The Good Books Thread/ATARnotes Book Club!

[DisaFear]

Just read 'The Hunger Games', pretty good. A bit simple, but it is teenage fiction after all. Defs reading the rest
Also found a book 'The Night of Broken Glass' - first-hand tales of the suffering of Jewish people on that night, good read, you find out how lucky you are after reading stuff like that

Anyone got any short non-fiction books that they recommend?

'The Mortal Instruments' series is next on my reading list, after the Hunger Games books, anyone read that?

[Lolly]

I just read "The Fault in our Stars" and "Looking for Alaska" by John Green. (and I'm also compulsively watching his vlog)
I recommend them if you loved The Perks of Being a Wallflower!!
 
 I also read "The Great Gatsby" and "The Reader"  ( I want to see both of these movies)
 
And at the moment I'm halfway through a Tim Winton, "Breath".

[charmanderp]

TFIOS is one of the most perfect novels I've ever read, I think. Amazing.

[Lolly]

TFIOS is one of the most perfect novels I've ever read, I think. Amazing.

I KNOW RIGHT!!!!!!ARGH!

Actually just the other day the Times named it the best novel of 2012.

[bluehorizon]

the catastrophic history of you and me

[IndefatigableLover]

Actually just the other day the Times named it the best novel of 2012.

It's also the best novel for 2012 on Goodreads

[bluehorizon]

indefatigable! we're both locked out of the 3word game

[bluehorizon]

http://www.oddee.com/item_96479.aspx
the first few ones

[IndefatigableLover]

indefatigable! we're both locked out of the 3word game

Yeah we are
But let's try to keep this on-topic so this thread doesn't get locked too :S

Back on-topic: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher.. :"(
Deals with teen suicide and is a pretty good read (though a bit hard to follow between dialogue) but a good book nevertheless.

[brenden]

Just to follow through, I read the Perks of Being a Wallflower and it is now at the swirly top of my 'favourite book' list, around the Power of One

[charmanderp]

Just to follow through, I read the Perks of Being a Wallflower and it is now at the swirly top of my 'favourite book' list

:')

[brenden]

:')

I just can't stop thinking about the book. Seriously, it won't leave my head.

[charmanderp]

That's so understandable, it's very pervasive. I feel like it's because there's so much of Charlie in each of us, his journey really is exactly our own as adolescents, just not involving the same sequence of events. It's just such honest writing from Chbosky. He cut a few of my favourite parts out of the film though

[charmanderp]

Interestingly one of my friends just posted this on Facebook: "What messes us up most in life is that silly little picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be." One of the major themes of the novel.

[brenden]

That's so understandable, it's very pervasive. I feel like it's because there's so much of Charlie in each of us, his journey really is exactly our own as adolescents, just not involving the same sequence of events. It's just such honest writing from Chbosky. He cut a few of my favourite parts out of the film though

Yeah definitely, it's one of my favourites because I identify so heavily with Charlie (and same for Peekay in the Power of One)
I haven't seen the film yet. I want to read the book a few more times first haha.

Interestingly one of my friends just posted this on Facebook: "What messes us up most in life is that silly little picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be." One of the major themes of the novel.

Certainly. And sort of irrelevant but connected in my head to what your friend said was the line "We find the love we think we deserve" or something close to that. That one hit me, haha. I think the explanation to his 'friend' on the first page is also powerful re; you're the type of person that doesn't sleep with someone when they could etc.