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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

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Veronika · 512 weeks ago

Top Ten Book Characters That Would Be Sitting At My Lunch Table was one of my favorite topics as well, though it didn't make my list. I loved thinking about which characters would actually be my friends in real life and which ones I'd totally avoid, even though on paper they're fantastic. I love that you chose Top Ten YA/MG Books that Feature Characters Who Have A Family for that week. It's soo annoying when every single character has a terrible home life. I feel like normal, loving and supporting families are few and far between in YA literature which sucks! It annoys me to no end that whenever I read about divorced parents, one of them is portrayed as the devil who does not care at all about his/her children. I feel like most authors fail to portray that in many divorced families both parents are very involved in their kid's life, and this comes from someone whose parents separated a looong time ago. I hate this the most in MG books. I mean, imagine a 10-year-old reading about a father leaving the family behind and just stopping to care altogether. Ugh, this is turning into such a cliché.
Lovely picks, Amy! :)
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AmyAelleah 80p · 511 weeks ago

Yeah, the 'Characters at my Lunch Table' was a really fun post. It was the first one that I knew would make this list because it was so much fun thinking about what characters I'd actually want to hang out with. That's EXACTLY why I chose to do 'Characters Who Have A Family', Veronika! And it's not even limited to the kids of divorced parents. So many of the characters I come across, it's like they're an only child and their parents don't even care what they're doing. Or, sometimes, it's even worse and the parents are actually shown to be horrible people. I know this kind of stuff happens in real life, but it's certainly not as common as books make it out to be. I would really love for us to get more 'realistic' families in books.

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Charnell · 512 weeks ago

I love this weeks topic, I'm getting to see so many topics that I have missed. You chose some brilliant topics :) I loved the topic on covers I would frame as pieces of art, that was so much fun to do. I also loved seeing all the beautiful covers that everyone else picked. There were so many characters I'd love to check in with, I found it hard to just pick ten when I was doing that one. Here's my TTT if you want to check it out :)

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AmyAelleah 80p · 511 weeks ago

This topic really was a lot of fun! There are some awesome topics that I missed and I love seeing which ones are the most popular. It's always fun to think about eye-catching covers and which ones you'd love to see on your walls. I totally know what you mean about checking in with characters. There's so many that I'd like to know just a little more about, find out what they're up to now and if things worked out how they wanted them to.

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Lauren · 512 weeks ago

I loved doing the lunch table topic - one of my favorites and so hard to narrow down. :)

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AmyAelleah 80p · 511 weeks ago

I know! It was so much fun but, really, if you'd have all the characters sitting with you that you want...I think the tables might need to be bigger than the usual. (Or, maybe, we'd need to figure out a way to sit next to more than two people.)

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beckmank 4p · 512 weeks ago

Fun list! I am enjoying seeing all of these topics everyone chose!
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AmyAelleah 80p · 511 weeks ago

Yeah, this list was a lot of fun to do and seeing everyone else's answers was awesome.

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Caroline · 512 weeks ago

I love the post about characters sitting at your lunchtable! that one is so fun. Also the checking in is a personal favorite. A lot of people have been posting about their Dislikes in a romance lists, which I think is great because we all love to complain about the things we don't like!! The post about "gateway" books is so interesting to think about! love this post :)

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AmyAelleah 80p · 511 weeks ago

It is! Probably the post that I had the most fun putting together was the one for 'Characters At My Lunch Table'. I know, who doesn't love a good rant every now and then. (And, believe me, I can rant about romance just about any time!) I totally loved doing that 'Gateway Books' post because I found it really neat to think about which books caused me to get into a genre or made me a fan of the genre.