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Book-Related Recommendations! So, kinda like the Random Thoughts About Books Threads, but recommendations if that makes sense?? You can recommend books, sure, but also book websites, author websites, author blogs, book summaries, book extras, publishing companies... or share your favorite covers, titles, pen names, book designs, dedications, acknowledgments (yes, some books have VERY interesting acknowledgments. It always pays to read the credits!), book fun facts, author quotes... whatever as long as it's even vaguely book related!
My favorite author blogs:
- Tui T Sutherland (author of WoF, and the Menagerie trilogy with her sister Kari Sutherland, along with many other books): I LOVE LOVE LOVE this blog!! Sure, Tui hasn't updated in like 3 years, but I still visit it regularly to read old posts. So rewarding, you don't even need to be a WoF fan! Prepare for toddler pictures, doggy pictures, smiley face overload, loads of enthusiasm, TV show recommendations, major procrastination (from both your and her end), and quite frankly the most entertaining book recommendations ever!! And, if you are a WoF fan, be ready for some cool extras too!
- Allie Brosh (author of Hyperbole and a Half and Solutions and Other Problems): LOVE this blog too, but it is way more inappropriate and adulty, so be warned. It's SOO funny though, and I would willingly (and have willingly) waste(d) hours laughing at Allie's posts. She deals with real life problems that she has faced, like depression, but she does it in a way that just automatically cheers you up, if that makes sense?? Idk.
My favorite author websites:
- Chris Harris (author of I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups, and other books): just a very fun website, not as much to explore though
- W. Bruce Cameron (author of A Dog's Purpose, A Dog's Purpose Puppy Tales, A Dog's Way Home, and the like): MELT IN CUTENESS AT THE DOGGIES!!! I recommend (for watching the dogs): first go to the Home Screen, then go to Books, then go to Films, then go to Media then News, then go to Media then About (you have to scroll further down for this one), then go to Bookplates, then go to Media then Videos!! You will not regret. Watch them all all the way through! :)
- Sy Montgomery (author of The Soul of An Octopus, The Hawk's Way, The Good, Good Pig, and SO MANY other amazing books): if you like Sy Montgomery (and who doesn't?), you're in luck! Explore everything, but especially the map! Go to Menu, then About Sy. You have to scroll down a bit, but there's an awesome map there pack-filled with the animals she's written about, and tapping on one will give you an excerpt of the book of that animal! If you haven't already fallen in love with Sy Montgomery, you're sorely missing out.
- Sandra Boynton (author of The Going to Bed Book, the Pookie series, But Not the Hippopotamus, and a LOT of other such books for younger kids, as well as Chocolate: The Consuming Passion): remarkably funny and clever, lots to see and do, and I'm not usually a big fan of jewlery, but the jewlery's pretty cool. Especially the Snouter Limits Ring... so weird and I want it :) oh, and Sandra Boynton also has a so-unhealthy-it's-funny obsession with chocolate, I like her store too (but it's on another website (accessible through this one))
- Kiersten White (author of the And I Darken trilogy, the Camelot Rising trilogy, the Paranormalcy trilogy, lots of others): I don't know, just a very satisfying website to read/explore. The FAQs are really helpful for writing a book/getting published.
- Kristin Cashore (author of Jane Unlimited, the Graceling Realm books, and others): so much amazing amazing beautiful art collages created by the author herself scattered throughout the site, the blog is also really helpful for writing a book
and that's it for now (though you can totally expect more later)!
submitted by CelineReadingRampage, age Storymoth, The Library for Hours
(October 24, 2023 - 12:17 am)
(October 24, 2023 - 12:17 am)
Amari and the Night Brothers is a book I recently read, and it's pretty good! Albeit a bit similar to KOTLC and Harry Potter, but different in its own way. I would recommend it if you enjoyed KOTLC and Harry Potter or just fantasy and magic in general.
Oh, and the Fairy Tale Reform School series and Royal Academy Rebels by Jen Calonita if you like fairy tales with a twist (like Twisted Tales which she also wrote!). Pretty good series!
(October 27, 2023 - 9:34 pm)
ACKK I LOVED FTRS AND RAR AND TWISTED TALES (I only read Reflection though, and part of the Frozen one)!! That was like years ago, though, I should probably reread them!
ok, here are some favorite dedications off the top of my head:
Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire (and maybe the first one too, don't remember) - it's just so bold and daring, I could never ever do that and still be able to restfully sleep at night!!
Heroes of Olympus: House of Hades, and Heroes of Olympus: Blood of Olympus - I love that they're connected and kinda funny
Basically any dedication that dedicates to the readers. For that matter, any acknowledgment that thanks the readers. I like it when the author acknowledges us. Especially authors I love! :)
I haven't read but that book by the author who's last name is Woods and the cover is like all these wild children scrambling up British guards or something and their demeanor is a bit like wolves and it's drawn???
some favorite favorite covers (that are also awesome books I totally recommend):
The Lost Library
On A Sunbeam*
Tidesong
Five Things About Ava Andrew
A Time of Green Magic
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The School for Whatnots*
Orange for the Sunsets*
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy*
The Mapmaker's Trilogy (I love all the covers: The Glass Sentence, The Golden Specific, The Crimson Skew)
The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine*
The Boy, The Wolf, and The Stars
all the Karen Cush books basically
A Whale of the Wild
haven't read yet but Inside Out and Back Again is one of my favorite favorites: When Clouds Touch Us
Where the Sky Lives
Beyond the Bright Sea
The Simple Art of Flying* and haven't read yet but The Hedgehog of Oz
Tune It Out
The Girl Who Drank the Moon*
haven't read yet but Spindlefish and Stars
The Girl from the Sea (and alternates, can be found at the back of the book)
The Greenglass House world books
haven't read yet but Wintersmith
The Midnight Children/The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Just Dance*
*titles are also favorite favorites
whewf that got long fast..
favorite favorite titles (in addition to the above) that I also totally recommend:
When You Trap A Tiger
have only read a bit but Chocolate: The Consuming Passion
Green Glass Beads
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Starry River of the Sky, When the Sea Turned Silver
The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice
Bob
Scary Stories for Young Foxes
haven't read yet but Before I Go To Sleep
haven't read yet but When the World Stops Shopping
The Scorpio Races
A Hat Full of Sky and I Shall Wear Midnight
Skulduggery Pleasant
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Spilling Ink
Red, White, and Whole
haven't read yet (but I loved the Princess Who Flew With Dragons) but The Dragon With a Chocolate Heart
The Doldrums
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Rilla of Ingleside
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Paper Heart
A Snicker of Magic (the book was fine)
technically, it's not my fault
Pity Party
The Book of Hopes
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Fresh Ink
haven't read yet but A Universe of Wishes
Full Cicada Moon
Simon Sort of Says
The Shape of Thunder
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
(October 28, 2023 - 7:41 pm)
for cool covers: seconding Priory of the Orange Tree and The Hedgehog of Oz for cool covers, also Caraval, The Shadow of the Wind, that one really old cover of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? where the sheep is falling apart XD, Babel, Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom, Auroria Rising and Aurora Burning (Auri and Kal are so pretty like what)
and for cool titles: seconding A Hat Full of Sky and I Shall Wear Midnight and Skullduggery Pleasant and The Shape of Thunder, plus Urchin of the Riding Stars, To Say Nothing of the Dog, The Hobbit, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Six of Crows, Shadow of the Fox, Ella Minnow Pea.
another really cool thing some books do is have secret codes or puzzles or whatever hidden in the text—two series I remember that do that are Mr. Lemoncello's Library and The Magic Misfits
(October 28, 2023 - 8:59 pm)
Oh my gosh , a Sunbeam was...freaking incredible. The art. The story. The characters...everything about it was so beautiful and perfectly done.
(October 28, 2023 - 10:56 pm)
yeah wow I just read it and it was amazing... all the characters were so sweet and the slow reveal of Mia and Grace and Ell was so good and the art and just wowwwww. Highly reccomend :D
(November 3, 2023 - 7:30 pm)
(October 28, 2023 - 12:50 pm)
I would definintly reccomend KOTLC. keeper of the lost city is one of my favortie book series it is so good :) I know there are probably TONS of diffrent threads and posts about it but it really is good. Read those but take my advice. IT RULES. (they are really long though and the series consists of 9 books, so take caution!)
(November 2, 2023 - 7:52 pm)
Oh, and how have I forgotten?
The preface and foreword (two separate things) of Jane Eyre. Wow. They're the first things you read, and you already love the book (which is one of my favorites). I'm currently rereading the preface (just finished the foreword, and while I admit it's a lot to get through, and sometimes seems only tangentially related, I promise it all makes sense in the end, and is quite rewarding, at least for me, if you just keep reading), Charlotte Brontë starts it off:
"A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgement and miscellaneous remark."
and btw, while Jane may seem intimidating, and while it partly is, it also partly isn't and is quite revolutionary and I so extremely highly recommend!!
(December 18, 2023 - 6:46 pm)
The chapter titles in Le Miz are AWESOME!! :D
(January 28, 2024 - 9:05 am)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making has an AWESOME title and THE BEST SUMMARY EVER AHH!! :D also Catherynne M. Valente had such a pretty, funny, artsy website!!
also love the title of her essay collection Indistinguishable from Magic, and the other Fairyland books: The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While; The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There; The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two; The Boy Who Lost Fairyland; The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
(March 13, 2024 - 7:06 pm)