Bustle Reads 2016 discussion

Untwine is the sole suggestion for this category, but there are more... many, many more.

I found this article to be a helpful starting place: http://www.buzzfeed.com/zakiyajamal/a...

I think I've landed on Akata Witch as my pick.

A couple I'm excited about reading are An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir and Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

And Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

I read To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han.

I'll probably read The Last Station Master: A Boy, A Terrorist, A Secret, And Trouble by S.A.M. Posey.

I am reading The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez. It's about the Pedro Pan movement in the early 60's, when Cuban parents put their children on planes and flew them to
Miami to keep them from being recruited by the Cuban military. I am about halfway through and am just amazed! Many of them had no family or friends here and would ultimately wind up in the foster care system. And this had nothing to do with socioeconomic status. Children from all backgrounds were sent to be "saved". It is so sad! I definitely intend on researching this more when I'm done. I grew up with a lot of Cubans and my GRANDFATHER was Cuban, and I've never heard what a big deal this was. Wow!

If you haven't yet read Salvage the Bones I can not recommend it highly enough. I'm not sure if it's "officially" YA but it seems to me to have all the hallmarks. It's just brutally beautiful.

I just finished The Wrath and the Dawn and was a little disappointed. To me, it was too Twilight-ish.

I read Charm & Strange last night during a storm. YA is a guilty pleasure of mine and this was a great way to kill four hours of what would have otherwise been lots of tossing and turning. I couldn't put the book down. It was a haunting trip inside the mentally scarred narrator's fragmented experience. One of the author's passions is mental health advocacy and she has a doctorate in clinical psychology.

I read Akata Witch, and I highly recommend it, especially if you're a Harry Potter fan. It was cute, fun, and left me with heartwarming feeling.

I haven't started yet, but I plan on reading The Awakened by Sara Elizabeth Santana, which is a YA zombie thriller set in Manhattan about teens who have to escape the zombie infested city before the US violently quarantines their home. I've been waiting to read it for a long time and this gives me the perfect excuse!

For this one, I ended up reading Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. I highly recommend the audiobook, which is read by Lin-Manuel Miranda. I really want to just keep reading more books in this category because there are so many great recommendations in this feed!

I also read Akata Witch and I totally loved it. Nnedi Okorafor is one of my very favorite authors, but I hadn't read any of her young adult stuff yet, and I'm so glad I did. It's kind of African Harry Potterish, with an albino girl as its protagonist, and it;s so so good. I highly recommend it.

Akata Witch disappeared from my library, so I read The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna. Loved it. It's a dystopia about a girl who is a clone.

Teresa wrote: "Akata Witch disappeared from my library, so I read The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna. Loved it. It's a dystopia about a girl who is a clone."

The Lost Girl sounds interesting. Did you like it?

I read Salvage the Bones for this task. I've never lived in the South and I've been lucky enough to have never been in the midst of a natural disaster. So I found Jesmyn Ward descriptions of small details, like odors, that you don't usually hear about extremely interesting. This was a great book and I'm planning on reading more of Ward's books.

Riah, yes, I did like The Lost Girl. The story stuck with me.