I heart words on paper =)

I have a confession to make.

Teen fiction books are a guilty pleasure of mine.

I’m not quite sure why, I just like them. I tend to gravitate towards them in bookstores and libraries. Maybe it has to do with their bright covers or their crazy titles but they just seem more interesting to me. Or maybe I just haven’t found any in the adult section that have grabbed me enough to stick to my age range. The ones in the adult section just seem boring with bad titles like “The English Teacher ” of “The Tutor” , like bad Lifetime movies waiting to happen.

So I rediscovered my library card yesterday. You may recall the post I made yesterday about waiting for the brakes to get fixed on the car. Well, shortly after that I decided to bum around the  store “Half Price Books”  while I waited, which, if you have one near you and like reading, music, dvds, software, pretty much media in general I suggest you head on in there asap. Their prices are crazy low. and if you want to sell any media they buy it too. Anyway, so I am bumming around remembering how much I love reading when it hits me that I am supposed to be saving money. So I left, to my disappointment, with only one book and a goal to make it to the library on my way home. Upon arriving at the library I went a little crazy and left with 7, count ‘em, 7 books.

From top to bottom, I have three weeks to finish the following :

And Then There Were None -Agatha Christie

L.A. Candy – Lauren Conrad

Jacob’s Ladder – Brian Keaney

The Face on the Milk Carton- Caroline B. Cooney (an old fave I wanted to re-read)

Dreamrider- Barry Jonsberg

If the Witness Lied- Caroline B. Cooney

Kissing Kate- Lauren Myracle

I picked up a few at random because they looked interesting or I had recalled hearing about them but I also have a small stack waiting to be read at home…

Baggage- Emily Barr (the one I picked up at the store yesterday)

Paperquake- Kathryn Reiss (another re read)

Thinking Like your Editor- (which relates to point eleven in this post here )

Columbine- Dave Cullen (lent to my by a friend)

I also have  the complete collection of Harry Potter books which I meant to read in this whole summer but never finished the first one. These are a combo of re-reading and first time reads since I never got past the fourth Harry Potter book due to school. Then there’s the Twilight series which I have been draggin’ ass to get into. I’ve been tryin so hard to get into those and just cant seem to do it. The farthest I got is about 26 pages into the first one. Someone give me a good reason to keep going.

So I doubt, with my work schedule, that I will finish all of these but I’m gonna try. Guess the beauty of the library is I can always renew ‘em =)

As I go I fully intend on reviewing them here should any of you have an interest in teen fiction =) lol

I’ll also take book suggestions! I intend to start indulging my inner bookworm

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