I have to say, I’m very impressed with Liz’s reading goals. And that she finished a book. An actual, highly acclaimed, bestselling book. One that wasn’t about a soulful but alpha war amputee even! Who would have thunk it?
Anyway, while she’s reading the literary, the classic, and the mature, I’ve been reading…other things… Things that perhaps most of my peers would deem less literary, less classic, and certainly less…mature.
As in they’re all meant for kids 13-17.
MARIANNE’S LAST TEN BOOKS READ:
Sure, I could say it’s for research. I’m a YA author, for goodness sake. Gotta keep up with the market, right? Well, sure, except that I would have read them anyway. I have the literary palette of a 15 year old. And maybe the fashion sense, too.
And I’m not ashamed of it at all.
Marianne
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Give me a Regency historical war hero with a dark tortured soul, a massive scar across his face and a minimum of one missing limb, any day. I won’t apologize. Hopefully he will be arrogant in the sexiest possible way, suffer from nightmares that have him pacing his study all in a lather until dawn, and will nurse a hideous drinking problem. On Thursdays he’ll stroll in his estate garden trampling the roses with his one good leg and shouting insults in the direction of the stables because he can no longer ride in the same manly fashion of his youth. Of course, he is horribly misunderstood, a total softie deep inside his corroded heart, and can only be tamed by the right woman. (That would be me.) Are you kidding? I’d totally put down whatever else I was reading for that.
haha–I wouldn’t be ashamed of that list either! You’ve heard of Good Eats from Food Network? Good Reads!
I *like* your list. IN fact, I’ve read all of those except for two (which I have now put on hold at my library).
Who gets to say what books are better than others anyway? We won’t stand for bookism!
I like that. Bookism. None of that.
Woo Hoo Gossip Girl.. I work at a college so I get the HIGH BROW..but give me trash anyday.
I have to say, I like the Gossip Girl series better than the books themselves, but they’re still good trashy fun.
Wicked Lovely was my favorite out of that list.
I’m reading an adult book now – Jane Green’s The Beach House – cause I have to interview her on Tuesday.