn’t want our favorite little eco-terrorists to get involved, would we?

  181. Lena-la, I won’t hit you about that Stephenie Meyer comment, but only because I can’t becuase we are over the computer.

    But, How can you not like Stephenie Meyer!!!!!

    I mean like seriously, but I have slapped her a lot.

    Kids these days

  182. Oh My Gosh!!! She is laughing at us and saying I quote Oh Please, give me a break! Can you believe her.

    Help me, this is serious!!!

  184. I LOVE STEPHANIE! I just don’t think she has very believable characters, or character development. . . Her plots are great. But if her books were 150 pages, they wouldn’t be so darned popular!

  185. thats……………..true, Lenna-wa. (only about the 150 pages) she has believable characters to me!!!

  186. i’m on here cuz i’m bored, but i can’t think of anything to say. so i’m just going to say something random, like

    “does anyone here collect beanie kids?”

  187. FINALLY! My computer is working!

    Guess what!?!?!?! I finished New Moon and i just now started Eclipse.
    Ok, this is so stupid, it says. “Bella is forced to choose between her loved one, Edward, or her best friend, Jacob. Lets see. If i loved someone, who would i choose? My best friend or the person i never wanted to leave? I mean, gosh, is it really that hard Bella! i dont no about the rest of the world, but i would seem resonable to pick Edward, loved one. Anyways hes better, doesnt have/had long hair, is beautiful, smells good (thats a bonus for a guy), and is the sweetest thing possible! Eeeep!

  188. ok EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

    GO AND POST A COMMENT ON MY BLOG!!!!!!!! PRETTY PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    thank you. i posted the rest of chapter 1 of my darkling midnighter story!!!!!!!!!!!

    ****************SPOLIERS******ALERT********SPOLIERS*
    on the story if not read all midnighters books do not procede
    i need to no if it is good???????????????

    thanx

    SoPhIe-La
    WoRd ๐Ÿ˜‰

  191. Bran-la- I totally get it wat ur saying but my friends r some of the most important things to me. Edward is so amazing and I would probably ulitmatly pick him but i would have a really hard time letting go of Jacob just like Bella. Btw at my school lots of guys smell amazing ๐Ÿ˜‰

  192. lol, well i dont no what school you go to, but it must be a real pleasure. Unlike me, who has to practicly invest in nose plugs.

    WHAT!!!! Im going insane. They said they think the 4 book will be in Jacobs point of view and the 5 in Edwards!!! Thats makes no since!!! AHHHH! What if she chooses Jacob. If she did, oooooo, man do i have some words for her! I will start a riot (spirited debate?). the things books do to me!

  194. Haha the guys may smell good at my school but if u can find 1 with any kind of morals u struck gold

    Haha WOOOOOOO! any more Stephenie Meyer books is good news (same with more scott books!)

  197. Me 2. I want it to be Bella’s pov. I want her to all, vampalicious and what not. They need to get married already i mean hey, if he asked me, i would say yes in a heart beat.

  198. I like bella’s for the narration. But on stephenie’s website u can read the first chapter of midnight sun (from edward’s pov) and it’s kinda cool 2 c how he thinks

  199. ok, listen to this and tell me if it makes since.

    ‘When I had finished placing the cones beside the evidence, I took some pictures. I shot pictures of all that had been marked and some places that seemed to me as if it should have it picture taken, just for the fun of it. Although it may seem like fun, that was the last thing this job ever was, fun. Unless, of course, you considered fun long hours of work and never any rest time and very little times to blink. This fun would also have to be a verb, because thatรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs what I did to a since, I รขโ‚ฌหœverbedรขโ‚ฌโ„ข. ‘

    Does the verb part make since?

  200. I havent read the twilight books. Some people are sooo obsesed they started a club at my school. But other people hate it. its about a vampire who DOESNT want to eat people, sorry but that sounds so lame!!!

  201. yeah Lena-la!!!!
    *chokes back anti-Meyer rant*
    Jacob is just better. don’t argue with me. but she *should* choose him. knowing her, though, it’s pretty obvious how it turns out.
    *cannot choke back*
    i hate bella. she *is* good as a narrator though, because filling yourself in her shoes hides how dull and emotionless she is.
    and don’t even get me started on Edward. i’m not even allowed to talk about him anymore.

    Midnight Sun is Twilight from Edward’s POV and i heard there’s gonna be another from the POV of one of the new vampires POV, Bree or something. never heard nothing about Jake’s POV. doubt it.

    people who don’t like books are lame and hopeless. ignore them.

    i know! i LOVE the break/homework thing.

    and Tiera, stories that’re messed-up aren’t bad. don’t conform to society. they were just bad b/c it’s a school assigment and…yeah.

    i got the Golden Compass. i’m on page 102.
    *goes off to read full trilogy*

  204. oh and the break is amazing! All I’ve done is like read sleep listen to music and hang with friends. Its amazing.

  205. i love twlight and all of her books!!!!!!!!!!! probly because i luv vampires and werewoves!!!!!!1 but *****************spoliers*********************spoilers*********************alert*****************
    i thinkl we have all seen the last of The werewolfe Jacob Black. becuse if read the epologe in the latest of the books he runs away because bells picks the bloodsucker (and i would so pick edward) but i men coulnd’t u just like kidnap her or something. like on her wedding day i mean gosh you could realy be more creative with Jacob

    ******************************************************
    ok no more spoliers

  206. I hate how schools don’t like us to write anything with real substance. Like, they won’t care if someone writes an essay about how great Hitler was or something, but they flip if anyone uses the word terrorist. I’m tempted to write an entire essay full of the word. ๐Ÿ˜›
    But I’d probably get arrested; haha.

    I personally think that Bella should have chosen Jacob, because of all the things he can do with her than Edward can’t…at least not while she’s human. xD And then I could have him all to myself. Plus, I felt SO bad for Jacob at the end of Eclipse…he deserves better than all the crap she put him through. And he’s warm! And a dog, half of the time! And well…he’s Jacob.

    Twilight is like my guilty pleasure. It’s pretty much pointless and frustrating, and only leads to more pointlessness and frustratedness, like watching Hannah Montana or something. Not that I watch Hannah Montana, of course. *shifty eyes*
    I think Midnight Sun would be kinda cool, except it’s a bit pointless because everyone already knows the story, it’d just be from a different perspective.

    Speaking of books…I casually shoved a printout of several book-related shirts I wanted in my mom’s face earlier, and she made me choose between getting those and getting more books for my birthday! *SOBS*
    But I can always just weasel the money for books out of her one way or another…
    *scampers off to plot evil scheme*

  207. **************8Soplier********Spoliers***********************
    bree died she was killed by the Volturi (duh) so i don’t think she is going to write a book in a dead vampire’s pov(hehe that would be funny)

    **********************************************************
    ok well i din’t think i would like twlight at all but my ela teacher made us all read twlight as a class and i idmeatly fell in love with the book !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  209. well every one just go and post a comment on my blog!!!!!!!!!!!!
    and tell me if my misnighters story is good?

    *********************************Spoliers on blog*************Spoliers on blog****************

  213. no, i think she said she was going too, but it would take place during the time Eclipse did. the book could end with her dying.
    look in the Eclipse FAQ page, i think she mentioned it there.

    Holly Black books = awesome.

    we’re allowed to discuss other books on here, it’s allowed. would like it if everyone stopped talking about twilight, because as previously mentioned, i am so sick of everyone being obsessed with it.

  214. Ok, im going to read Twilight, then im going to read So Yesterday, but……..what do i read after that? Those books will only hold me for 2 weeks, probably less, and i am going to need some entertainment. Will some one please give me the name a really good YA book?!?!?

  217. so true about how us young adults dont distinguish between fantasy, and private school novels. just on my faves book shelf, i have Eragon paired with Peeps and East by Edith Pattou!

    power to the young adults!

  218. Well, i usually stick to two genres. Romance and Sci-fi. But my fav. Romantically Sci-fi. Liike Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, soon to be Breaking Dawn!!!!!!! Best books Eva’.

  219. Omg Serafina, i can not read all that. It looks to terribly long. Anyways, i kind of need a shower (ok i REALLY need a shower) so i cant read it at this moment but i will get around to it………eventually. But i will take in note that small list you gave me on your comment.

  220. Read I’d Tell You I love You but then I’d have to kill you and the sequal Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter if you haven’t already. They rock. Even if they aren’t sci-fi/fantasy.

    And she’s almost done with the 3rd one!

  221. wtf? it wiped out my name. and it’s been filled in there for like forever. that is wierd, man.

    i’m pretty strict actually, normal books bore me. i usually only go for stuff that’s fantasy or sci-fi. the only exceptions that i read regularly and like are band books, like Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist or Beige. most of the time though, i pretty much only read books of the sur-naturel. (can’t put little carroty thing over the u. but i know it’s there)

    and you don’t have to read all that, Bran-la. those are just my favorite books. just look at the list and there’s short descriptions there and see if you would like any of them. it’s actually not that many books on the list.
    wierd, i just got out of the shower.

  224. Ahh, i feel refreshed. Done with my Shower!
    The whole series of the ‘td tell you that i love you but then id have to kill you’, i read the back of one and it looked retarded. I dont get what there about.

    Uhhh, i hate mornings. You have to do this and that. Well it technically inst morning, i mean 11:45 (4 me), but still.

    Well, it think im going to spend the rest of my day reading eclipse and screaming at Bella for not getting on with her decision!!! Just marry the guy already!!!!

  225. I LOVE A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY!!!!!!! I’ve been waiting for ever for the last book (The Sweet Far Thing) to come out and now it has! *squeal* But when I went to the book store it was gone….I mean like ALL of them….:(

  227. Y’all like vampires so much, I’m surprised nobody has mentioned my fave vampire book of all time: Sunshine by Robin McKinley. Very fawesome read — try it!

  228. i started Sunshine once, but i got distracted and then it had to go back to the library.

    AGATB does indeed rock. and so did TSFT. i finished it the day after it came out. all 800 pages. seems like it’s selling out a lot of places.

    and i read TYKY and it wasn’t “retarted”. it’s about this school for spies. i didn’t like it too much because it was kind of girly and romancy, which isn’t my thing, but you’d probably like it.
    oh, and anticipate and ally-wa rant when she gets back for saying that.

    good luck with Eclipse. i hated it, as did my mom and my twilight-obsessed friend.

  230. Well, i have to say, ever since i started Eclipse (yesterday):

    ~Bella has been freakishly annoying with her, Edward this and Edward that! Its very annoying, i mean God! If someone tried to protect me, i would be so freakin……urg!

    ~Jacob has been a total pain. Calling her and trying to make some fight with Edward. Ya Jacob, very mature.

    ~Bellas dad is so weird. If my dad started staring at me when my bf came over (if i ever get one, that all im asking, one) i would probably start yelling, or complain, or make my life REALLY boring.

    ~I have no complaints of Edward, he is amazingly perfect. Hey, if she takes Jacob, ill take Edward.

  232. Besides, if Jacob was really the perfect guy for her, he wouod have imprinted on her! But he hasn’t!
    Did you get to the part where they talk about imprinting? Well, they obviously aren’t perfect for each other!
    Besides, Edward’s just, like…. better. In every single way.
    Not to mention Jacob is an ass >.<

  233. duh!!!!!!!!!!

    she has to take Edward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And i get Edward if she chooses Jacob!!!!!!!!!!! Which wont happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    SoPhIe-La
    WoRd ๐Ÿ˜‰

  234. I think we alll know that Bella is i a run for her life if she doesnt choose Edward. And if itts not Bella running, its Jacob.

    but think about it logically. Stephenie cant make a 600 page book on some boring werewolves, what can she say, “They hunted, Bella got scared. She thought about Edward. Edward hates Bella.” I mean it would go no where. No one would like it and she would fail, she stupid, she knos the only way to make it good and interesting is to make her be with Bella. It a fact.

    Bella will choose Edward. She has to.

  236. Has anyone elso noticed that all of a sudden Vampires seem to be the new popular thing? I love vamps i’m just saying… has anyone else noticed?

    AGATB is amazing.

  237. omg. How DARE you insult LYKY!!!!!! It rocks. It is very, very good. Ally Carter is a brilliant writer. But Scott is better, of course. But they are toatally different books, you can’t really compare them (hehe. YA subgenres…this all ties into the post, see? I’m not being random.)

    You can’t judge a book by front flap/back cover. I never do that. I took this from Scott from a long-ago blog post; I read the first page of a book. If it’s interesting, I keep reading. If it’s not, I stop. It’s that simple. I NEVER read the front flap of books. First, they almost never give a good impression of a book, and second they spoil like half the book.

    It’s not fair. You can’t judge it without reading it. And you don’t have to call it retarded either er…say it looks retarded. I happen to like those books, in case you didn’t notice. I wouldn’t say Twilight looked retarded if I thought it did, because I know you like it. I’m not rude like that.

    I feel sorry for you. I really do. Anyone who has not read those books hasn’t lived. hehe. just kidding. kind of not really. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Don’t say a book looks retarded basedon the front flap/back cover. You even said that you don’t “get what it’s about”. How could you say it looks retarded if you don’t even get what it’s about? That’s unfair judgement. In my opinion, at least.

    LYKY IS NOT RETARDED!!!!
    LYKY IS NOT RETARDED!!!!
    LYKY IS NOT RETARDED!!!!
    LYKY IS NOT RETARDED!!!!
    LYKY IS NOT RETARDED!!!!

    In case you didn’t get that. I highly suggest those books. You said you wanted book suggestions and I give mine. And then you say it looks retarded. I feel so helpless.

    I’m sorry if this offends you. I really am. But I didn’t take that very well.

    Now to go sulk. </3.

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

    ps. Serafina, it’s allie, not Ally. and yes I did rant. I just couldn’t hold back. i felt the wierd need to defend LYKY. Am I that predictable?

  238. But Bran-la, Edward would never hate Bella! Even if she did betray him for Jacob, he would still love her. No matter what. That’s part of his amazing perfectness! He loves her too much to ever hate him, even if she leaves him.

  239. sorry Allie-wa. i ususally get it right. congrats on also spelling serafina right too, i get some pretty wierd ones of that.
    and i knew that rant was coming. not in a bad predictable way, but in a ‘oh no she insulted it’ way. like how i would freak out if people started dissing city of bones or tithe (lol, i did that once on some random page where a dude gave a really bad review of CoB.

    *gritting teeth* twilight…..
    jacob better….
    edward stupid….
    eclipse sucks….

  240. First of all, YESS! Someone who gets it! Out of all my friends i’m like the only one who hated Eclipse! I <3 Jake! Bella [i]should[/i] choose him….not that she will or anything because it would probably totally kill the plot, but still……:’P

    yeah… i don’t generally rant that much, but if someone insults like a book I like alot, sometimes i start rants on weird pages that I never visit again. :P.

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