I love reading teen fiction, too. We have a fair amount in common, most notably GWTW and Outlander, a couple of my favorites. Have you tried Jennifer Donnelly yet? Her book The Tea Rose is adult fiction (and absolutely fantastic), but A Northern Light is young adult; I plan to read it soon.

~Jenny

posted by goddessladyj at 1:40 pm (EST) on Jan 27, 2008

hey, 20-something library student, join us over here =)

posted by aznstarlette at 8:09 pm (EST) on Dec 13, 2007

Hi,

Thanks for your message! I've enjoyed many of the books we share. My list is an attempt to keep track of all the books I've read as a reference for readers' advisory, and some I definitely love more than others.

Have a great week,
Emily

posted by librarianlost at 12:13 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2007

You took a class with Shumate? Where was that? I would love to do that. I couldn't imagine just a quick sit down with him because I would wonder what to say, but over the course of taking a class I could probably get my act together.

You asked where I had heard of him. Three of his poems are included in Good Poems for Hard Times which is just a great collection. I then hunted down some more of his stuff that's online. Finally, for the holidays, my wife got me a copy of High Water Mark which is simply amazing. The guy is amazing.

Do you have any idea if he's going to publish another book? I'd buy it for twice the price.

Talk to you later.

posted by brianfay at 1:03 pm (EST) on Mar 19, 2007

It would seem that you and I are the only one's so far to know David Shumate's High Water Mark. What a great book. Here's hoping that others join us. Thanks for including it.

posted by brianfay at 6:12 am (EST) on Mar 4, 2007

First of all, you're awesome for including "Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You" on your list. It was a total favorite of mine when I was younger. I don't hear much about it these days. Perhaps because I'm not a school librarian.

Secondly, I notice we share "Survivor" by Chuck Palahnuik in common. I just finished it. I was curious if you've read it and what you thought of it.

posted by lacolbert at 8:07 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2006

Hi again! In answer to your question, no, we didn't have another class together, at least, not that I know of. I was just working on Fiesta 6 and thought I'd pick your profile to comment on, since I have more books in common with you than anyone else who's joined the SLIS-Indy group so far. Also, I'm a big fan of LibraryThing, so I like to get to know other SLISers who use it.

I'm happy to know that we see eye to eye on Clan of the Cave Bear. Any time you want to talk books, you know where to find me!

posted by kbalma at 7:50 pm (EST) on Oct 21, 2006

Hi there. This is Katy Balma, from your SLIS-Indy class. It's nice to see that we have many books in common, and your profile image is cute. I wonder, what is your LibraryThing collection philosophy? Do you list all books that you've read, books that you own, your favorites only, books read for school or for pleasure? Also, just out of curiosity, of the books we have in common, which would you say impacted you the most? I would like to say that for me, it was The Awakening, or even The Handmaid's Tale, but it would probably be more accurate to say that it was The Clan of the Cave Bear. I was only twelve when I read it, and it really sparked my imagination and got me interested in my natural science and social studies classes for the first time. It also, stangely, helped me to cope with puberty (if that's not too much information for you), as it was a very frank coming-of-age story about a girl who had to deal with survival as well as social and sexual issues of a kind that I had never imagined before. It was both humbling and comforting to read about how she managed to tackle and overcome all of that. Plus, it was such a unique story at the time, wasn't it? It still is, in many ways.

posted by kbalma at 6:05 pm (EST) on Oct 17, 2006