February 20, 2006
February Books
3 books to report on -- I feel like I haven't been getting any reading done at all but the last few days have been productive at least.
A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby
This one took me a while to get through but I did enjoy it. Its a weird set-up of four very different people who meet on the top of a building on New Year's eve -- each with the intention of jumping off of it but finding themselves drawn together. I liked the voices of the characters.
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
by Carolyn Mackler
which I had been meaning to get to forever (who can resist a title like that?) but once I started seeing reports that it was challenged in some school and once Emy blogged that she was reading it, I moved it up higher on my list. Definitely a good YA girl book.
Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl
by D.L. Garfinkle
a YA book with a smart, geeky, scrabble-playing teen facing divorced parents, teenage lust, and a looming driver's test... better than Adrian Mole and definitely a guy you want to root for.
I have a whole pile of other YA books waiting (I went a bit crazy with the holds when the new best books of the year lists came out). Luckily most of these YA ones are pretty quick enjoyable reads.