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Three Young Adult Librarians blather about YA literature, YA librarianship, and maybe even the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

1. 48 Hour Book Challenge final stats

By: Trisha, Gayle, and Jolene, on 6/11/2012
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Since my last update, I finished Kelley Armstrong’s The Calling (The Gathering, book 2), which was…very like the first book in the series, and also very second-book-in-a-series. Even as I read The Calling, I realized that nothing much was happening (just like book 1!). Yet, I kept reading and reading. These are the only two books by Armstrong that I’ve read, so I can’t speak about all her books. But there’s just something effortlessly and compulsively readable about this series, at least, that the lack of story doesn’t really bother me.

I also read Dark Eyes by William Richter. This one had a lot of story, but it’s not as readable as The Calling. Hey, and I just realized they’re both about teenage girls who were adopted and big birth parent secrets. Anyway, the violence in Dark Eyes means the book won’t be for everyone and I struggled to care about Wally’s quest to find her birth mother at times. I put the book down a couple of times to finish up the two reviews (to be posted later) I started writing yesterday, as well as to work on a couple of things that’ll be posted this week, but did ultimately finish Dark Eyes.

Then I hit the proverbial wall before my 48 hours were up, so I don’t think I’m completely over my YA slump yet. But this weekend has gone a long way in revitalizing me as a reader—I finished as many YA novels in two days as I read in all of May, and I’m much more excited about catching up on YA fiction than I have been over the past several months.