Dd#1 is in need of some new books. She loves to read, reads quickly, and has finished up all of the available books in the series she has started along with the books her friends and teachers have recommended. She's been reading a lot of scifi lately and I think that she is a bit burned out on the genre. She does like mystery, but really does not care for non-fiction or realistic fiction. In terms of difficulty, she can read pretty much anything, but her interest is more in line with things that are aimed at teens than adults.
The books she has read in the past year or two and liked a lot include:
The Hunger Games (sequel comes out in Sept. 09 apparently)
Chasing Vermeer (and possibly sequels -- I don't know)
The Twilight series
Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series (up to For Love of Evil, which she stopped reading pretty early on b/c it was too violent and had too much violence toward women). She was not interested in his Xanth series.
She's just started reading The Giver which I don't know if she likes yet.
If You're Reading This Book, It's Too Late and whatever book came before it -- something about the name of the book being secret, I believe.
The Phantom of the Opera although she said that it was pretty slow for 3/4 of the book and really only got into it toward the end.
I know that she has read a few other classics like The Call of the Wild when she was younger and, while she likes unabridged versions better b/c they are more detailed, I think that the old fashioned language and some of them having been translated from French, for instance, is less appealing to her. I believe that she enjoys reading more modern language more.
The books she has read in the past year or two and liked a lot include:
The Hunger Games (sequel comes out in Sept. 09 apparently)
Chasing Vermeer (and possibly sequels -- I don't know)
The Twilight series
Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series (up to For Love of Evil, which she stopped reading pretty early on b/c it was too violent and had too much violence toward women). She was not interested in his Xanth series.
She's just started reading The Giver which I don't know if she likes yet.
If You're Reading This Book, It's Too Late and whatever book came before it -- something about the name of the book being secret, I believe.
The Phantom of the Opera although she said that it was pretty slow for 3/4 of the book and really only got into it toward the end.
I know that she has read a few other classics like The Call of the Wild when she was younger and, while she likes unabridged versions better b/c they are more detailed, I think that the old fashioned language and some of them having been translated from French, for instance, is less appealing to her. I believe that she enjoys reading more modern language more.
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