SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

Any Suggestions or Recommendations for any of the challenges? Or anyone need a Suggestion or Recommendation?

One thing leads to another, tasks 2 - 4 has me pulling faces and shaking a fist at Lauren F. :P

But I have a suggestion : Darren Shan wrote a series called "Cirque Du Freak" where the lead character is also called Darren Shan. So for the first four tasks, reading 4 books from that series might work. Don't know if it's fair to read them for task 5 and 6 as well. Too bad I don't want to read them again.

I'm going to look for 2-4 now as well, will post my findings :)

If you read Anna and the French Kiss or Twenty Boy Summer and then you can read The Luxe by Anna Godbersen

You can read Mirror Image (Paige) and then read Here Lies Bridget by Paige Harbison

Dark Inside (Michael) and read The Lost World by Michael Crichton

Pretty Little Liars novel and read Emily Bronte

Halfway to the Grave (Catherine) and read Incarceron

Tomorrow, When the War Began (Homer) and read a Homer book

Tomorrow, When the War Began (Kevin) and read Hounded (Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)

A Touch Mortal (Eden) and then read Jonas (Beautiful Dead, #1) by Maguire, Eden

Memento Nora and read a Nora Roberts novel

Secret Society (Lauren) and read Fallen, Kissing Kate, Lauren Beukes, Lauren Oliver and tons of others

Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars and then read Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Roth, Veronica

Divergent (Divergent #1) by Veronica Roth (Beatrice) and then read Go Ask Alice by Sparks, Beatrice

It might work better to work back to front on this challenge

Anyone know a good meg or melissa character?

The only thing that comes to mind for Meg is Little Women. Will let you know if I think of anything else.

Could Melissa not be an author name?

I think Lu has authors named Melissa and Meg, which is why she's now looking for characters.

I see - sorry :)

This challenge is looking more and more intriquing . . . maybe I will join too :)

Maybe a Lauren of Cassandra character?

Lu wrote: "Maybe a Lauren of Cassandra character?"

Huh?

* or

Oh! Lol :) Only Cassandra that comes to mind is the one from Greek mythology.

Maybe take a look at the A-Z character challenge and see if anything useful crops up.

The only Cassandra character I know of in a book is pelled Kassandra and that is in The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley and that is the one from ancient Greek mythology. Does it have to be spelled exactly the same since we know in some cases that it is the same name only Kassandra is the Greek spelling and Cassandra the Roman/European spelling.

Found a Meg by accident lol, thanks for all the help guys!

Hi guys I need urgent help please!

What mode of transport do these main characters use?
(for those who have read the books)

* Fallen
* City of Bones

Lu wrote: "Hi guys I need urgent help please!

What mode of transport do these main characters use?
(for those who have read the books)

* Fallen
* City of Bones"

Ok, that's a really weird one. How much does a character need to use a specific mode of transport for it to count for this? Almost any character is going to walk or run - does that count? Because then you can use virtually any book.

I'll check with Lauren and let you guys know.

I'm also a bit puzzled by it. But I think it's more for the odd transport, like if its a witch and she uses a broom the next one should be too.

Will get back to this :)

City of Bones - the MC is flown around on a vampire's motorbike. But mostly they use the subway.

Ok so motorbike and subway
Thanks!

For the YA challenge - any suggestions for the tasks involving immortals and paranormal YA? No romance please.

Also, what defines paranormal? Would a YA ghost story count?

If you don't have book suggestions for immortals, I'd also appreciate suggestions for immortal creatures, as demons, angels and vampires have been ruled out, and the only other relatively common theme I can think of is gods.

Yea a YA ghost story counts :)

I am reading a series about immortals Evermore, doubt you would like it tho. Only immortals I can think off :)

Hmm, yeah, that looks like a romance novel :(

I noticed that immortals seem to have become popular in YA lately. Why are they immortal though? Are we talking Highlander here?

They are immortal because of Alchemy

Like a fantasy or science-fantasy version of the cure for aging?

Fantasy, really not something you would like

For those looking for an LGBT YA novel, there are quite a few mentioned in this article, which gives a brief history of the genre: http://www.malindalo.com/2012/06/from...