Twitterature: July 2014 Edition
by Stacey
It’s my favorite time of the month. Twitterature, hosted by the lovely Anne at Modern Mrs. Darcy. Below are short, Twitter-style reviews of books I have read this past month.
Until I pulled this all together I hadn’t realized that I have read nothing but middle grade and young adult this month. Seems I’m in a bit of a pattern…
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. I am writing about We Were Liars for Great New Books in August so I’m going to stay quiet for now.
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart. After I finished We Were Liars, Sally of my favorite Curious Reader told me that I really had to read E. Lockhart’s previous work. And yet again, she was right. Frankie was even better than We Were Liars and that’s saying a lot.
The Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove. So I definitely have a reader crush on Sally because she recommended this one too. The Glass Sentence is middle grade fantasy which is not a genre that I tend to read but I’m glad I read this one. The middle got a bit long but the premise is so interesting that I read until the end.
The Giver by Lois Lowry. I have been trying to get Caroline to read The Giver for a long time. It is one of my favorite middle grade books of all time. She has been hesitant to read it because of this scary looking man on the cover. I caved last week and bought the movie tie in edition of the book and Caroline devoured the book. We have talked and talked about it. She’s actually a bit disturbed by it and isn’t sure that she wants to read the rest of the series. My fingers are crossed and I am ready with non-scary covers of Gathering Blue, The Messenger and Son.
I love middle grade books! I was just in a new-to-me used bookstore and reminiscing over all those titles I remember reading at that age. I can’t wait til my boys are reading those books!
Why do other customers always need help when you come in? Don’t they know we want to TALK about books?!
Isn’t it finny when you don’t see patterns in your reading at the time? I graduated undergrad last year, and while I immediately jumped into reading all the time again, at the new year I realized I’d only read one non-fiction book the entire year — Bossypants! I’m specifically trying to ease myself into lots of nonfic now, and I’m finding that memoirs are easy ti slip into from fiction, but that everything else takes a little more resolve.
Oh, and I, too, read a bit more YA last month than I realized at the time!
I’ve seen mixed reviews for We Were Liars, but I loved Frankie and I’m tempted to try it anyways. Do you know what you liked that others might not have?
As I clicked “post” I thought: maybe I should have proofread that. Nah, it’s fine.
Then I looked back and realized I ought to have!
So many of my favorites are in the middle grade category! I’ll be curious to hear your thoughts on We Were Liars, I feel like I’m seeing it mentioned everywhere all of a sudden.
I’m interested what you have to say about We Were Liars too. I put your first three recommendations on hold, but I too am a little hesitant about The Giver!
I think that was the right response to The Giver. It IS disturbing and the rest are too, but they are SO GOOD. So glad she took this one for a test drive. 😉
I decided to skip We Were Liars (at least for now, and unless you change my mind!) but I’m intrigued by Frankie. Thanks for sharing your books!