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I spent a lot of yesterday sorting papers (this is before I spent time feeling more than a little nauseous - it was not housework that did this to me, it was some sort of stomach bug). In my papers I found many reminders (how I deal with my own absent-mindedness - scribbled notes on 6X4 paper). One of those reminders said "YA author list."

This was to remind me to ask you: what young adult books (not just speculative fiction ones) would you recommend?

I have two groups of readers - one I'm seeing tomorrow and one on Saturday - and I promised them names. I can make my own list, but that will reflect my taste and knowledge only. My taste won't grow peoples' worlds nearly as much as a list that has your favourites as well.

The idea of the list is to show these students good writing. For some of them it's to make reading books achievable. Length is important. I don't want to recommend the Twilghts and Potters anyway, because every one of these students knows the mega-books, or at least about them. I want the best books at the shorter end, the Larbalestier and Westerfield and Nix end.

What are your favourite young adult books?

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On Saturday I teach sex.

I so had to make that statement :). It's the Medieval course that's not suitable for children. Oddly, for all the people not in Canberra who yearn after it, there aren't many Canberrans who've enrolled. I wonder what this says about Canberrans.

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I hope everyone took my grumpiness today to indicate the change of weather the Burau of Meteorlogy said we weren't going to get till later in the week. Right now my internal icks are telling me the weather is still changing - and this time the BOM agrees with me. A flood watch has been issued. I don't think I've ever seen a flood watch issued for this region.

I'm going to stop grumbling at the world and take much pain reliever. Then I'm going to eat duck and cheesecake and other comestibles with friends. Then I'm going to watch anime. If I'm miserable tomorrow then obviously I'm beyond rescue.