Restricted Section: Term XXVI - Read, Reading, To Read

[sanalith.livejournal.com]

Activity: Read, Reading, To Read
Points: 10 points for your initial comment, 2 points for every substantial response, max 30 points
Deadline: August 30 @ 11:59PM UTC (Timezone Converter)

Details: Since this will be my only activity of Term XXVI, I wanted to both do something relatively simple AND take the opportunity to get to know you guy, so we're going to have a discussion post about our recent reading habits. For your initial comment, write at least 150 words talking about books you've recently read, are currently reading, and/or what you plan to read next. You can talk about any aspect of the books you wish, but some ideas would be why you selected the books, what you liked/didn't like about them, whether you'd recommend them to others, etc. For your responses, you'll need to write at least 50 words. Make sure you're saying something more than, "I read that book and liked/hated it!" Try to open a dialogue about what was good or bad, or even why you chose NOT to read it. Anything goes, as long as there's substance to it.

If you have any questions, direct them to the appropriate thread. As always, don't forget to sign each comment with your name/house or a sigtag.

Also, do remember that I wiped the roster clean, so if you have bonus items, make sure you register them HERE as soon as possible to earn your extra points. I won't be giving grace periods, so please double-check that you're good to go!

Comments

[caitieness.livejournal.com]

What did you think of Delirium? I thought I would hate it because I like dystopian futures but hate stupid romance but ended up falling in loooove with it. Did you finish the trilogy? I was a bit disappointed in the final novel.

And along the same lines of Delirium & Divergent -- have your read Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi?

caitie puff

[caitieness.livejournal.com]

Under the Never Sky I think leans more towards scifi and I read it during my scifi kick, which is my second favorite genre after YA fantasy but it's nit for everyone. I really connected and felt for the main character, which is an easy way for me to love even the worse books.

caitie. puff

[rabidmunkee.livejournal.com]

Divergent really was an awesome book. Have you read the next book Insurgent? I didn't really like it as much as the first, but it was still pretty good. What is Delirium about? Is it dystopian fiction too? For some reason I can't quite get enough of dystopian fiction.

I remember reading the Box Car Children. I loved that series. Secretly I always wanted to live in a box car like they did. I've told my parents this, but for some reason I never got my own box car. I loved Nancy Drew too. I think I read a few of her books where she was in college? I remember reading those anyway. Sadly I can't find any of those books here in Tennessee like I could in Arizona. :(

Shawn//Hufflepuff

[rabidmunkee.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a really awesome book! I may have to check it out next time I'm in the bookstore.

I read another dystopian novel that I liked, but never got around to reading the rest of the series. It was called Wither.

Here's the synopsis from Amazon:

What if you knew exactly when you’d die? The first book of The Chemical Garden Trilogy.
By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males born with a lifespan of 25 years, and females a lifespan of 20 years--leaving the world in a state of panic. Geneticists seek a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.

When Rhine is sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Yet her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement; her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next; and Rhine has no way to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive.

Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?

Again it didn't have the BAMF!female character in it, but it was kind of interesting. One of those you pick up and say "Dear god don't let this happen in our lifetime!". Honestly I don't know if I'll ever meet a BAMF!female like Katniss from the Hunger Games. She kind of ruined all the strong type of women characters. Or at least the ones in young adult fiction. But I think you'll like Wither (or at least enjoy it). :)

Shawn//Hufflepuff

[caitieness.livejournal.com]

jumping in not for points to say read Cold Magic by Kate Elliot for the bamfiest female characters you'll ever meet. I know it's new adult fantasy alternate history about an arranged marriage but the two female leads literally kick asses and take names and change the world and own their sexuality and care about each other

[caitieness.livejournal.com]

tbh i don't eve know what steampunk is? the setting is definitely a major factor as is the cold magic that its named after! it feels like i read the first book so long ago so i can't actually remember what happens in that one rather than the sequel but it's really adventurey

caitie / puff

[rabidmunkee.livejournal.com]

Partials sounds good. One I can tell you NOT to read in Dystopian fiction is Uglies. I just couldn't get through the first book. I finished it, but it took me months. And I couldn't bear to try to finish the series. I just had a problem with the whole concept, and then I made the mistake of reading the reviews on GoodReads and that totally ruined it for me the rest of the way. I know a lot of people liked The Uglies series, but it seemed to glorify beauty.

Shawn//Hufflepuff

[pretty-panther.livejournal.com]

Given the books that you like, I'd recommend you look up Empty World by John Christopher. It is an older book about a plague wiping out most of the population and a teenager trying to cope. It is YA and I did it at school years ago but the tale is very gripping on the emotions I think.

Brave New World is on my to-read list but looking up the other books you've got listed I think some of them need to join it!

Sam/Claw/2

[queer-theory.livejournal.com]

I listed Brave New World as one of my favorite books too! I wonder what else you've read that you'd recommend in that vein... Dystopian novels similar to that.

Heather/Hufflepuff/4

[herloved-beauty.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend is actually currently reading Divergent!! He keeps recommending it to me over and over again, so I think I may actually check it out. And I've been told for years to check out some of Chopin's work but I never got around to it.. maybe it's finally time to change that.

megan // gryff