Discussion Post #18

[empressearwig]

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[empressearwig]

I just finished Rilla of Ingleside today. I'd been reading it on the bus, but I made a conscious decision to shift it back to a home book, because I knew that I'd sob at one point, and I didn't feel like doing that in front of strangers.

Otherwise, I've read Where She Went, the sequel to If I Stay, and I think I loved it almost as much as the first book. It felt like the right sequel, and that wasn't a book it was easy to imagine a sequel to. I've also read Sloppy Firsts (pretty delightful), Sweet Valley Confidential (so terrible it cycles around to awesome), and I finally finished Kitchen Confidential. Now I just have to figure out which of my library books I'm going to read next.

[katayla]

Oh! That's good to hear abut Where She Went because I've been kind of going WHY, WHY does that book need a sequel?

[empressearwig]

It's definitely a book that could have lived without a sequel, but I loved Adam so much in the first one that I was at least tentatively into the idea of a book about him, from his POV. But I really did love it a lot, I read it about as fast as it was humanly possible to read and now I just need to go back and go through it slower, lol.

[beth_shulman]

Oooooh, I loved Sloppy Firsts. And Second Comings, but none of the books after that. Those two books read back to back are some of the most hilarious, insightful, on-the-mark YA books ever.

[empressearwig]

I really loved Sloppy Firsts. It's sort of weird reading about when I was in high school, but kind of awesome too. I'm curious to see what I'll think about the rest of them.

[torigates]

SLOPPY FIRSTS!!!! Oh!!! I love love love those books. Second Helpings is the best one. 3-5 aren't as good, but still delightful in many ways!

[empressearwig]

Yeah? My library only owns like, three copies of it, so I downloaded the ebook, but those are so hard for me to read, even if I'm really impatient to do so. Maybe I will endeavor to start on it anyway.