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| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : fannyprice tries for 75 in 2008 | | 72 | blackdogbooks, Tuesday 8:10pm | |
| 888 Challenge : Iphigenie's 888 | | 10 | iphigenie, October 4 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Banned Books Week: Sept 27 - Oct 4 | | 35 | detailmuse, October 4 | |
| 40-Something Library Thingers : What are you currently reading/recommending? | | 66 | TeacherDad, October 1 | |
| Dystopian novels : Distopian classics? | | 52 | Nickelini, September 22 | |
| 888 Challenge : juliette07's 888 challenge | | 9 | juliette07, September 20 | |
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| 50 Book Challenge : Marvas 2008 book counter | | 78 | marvas, September 14 | |
| Awful Lit. : Books to be struck from HS reading lists! | | 162 | d_perlo, September 13 | |
| Banned Books : Would you censor your own child's reading? | | 58 | PortiaLong, September 13 | |
| 20-Something LibraryThingers : What's your favorite book in your library? | | 87 | atlargeinthewrld, September 3 | |
| Read YA Lit : Monthly Discussion Schedule | | 33 | SheReads, September 3 | |
| Book talk : Top 10 favorite Young adult books of all time (ONLY TEN! i know it will be hard) | | 8 | whymaggiemay, August 30 | |
| Read YA Lit : Book suggestions for a 13 yr old boy? | | 49 | librarianjojo, August 30 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : thekoolaidmom's 50 book challenge | | 76 | thekoolaidmom, August 30 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 2 August 2008 | | 215 | collyer, August 21 | |
| Book talk : What books would you want to see as a movie? | | 65 | sanddancer, August 21 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Best Young Adult SF | | 36 | rojse, August 13 | |
| Most Disturbing Books : Group thread | | 26 | Booksloth, August 12 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Opposites Attract II: Paired Titles | | 14 | CD1am, August 2 | |
| *twilight* : The Host | | 2 | rayleen_e, August 1 | |
| Hogwarts Express : What are you reading -- July 2008 | | 146 | biblioholic29, August 1 | |
| Read YA Lit : YA literary crushes | | 197 | sadiegrrrl, July 31 | |
| Read YA Lit : Teen Books for Adult Readers | | 63 | Esta1923, July 29 | |
| Book Listers UNITE! : The EW 100 New Classics List | | 15 | njd908, July 16 | |
| Read YA Lit : June Discussion--Looking for Alasaka by John Green | | 43 | _Zoe_, July 9 | |
| 888 Challenge : virginiahomeschooler's 888 | | 29 | cmbohn, July 9 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books first quarter of 2008 | | 119 | rachbxl, July 1 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : MsMoto's reading list | | 8 | MsMoto, June 30 | |
| Book Listers UNITE! : Banned Books lists | | 1 | thekoolaidmom, June 22 | |
| The Green Dragon : How you use LT | | 38 | MrsLee, June 21 | |
| Progressive & Liberal! : Children's book recommendations? | | 28 | Lunar, June 15 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - May. 2008 | | 236 | annatapl, June 15 | |
| Read YA Lit : recommendations for a 12 year old girl? | | 43 | pinkbooks, June 10 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 7 | | 183 | Booksloth, June 5 | |
| Dystopian novels : Young Adult Dystopias | | 5 | Aquila, May 28 | |
| Girlybooks : Things we want our daughters to read | | 40 | Allie_Mag_79, May 27 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : TeacherDad 2008 | | 185 | TeacherDad, May 26 | |
| Twilight Club : The Host? | | 20 | JoleneConnelly, May 23 | |
| Hogwarts Express : I'M DONE!!!!!! | | 35 | biblioholic29, May 12 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mayl 2008 | | 158 | ellevee, May 12 | |
| THE HOST LOVERS : Loving it? | | 4 | The_Book_Queen, May 9 | |
| Newbery Challenge : Newbery Project | | 8 | TeacherDad, May 5 | |
| Name that Book : About people called "creatures"? | | 4 | weener, May 2 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - April. 2008 | | 388 | milbaby, May 2 | |
| Read YA Lit : Ultimate Teen Reading List | | 13 | JRlibrary, April 26 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - DECEMBER 2007 | | 172 | lynnlib, April 6 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top 3 Reads March 2008 | | 38 | sandragon, April 5 | |
| Read YA Lit : March 2008-- What are you reading? | | 59 | Glamorous, April 2 | |
| dystopia : A HANDMAID'S TALE | | 6 | TeacherDad, March 30 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Trai's 2008 challenge: read & review | | 27 | Trai, March 30 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 22 March 2008 | | 145 | thekoolaidmom, March 28 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top 3 Reads February 2008 | | 48 | laruebk, March 23 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : cmb finally joins... | | 10 | TeacherDad, March 19 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Treeseed's 2008 book feasts | | 1 | Treeseed, March 13 | |
| 40-Something Library Thingers : What book are you "preaching" about now? | | 10 | TheBookImp, March 12 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : What is ethical to include on your 2008 list? | | 31 | Kplatypus, March 10 | |
| Book talk : Rereadings | | 64 | bookbesotted, February 25 | |
| Read YA Lit : August Discussion--Feed | | 49 | _Zoe_, February 22 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Favorite book for January | | 28 | ireed110, February 5 | |
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| Dormant: 20-Something LibraryThingers : 20-Something Authors | | 19 | nmelcher, February 4 | |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : NatureGeek's 50 (actually, I'd be happy with 25) | | 8 | NatureGeek, January 26 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : Newbie Suggestions | | 17 | motomama, January 17 | |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : lindsacl's 50 books for 2007 | | 46 | tiffin, January 3 | |
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| Dormant: Canadian Bookworms : It's already the 12th and we haven't got a "what are you reading in December" thread! | | 18 | LynnB, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : bluesalamanders' challenge | | 107 | bluesalamanders, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Hogwarts Express : What''s your Top Ten? | | 69 | shanfan, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 15 December 2007 | | 142 | alcottacre, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Comfort reads | | 67 | bookladykm, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Books read in 2007: MrStevens | | 59 | 1Frog1, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 27 October 2007 | | 127 | philosojerk, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : William Nicholson - The Wind on Fire trilogy | | 8 | Rhinoa, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : Vote for November's Book Discussion | | 40 | _Zoe_, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : pdxWoman Completes | | 1 | pdxwoman, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - September 2007 | | 147 | thioviolight, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : ElizaJane's 50 (or 75) Book Challenge | | 69 | ElizaJane, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Writer-readers : Banned Books | | 10 | Xiguli, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Resolutions : Can you recommend a book from my tbr pile? | | 18 | fyrefly98, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Children's Fiction : Which Children's/YA Book from your Childhood Did You Not Read Until You Were An Adult? | | 16 | tinylittlelibrarian, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Post-apocalyptic Literature : List of books to check out in this genre | | 23 | arunrabindar, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : Recommend me a YA title | | 27 | bettyjo, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : August--What are you reading? | | 66 | Jenson_AKA_DL, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Has anyone ever spoiled a book for you? | | 48 | fleela, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Solitude1984 accepts the challenge! | | 11 | solitude1984, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : All-time Favorite Book | | 67 | wildbill, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : What's on your wish list? | | 35 | ladybookworm, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : July Discussion--A Great and Terrible Beauty | | 35 | _Zoe_, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : pdxWoman -- Books Read in 2007 | | 2 | pdxwoman, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: Romance - from historical to contemporary : Books that made you cry... | | 44 | scistarz, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What book came into your home today? - June 2007 | | 116 | Kell_Smurthwaite, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : If you didn't buy a book today, what was the last book you bought and when? | | 105 | Jenson_AKA_DL, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : March Discussion--The Giver | | 38 | MrStevens, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: Children's Fiction : Newberry Challenge: MrStevens | | 3 | MrStevens, June 2007 | |
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is Edward Scissorhands a book?
Let's see... how about The Giver? ... rare, since there are so many good new books always coming out.
I did two re-reads this week for Banned Books Week--The Giver and Fahrenheit 451, both of which I enjoyed immensely.
Think I'll be back on new reads for a while, though. I think I'll be doing a re-read of either The Giver or The Perks of Being a Wallflower. But who knows what else could strike my fancy...it has been a while since I read The Color Purple.
Or maybe I'll re-read a favorite Toni Morrison, since pretty much every single one of her books has ... ... No Time For Goodbye by Linwood barclay
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3 Our ... ... Jane Austen
Serious kid's books:
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Seriously funny books:
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett
Non-Fiction: ... ... it seemed only a teaser and left me unsatisfied.
27. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry ****
Set in the same world as The Giver, but in a village where hardship and selfishness is the rule. There is no attempt to teach ethics or morals to children and those with any kind of handicap are ... 1. Forest Chronicles series by Patricia Wrede (Dealing with Dragons, et. al.)
2. The Giver by Lois Lowry (and related books)
3. Heat by Mike Lupica
4. Painting the Black by Carl Deuker
5. The Third Eye by Lois Duncan
6. Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart
7. The Hollow Hil ... This may stray a bit into children's, but....
1. The Lives of Christopher Chant
2. Alanna
3. Dark Visions
4. The Giver
5. The Diddakoi
6. Tuck Everlasting
7. Charlotte Sometimes
8. Playing Beatie Bow
9. House of Stairs
10. Strandia ... No Time For Goodbye by Linwood barclay
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3 Our ... ... of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
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3 Our ... ... patronizing (unfairly, but...). Cliff - if you have access to a library..the 3rd "Hungry Cities" picks up nicely, again. The Giver i'd say is more Jr High and the same w/ John Christopher's older classics.
For a moderately open minded household, i'd add in Night Sky Mine which combines ... ... me of how much I enjoyed Madeline L'Engle and not just A Wrinkle in Time, but the whole series.
And I thought The Giver was wonderful.
I've decided that since I joined LT that reading all the books there were (let alone are and will be) is futile, but I am going to have fun ... 144. The Giver by Lois Lowry
145. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
146. The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
147. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
148. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
... yet to be mentioned :)
the alien series by Bruce Coville
The Wrinkle In Time series by Madeleine L'Engle
The Giver by Lois Lowry.
sydam: enjoy The Giver...it was one of the first books that really made an impression on me when I read it in 6th grade. Then, I re-read it in college a few years ago and appreciated it so much more. It is truly a work of art, and I hope you'll love it as much as I did.
I officially *heart* ... sydamy: I loved The Giver! It's one of our family's favorite. :-D
I finished The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden today. I really enjoyed the book. It's an emotionally touching book, one I could really relate to. My review is sydamy in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 2 August 2008 (Aug 6, 2008, 6:57pm) ... and feel quite smug that I did that well before the Booker list came out.
I just picked up from local thrift store:
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
... read alot of young adult lit as a young adult, but out of those I did read, I loved
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Giver by Lois Lowry
A Horse Called Wonder by Joanna Campbell, and the rest in the Thoroughbred Series
and I must give a shout out to Harry Potter, though I didn' ... ... and play.
I loved Judy Blume, Nancy Drew and The Babysitters Club. The first book that really affected me was The Giver, which I read when I was 12, and from there on I was hooked. I read whatever I could get my hands on, including Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret at least 15 ... ... reading these "what are you reading now" threads because they add more books to my TBR pile. Oh well!
Rissa, I loved The Giver -- you should read it again, it's great.
I'm still reading DH for the discussion, of course. I just finished the ER book I got this month, The Robe of Skulls ... ... you read the book?) And I love the 4 kids. They are great characters.
I'm about to start rereading New Moon and read The Giver for the first time. ... The Kite Runner because of some of the content... for now.
But some books are banned for utterly ridiculous reasons. The Giver has been challenged because it's "too violent" and has "sexual content" WHAT? have they read the book? 'Cause I've read it twice and never found the part where J ... ... To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home, ... Most of what I wanted to mention has been mentioned above, although I think I'd like to 'second'
The Giver
The Little Princess
Where the Red Fern Grows
My Side of the Mountain
and The Phantom Tollbooth
I also wanted to add A Day No Pigs Would Die ... was delightfully creepy as well. Very memorable.
I will be putting Gathering Blue on my lengthy list of must reads. The Giver left me wanting more. Usually not my type of book, but I found the premise intriguing.
Finally, I am just getting into Wharton's The Age of Innocence. I ... 52. Gathering blue by Lois Lowry
I liked this much better than it's companion The giver. Again we're in the future, but this future looks a lot more like our middle ages, again the protagonist discovers a secret, that changes her view of the world. I found this 'future' a lot more ... ... Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
* The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
* Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
* The Giver, Lois Lowry
* A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Woman in Black / The Woman in White
The Giver / The Collector
M. Butterfly / Madame Butterfly
Incredible Good Fortune / Misfortune
Circus Days / Nights at the Circus ... for school, though.
Some have found it a rather controversial book for public school and I liken it to Lois Lowry's The Giver. Artemis Fowl, The Giver, Where the Red Fern Grows, My Side of the Mountain, Lightning Thief, Chronicles of Narnia, Children of the Lamp, Chasing Vermeer, Fire Within.
46. The giver by Lois Lowry
Like the previous a book, this is an LT-recommendation. I love the premise and the way this society is described. But I did feel the ending was a bit rushed. I was waiting for a big emotional release that didn't happen for me. It reminded me a lot of This perfect ... ... subject material or the images.
The line between juvenile/YA and adult books is getting quite blurry. Mary mentioned The Giver-that's a great story, but it's also a bit shocking and powerful, so I would want to use my understanding of my child's maturity to decide whether or not to steer ... ... 6th or 7th grade and I didn't object. I just think there are some books better left to certain levels of understanding. The Giver is another I would suggest waiting a bit on if I felt my child wasn't ready for it. ... it has similarities to Invasion but I put it more on the level of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World or Lois Lowry's The Giver.
It's amusing that The Host has shown up twice in the same thread... I used the quote from Ch. 1 earlier...lol! ... For the most part, there's much less name calling.
Would you read the willoughbys by Lois Lowry? I've only read The Giver and I'd be interested in what her other writing is like.
I've just posted a review of If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!. That was an ... Hi everyone-
While I love dystopian novels, I especially love YA dystopias. Any recommendations?
I'll add The Giver, Uglies, Life as We Knew it and Feed to the list of great YA dystopian novels. Others? ... I made it in about forty pages, I just was hoping something would happen...if it did, I guess I'll never know.
I enjoyed The Giver, I was teaching and it was on the reading list. The kids had problems with their parents borrowing the book when they needed it to do their homework. Back in ... ... I've heard of it.. its on my need to read list.. which numbers in the hundreds, but thats another story...) and I loved The Giver I hope that our world NEVER turns into that, but it was interesting!
... to Chapter 20 last night and am liking it even more now. It reminds me a lot of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and The Giver by Lois Lowry. ... thoroughly. It is definitely a thinking book.
It reminds be quite a bit of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Giver by Lois Lowry. ... thoroughly. It is definitely a thinking book.
It reminds be quite a bit of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Giver by Lois Lowry. I don't hate much of anything but a couple I disliked are The Giver (which I might have posted earlier, sorry if it is a repeat) and Love in the Time of Cholera. I keep seeing reviews here about how wonderful the books are and just keep thinking I must be very, very strange. ... August.)
Currently I'm reading Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr.
These aren't necessarily thought provoking like The Giver or Where the Red Fern Grows.
Did anyone mention Bridge to Terabithia? ... ER book, Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide.
With the whole family, we are starting A Wrinkle in Time. We finished The Giver on Thursday, and we've taken a couple days break to let it settle in. Maggie, my youngest, thought The Giver was sad.
Still holding at 23 ... Now I also have my ER book, Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide to read and review, as well.
We finished reading The Giver, as a family, on Thursday, and will start reading A Wrinkle in Time tomorrow, probably.
Still in the same spot in Skeleton Crew and The Prince.
Don't ... ... print in it. I think she'll do better with it than the pocket books. She was upset because she didn't have a copy of The Giver and couldn't read along. She'll be happy with AWIT.
MORE: While hunting for my nine-year-old's leotard, and late for dance class, I glanced at the ... ... print in it. I think she'll do better with it than the pocket books. She was upset because she didn't have a copy of The Giver and couldn't read along. She'll be happy with AWIT. ... swap books around to read each other's. My sisters have too few books for me to do that. I may ask one if I can borrow The Giver though, simply because I was trying to remember the story the other day and couldn't. Sounds familiar. If I haven't read it I'd like to. Almost like an Aldous Huxley Brave New World or a Lois Lowry The Giver. ... Junie B., Lucy Rose, etc...) I'm going to count this book, because I wanted to read it, too. I won't, however, count The Giver twice, even though I'm rereading it with the whole family.
So, with Mick and Firefly, I have finished 23. The misfits by James Howe
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Giver by Lois Lowry
and
various manga I am currently reading Firefly Rain as an ARC book, and The Giver with my kids. After that, I'm reading The Gun Runner's Daughter for the Go Review That Book!. After that, I don't know... maybe my ER if it's here by then... if not, maybe Plum Lovin'? It's a lite book. ... and other kids' things. I like SK, and I got this book because I saw and really liked the movie "The Mist."
I'm reading The Giver by Lois Lowry with my kids because I read it for myself a couple weeks ago and thought it'd be a great one for us to read as a family. I love to read with ... ... viruses, murder, violence against women, gore
The exorcist: Demon posession, supernatural violence, mental illness
The Giver: Dystopia, euthanasia
The Holy Bible: Supernatural violence, violence against women, gore, rape, graphic violence
The Hot Zone: Gore, viruses
Lolita: Pedo ... ... the recommendations associated with that, The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (and The Giver, which hasn't been touchstoned yet), Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, and The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman all bring back memories. (Had ... ... of the Dog in the Night-time
Ella Enchanted
Fahrenheit 451
Feed
Flowers for Algernon
Gathering Blue
The Giver (as a child)
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit
I Am the Messenger
Life of Pi
The Lion, the Witch, and ... ... Enchanted
Flowers for Algernon
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (2-3 times)
Gilead
The Girls
The Giver
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Handmaid's Tale
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit (2-3 times)
Les Miserables (2 times)
Lord of the R ... ... of her room was her bookshelf, which we all stood around looking at for a good long time.
We took her three copies of The Giver and stuck them side by side, her boyfriend tossed out her non-repairable copy of Post Mortem, and she gave away her second copy of Chicken Soup for the Teenage ... Having read The Giver two weeks ago, and already rereading it this time with my kids, I've picked up three or four more books by Lois Lowry. The kids are also loving The Giver, and they want me to read Gathering Blue with them next. ... genes. It's humorous where appropriate, sometimes irreverant, and made me want to be Greek... I so want a ya-ya!
3. The Giver by Lois Lowry. I loved this book! I love how Lowry builds a world complete with it's own rules and history. I especially appreciate that it follows the natural ... ... the stoies in that book. She covers my mouth when I read it out loud.
Haven't touched The Prince, and I'm rereading The Giver, this time with the whole family.
Finished 15 ... Nay on Shazdeh (Farsi for "Prince"... Since I DID just finish The Kite Runner ;-) ... I'm ready for a re-read already, but I might be able to contribute a few comments here and there. This year I've also read The Giver by Lois Lowry and Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series, so I could also contribute a few comments on those, if people wanted to read them.
The books I've ... ... talk about War and Peace was harder to read than War and Peace itself?
Also, Gathering Blue (the next book after The Giver) is just fabulous -- in general actually Lois Lowry is good for a quality quick read, but that's a whole nother thing. How old is your daughter, out of curiosity? ... post:
1. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
2. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
3. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks*
4. The Giver - Lois Lowry
5. As We Are Now - May Sarton
6. Run - Ann Patchett
7. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson*
8. Sitting Practice - Caroline Adderson (ARC) ... ... trippy 60's-ness of the film...
Handmaid's Tale is also very good, and if you enjoy YA fiction at all, Lois Lowry's The Giver is similar...
heck, even if you don't like/read YA, try The Giver! ... of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
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The Giver is a must read and around twelve was when I first really understood it.
At twelve my favorite books were His Dark Materials by Philip Pulman. They have interesting themes, and the writing is geared towards ... ... finishing up The Darkest Evening of the Year, I have less than 100 pages to go. Then I'm picking up Atonement, then The Giver by Lois Lowery, and after that Eragon and Eldest in that order."
I've gotten through almost all the ones I planned to, am on Eldest right now, and ... ... Luen Yang
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
The Giver - Lois Lowry Finished The Giver and it's definately one of my favorites. My shortlist reccomendations for this quarter would be Middlesex, The Road, and The Giver. p'shah on the rest of 'em... Maybe include The Store.
Finished Larryisms and had to trudge the last half. It would have been ... ... She definately looks like sh has that precociousness and humor that we've grown to love in Junie B.
BTW, I just finished The Giver and it's phenomenal. I'm deeply touched and impressed at the depth and ability to imagine a different world, with all it's rules, a world that is possibly the ... I just finished The Giver and think that would be a beautiful movie... then I checked IMDb and guess what! Someone else thought so too. Due for a 2011 release, though.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435651/ thekoolaidmom - I would recommend The Giver as well. There are also a few more books in the series that only interconnect at a later point. They all have a similar kind of theme, the child who undoes a socially accepted framework that is oppressive in some way. Each story can stand on its own as ... >44-The Giver and Wrinkle in Time are some of my favorite YA books. I read Wrinkle in Time in the 6th grade and related with Meg, so it was one I read frequently growing up-and the entire rest of the series. I didn't read The Giver until I had to start defending it's placement in school ... ... them!
My 15-year-old finished reading The Outsiders and The Phantom Tollbooth recently, and I'm getting ready to read The Giver with her... or A Wrinkle in Time, honestly I have always found Wrinkle to be an impossible book to read, though I don't know why. ... who..." lines.
I'm also nursing Skeleton Crew when I'm out and about, but that one will take awhile.
I'm starting The Giver next as my main reading.
Finished 10... still haven't finished Machiavelli's The Prince I just finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry. It's one of my favorites. I think I probably read this one every year. ... not outstanding - execution and sometimes juvenile prose. I know its a YA book, but having just finished Lois Lowry's The Giver, I was struck by the fact that although both books are written for younger audiences, The Giver never felt to me like anything other than an adult book. Uglies ... ... not outstanding - execution and sometimes juvenile prose. I know its a YA book, but having just finished Lois Lowry's The Giver, I was struck by the fact that although both books are written for younger audiences, The Giver never felt to me like anything other than an adult book. Uglies ... ... finishing up The Darkest Evening of the Year, I have less than 100 pages to go. Then I'm picking up Atonement, then The Giver by Lois Lowery, and after that Eragon and Eldest in that order.
It's spring break and two out of three kids are gone. I'm gonna catch up on AAALLLLL my ... ... Lent by Albert Holtz
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1 When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
2 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
3 The ... My boyfriend had never read The Giver, and I insisted that he must. So we both read it. Still wonderful, even as an adult. ... Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
5. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
6. The Giver - Lois Lowry
7. Atonement - Ian McEwan
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Blind ... #156: I'm reading The Giver to my class right now (11 & 12 yr olds - not sure what US grade that is). They love it too. I've read it to about 4 other classes over the years and it is always the book that keeps the kids' attention more than any other. They do need help understanding some of the ... 20. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Every second post I was reading in here lately seemed to be talking about this book and The Giver, so I had to try it too.
Back when I studied writing for young people at uni, I read heaps of children's and YA books, but it's been a relatively long time ... The Giver, Messenger, Gathering Blue, Gossamer, Meeting at Corvallis The Protector's War, Dies the Fire, Fly By Night, A Place Called Attar by J.D. Belanger ... and Year of Wonders (thank you, Borders coupons).
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