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I found a book in my room that I bought a month ago called Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith.  I'm currently reading it, and it's really good.  It's about magic and fairies and whatnot, but not in the cliche sort of way.  I think it's awesome.1

After I'm done reading Bextwixt, I have two other books I had bought called crank and glass, both by Ellen Hopkins.  She writes awesome novels, you all should check her out.2

But just because I have three other books in my 'to read' queue doesn't mean I forgot the other suggestions that people have given me on my last journal entry.  For ease of access, I'm listing them right here in alphabetical order by author.3

The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray
Women by Charles Bukowski4

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins5

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Man Against Himself by Karl A. Menninger
Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke
As You Like It by Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
The Divine Comedy
Little Women
Northanger Abbey6

Herman Hesse
Neil Gaiman
Sharon Kay Penman7

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If you'd like to give me other suggestions, so right ahead.  Please!9

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~Cassie-la.12

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  • Maybe.I.Am.Broken.
    July 24
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    If you haven't, read all the other Ellen Hopkins books (Her books are: Impulse, Crank, Glass, Burned, Identical) They're all amazing, and she's one of my favorite authors.

    ~Annie

  • HollyLouise
    July 23
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    Little women is fantastic, I saw it on your list. Well, after that in the series there's good wives.
    I liked eight cousins, also by the author of little women, but I love books like that. (I still read books like what Katie did).
    I also like how i live now by meg rosoff.
    The boy in the striped pyjamas is fantastic, but really really sad.
    Have you read his dark materials by philip pullman, you'll either like them or they won't be your thing.

    • And Hyetal
      July 23
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      I think I've heard of His Dark Materials, what are they about?

      • HollyLouise
        July 23
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        It's a trilagy. The first book is set in another world, yet a world hugely similar to our own. It's not as advanced as our own in some ways, but they know far more about the subject of dark matter and its perpusses.
        The church has a huge influence in the world, yet not all their beliefs are completely sane. Throughout the series it follows two young people as the main character, one from the parallell world to ours, and a boy from our own world.
        It's like magic, accept the author bases it around dark matter and science. I'm not good at explaining this. Anyway, it also involves families and the ties between them, and if the church could break a family apart so completely...as well as love too.
        It's all about growing up, and what's really right and wrong, who we should give power to and who we shouldn't.


        • And Hyetal
          July 23
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          Ah, I looked them up and I have the first book hiding around somewhere in my bookcase. I started reading it before but stopped for some reason. I'm going to have to try again sometime.


  • Laura Lamarca gold member
    July 23
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    "Women" by Charles Bukowski...i'm reading it at the moment & enjoying it. or anything by Patricia Cornwell, especially from her "Scarpetta" series.

    • HollyLouise
      July 23
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      Patricia cornwell is meant to be fantastic, i've never read any of her books.


  • amaranthine lover gold member
    July 23
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    I read Betwixt. It was ok. You should read the Gemma Doyle series.


    • new born
      July 23
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      I need to read the third book in that series...the first two were amazing.

    • And Hyetal
      July 23
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      What are they about?


      • amaranthine lover gold member
        July 23
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        Magic, historically in Victorian England and India. Amazingly researched. Far better than Twilight could ever hope to be.


        • And Hyetal
          July 23
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          OH I've seen those around and I had full intentions of getting them, as soon as I get some money. Twilight is an okay to read story, but I don't understand how they got that famous. There are so many things much better than them.

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