Meera, if you like, you can comment on A Great and Terrible Beauty on Libba Bray's LiveJournal. She's got quite a following.
I was going to put up a poll but I think I know what the ratings would be...
The main point of this post was to solicit suggestions for November. How about something that is about a male main character?
Discussion for So B. It begins the 15th! Sarah Weeks, the author, has a website.
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Aw, her book sucked but I'm not going to go to her blog to say so -- that's unnecessarily cruel (and also her little fans would probably descend upon me in a fit of righteous rage).
I am going to suggest, without much hope, this book for November, even though I can't really tell whether it counts as a "proper" YA novel (probably marketed as adult, but it is a bildungsroman). It also might be really hard to find, considering that it's a translation of a book set in bumblefuck, Sweden.
Anyway, I heard about it on the radio months and months ago and have been intruigued ever since. The author read a passage that was funny and wonderful.
The main charater is 11 -- at least at the beginning -- so that looks good to me!
I'm suggesting Looking for Alaska but would love to read a Swedish book. If that one doesn't get selected, I'll read it with you anyhow, to make up for missing the boat on Cloud Atlas.
I'd like to suggest some books that Dawn has recommended on her site: Sandpiper, Geography Club, The Boyfriend List, A Room on Lorelai Street, but maybe we should save those for another month, when there are less options.
I just read Storky (also recommended by Dawn), which is from a guy's perspective. It's pretty entertaining, although I admit I'm finding the journal/diary genre and self-depracating, humorous teen a little tired. It would have seemed fresher if I were an adolescent myself (in age, mind you; still there in behavior).
Oh, and Burgess's Doing It is mostly from three guys' perspectives. I found it entertaining as well. Not the best book I've ever read, and I can't really analyze it literally at this time (too lazy and dumb), but I did enjoy the characters (liked to like them, liked to dislike them) and the realism of the dialogue. Some of the storylines seemed a little out of my realm (maybe because it takes place in England?), and I'm not sure there was a whole lot of character growth (seemed sometimes stereotypical, flat). They apparently tried it out as a sitcom here in America, called Life As We Know It, I think (kind of like a My So-Called Life). I never watched it and I think it was canceled rather quickly.
Okay -- Eunice, we can add Geography Club to the list; it's about BOYS; the others will be in the running for next month's book.
I also want to suggest Walter Dean Myers's Autobiography of My Dead Brother, which is up for the National Book Award. So is Lynch's newest book, the one about rape. (Full list of nominees here.)
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