Recommended? Yes, for fans of YA. Or fans of either of these awesome writers. Or fans of musicals. (Although you don't have to be a musical fan to enjoy this book. You just have to enjoy reading about friendship and feelings and high school and love.)
Recommended? Y...es, but only because it's J.K. Rowling and I love her. This book took me months to finish. There are a lot of characters who hate themselves and hate each other. But after you get to know them all you have to keep reading to see what happens to them. I <3 J.K. Rowling.
3. JUST ONE DAY by Gayle Forman
Recommended? Yes, absolutely, yes. This book combines several of my favorite things. Travel, Paris, a one-day romance with a beautiful Dutch boy that ends in heartbreak, more travel, and a teenage girl's quest to discover who she really is. Are my favorite things oddly specific? Oh well. Read this book. It's absolutely everything I love about YA. (Well, almost everything, but I can't expect Gayle Forman to know that I like to read about food in highly specific detail and also the French Revolution. Honestly, she did quite a good job when she sat down to write this book and thought, "What would Lauren like to read about?" There's a quirky sidekick, and lots of brooding and regret, and even a couple dark alleys thrown in there.) Yeah, just read it.
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Now, here comes the part where I make excuses! Both for not posting more and for not having more books to list. My excuses, in fact, come in the form of... more books. I am taking some awesome classes this quarter (my last quarter as an undergrad) and they involve a lot of reading. So, since most of them are not exactly relevant to the other books I usually post about, I'm going to do a quick list of them. In case you're interested. Which you should be, because some of them are quite interesting.
Other books I've read in the past month:
1. Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren
2. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
3. The Cavalry Maiden by Nadezhda Durova
4. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope
Books I am currently reading for research for my own writing:
1. Transgender History by Susan Stryker
2. The Lives of Transgender People by Genny Beemyn & Susan Rankin
More books next month! And I'll try to get another post in before my next monthly reads post.
Happy May!
