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I just finished reading John Green's Looking For Alaska, and it was completely gorgeous and wonderfully sad. There are few things better than a heartbreaking and beautiful novel. I've also read An Abundance of Katherines by him which was also fantastic. He writes the most real teenage characters. It's amazing. I love finding new authors to fawn over.
Alison said that the library has his third book, Paper Towns on hold for her and I'm going to steal it and read it before she can. Because I am evil and books make my soul happy. (Hey Ali, according to his website the rights for Alaska and Paper Towns have both been sold to movie studios. I want to see Alaska as a movie, although thinking of all the many ways that could ruin it is scary.)
Other recent reads that were awesome:
Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand by Louise Hawes is a collection of wonderfully fantastic and dark fairytale re-tellings. I don't do descriptions so well but it was fantastic and dark and sexy and awesome. (Yes, I am so cool with my words.) Plus the illustrations in it were gorgeous. (Plus, her version of the Pied Piper? Never in my life have I thought a piper was hotter.)
And then there's another short stories collection called St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell, of which the title story is the best within it.
Writers make me happy. Very very happy.
See, and now because I've read a nice proper book and talked literature I don't have to feel guilty about the fact that tonight is my Gossip Girl night. Blaaaaaair.
Alison said that the library has his third book, Paper Towns on hold for her and I'm going to steal it and read it before she can. Because I am evil and books make my soul happy. (Hey Ali, according to his website the rights for Alaska and Paper Towns have both been sold to movie studios. I want to see Alaska as a movie, although thinking of all the many ways that could ruin it is scary.)
Other recent reads that were awesome:
Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand by Louise Hawes is a collection of wonderfully fantastic and dark fairytale re-tellings. I don't do descriptions so well but it was fantastic and dark and sexy and awesome. (Yes, I am so cool with my words.) Plus the illustrations in it were gorgeous. (Plus, her version of the Pied Piper? Never in my life have I thought a piper was hotter.)
And then there's another short stories collection called St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell, of which the title story is the best within it.
Writers make me happy. Very very happy.
See, and now because I've read a nice proper book and talked literature I don't have to feel guilty about the fact that tonight is my Gossip Girl night. Blaaaaaair.
