tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post259744349408969484..comments2023-07-06T11:50:15.086+01:00Comments on Just Keep Writing and Other Thoughts...: What books Are Your Characters ReadingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-62083777147793686042007-03-25T17:16:00.000+01:002007-03-25T17:16:00.000+01:00Undead and Unwed? I read those and they are extrem...Undead and Unwed? I read those and they are extremely *hot*. Oh gosh, Liz, I wouldn't dare write them but I am so glad MJ Davidson does as I love them. Very funny, very pacy and very very spicy.Phillipahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06327571607067476569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-2994040972033653032007-03-22T09:02:00.000+00:002007-03-22T09:02:00.000+00:00Zinnia, I have found it realy useful and even thou...Zinnia, I have found it realy useful and even though I haven't read any of the books suggested I have a better feel for what Serena might be into......Good luck with your characters :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-67569972976802534252007-03-22T06:57:00.000+00:002007-03-22T06:57:00.000+00:00What a great question. I only knew the answer str...What a great question. I only knew the answer straight away for one of my five main characters (interestingly the one I often feel I know least well). I shall spend some time imagining all their bedsides and finding out what it is that they're reading.<BR/><BR/>One of the fifteen year old girls in my circle has just read Eragon, she also recently enjoyed the Susan Cooper fivelogy (not sure what the proper word is - it's The Dark Is Rising sequence) and another is into Ben Zephaniah's novels if that's any help.Zinnia Cyclamenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04841314997513292477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-51588938167091325832007-03-21T16:42:00.000+00:002007-03-21T16:42:00.000+00:00Hi Kate...glad the Jakie Collins rings some bells....Hi Kate...glad the Jakie Collins rings some bells. Have fun with their reading lists. I've learned a lot about them and tons about teenage reading!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-50149827192402441662007-03-21T16:37:00.000+00:002007-03-21T16:37:00.000+00:00Hi Liz, This is a brillaint idea! I am going to cr...Hi Liz, <BR/><BR/>This is a brillaint idea! I am going to create reading lists for my characters tonight as I have NO idea what (or indeed if) they would be reading. Thanks for pointing me in thsi direction. <BR/><BR/>I'm not going to be much use where teenage girls are concerned ~ I seem to have blocked most of my teenage years from memory, and I'm terrified of the teenagers I meet now! Sneaking peaks at Jackie Collins is ringing a bell though ....<BR/><BR/>best wishes <BR/>KateKate.Kingsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02382512850730256227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-81361086311088286652007-03-21T16:24:00.000+00:002007-03-21T16:24:00.000+00:00Hi Jan. I did get the Undead Unwed in my bag last...Hi Jan. I did get the Undead Unwed in my bag last year. haven't read it yet! Will check out the others though. Thanks.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-9157933962637236902007-03-21T15:30:00.000+00:002007-03-21T15:30:00.000+00:00Another outstanding 'thought-provoking' Young Adul...Another outstanding 'thought-provoking' Young Adult writer is Linda Newberry. Or any of the Anne Fine novels.<BR/><BR/>And at the other extreme is the 'Undead and Unwed' series. Dis you not get one in your conference goody bag last year?Jan Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00471022034388834235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-83558722100862830392007-03-21T14:33:00.000+00:002007-03-21T14:33:00.000+00:00Yes, all good ideas Phillipa. She would be strave...Yes, all good ideas Phillipa. She would be straved for fashion magazines if she was relying on Madde to bring them into the house and thinking about the local shops around there none stock anything more interesting than Country Living and Good Food.....she would have to get her fix from Helston.<BR/><BR/>This discussion is really helping me shape another dimension of Serena even this late into the first draft. i think it will help me to enrich her when I go through to the next draft :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-75874250467873802162007-03-21T14:29:00.000+00:002007-03-21T14:29:00.000+00:00Liz Myabe your teen character is into science and ...Liz <BR/><BR/>Myabe your teen character is into science and pure fantasy as mine was (and still is at 19). So possibly Tamora Pierce or Ursula Le Guinas well as Buffy spin offs and anything Goth or vampiric? Or maybe sensible stuff from Meg Cabot or thought provoking such as Malorie Blackman? Magazines: mine loves Empire and Total Film and used to read Teen Vogue and (scretly) my Cosmo!<BR/><BR/>Fascinating idea.:)Phillipahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06327571607067476569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-74720149135361528942007-03-21T14:06:00.000+00:002007-03-21T14:06:00.000+00:00b.e. thanks for the input. I'm off to amazon agai...b.e. thanks for the input. I'm off to amazon again to read the blurbs on these books. The tv series helps too!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-83325329032102763992007-03-21T14:04:00.000+00:002007-03-21T14:04:00.000+00:00Hi Judy you had me laughing out loud with the last...Hi Judy you had me laughing out loud with the last suggestion 'i hate myself and i want to die'. I do think this would hit her sense of humour. Will check out the other suggestions. Thanks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-88340910882497994402007-03-21T13:57:00.001+00:002007-03-21T13:57:00.001+00:00My 13-yr old daughter is into Laura Lael Miller an...My 13-yr old daughter is into Laura Lael Miller and Sherrilyn Kenyon (and anything else having to do with paranormal, except Anne Rice - who she dislikes). She also likes to watch the TV show 'Charmed' in reruns. <BR/><BR/>Hope that helps. =oDB.E. Sandersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336115135400388268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-72408866809826921232007-03-21T13:57:00.000+00:002007-03-21T13:57:00.000+00:00Liz - If your stroppy teen Serena has a sense of h...Liz - If your stroppy teen Serena has a sense of humour she might read<BR/>Louise Rennison but the 15 year old in those books seems very juvenile and<BR/>yours might wall-bang the books!<BR/>What about Meg Rossof? Just In Case and How I Live Now would give her<BR/>something to think about - both wonderful books.<BR/>She could also look at Chrissie Glazebrook: The Madolescents and Bella<BR/>Bathurst's fabulous one, Special (I recommend this one HUGELY - loved it).<BR/>Kate Long's books would appeal to teens too.<BR/>Then there's Colette's Claudine books (my personal desert island choice).<BR/>For a spot of music-biz non-fiction a book called 'I hate myself and want<BR/>to die' features the most depressing song lyrics of all time, analysed with<BR/>laugh-aloud humour.<BR/>Not sure if this is the sort of thing you meant but I hope it helps.<BR/><BR/>Judy xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-17640095332740052222007-03-21T13:44:00.000+00:002007-03-21T13:44:00.000+00:00Hi Jane. Thanks for the great sugestions. I have...Hi Jane. Thanks for the great sugestions. I have to say it making me think more and more inot Serena's quieter side of which we see little of in the book. AT present she is all mouth and all out there but she does have a soft and very vulernable under belly....off to check out books on Amazon and be grateful the teenagers i'M DEALING WITH AT HOME ARE BOYS AT THE MOMENT!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-1625339573681142082007-03-21T13:39:00.000+00:002007-03-21T13:39:00.000+00:00Liz, what a great discussion.If she is a pseudo in...Liz, what a great discussion.<BR/><BR/>If she is a pseudo intellectual (which might go along with her bolshie fifteen year oldness) she might be tackling things like Sartre and thinking she's terribly clever.<BR/><BR/>She also might be wanting to seem daring so I reckon any of those paranormal/erotic type books that people like Kate Johnson, Rosemary Laurey and Julie Cohen write might spring to mind.<BR/><BR/>She may already consider them too young, but I bet she will have gone through the Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging series (Louise Renison is the author I think) and tackled things like Junk by Melvin Burgess and the one he wrote about sex of which I forget the name.<BR/><BR/>If she has a social conscience I would have thought something like the Color Purple was a must - maybe the Women's Room, but perhaps fifteen year olds today aren't so into feminism (I get the idea they aren't)<BR/><BR/>If I have time will check out what my neighbour's fifteen year old is reading..<BR/><BR/>Oh and there's Alice Sebold and all those misery memoirs( particularly if she's into Emo!) - and presumably she'll be so influenced by the media she'll read anything Richard and Judy recommend.... or if she's anti that kind of thing she won't!<BR/><BR/>Oh and what about Cecelia Aherne?<BR/><BR/>love JanexJane Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17514534117777707886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-23923566038083923232007-03-21T12:44:00.000+00:002007-03-21T12:44:00.000+00:00These I don't envy you on the Hemingway but maybe ...These I don't envy you on the Hemingway but maybe I shouldn't say that I read him soooooooo long ago and his work might look very different now as per all our discussions.<BR/><BR/>I will think about what she might be reading up and per Jess who from or where from???<BR/><BR/>Thanks for all the great ideas :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-28162491483372663882007-03-21T12:42:00.000+00:002007-03-21T12:42:00.000+00:00Jess - I had forgotten about Cater in the Rye I re...Jess - I had forgotten about Cater in the Rye I read it soooooooo long ago. She wouldn't reading any of Madde's books because that's not Madde's taste. She a bit straight really and should be reading something racy but life has bit a bit to overwhelming....whose books could she pinch????????Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-63448515574448720752007-03-21T12:39:00.000+00:002007-03-21T12:39:00.000+00:00If Serena's got "attitude," she's likely reading "...If Serena's got "attitude," she's likely reading "up"--that is, adult fiction that corresponds with her fantasies.<BR/><BR/>Romance, revenge, sex-and-shopping, thrillers, whatever the case may be.<BR/><BR/>In my current work, one of my characters is a Hemingway scholar...so I have some catch-up reading to do!Theresehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01915740239016736614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-19927694821290178542007-03-21T12:38:00.000+00:002007-03-21T12:38:00.000+00:00Ooh, Helen just reminded me that I used to sneakil...Ooh, Helen just reminded me that I used to sneakily read my mum's Jackie Collins books -- usually with innocent-looking dustjackets around them so she wouldn't find out!<BR/><BR/>I also thought that Serena might read <I>The Catcher in the Rye</I>? That can be a seminal teenage book.<BR/><BR/>Jess xJessica Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12640355725990451745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-40081382327561488212007-03-21T10:49:00.000+00:002007-03-21T10:49:00.000+00:00Glad you think so Caroline.....you just want to ke...Glad you think so Caroline.....you just want to keep me in suspense until I read ISoA ;-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-89198559416149164492007-03-21T10:31:00.000+00:002007-03-21T10:31:00.000+00:00Ooooohhhh. Maybe? Perhaps.This is such a good idea...Ooooohhhh. Maybe? Perhaps.<BR/>This is such a good idea! <BR/><BR/>xxCarolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04470638074202676460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-30337905652758319052007-03-21T10:15:00.000+00:002007-03-21T10:15:00.000+00:00JJ and Helen thanks for the suggestions....Serena ...JJ and Helen thanks for the suggestions....Serena has a real ATTITUDE so maybe the stephen king and maybe the others....amazone here i come.......Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-23454758910229419972007-03-21T10:13:00.000+00:002007-03-21T10:13:00.000+00:00I've been trying to think what I would have read a...I've been trying to think what I would have read at 15 and I am having trouble remembering. I may have sneaked a peak at my sister's Jackie Collins whilst reading Stephen King's Misery in public...Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13315275929031953790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-5161800035826937842007-03-21T10:12:00.000+00:002007-03-21T10:12:00.000+00:00I've never heard of this one, but what a brilliant...I've never heard of this one, but what a brilliant idea.<BR/><BR/>Liz, if your 15 yr old girl isn't into Stephen King, and is altogether girlier, there are lots of boyfriend/shopping/clothes books out there she might be reading. Have a hunt through Amazon...<BR/><BR/>JJJenny Beattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00640209636605410939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34330113.post-52910397059871621722007-03-21T10:02:00.000+00:002007-03-21T10:02:00.000+00:00Thanks Jess....I never read Stephen King which I l...Thanks Jess....I never read Stephen King which I leaves me sadly lacking but I don't have the stomach for horror but you maybe right Serena just might :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.com