Young Adult Book Reading Challenges discussion

Delirium by Lauren Oliver .......
was my all time favorite YA read! It is riddled with great, inspirational quotes about love and sacrifice.

Also VIRTUOSITY, not sure about the author... it was also filled with quotes about love, inspiration and fighting your way to the top.

The Book Thief - I remember so many of those quotes. It's beautiful writing and a beautiful story.
Also, Monsters of Men (third book of the Chaos Walking trilogy, so you might have to read the previous two - which are also amazing, by the way). As I read that book, I just had to keep doing status updates with memorable quotes.

I'd second The Book Thief and recommend John Green's novels.

I "third" The Book Thief and I would second Monsters of Men. I also agree that any of John Green's books would work.

Another one to mention is Life of Pi

In my reviews I often quote a sentence or paragraph (or two!) from the book I'm talking about, but not always because the writers or characters are profound, though usually that's why.

Here's the quote from my thoughts on The Future of Us:

“I always imagined time travel would be so big and life-changing,” she says. “Like A Wrinkle in Time or Back to the Future. But here, all most people care about are lame vacation photos and trivial things.” (75)

My Name is Mina I think this is beautifully written, I love it.

From Black Heart by Holly Black

“She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.” (158)

Incognegro by Mat Johnson

“I am Incognegro. I don’t wear a mask like Zorro or a cape like the Shadow, but I don a disguise nonetheless. My camouflage is provided by my genes, the product of the Southern tradition nobody likes to talk about, Slavery. Rape. Hypocrisy. American Negroes are a mulatto people; I’m just an extreme example. A walking reminder. Since white America refuses to see its past, they can’t see me too well, either. Add to that a little of Madame C.J.’s magic and watch me go invisible. Watch me step outside of history. Assimilation as revolution.” (18)

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

“In real life, I was nothing but an antisocial hermit. A recluse. A pale- skinned pop culture- obsessed geek. An agoraphobic shut- in, with no real friends, family or genuine human contact. I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame.

But not in the OASIS. In there, I was the great Parzival. World- famous gunter and international celebrity. People asked for my autograph. I had a fan club. Several, actually. I was recognized everywhere I went… I was paid to endorse products… I was a pop- culture icon, a VR rock star. And, in gunter circles, I was a legend. Nay, a god.” (198)