One thing that I have always noticed about reading books is that the main character always seems to be a super awesome best friend…like a best friend that goes along with their crazy schemes and risks their life for them, is a shoulder to cry on but makes them laugh when situations seem absolutely unlaughable. Best friends are amazing.
In Sarah Dessen’s book “Someone Like You”, there’s a quote that says,”Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
Hey guys! How’s everyone’s week so far? I hope its good. Everything is going pretty well over here in WhatANerdGirlSays corner! Its nice and sunny and beautiful in California right now and I hope that means summer is nearing because I am SO ready for it! So many exciting things to look forward to this summer.
So today is the Book of the Week, and I haven’t read anything NEW this week. I re-read Divergent because I was a little bit on a Divergent high from meeting Veronica Roth and I’m giving away a signed copy of Divergent, so I was rereading that. Now, I’m in the middle of re-reading Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour and I remembered again, what a great book this is and what a great summer read it is too.
I have been so lucky today to share two amazing things with you guys!
The first was my interview with Cassandra Clare, which is SUPER awesome, and I am extremely happy and proud of, and you can watch it here.
I am so very excited to share this with you guys today. As you all know, I am a huge Cassandra Clare fan. I have consumed both of series, the Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices, and am anxiously awaiting the film adaptation of City of Bones. I would say it is my favorite fandom, after only my super obsessions Harry Potter and Star Wars.
In the last month, I have had the chance to meet Cassandra Clare three times.
Once at an event at the Mission Viejo Library….
So….you know, I spend most of my blog posts, including my Tuesday Top Tens and my Book of the Weeks talking about books that have some sort of fantasy or paranormal or dystopian…some kind of surrealistic feel to them. That’s just the kind of novels that I gravitate to.
But I’m a reader,first and foremost, and that’s what my blog is mostly about: books. And I’m also just a big fan of young adult novels, period. So I decided to dedicate my entire Tuesday Top Ten to those contemporary, non-fantasy young adult novels and authors that I love so much.
Sure, I could talk about Harry Potter and Mortal Instruments and Divergent and Delirium and Gemma Doyle and all of those over and over and over again, but let’s try something new.
Let’s break out of the box a little.
So here’s this week’s Tuesday Top Ten:
Okay, so I know that a TON of you entered my contest to win a signed copy of Clockwork Princess.
And of course, I can only have one winner. I wish I could have picked you all but it just doesn’t work like that unfortunately :(
This was the winner of the Clockwork Princess contest:
Miss Courtney Beatty of Michigan,with her signed book :)
