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Hey I'm Heather :)

Bluemoon, why'd you create a new YA group when we're already active in the Young Adult Fiction for Adults group? :P

I also really enjoy read YA books, I read just about anything.

P.S. you can't invite people unless your a mod because it must be set to private

Oh so that's why. I'm a member of another YA group but I'm not very active in that one, they do monthly readings of books: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/3... just in case you're interested :)

Thanks for the invite, chachic & bluemoon. I guess I could say that I love YA because it keeps me in touch with the kid in me and like Peter Pan, I really don't want to be old (who wants that, hehehehe).

Welcome Ariel, thanks for accepting the invite! Feel free to leave comments in any of the threads. :)

Hey! Like what is written above this(beside the message number), I am Aaron Vincent. I am 19, few months away before leaving teenagehood(That's really not a word. I just invented that.)Some of you already know me from the other group and the other group(Filipino and YA for Adults).

Like most of you, I love reading YA novels. The ones I read most of the times falls under the sci-fi, fantasy and urban fantasy genres. I also read a lot of Middle-Grades. Basically, everything under YA but not paranormal romance. I had enough after reading the insanely popular four-part saga, Hush hush and Evermore. I can say I got trauma towards Paranormal Romance after reading those.

As an ending to this introduction, I like to share what one of my favorite and coolest author(and he is also following me on Twitter!!! Beat that!) said in one interview that somehow supports our passion towards these kinds of novels


"Some people look down on romantic fiction, or science fiction, or fantasy, or young adult books, or comics� Such people adopt the attitude that these marginalised genres and media are the Morlock
equivalent of “proper writing.� Well, to the creators and readers of comics, SF, romances and the rest, I want to say this:

Be not ashamed. If you like something, don’t hide it. Those who scoff at our preferences are pompous, pretentious idiots who are doomed to eternally wallow in turgid “worthy� prose. Trust me: they’re only fooling themselves. They’re not having a good time. We are. We’re having fun.

They want to laugh at us? Let them! It’s the only laugh they’re going to get.

Some years back at a science fiction convention, a member of the audience asked the panel - of which I was a member - about the perceived lack of depth in “kids� books�. Once the other panelists
had their say about why they believed such books occasionally do have great depth, it was my turn to respond� I remember this because it was one of those rare moments when I was able to put into words exactly how I felt:

“Depth is not something that the writer puts into a book. Depth is something that the reader takes out of it.�"


Thanks for the invite Chachic.

Welcome, Aaron! Who's the author who said that quote?

Oops sorry I forgot to write the name. LOl. He's Michael Carroll. Author of the Quantum Prophecy series.




and the upcoming Superhuman novel.



*Shameless Author Plugging* lol

Hi! I'm Celina. I haven't really been an active member in any of the groups here in goodreads, but I hope I can be active here and do those monthly readings.:)

I try to read different genres, but I always enjoy YA the most. Chachic is the reason I'm into YA now, and I have a long list of recommended books because of her. Hehe! Thank you for the invite Chachic!

Yay, Celina! Thanks for joining this group. :) I know, I really am a book pusher, aren't I? I just love spreading the YA love.

Hello. I am Heidi and know some from the YA Adult Group. Anyhoo I am 30something and love YA and mystery books. I am pretty picky and opinionated as Bluemoon knows :)

Hey Guys, I'm Brittany, I'll be 25 in a month and I'm from Colorado. I would love to do monthly readings! I think it's an excellent idea. I have a request that we post next month's books early. As many of you know I'm from the mountains so it can sometimes take a while for me to get ahold of books.

Beware, Heidi and I can get into it sometimes because we are both extremely opinionated and picky, but really it's all love and she has never given me a bad book recommendation!!

Bluemoon - I will start with the May read if that is ok. I sure hope it is not a vamp book.

Hi, my name is Sophie, I'm 27 (blah!) but 17 at heart! I'm also a native of France, but have been living in Chicago for a little over two years now. I really started reading again with the Twilight series. It just gave me back my taste for reading. Before that, I would only read the mandatory stuff for school/college...boring stuff.
Now I just can't stop!

Glad I found this group, I have a thing for YA fiction!

My name is Shannen and I'm also a member of the YA Adult group. I'm 30-something too but 40 is creeping up on me too quickly. YA is my favorite genre, especially paranormal/UF YA. I like adult paranormal/UF but always come back to YA.

Bluemoon - I was talking to Heidi last week about starting a monthly group read. Great minds think alike! ;) I want to read The Summoning but don't know that I am going to be able to fit it in before the month is up. Looking forward to the May book and I've already voted in the poll!

Welcome, Heidi, Brittany, Sophie and Shannen! :) I'm glad you guys could join us.

Brittany, no worries about not being able to get the book on time. I live in the Philippines and I may have the same problem, depending on the book.

We definitely have a great interlibrary loan system, but if I need to place a hold it usually takes around 10 days for me to get my hands on a copy. I could just drive an hour and go visit Jaime and buy them from her Borders, but as we all know that isn't alway reliable either.

Thanks for being considerate. I'm going to wait and start with the May book I think. So many books right now that I need to read.

Just joined. I've had an unhealthy obsession with YA since my elementary school librarian let me into the chapter books section early. I'm currently in the dog house with the branch librarian for putting notes with recommendations for better books in certain things...but I don't care what the critics say, no one should ever have to suffer through Tender Morsels.

Hi Polkweed! Are you saying that you write a note and put it in the library book? I love it!

Welcome, Polkweed! I hope you like it here. :)

Hi! I'm Heather, and I see there is already another Heather here so this may get a little confusing. But anyways, I've been an avid reading since I can remember. I look forward to reading more books and hearing everyone's opinions on them! I have attempted to do something like this with my friends but only one of them is really a reader like myself, and all she cares about is Twilight, so, that doesn't entirely work. No offence to people who like Twilight, it's just there are other books out there, some better ones too. Sorry, this has been a little long.

Welcome (new) Heather! I feel you on the Twilight talk - there are many other books to discuss! I also know how you feel about wanting to talk to others. This place is a godsend for me, before I found it I had been wanted to talk to people about books for years, but didn't want to join a book club, so I love it here :)

Hi Heather! Welcome, hope you like it here. :) I know how you feel about having someone to talk to about books. I felt the same way because not a lot of my friends read and those who do, don't really read YA. So I really love Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ because I get to talk to awesome people here and discuss books that I love.

Hi Heather :)
Welcome, I'm sure we won't get too confused with the name thing :P

Hi, I discovered this group from doing a search for YA book groups. I've recently began posting at the YA Book Club for Adults, and I'm looking forward to posting here as well because I'd love to discuss monthly readings. I also don't have friends who share an interest in the YA genre, and I've been dying to discuss my books. This should be fun!

Hey Laura :)

Hi Heidi! Glad to see so many YA for Adult memebers are in this group, too.

Hi Laura! Welcome to the group. :) Hope you have fun in the discussions here and enjoy the monthly reading as well!

Hi...I'm Bec :)

Hi Bec, welcome to the group! :)

Welcome Bec!

Bluemoon - my GR is acting insane today. I only meant to post it once. I deleted the other two!

Hello! I'm Kourtni. I see alot of the same names in this group that are in the YA Adult group! Anywho, I'm excited for the monthly readings. :)

Welcome Kourtni! :) Yay, I hope you join in the fun and read Unwind for the month of May.

Hey Kourtni! How's my favorite Team Finnick girl?

Haha Hey Brittany! Thanks for the welcomes y'all! :)

Hello everyone! It feels redundant introducing myself here, since I've been posting comments on the boards. My initials spell A.M.Y, so that's what I'm going by.

I'm a children's librarian in the states, and I don't want to get in trouble expressing my views... *grins sheepishly* so for right now I kind of blog and maintain a web presence seperate from my job. (One of those "the views expressed in this blog are not necessarily those of the blogger's employer").

If anyone's interested in visiting, here's the blog I started a little over a year ago, where most of my reviews are posted:
I'll hopefully/eventually get all the links transfered over, but I just joined Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ last month.

My main attraction to this group was it was smaller than the other YA groups, and it looked like it was started about the same time I joined. I figured I could keep up with discussions easier.

Hello A.m.y. :)

Welcome A.M.Y.! Thanks for posting an introduction. I'll check out your blog after I'm done catching up on my Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ backlog. I have a blog too by the way: in case you want ti check it out as well. :)

I'm Lizz

Hi Lizz, welcome! Hope you have fun browsing through the discussions and feel free to join in the fun.

Hey everyone. I just joined. My name is Ashley and I'm 24 years old. YA is my favorite genre and I have read or am reading a lot of the different series out right now: Percy Jackson, Twilight, House of Night, Vampire Academy, Septimus Heap, Kane Chronicles. Some of my favorite YA authors include Rick Riordan, Richelle Mead, Julie Anne Peters, Alex Sanchez, etc.

Welcome Ashley! I see you are into vampires. Me not so much, but you are still very welcome here :)

Welcome Ashley! I hope you like it here, feel free to browse the threads and participate in the discussions. :) The fifth Vampire Academy novel is already out, right?

Yes it is

Oh I see in the other threads that you already have a copy. :)

Hello everyone! :) I'm Brigid, I'm 17 years old, and I read � anything I can get my hands on. So, in other words, a LOT. :D I'm also a writer and I've written 6 novels. I tried to get one published and it was a fail, but now I'm trying with another one––which made the semifinals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest! wooot!––and that's going well so far. I have one agent reading my full manuscript. *squee* I'm also a junior in high school, which is absolutely horrible and I can't wait for the school year to end. Aaaand I live with my large family (6 kids, 8 people total) in a small house. Yay! So, nice to meet everyone. :]

Welcome Brigid. Good luck with your book :)

Welcome Brigid! I hope your book gets published soon. :)