My niece asked on Facebook for suggestions for reading. Wooo-wee! Where do I start? What does she like? Maybe a little romance, a little vampire, fantasy, action and adventure. She has little kids so nothing that's too close to home. I've read some stories that will make your hair curl. Her hair is fine, don't want to do that to her. Something she can't put down. Now that is going to be hard. Because of course she is going to HAVE to put it down simply because the kids are going to try to get her attention... So it's gotta be something that makes sense if you have to come back to it. She didn't say it had to be fiction, so Krakauer (although that might put a wave in her hair, definitely NOT Into the Wild, but maybe Into Thin Air? Can't put it down but if you had to you could figure it out... There are just so many books and so little time. All of the Alan Bradley (Sweetness at the bottom of the pie and the like) are what Aunt Bea would pick, and all the Mary Russell books (Laurie R. King), and those are good, too. That takes us over to P. D. James and English mystery writers like Dame Agatha (Christie), but that can be a little too particular, and besides she didn't say that she liked mysteries... So. John Green's teen novels (Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns, haven't read the new one but it's supposed to be good) would work but not-put-downable? Not sure about that. I loved Nancy Werlin's The Killer's Cousin. That one's kind of a psychological thriller. Am I warm yet?
I realize with a jolt how much I flippin' miss being in the library discussing books with kids. We had so much fun! It was awesome to see someone go crazy over an author and read everything he wrote. Or a particular genre so much that this guy was an authority on Science Fiction. How amazing to see kids grow and change, and BECOME and find meaning. Books and the people who read them. It's just an amazing drama, and I was privileged to be a tiny part of it. So grateful. Thanks, Kristen. Happy reading!
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I enjoyed both Into the Wild and Into Thin Air; however, I would recommend a good John Green novel. I absolutely loved both Looking For Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars.
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