2011 Narrate Reading Lists

[praetorianguard]

Oh, people, it is that time again. You know, the time each year when I drag out the giant reading lists of ginormous doom and I post them and we all flail for a bit and then we read a million books. That time

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[ladybug_rjc]

I was just talking to Sabs last night about how excited I was to see your new accumulation of young adult literature. I'm always interested to see how you divide it off for staff. I was not expecting it today. So, YAYZ!

I will not use an unneeded Z combined with a ! again. I think you probably block people for that.

[praetorianguard]

Yay!

I fear it would be hypocritical of me to block you for this unfortunate combination of Z + ! when lately I find myself using the interrobang with abandon. :))

[ladybug_rjc]

I just find it to be the most efficient way to express ones sense of über excitement on the internet, when one's vocal tonality cannot be experienced.

This year, I might try following one/both lists just to give myself some reading focus. I should be perturbed that the only place I already weigh in having a lot of books under my belt is the "classics" portion of the YA Con with No Name list, and that is due to my feeling like my high school did not make us well read. Then, it doesn't surprise me I have not read many of the Sirens books, since the new theme is monsters, and I don't gravitate toward monsterish book.

[praetorianguard]

:P Yayz! it is.

Hooray for the lists! YA has so much cool stuff going on right now, and the Sirens books continue to rock my world (just for fun, only the first two sections of that list deal with monsters; the rest are more general women in fantasy books). The lists really do help me focus; if I don't make a list of what I should read, I'll be all over the map and forget things!

[smilie117]

LISTS! I only finished 2010's lists last Thursday. :P XD

Anyway, I hope to start on the latest lists after I finish reading The Lost Hero and Behemoth of which while I picked up both, have not yet started. I'm tired and there are things to do first aside from reading and so no reading for me yet. *pouts*

*bounces* Will pick your brain about book recs in a few weeks or something when I'm more ready to tackle them. :)

[praetorianguard]

Your timing! It is impeccable!

I need to go buy The Lost Hero. Well, I need to finish the last 100 pages of Bleeding Violet and then decide whether next I get to read things I'm dying to read or read that stack of ARCs that I don't know if I'll like. So many decisions!

[smilie117]

Timing was awesome. :D

Too many decisions! You should read some things you are dying to read and then alternate to the stack of ARCs. ;)

[praetorianguard]

:P Except that my brain is dead and likely to get deader before I close this deal. I might want to save things I'm dying to read for when I have more time and focus.

[praetorianguard]

Oh, yes. You see, I promised Tammy Pierce. :))

A couple years ago, when we were finishing up Potter, we were developing both Sirens and the YA con. Sirens got to go first because it was already fully realized in my head, and we meant to roll YA out last year...but there was a recession. So YA is patiently sitting on the back burner waiting for fiscal health.

It'll be a bit different from Sirens, most notably in that it will welcome teens and probably be significantly larger. But generally the same confluence of writers, professionals, scholars, educators, librarians and readers talking about books we all love. :) And most definitely not as a single track in a larger con; YA is bigger and better than that!

[praetorianguard]

It used to be only SF/F, but so much of what's going on right now in YA generally is so vibrant and so many authros cross over that it seemed like a largely artificial definition.

:)) The classics are on there largely because my teeny, rural public school didn't make me read them.

[jessryn]

Lists bookmarked! I was already re-reading Jane Eyre, so I already feel like I'm on topic.

[praetorianguard]

Not only are you on topic, you're ahead! We count all books finished after we post the list. :P

[jessryn]

Any recs for what appears to be the adult fantasy category on the Sirens list (starts with The Handmaiden's Tale). I've only read War for the Oaks and Kristen Britain before.

[sarahtales]

I feel fancy I'm on the list, yay!

[imaginarycircus]

I just bought your book and am reading to dive in! You should feel fancy. :D

[praetorianguard]

How could I not? Demon-hunting and all that, but also the central question of Nick's nature!