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Comment on On Many Things, Including Books by Jules

Jules — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:58:06 +0000

Gail says something similar below. In fact, she says that in Australia it’s not considered young adult at all. She figures that because the characters are teens, it was categorized YA stateside.

Comment on On Many Things, Including Books by Jules

Jules — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:57:13 +0000

Exactly.

Comment on On Many Things, Including Books by Jules

Jules — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:56:16 +0000

Thanks, Lu!

Comment on On Many Things, Including Books by Jules

Jules — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:55:58 +0000

I plan on reading The Hunger Games. I read any series that becomes part of a cultural phenomenon. It's the same reason I'm going to read Game of Thrones/Fire and Ice series. If it speaks to such a large group of people, I want to know what the hoopla is about. A book so popular speaks to a nation and about a nation.

Comment on On Many Things, Including Books by Monica

Monica — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:49:47 +0000

Crawling out from under my rock to say I have never heard of The Book Thief, but naturally I want to read it now. I guess this means that I need to get cracking on The Rules of Civility.

Comment on On Many Things, Including Books by Amber

Amber — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:47:42 +0000

I started to read The Book Thief and couldn’t get into it. I picked it up years later and couldn’t put it down. It’s fantastic. It’s completely different than any book I’ve read, and I literally have my masters in Reading. You will love it.

Comment on On Many Things, Including Books by Shaina

Shaina — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:18:33 +0000

Add me to the list of yeses for The Book Thief. I’ve never read it (nor heard of it but that’s not surprising) and I’m not daunted by the 500 pages. I’ll go ahead and add it to my library’s hold list instead of waiting on the verdict because I’m still #31 on the hold list for Rules of Civility (down from #64 on Jan 18th)! I’ve been enjoying Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter in the meantime. Surprisingly excellent read.

Comment on On Many Things, Including Books by Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:47:09 +0000

Um, I’ve never even heard of The Book Theif, and consider myself pretty darn up on books and bestsellers. Maybe because my daughter is only 9, and we’re still in “Island of the Blue Dolphins” and “Harriet the Spy” territory. I haven’t traveled over to the “Teen” section of the library yet. But, um, sure.

Comment on On Many Things, Including Books by raeann

raeann — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:34:39 +0000

the book thief is AH.MAZ.ING. soooo good. i mean, it’s really depressing, but it is soooo good. i was worried as i read the first 2 pages and realized death was the narrator, but, the writing style is so creative – nothing like i’ve ever read before. sheesh – i may have to read it again. i’m getting all itchy just thinking about how good it is!

and, thankfully i avoided the porn yesterday! but, if it’d been of the vampire variety, i maybe mighta stuck around.

also, i haven’t read your blog for all that long, but if you haven’t read the sex lives of cannibals, you must. it’s by j. maarten troost, about his journey to the marshall islands to live while his wife worked there. laugh out loud funny.

Comment on On Many Things, Including Books by Miss B.

Miss B. — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:34:30 +0000

STOP recommending books, I don’t have enough hours in my life for another book you suggest, gah! I will be 92 and reading the Hunger Games (finally). I want to read the The Book Thief now too! I also want to read the rest of the books you showcased because the covers are phenomenal! And this, this, this is going to put me in the hospital:

“I’m thinking about my mom watching porn. It’s enough to make me want to flush my brain with ammonia.”

You should have Anna create some sort of rolling box with your readers favorite quotes, it would be good times!