Head over to the Miss Snark's First Victim blog today, where there's an interview with myself, my agent and Sara J. Henry. Go and read it.
It doesn't feel as if this happened at all.
I have schoolwork to do and reviews to write and cleaning to do and packages to post and angsting to do over whether or not I will go to a drama class this evening. I am also rewriting my novel and I keep catching myself thinking that one character in particular is real and wondering what she's up to. And then I remind myself, you made her up, Steph. She doesn't exist.
This is depressing, because she is so awesome she deserves to exist.
I'm saving for a camera. A really good one. I have a bit of money from work experience and a bit of money from an article I wrote and about 5 cents from having ads on this blog. I think I might be saving for a while.
Currently listening to: The Killers - Hot Fuss
Currently reading: Zombie Blondes by Brian James
Currently watching: The rain. I want to walk to the library and spy on people but I can't because it's raining.
A question for you: What is the best book you have read this year and why?
If you answer, you may win a prize. I have books to give away. I'm feeling the need to get rid of everything I own so I can run away and join a travelling circus, and at the moment everything I own mainly constitutes a lot of books.
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I just read THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING by Joshilyn Jackson and loved it for many reasons - things didn't quite turn out as expected and the characters were so very real I was there with them.
But it may seems like the best book because I just read it. Because I also really liked Katie Alender's BAD GIRLS DON'T DIE and Lauren Baratz-Lodsted's CRAZY BEAUTIFUL... and loved A.S. King's DUST OF 100 DOGS earlier this year.
OK, I flunk as I can't name just one book.
I can get rid of a lot of things ... but not my books!
Teach Me by R.A. Nelson. It has some of the most beautiful writing I have ever read. It's about first love and tragedy and betrayal and student-teacher relationships. That last bit makes it sound icky but it's not.
Well, there's this book, and it's called THESE BONES. And it made me terribly happy and sad at the same time and I fell in love with the gnome-stealing boy and wanted so badly to get to know him, and I got why he was the way he was, and I loved this girl who was just so ME that it was almost a little bit disconcerting . . . Indeed, the best book I've read this year.
Nurture by Lisa Bevere. Easy to read. Well-written. Nurturing :)
Best book so far this year: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. This book was absolutely heartbreaking. I can't even talk about it without getting choked up...
I've read too many books this year. I'm off to Goodreads to analyze and ponder which of them is best, but I WILL be back. :)
So, so hard to pick!
The best one I've read this year is probably the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. It was phenomenal.
Best one ever? I loved The Host by Stephenie Meyer, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, or The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Natalie @ Mindful Musings
I've read a tonne of great books this year, but the BEST one (so far) has been The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon. The man can WRITE. He has a knack for choosing the exact right word for the exact right sentence, and using it in the most compelling, sometimes startlingly unusual way. I wish I wish I wish I could do that.
Do I have to name one? Can I name two please?
-yes of course-
Thank you! You may not remember agreeing but I remember you agreeing. Anyway, my two favourite books this year have been "Tender Morsels" by Margo Lanagan and "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness.
I am BACK. I've decided that Pretty Monsters wins the prize. It's cheating, maybe, because it's a short story collection, but yeah. Seriously. I was going to say The Hunger Games, too...
Hard (but good) question!
oooh hard! this year it would be a tie between The Death Of Bunny Munroe by Nick Cave and The Selected Works Of T.S Spivett by Reif Larson.
Also finally got around to reading Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami and LOVED it!
Ok, thats three. i cheated.
Mygod, the BEST book that I read this year. I've only been keeping track of the books I read for the past two months, so this is super hard to say.
Maybe "the Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman.
I just, I can't remember what books I loved this year, and I know that my favorite one wasn't read recently. Hm. . .
Steph, join the crazy writing club. some of my characters are more real than the people I know in real life, and there's many a time that I'd rather spend time with my characters than with real life people. And I'm sure my characters get up to lots of interesting stuff when I'm not spying on them.
My favourite book so far this year has been Boys that Bite by Mari Manscusi. So not Twilight.
Popping over to read your interview now.
Oh, wow.
I'm so sad to say I've not read that many books this year - my library has gone under renovation so I've been feeling a bit cut off from the literary world!
I really enjoyed reading To Kill A MockingBird, though. All Quiet on the Western Front was brilliant too, but golly it made me cry a lot a lot a lot!
I really want to read the Perks of being a Wallflower - everyone keeps suggesting it!
I think I have quite weird taste! I'm looking forward to the summer, when I can go and raid the library with my list of books I must borrow!
Your blog is so full of lovely and interesting things; I always love reading it!
x
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles! And I suspect Hush, Hush will be on top too, after I read it! ;)
I loved THE HUNGER GAMES (along with the rest of the world). It was such a unique and gripping story. I read ETHAN FROME this year too and I really liked it as well--it's so ironic and sad.
Hey- hope you like Zombie Blondes :)
brian james
Uh best book so far? Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles, it gives a whole new perspective on forbidden love, and had great characterization.
Of course this could change, I read a lot.
I loved your interview! Very cool.
And my favorite book this year? Probably The Hunger Games. Or maybe The Help.
I know I was late to jump on this particular bandwagon, but "The Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher, because it was new, fresh, original, entertaining, and heartbreaking all in one amazing little package! :)
-Dani.
There are so many books I really enjoyed, and obviously ones that I enjoyed for different reasons.
I can't really think of a 'best' book off the top of my head, but one brilliant one has been 'Thorn Queen' by Richelle Mead - it just ticked all the boxes for me.
The Book Thief. It was beautifully heart-breaking.
I've read a lot of book this year, and this book immediately popped into my head when you asked. Congrats on your interview!
The Hunger Games. I know it came out last year, but I was a bit behind on my reading. I thought the sequel, Catching Fire, was good but not as great as the first book. Still, I'll be trying to barter my precious limbs away for an ARC of the final book as soon as those are released.
I loved The Hunger Games because I love a good dystopia. And not only did this one have great world building and characters, but-- a reality tv show where the teenage contestants are forced to fight to the death? So interesting! I wish I thought of that.
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