Whatcha Reading, Susane Colasanti & Lauren Myracle?

Over the weekend, I went to Books of Wonder for a group signing by nearly twenty different YA authors. Several of my friends were taking part, and I was also excited by the opportunity to meet Lauren Myracle, who I’d interviewed by email after Shine had been nominated for a National Book Award very briefly, until it turned out that there’d been a clerical error—the foundation initially offered to keep her on the list, but some contingent of the nominating jury balked at that compromise, and she wound up graciously withdrawing from the whole thing. So I got to meet her, and I was also introduced to Susane Colasanti, who seems really cool; her latest novel is So Much Closer.

Colasanti was very gung-ho in her recommendation for The Difference Between You and Me, a Madeleine George novel she’s reading an advance copy of (it’s not coming out until March 2012). “It’s one of those books where every sentence is such a masterpiece that you have to read the sentences over and over again,” she says. Meanwhile, Myracle praised Adele Griffin’s Tighter, which she described as a contemporary psychological horror story with a vibe like a Victorian melodrama.

6 December 2011 | whatcha reading |