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The Best YA Books You Haven’t Read « Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:10:49 +0000

[...] 2009. (Okay, so when I say ASAP I actually mean “sometime before I die.” Spotted it at YA New York. Brina says: “Gentlemen is Michael Northrop’s debut YA novel, and it’s so awesome that it [...]

By: brina

brina — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:00:14 +0000

PS. It is kind of fitting that I should have killed your novel, out of all the books out there. I mean, look at that cover! The book is basically a body bag!

By: brina

brina — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:59:18 +0000

Sorry, Michael. If it makes you feel any better, it was only a galley. Hah. Only a galley. But seriously, this is what I do. If I love a book, it dies a tragic death. Do you know how many copies of Harry Potter I’ve gone through? And don’t even get me started on Anne of Green Gables. Clearly I should laminate all books prior to reading them.

And fine. I’ll give C&P a try. Maybe. We’ll see.

By: Michael Northrop

Michael Northrop — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:52:34 +0000

Hi, Brina. Thanks for the cool review, but . . . You killed my book! You tubbed it to death! The horror!

As for C&P, I’d definitely recommend it. It’s pretty dense, but it actually has a very YA feel. I hear that, in Russia, it’s kind of a teen touchstone, like Catcher in the Rye over here.