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What are the other members of your household reading? Do you share reading tastes? Can you get your adult housemates to read MG/YA?
My manpanion is reading:
1) THE DARK TOWER VII by Stephen King. You know the reader is serious about finishing the series when he takes an 843-page hardcover book in his airplane carry-on across the country.
2) THE NEW EARTH by Eckhart Tolle. He read THE POWER OF NOW after his mom recommended it, so I handed him this "sequel".
3) GREGOR THE OVERLANDER by Suzanne Collins is on deck. Yay! I finally convinced him to read THE HUNGER GAMES and then he blew through that and CATCHING FIRE and wanted to know what else SC wrote. I brought home GREGOR. I haven't read it yet so he may be turning me onto an MG novel!
Deena, Miss Subbing for Pubbing
Oh, man, I recommend books to people all the time but I don't think any of the adults have been converted to YA! But I do love to recommend books. Plus I have lots of teen nephews and nieces and a 10-year-old of my own so I get to buy them books. Still, I wish adults would take my YA recommendations seriously. They'd be so happy!
ReplyDeleteI'm encouraging the manpanion to read YA. I'm going to give him Spanking Shakespeare. LOL I think that one will work for him. He typically reads nonfic (e.g., tattoo books, rocker bios, etc)
ReplyDeleteMy kids read YA--we all devour it!
I loaned a writer friend of mine FEED by MT Anderson, and she encouraged her manpanion to read it. He did, and loved it. He devoured it in a day. I wish mine would read the books I read, but he's just not a fiction person. He's non-fiction all the way, and I'm not a non-fic person. Ah well... :)
ReplyDeleteTabitha -- FEED is a good idea! I should ask John to read that. I think he'd like it. He's a huge fan of ENDER'S GAME and I haven't read that yet either!
ReplyDeleteRhonda -- see if your manpanion will read THE HUNGER GAMES?
Kate -- try reccing a book to an adult *without telling them it's a YA.* See what happens and report back!
My son LOVED the Gregor books! Yay for the manpanion reading YA! I don't know if he cares for fantasy stuff much, but Jonathan Stroud's BARTIMAEUS trilogy is a lot of fun. (dark, though).
ReplyDeleteRight now I am reading Testimony by Anita Shreve. Brent pretty much only reads ESPN and beer magazines :) The only book, that I know of, that we have ever BOTH read is The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I did recently reread The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things that you gave me as a b-day present one year!! I like that book.
ReplyDeleteManina -- I still need to read Jodi Picoult! Ack! Can't keep up with my reading list! :) But I'm glad you liked the YA I gave you.
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