Comments on: “A creature designed for reading”

By: Care

Care — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:34:00 +0000

I am not sure I’ve read any YA… I’m looking forward to discovering John Green this year.

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:43:09 +0000

YA = Young Adult

By: gypsy

gypsy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:49:27 +0000

what are YA books?

sorry for being … whatever

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:17:50 +0000

Hey Julie, I hope you had a Merry Christmas and best wishes for a Happy New Year. I hope you and your family have a great holiday!

By: Crit

Crit — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:57:20 +0000

I love me some Garth Nix, especially the Old Kingdom trilogy, though it has a few talking animals in it. That's the main YA stuff I've read as an adult, unless you count the Earthsea books by Ursula le Guin. I read the trilogy as a child, but really didn't get them, until I'd read some of her other stuff, then I went back to them and loved them. Actually, I lie, there's more YA stuff - the Tomorrow series by John Marsden kicks arse if you want to be scared out of your pants in an apocolyptic kind of way, though I'm not sure how relevent it would be to non-Aus readers, but I think it's reasonably popular in the US. Er... Kerry Greenwood wrote some YA stuff before she really started concentrating on crime fiction.... I know there's more (I loved HP) but I can't think of it now...