Ok, let's see. What have I read? Lament, which is the book after Ballad, by Maggie Steifvater. Loved it:) It threw me off because I was expecting it to be from Dee's point of view, but it was about James. That doesn't happen often that I've seen. But it was still very good. I like having a male protagonist. The vast majority of YA fiction have female leads, main characters. Target audience, I guess. Girls read more than guys(?) The next two books in the Vampire Academy series (Frost Bite and Shadow Kiss). I few graphic novels, and one graphic autobiographical book, which I won't even count. I just finished The Reckoning, which is the third novel in the Darkest Powers trilogy by Kelly Armstrong. I'm sad that's over...it was really starting to get good. Derek was finally able to Change and become a werewolf in the last 3rd of the book. Him and Chloe were finally starting to connect. Then bye bye. Something about werewolves, I really like. I was always a Jacob fan in Twilight. Then I read Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater, got me totally hooked on them. Not wild crazy drooling werewolves but you know, the sweet sensitive ones. LOL. I'm a little afraid to tackle some non-YA werewolf stuff though. Not really into reading about sex in books. Love the falling and romantic stuff, just not anything more. right now I'm in between two books, The Secret Zoo...which is a JF book about a boy whose sister is missing and he and his friends are trying to save her, from a secret hidden world (literally) connected to his local zoo. I'd have Darrell start reading it to Corbin but it's kinda long. the other book I am reading is The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud. It's about Charlie St. Cloud's choice between keeping a promise he made to his brother, who died in a car accident, or going after the girl he loves. I checked it out because I saw a preview of the movie that's coming out and it looked good. So far, it's ok....some bits are boring but I'll trudge through it because I suspect that the ending is gonna be amazing. One thing I do have to say the characters in the book are much older than the ones in the movie. It will be interesting to see how that changes the dynamic, if at all. (The movie stars Zac Efron who was 21 when the film was made, and already looks younger than he is, but Charlie is 28 in the book). I suppose to appeal to a younger audience. Well gotta go for now and take care of the chicklets so I'll update more later.
ciao!
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