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In case anyone missed it, Glory Days closed yesterday after one performance. I feel vindicated.
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In other news, I finally got my hands on the new Skulduggery Pleasant. I'm so, so very excited to get into it. I read the first three chapters at work and was already flailing my hands dramatically with love for Stephanie Valkyrie and Skulduggery ( Read more... )
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In other news, I finally got my hands on the new Skulduggery Pleasant. I'm so, so very excited to get into it. I read the first three chapters at work and was already flailing my hands dramatically with love for Stephanie Valkyrie and Skulduggery ( Read more... )
Also, I am looking forward to reading for actual pleasure this summer, and would love to catch up on some good YA lit. So I was thinking you were the place to go for recs! :) Can you hook a girl up?
Also, also: I think that John Sheppard/Buffy Summers joke is HILARIOUS. I mean, I laugh out loud every time I read it. So it's not just you. It's at least also me. Heh.
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I don't understand how there are people who know SGA and don't think that joke is hilarious. Because. Really. There is no better comparison.
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I. I seriously think that in a Buffy/SGA crossover, Buffy would totally be like, "This guy? Seriously? He's just me with a wrist band." She'd be way more impressed by Ronon. ;)
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Okay, here is a (partial) list of books that I highly recommend:
Adventure and/or Fantasy (ish? Sort of.)Skulduggery Pleasant (Derek Landy) - I really can't recommend this book enough. SO MUCH FUN. It's about a twelve year old girl and a sorcerer skeleton detective. It's filled with dry banter and tons of sharp jokes. The characters are fun and the way the author does magic is interesting and believeable. And I am in love with the two main characters. (If you like it, check out the sequel ( ... )
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie) - This book won like, every award that existed this year and some that I think they made up. It definitely deserved them. Junior is a teenaged artist on an Indian reservation in Washington. He's seen how the reservation gets people down and keeps them there, so he starts to take steps to get away from it. The first is enrolling in the town school off the rez, where he's the only Indian student. It's a book filled with this really raw, awful pain, but it's amazingly well written and a great story that just tugs at your heart.
Everything ever written by David Levithan - Seriously. Um, Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility, Marley's Ghost, How They Met (and Other Stories), and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist for starters. Levithan writes the kind of queer teen lit that I wanted to read when I was a queer teenager. Boy Meets Boy takes place in a kind of queer utopia and instead of focusing on "Oh noes! I am queer and don't know what to do!" it ( ... )
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