{"id":51,"date":"2011-05-19T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2011-05-18T23:22:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:22:32","slug":"my-summer-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"My Summer Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer&#8217;s here! If not in weather&#8211;it&#8217;s cloudy and in the low 50s here in central Illinois&#8211;at least in official school terminology. This summer session I&#8217;m only taking one class (web design), and I&#8217;m hoping to catch up on some non-academic reading. (Okay, let&#8217;s be real, I&#8217;m taking classes on youth librarianship, so a lot of my &#8220;academic&#8221; reading is in size 14-font with a lot of pictures. But still, woo, summer!) Here&#8217;s some of what&#8217;s on my list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Re-reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hunger-Games-Suzanne-Collins\/dp\/0439023521\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1305777103&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Hunger Games<\/em><\/a> books by Suzanne Collins. <\/strong> I burned through all three of these books so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FireKristinCashore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-52\" title=\"FireKristinCashore\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FireKristinCashore-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fire\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FireKristinCashore-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FireKristinCashore.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>quickly that I don&#8217;t even really remember half of the stuff that happened. And I need to have a good background so I can nitpick all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/imageGallery\/The_Hunger_Games\/large\/hr_The_Hunger_Games_1.jpg\">movie photos<\/a> that are starting to leak out!<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anna-French-Kiss-Stephanie-Perkins\/dp\/0525423273\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1305777173&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Anna and the French Kiss<\/em><\/a> by Stephanie Perkins.<\/strong> Highly recommended by many, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=10\">Sandy<\/a> and John Green.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fire-Graceling-Kristin-Cashore\/dp\/014241591X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1305777196&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Fire<\/em><\/a> by Kristin Cashore<\/strong>. I loved <em>Graceling,<\/em> the book to which this is a prequel. (That phrase is awkward. Sorry.) Everyone I&#8217;ve talked to (sample size = 3) says that <em>Fire<\/em> isn&#8217;t as good, but that it&#8217;s still pretty good, so I&#8217;m willing to check it out. (If you haven&#8217;t read <em>Graceling<\/em> yet&#8211;it&#8217;s a must! A very cool fantasy world&#8211;and I&#8217;m not necessarily a huge fantasy fan&#8211;with great characters and a very suspenseful story.)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/If-I-Stay-Gayle-Forman\/dp\/B004VD3PE0\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1305777228&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>If I Stay<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>by Gayle Forman.<\/strong><em> Where She Went<\/em>, the sequel to this, rece<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ShipBreaker_Printz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53\" title=\"ShipBreaker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ShipBreaker_Printz-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"ShipBreaker\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ShipBreaker_Printz-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ShipBreaker_Printz.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>ntly came out, and everyone I know who&#8217;s read both raved about <em>If I Stay<\/em> and says that <em>Where She Went<\/em> is even better. <em>If I Stay <\/em>is about a girl in a coma deciding whether or not to live, and apparently it&#8217;s much more riveting than that plot summary might imply.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ship-Breaker-Paolo-Bacigalupi\/dp\/0316056219\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1305777297&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>Ship Breaker<\/em><\/a> by Paolo Bacigalupi.<\/strong> Honestly, this book&#8211;a dystopia\/post-apocalyptic kind of thing&#8211;doesn&#8217;t really sound like my cup of tea. But it did win the Printz award this year and I would like to at least have an opinion about it.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/White-Cat-Curse-Workers-Book\/dp\/0307711811\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1305776963&amp;sr=8-1\">White Cat (Curse Workers #1)<\/a><\/em> by Holly Black&#8211;the audio book.<\/strong> Holly Black has been on my radar for awhile, ever since I read <em>Zombies Vs. Unicorns<\/em> which she co-edited (with Justine Larbalestier). She was Team Unicorn, as am I. (I highly recommend <em>Z vs U<\/em>, even if you do not have particularly strong feelings about zombies or unicorns.) Also, Stephanie Perkins was recently tweeting about her crush on Jesse Eisenberg (of <em>Zombieland<\/em> and <em>The Social Network<\/em>), which I share, and she mentioned that he reads the audiobooks for this series and recommended them, both for their own merits and for his narration. Anyway, <em>White Cat<\/em> is the first in a series about people who have magic curse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/whitecat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-54\" title=\"WhiteCat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/whitecat.jpg\" alt=\"WhiteCat\" width=\"216\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>powers or some shit, I don&#8217;t really know. I&#8217;m going to wait until Jesse Eisenberg tells me about it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More Meg Cabot!<\/strong> I loved the entire <em>Princess Diaries<\/em> series, but until I did a big project about Meg Cabot for my YA Lit class this semester I didn&#8217;t really realize how many books she&#8217;s written! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/megcabot\">Here&#8217;s a link to my project<\/a>, which has info about her life and career as well as blurbs for all of her 50 + books. (And if you haven&#8217;t read the <em>Princess Diaries<\/em> yet&#8211;check them out! So funny and fun.)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pale-King-David-Foster-Wallace\/dp\/0316074233\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1305777050&amp;sr=1-1\">The Pale King<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by David Foster Wallace. Not YA lit but it has been on my to-read list ever since it came out! It takes place in Peoria, which is kind of where I grew up. DFW is my non-YA, extremely-difficult-to-read homeboy. I will probably read this book at a ratio of one chapter of <em>The Pale King<\/em> to every complete YA novel I read this summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are you planning to read this summer? Any suggestions for me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer&#8217;s here! If not in weather&#8211;it&#8217;s cloudy and in the low 50s here in central Illinois&#8211;at least in official school terminology. This summer session I&#8217;m only taking one class (web design), and I&#8217;m hoping to catch up on some non-academic reading. (Okay, let&#8217;s be real, I&#8217;m taking classes on youth librarianship, so a lot of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=51\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Summer Reading List<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,69,62,63,43,66,65,15,64,67,7,8],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-curse-workers","tag-gayle-forman","tag-graceling","tag-holly-black","tag-hunger-games","tag-meg-cabot","tag-paolo-bacigalupi","tag-stephanie-perkins","tag-summer-reading","tag-suzanne-collins","tag-ya-lit","tag-young-adult-lit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}