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13/3/10 07:56I'm busy knocking down the amounts I have to spend for the new library and was congratulating myself on nearly spending all of the audiobook money when I was suddenly given another $5,000! Gah! It is kind of like a bad dream. You get to the end (you think) and then more magically appear in the never ending cycle.
I finished the Percy Jackson YA series and it was great fun. I highly recommend them. Not as literary as J. K. Rowlings series but good solid YA anyway. I don't know the nationality of Rick Riordan but it strikes me that the differences between the two series is the difference between British and American expectations of YA books, perhaps. On the one hand the British expect the children to read thick books with complex sentences and ideas and on the other, American publishers seem to expect YA books to be short and simple. Those are generalities with plenty of exceptions, of course.
I also read A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris. I do like her heroine Sookie Stackhouse, especially in one of the short stories, One Word Answer.
I finished the Percy Jackson YA series and it was great fun. I highly recommend them. Not as literary as J. K. Rowlings series but good solid YA anyway. I don't know the nationality of Rick Riordan but it strikes me that the differences between the two series is the difference between British and American expectations of YA books, perhaps. On the one hand the British expect the children to read thick books with complex sentences and ideas and on the other, American publishers seem to expect YA books to be short and simple. Those are generalities with plenty of exceptions, of course.
I also read A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris. I do like her heroine Sookie Stackhouse, especially in one of the short stories, One Word Answer.