More Teen Lit

fly on the wall: how one girl saw everything by E. Lockhart - So Lockart is the author of the The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, a book that I loved so much I convinced myself I should borrow every book she has written from the local library. And. Well. I was a smidgen disappointed. The main character is a student at an arts high school in New York (if you know anything about where I work, right now you are laughing as I scream in frustration) and wishes she could be a fly on the wall in the boy's locker room. First, no arts high school will have mandatory gym class. Second, no arts high school would have sports teams. So the whole locker room thing? It is a piece of falsehood that bugged me (no pun intended). Anyway, she gets her wish. And after the first day as a fly, the main character is bored and so was I. It had its moments, but read Frankie instead of this one.

the boy book by E. Lockhart - Another book. Same disappointment. This one was a bit better than fly on the wall by I think I may have started out with Lockhart's best work and now there is only room for me to be disappointed.

The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney by Suzanne Harper - This book is funny and well written. There's nothing life altering in here, but I was amused. So that's something, isn't it?

Generation Dead by Dan Waters - I started reading this last summer at Bestest Friend's house. I saw it at the library and thought I would like to finish it. And, sadly, the end was not nearly as good as the beginning. It had a great hook and I really enjoyed the characters, but the plot just fell apart at the end. Frankly, it was too much the first book in a series without a stand alone plot line to resolve at the end of novel one. I wasn't crazy about it.

Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald - This is decidedly not teen lit, but straight up children's lit. I read it because it's a classic that I'm sure I should have read. Someone told me that if I enjoyed Sherlock Holmes (and oh, I do), I would like this book. But really, what's to like about a snotty little douchebag? Not much. Don't put this on the list for your kids!

Gone by Lisa McMann - This is the third book in the Wake trilogy. I loved the first two books. I kind of feel like the main character has gone off the whiny deep end in this book. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it the day I read it, but I really thought this was a weak way to end the series. I want to rewrite it. I'll put in on my list of things to do in my life (rewrite end of Wake trilogy, right under learn how to frost a cake without making it look like a four year old did it).

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Random non-teen lit:

e: a novel by Matthew Beaumont - A funny book about office politics told through emails (an epistolary novel - oh yeah - vocabulary fun). I can't help it, but as someone who has spent the better part of the last decade attempting to wade through thousands of emails, attempting to interpret tone, meaning, and innuendo, this cracked me up. It's not groundbreaking, but I looked forward to it in my library pile and it didn't let me down. Entertaining for sure.