Day 106

#np - Next Best Thing by Nikki and Rich

Well, this is it.  I've fallen in love. 

No no, not what you're thinking.  Books!  I've fallen in love with books.  Or my Kindle, I guess because it gives me all the books I could want (read: pay for) in under 60 seconds.  With grad school and the general busyness/laziness of my life, I've let my fun reading list fall by the wayside.  While I should have spent the holiday break applying for jobs or developing my capstone, I've been reading.  

If you're a book lover, you understand.  Sometimes you just cannot put a book down.  You're lost in a world that the book and your mind creates.  You come to accept the fact that you simply won't get any work done.  That you can do without the sleep.  That figuring out if you're Team Peeta or Team Gale is as important as Christmas shopping.  And knowing the Watkins' secret is better than Flamingo Row (and if you know me, you know that nothing is better than the Row).  

So, I find myself both needing book suggestions and having a few suggestions for you.  I'll admit, I didn't read enough in middle and high school and am now emotionally/literaturely-stunted and therefore mostly enjoy Young Adult fiction.  

First, I read the Hunger Games trilogy in about 5 days.  Can I be a BAMF like Katniss Everdeen?  Can I have Peeta (and/or Gale, lets be real) for myself.  Do Peetas exist?  I'm not so sure but this book has ignited my love for the dystopian genre.  Love in the midst of a seemingly-perfect world?  Flagrant social injustice threatening to destroy the fabric of a nation? Sign me up.

Second, I bought Flat-Out Love on Amazon for a shockingly low price.  I struggled at first with the purchase.  The reviews of the book were outstanding (and luckily, gave nothing away) but that can be a big red flag.  So I took advantage of Amazon's sample feature and read the first chapter or so.  Honestly, I was hooked from the license notes where the author threatens bodily harm by way of an ammonia-soaked nerd tee beating.  If your AN can make me laugh out loud then that's something indeed.  Jessica Park, we would probably be best friends.  Although I cannot share your love for coffee.  

I recommend all of these books.  You can get the entire trilogy on your Kindle for less than $20 if you buy it as a set.  DO IT.  FOL is wonderful and inexpensive but don't let that fool you.  It's a quality read.  

Let me know if you have suggestions.  I'm counting on the Amazon reviewers for recommendations but their reviews often include spoilers which I cannot stand.  Perhaps I'm completely hypocritical considering I'll take a TV spoiler any day (I need the gossip on GLEE!) but a book is sacred and therefore should not be spoiled.  

Go on, get off the internet and read a book.  Let your imagination take you away.  You weren't watching the republicans square off in Iowa anyway, right?  Right???  Yeah, me either.