My daughter is 21 y.o. and never enjoyed fiction books before reading Alex Michaelides. I’m a voracious book reader and am overjoyed to hear “she gets it now” with books. (Crime is not my genre, e.g., I prefer sci-fi and fantasy). She’s at college; so I want to ship her some unsolicited books because — well, this is exciting.
Looking for a Contemporary/General Fiction Book about brother and sister who have a strong dislike for each other - 99% sure that the story is told through emails?
I don't remember the exact plot of the book as I picked it up in a bookstore in August of 2019 and was interested in it, but figured I'd buy it later. I think the brother is going to meet the sisters boyfriend, after the sister told her bf her brother is dead, but he is obviously very much alive.
It had a white cover and was paperback, probably around 350 pages.
I'm not sure if this is even enough information to go off of, but I've been searching everywhere for it and I'm hoping for some breakthrough here.
Additionally, this character rode a scooter or motor bike, had a pixie cut, and said random facts when they got nervous—apparently one of these facts was about dolphins being one of the only animals that have sex for fun.
Edit: this was read about 15 years ago.
My sister made this same post around three years ago, but it was archived and never solved. I was hoping that by reposting after this long, we might get an answer!
She wrote:
"Okay, I read this book in 2008-2009. It was at the public library in Kuna, Idaho. It must have been young adult fiction.
The main character is a high school boy whose name I don't remember. But I remember his friend, Hale.
There's a new Chemistry teacher (or maybe a substitute teacher) who is a cool dude at first but then he gets the kids into some bad stuff (I vaguely remember something about drugs) and Hale ends up taking a baseball bat to his friend's car. Then I think Hale goes missing? I remember a cop or someone asking the main character what happened to his car and he just says, "I got caught in a Halestorm."
One other thing I remember is that there's like three paragraphs at the beginning where he talks about the word 'catalyst'. He says a catalyst is something that, when inserted into a situation, changes the whole situation but remains unchanged itself. And then he says that the Chemistry teacher guy is a catalyst."
I remember that it was about a boy living on the frontier. I think his father leaves him through the winter or falls ill and the boy must learn to live off the land. One thing I remember specifically is that the Native American boy shows the colonist boy how to carry fire embers in a mussel shell lined with clay and filled with tinder and an ember.
There was a book where a kid lived with his grandfather and kept moving the city limits sign to get pizza delivery
I'm an author and have been toying with the idea of writing a fiction YA novel about a teen with epilepsy- drawing from some of my own experiences with epilepsy (but in no way is it a memoir). When I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 8th grade, I felt like no one (real or fake) understood the struggles I was going through. I figured now that I kind of have a handle on it, I can give some perspective and help others, especially young people going through similar things I did. I'm also planning on donating the majority if not all the proceeds to a charity such as the Epilepsy Foundation.
As a teen or young adult, do you think a novel like this would have helped you?
Do you think there is an age group that I should focus on?
I'm open to any and all ideas! Thanks guys!
I read this book when I was a lot younger, the cover had one of the "tripod" machines on it, a white dome with spidery legs? I'm sure the machines took the people as they came of age, maybe 16, and I think they planted a chip in your brain to make you more compliant. I think the protagonist either didn't get the chip or it didn't work and went on the run. I think my sister got it from her school?
Greetings,
I am teaching a space exploration elective to a group of 6th-8th grade students.
For the class, I am compiling a list of Young Adult science fiction books that feature space travel for my Space Exploration elective.
As part of this elective, I want each student to read a science fiction book with the goal of creating a pathway for students to learn more about space exploration in general and start to learn to identify the boundaries between what is science fiction and what is science.
So my question for the ~20m members of this sub is what is are your book recommendations?
I have three on my list so far.
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Ender's Game
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Martian (Hardcover)
Thanks. ~B
I've read lots since I've been a kid, and I've been rereading some of my favourite series from when I was little, or series I know I would have loved when I was a kid if I had the opportunity to read them, from a perspective of an "adult", and as a writer, to see what makes them "tick".
So far the ones that pulled me in for days until I finished them were His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, Animorphs, and the first Percy Jackson series (I am currently BLAZING through the second one). Do any of you know of any similar series that hold up just as well for a more experienced reader? Also let's be honest, the "secret world" trope is a definite favourite.
Thanks in advance!
I am a short story writer who has stories in literary magazines, two in an anthology, and am working on my first collection right now. Writing has always been a huge part of my life. I joined a MFA program, but had to leave due to finances.
One of my coworkers is also a writer. We talk about how hard writing can be, the fun parts, stories and sentences and ideas strewn on papers around our homes. Lately she’s opened up to me about trying to snag a literary agent. This coworker writes young adult fantasy, so it’s a very different experience and scene.
She asked me if I would read her manuscript and give notes. I told her that there is a big difference in what we write, and while I’m sure her manuscript is great, it’s YA genre fiction, which is not my thing. She said “Are you saying it’s beneath you to read YA or something?”
I said no, the craft of writing genre fiction and literary fiction is different. Add to that the age category layer. I said it would be the same if she’d asked me to read and give notes about an adult romance. She said I sounded stuck up and she could “smell the MFA” on me.
And then I saw her Twitter where she went into this whole rant about how literary fiction authors have huge egos, how YA fiction is derided because it’s such a female/woman-heavy industry and especially since its biggest readers are young women. She kept referring to me as “asshole coworker” and had a bunch of people ripping apart pieces of my writing based on a short story that I wrote back in college.
I saw all this because she sent me a link, telling me that I’m the “twitter main character” and should probably apologize to her for insulting her book when it’s obvious no one cares about mine. I told her that what she did was ridiculously childish bullying, so it’s no wonder she’s writing young adult fantasy, she probably feels right at home with its main audience. This pissed her off even more, so she blocked me on Twitter.
I don’t think what I did was bad. I don't really read a lot of YA, so I wouldn't be able to help her. But AITA?
Not sure how relevant this is, but I'm a woman. Not a man.
She has previously taught using The Boy in the Striped Panamas, but she’s feeling like she’d like to use another text.
She’s been searching for the right book to replace it, but has struggled. She considered The Devil’s Arithmetic and she said she felt it was too juvenile, and then tried Night, but she said she felt it was too heavy.
She feels a bit defeated and I’m trying to help her here. If you have any suggestions, that would be so appreciated.
EDIT: This is why I love Reddit. Thank you so, so much for taking the time. My wife was floored by the sheer volume and depth of suggestions! Now she knows why I spend so much time on here, haha.
I used to read a lot of books, like I loved it then slowly I started losing that passion to my phone but I want to start reading again because I miss it. I’m looking for any recommendations that’s not fantasy or horror.
I believe in the about section, the author wrote about doing follow ups, so unless cancelled the book was the first in a set of books. The book was in english. When i first read it it was fairly age appropriate, meant for young teen/adults
I read this book somewhere between 2008-2014, and if i recall it had come out sometime not too far off from this general time frame, though it may have come out a bit sooner.
The book was fiction, the plot that i can recall was that there was a boy that was trying to uncover the truth behind his friend, who had either died or gone missing. The book was I believe a bit of a young adult mystery/horror type genre to it. The only notable characters i recall were the boy, who we followed through the story, the friend whom at the end we discovered was dead, and the killer, who I do not have a full description of but i know wore a trench coat or a long jacket type outfit. The book I recall was hardback, and as for the main cover I never saw it, but it came with a plastic sleeve that was red, and had the figure of the antagonist, silhouetted out.
I believe in the about section, the author wrote about doing follow ups, so unless cancelled the book was the first in a set of books. The book was in English. When i first read it it was fairly age appropriate, meant for young teen/adults. I received my copy from the school book fair at the time, it was new at the time.
Apologies if this is a bit of a non conclusive one, I shave very vague memories of it, but I owned and subsequently lost a copy of it, and was always curious how the remainder of the story went if the author continued it on.
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And is this in any way a reasonable way to feel?
I have seen many teen shows about kids going to parties, doing drugs, having relationships and breakups, etc. and I have struggled to relate because I never did any of that. I never saw a drug, I was never aware of any of my peers throwing parties, and I never even visited the home of any of my classmates other than for group projects. Is this a common experience at all? And is it possible that younger generations are simply more shut-in than previous generations?
Looking for book I thought was called ‘The Ties that Bind’. First section called ‘The Lies They Believed’. About group of children/teenagers with psychic abilities at school that turns out to be run by government with lots of hidden surveillance. Characters include Barbara/Mimic, can imitate voices; girl who can disappear, Alex (unpleasant) can use mind control; very big strong boy who can levitate objects. Main character can control animals. Any ideas?
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All I can recall of this book (which I would have read before 1995, probably in the early 90s) is that there were two girl siblings, possibly twins, named Charlotte and Amalie, after the town Charlotte Amalie in St Thomas. It's possible one of the other characters was named Thomas after the island, but I can't recall. The girls might have been born there, or conceived there, or something, but they were definitely named after the area. I want to say it was some sort of mystery book, or adventure, but I literally have no other information about the book, since every online search just gives me info about the Virgin Islands.
This is very specific and very vague at the same time, ha! I actually don't remember 100% if it's a book or a movie but I'm 90% certain it's a book.
What I remember is a little sister and older sister are getting a ride to school with the older sister's boyfriend, and every morning as they are going out to the car, the boyfriend does three little honks and the little sister narrates something like, "They don't think I know what it means, but I know it's 'I love you' because when my sister gets in, she always gives him a kiss and says, 'Me too.'"
I probably read this in the late 90s. I read a lot of Baby-Sitters Club and tween/teen books and I'm fairly certain that's the genre - so the main character was a 12-14 yo girl, maybe? I don't remember ANYTHING else about the book - just this one scene. For decades I've remembered that scene whenever I hear three short honks and am dying to know where it originated from in my brain.
Trying to find this series again:
+ There's a main character that likes watches named 'Watch'
+ Kids find a wishing device and get what they wish for, but their wish incurs debt to some other (alien?) party that makes them work it off in a camp or something
+ One kid wishes for world peace that at that time the alien tabulating the debt isn't sure how to proceed with it
TIA!
This is not Ready Player One. It's mainly a love story and I think the themes are around drug use. Heavy cursing throughout, I remember at the end the love interest of the protagonist is dead or like heavily drugged up and the dad explains that to the protagonist who yells "FUCK YOU" and the dad yells back "NO FUCK YOU." I think the protagonist (male) also has a group of friends he sticks with throughout the book.
Read some great tips in the post for younger folks. What are your best financial tips/advice for not so-young adults (35-44)? Feel free to adjust the age as you see fit.
criteria is
Affordable Rent
Mild-Cold Climate
Good Healthcare
Legal weed
Pretty much looking for an up and coming city for young adults, I dont mind being within an hour or 2 of a major city to get cheaper rent, In that case I would buy a car and just pay insurance...
I grew up in south florida. Not until I moved to vancouver to live with my girlfriend did I learn not everyone is not an asshole or trying to finesse me. I love the vibes here, but sadly I have to return to the USA because its 2 expensive to live here and I need health insurance in the USA. Id like somewhere good vibes.
Update: so top of my list is portland/salem, grand rapids michigan, chicago, Anchorage Alaska. What yall think?
This book starts out with a woman’s spirit that is in an older, random woman’s house. She is talking about all the details of the house and the woman. She doesn’t remember how she got there just that she’s been there and she watches everything. I also think she enjoys having the woman around. At some point she finds a way out of the house, the details are blurry for me but she finds her way to this young teenage girl and somehow goes into her body. The girl is fine and functional but the spirit can see all she sees (and might control her at a times) she comes to witness all the horrible things the girl goes through. It is through this girl that she starts to remember things about her past life. As if being in a body brings back her own memories. Still a lot of details are blurry to me. The whole point of why she’s is still trapped around the living is because she can’t remember how she died. Eventually she realizes that she died in her storm shelter with her family. They were hiding away from a tornado I believe. The tornado had ripped the doors open on them and that’s how she died so once she remembers she moves on and that’s how it ends. The whole book is written in this woman’s perspective as she is a ghost/spirit. I read this in 2012/13 in a high school reading class. I didn’t find it in a library. I found it on a bookshelf in my classroom. I believe It falls under teen/young adult genre. Definitely fictional. It was not a scary book at all. I’ve googled all I can for a year now and all it gives me is scary books because it’s about a ghost. I’m just hoping at this point there is someone who has read it and I can explain it good enough that they will know what I’m talking about. This is my last resort. Thank you in advance and sorry if that isn’t enough detail, it’s been almost 10 years.
Hi, I am looking for suggestions on some new books to read. I have recently read The Infernal Devices and The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, Divergent series by Veronica Roth, and Selection series by Kiera Cass. I am currently reading Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo.
