Addicted to YA discussion

Welcome to the group Todd!

Hi, I'm Beverley! Right now, if I have to choose one favourite book, it would have to be Someone Else's Life by Katie Dale!

I hope you'll check out my blog http://a-reading-daydreamer.blogspot.com

Hey Beverley I am now following your blog. :)

Welcome to the group Beverley!

Hello, all! I'm just now starting to really explore Good Reads and am excited to participate in this group. I love books and always have. Give me a good used bookstore over a movie theater any day. And YA is the only genre that will keep me up all night reading, that will get me to stand in line at a bookstore at midnight for a new release, that excites me to the point of blathering on and on (much like this post). Some of my favorites are The Truth About Charlotte Doyle, A Great and Terrible Beauty, Catching Fire, Sabriel, Beautiful Creatures, Little Women, Remember Me, Down a Dark Hall, The Secret of the Unicorn Queen, and many, many more. I also love to write YA, but more on that another time. :-)

Mary Elizabeth wrote: "Hello, all! I'm just now starting to really explore Good Reads and am excited to participate in this group. I love books and always have. Give me a good used bookstore over a movie theater any day...."

Welcome to the group!

Hey, I'm Faye. I love YA books, but none of those fantasy books (sorry). My favorite books are The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the Vampire Academy series (before the whole vampire thing became overrated) and Paper Towns by John Green. My favorite auhtor is John Green.

Welcome to the group Faye!

Hey everybody! I'm Sarah. Love YA books as well as Adult fiction, murder, classics, and so on. Honestly I don't have one favorite author. If I had to pick the top two vying for first place? Lisa Mangum and Cassandra Clare. Favorite books: the entire Hourglass Door Trilogy, The City of Glass, Clockwork Prince, Graceling, and well I could go on for a really long time, but I won't. :)

Hey Sarah! Welcome to the group!

Hey everyone. I know there are alot of new readers and I just wanted to introduce myself. My first YA series has come out and is doing really well because of the amazing people on Goodreads. The latest article is about writing in a tough genre, now that YA has become the 'biggest' on the market, as well as a great giveaway for Until Next Time. It's great to meet everybody!

A Big Giveaway for Until Next Time! And a Look at the Pressures of Writing in the YA genre!
http://booksinthespotlight.blogspot.c...

Hi Amy! Welcome to the group!

Hello everyone! Just joined and wanted to say hi. I'm obsessed with YA fiction. Started out with the vamp/supernatural stuff (fave series being Vampire Academy), and moved on to the new crop of dystopian novels - I loved the old classics like 1984 and Brave New World, so I'm thrilled there are so many new ones popping up. Hunger Games was amazing, and I can't wait for the new Divergent novel to come out! Oh, I also love the Percy Jackson series.

Hey Caterina! Welcome to the group!

Hello, my name is Shelby. My favorite books are "The Silver Kiss", "Blood and Chocolate", "Maximum Ride", "Mortal Instrument Series", and the "Twilight Series." My favorite author ... i'm honestly not really sure. There are so many great authors out there to choose from.

Welcome to the group Shelby!

Thank you!

Hello! Im new here, and my name is Zuewie. I love Sophie Kinsella's books especially the stand-alone books of hers. I read almost all of the books that she wrote. I love books with that kind of genre! and now im thinking to start reading Jill Mansell's works. im just wondering if its any good. anyway, ill probably start reading one later! nice to meet all of you here!

Welcome to the group Zuewie!

Hey im kalena, im from New Zealand :) i decided to pick a book up after ending up at the library this year lol its been aaaaages since the last time i read an actual book. All time favourite book & author is Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman.Currently in the middle of reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone, my gosh its too good. Can't wait for the 2nd book :)

Hello to all the newbies. I am new to YAA too and I thought I was the only one. Addicted to YA

Hey I'm Jessi and I love to read! I usually read a couple books a week. I love werewolf books or fantasy with like magic and other awesome stuff but I also love romance and mystery. I have read way to many different authors to choose a favorite. Sorry! :)

I'm Valerie and I run StuckInBooks.com

I love YA. Cassandra Clare and Jennifer L Armentrout are the top two authors for me.

Favorite book - way too many but The Giver is an all time favorite.

hey, im Liz, i joined late last yr and i LOVE this site :D
my favorite books have got to be the Mortal Instruments series and all of the Matthew Reilly books, as well as The girl In the Steel Corset to name a few.
favorite authors: Matthew Reilly, Cassandra Claire
currently reading the Hunger Games on pain of death by my friend before the movie comes out :) enjoying it so far

Liz wrote: "hey, im Liz, i joined late last yr and i LOVE this site :D
my favorite books have got to be the Mortal Instruments series and all of the Matthew Reilly books, as well as The girl In the Steel Corse..."

HA I can easily guess who that "friend" is...

Anyways - Hi, my name is Kate!
YA... Where to start? My favourite author is Melina Marchetta while my favourite series is the "Chaos Walking" triology and the rest is history. I love YA for its inspiration to be yourself and not let anyone push you down, and of course the romance! Sarah Dessen, Elizabeth Eulberg and any other YA writers who have built the courage within me I thank you...
=)

Hey, my name's Zahraa. I love reading! Especially YA books. Nice too meet you all!

Hi, my name's Tom, I'm a writer and self publishing my first YA novel, a dark fairy tale called The Amber Room next month on various e-book formats. I started writing YA stuff during my Creative Writing MA a few years back when I discovered how brilliant this genre was and now I don't read or write anything else - well rarely - my favourite book this year is Blood Red Road by Moira Young, and I'd highly recommend this to anyone. Currently reading Sam Hawksmoor's Repossession, which has hooked me in nicely and have Divergent by Veronica Roth and Hidden by Miriam Halahmy to follow that. My wordpress site tomdharris.wordpress.com has the opening chapters of The Amber Room and a short story if anyone fancies a read. Looking forward to chatting and reading your blogs in the future. Nice to be here.

Hello! My name's Destiny. I love Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, JRR Tolkien, and John Green. My favorite books are Good Omens and Ender's Game... also ANYTHING by John Green. I also love Vampire Academy and Vampire Diaries.

Hi everyone!

I'm a teen librarian, addicted to all things fantasy, though I will read anything you stick under my nose. Okay...maybe not anything. I couldn't get through Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, even though it was for a book club I was facilitating. Right now I'm catching up on the Iron King books. My favorite book of all time is an oldie but goodie YA, the Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce. If you haven't read it, you must. You don't know what you're missing!
Have a nice weekend!

Hi all! My name's Alex. My favorite YA series has got to be The Darkest Powers by Kelly Armstrong. If I had to suggest a YA series to anyone, it'd have to be that! I also love anything Urban Fantasy (especially The Dresden Files) and absolutely everything by John Green and Terry Pratchett, although I've not read it all yet.
Great to be here.

Liv wrote: "Hi everyone!

I'm a teen librarian, addicted to all things fantasy, though I will read anything you stick under my nose. Okay...maybe not anything. I couldn't get through Girl With the Dragon Tat..."

Hey Liv! I hope you give this one a shot :) Building a Perfect Paranormal World…With Imperfections
Article & Contest for the New YA Hit!
http://www.romancing-the-book.com/201...

Thanks. I love Nook books!

Hey! My name is Naomi and I love to read YA,fantasy,paranormal and romance fiction.I also love reading graphic novels/comic books.
My favorite books are:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
Harry Potter Series
Narnia
and
The Hunger Games Trilogy.
I have a ton of favorite authors but J.K. Rowling,C.S. Lewis,Rick Riordan,Lemony Snicket,Darren Shan and Suzanne Collins are my all time favorites because their writing styles are unique and they make the most amazing stories.
:)

Good day to you all! :D

Hey Kalena, Naomi, Alex, Liv, Destiny, Tom, Zahraa, Kate, Liz, Valerie, Jessi, and Raiza! Welcome to the group!

Hi, my name's Rae :) I love loads of types of books but YA and fantasy books are my favourites.
Some of my favourite authors are John Green, Mary Hoffman, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare and Philip Pullman. Some of my favourite books include:
The Stravaganza Series - Mary Hoffman
Mercy - Caroline B. Cooney
Waking Dream - Rhiannon Lassiter
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Sunshine - Robin McKinley
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
and many others that it would take too long to list. I really love books about faery/fae, dystopia, werewolves and vampires (but done well) and witches/wizards (again done well), so if you have any recommendations feel free :D

Hi all-
I'm Dana- I'm an elementary school librarian, but I love reading YA books. My favorite authors for YA are Sarah Dessen and Ellen Hopkins.
I'm always eager to see what other people are reading and if they would or wouldn't recommend it and why!

Hi Dana! My Mm is a career librarian so let's just say I'm a huge fan. :) I hope you can check out my YA - Until Next Time.

Привет! (That's "Hi" in Russian. Don't let it fool you though, I don't speak Russian) My name is Tatiyana. I'm a little too old for YA now (19 years! Ugh, I'm ancient), but I'm afraid to grow up and move on I absolutely adore it. My favorite YA book today is Graceling by Kristen Cashore and my favorite author is Michael Grant. До свидания! (Good-bye!)

Hi guys. I'm Julia. I'm Indonesian. And I'm an avid reader of YA. I also write YA. I'm hoping to meet some friends here to rec me new books.

My story blog is: http://leahcurrantouched.blogspot.com/

Feel free to check it out!

Welcome to the group Rae, Dana, Tatiyana, and Julia!

Hi there, my name is Matt. I'm 20 but i can't resist a Ya book. My Favorite book has to the Keys to the Kingdom collection by Garth Nix. I must have red the collection about 10 times now and i must say that the Hunger Games trilogy comes in very close second.

I look forward to meeting new people and meeting new books.

Hi Matt! Welcome to the group!

Welcome all new people. You'll like it here :)

I'm Helen, and I am a complete book addict. I'm a complete sucker for romance, especially in the YA variety. Lately though I've been trying to branch into different genres, especially dystopian and sci-fi. I am absolutely in love with John Green, Jane Austen, Lemony Snicket, Sarah Ockler, Elizabeth Scott, and Laurie Halse Anderson.

Hi I'm LauraLee. I just got really into YA books recently. My sister is a big fan of a number of series. I started with Alyson Noel's Immortal series and am hooked. I am hoping to find many other good books to read, but my budget is really tight so recommendations of free or cheap books that are worth reading would be greatly appreciated.

Laura wrote: "Hi I'm LauraLee. I just got really into YA books recently. My sister is a big fan of a number of series. I started with Alyson Noel's Immortal series and am hooked. I am hoping to find many oth..."

you can always just get books from the library. that's what i do when i don't have any money.

Heyyyyy I'm Harriet x I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Percy Jackson sooooooooooooooooo much, I like YA novels loadsssssssssssss and my favourite books are the hunger games and percy jackson xxx

Welcome to the group newbies :)

My name is Grant. I have so many favorite books--it's hard to single them out. In fact, the one that comes to mind isn't even YA. I've always loved The Stand by Stephen King. It's long (1100 pages) and the characters are so vivid. By the last page they feel like family. As for authors, Orson Scott Card is one of my favorites and he regularly publishes 1-2 books per year, which is awesome! But I'm also very impressed with Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games was a fantastic read!

Welcome to the group Grant!