There are SO MANY BOOKS I've been meaning to blog about and have not, so in honor of Teen Read Week, I'm going to celebrate them all, short and sweet, right here.

Startled by His Furry Shorts and Love is a Many Trousered Thing, by Louise Rennison. Freaking hilarious. Much laughing out loud. Nothing much happens, but I DID NOT CARE, they were so funny.

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, by Ally Carter. Delivers more action, more cool spy stuff and more hot boys than I'd Tell You I Love YOu But THen I'd Have to Kill You. Which is saying a lot.

Story of a Girl, by National Book Award nominee, Sara Zarr. I read this ages go and have been wanting to blog about it at greater length, but let me just say here that it is so meticulously accurate about feelings, so smart and sensitive and true.

Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. Um. I am not done yet. I should never have posted in my "status" on myspace that I was reading this, because all these people keep emailing me and asking what I think, but I am not done! I have been sidetracked by

The Mysterious Benedict Society. Crazy awesome for anyone who loves geniuses and evil boarding schools.
and
Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot. Did I tell you I met her the other day and we wrote in a cafe together with various other YA novelists? It is true. We did not get much writing done because we were all YAPPING. I had just finished reading Pants on Fire but didn't tell Meg how much I liked it because I am a dork face. But it is very funny. With hot hot hot hot boys and creative lies and quohogs.

And here's what's in my bedside pile for future reading:

The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh, whom I met the other day and she was so nice and ridiculously smart. But has no website, apparently. Probably an indication of intelligence.

Naomi and Eli's No Kiss List, by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn -- whom I saw read recently from the book, and they were so great and funny and interesting on the subject of their ongoing collaboration

Switched, by Jessica Wollman

Marly's Ghost, by David Levithan

The Spell Book of Listen Taylor, by Jaclyn Moriarty

Generation Dead, by Daniel Waters (I have a galley! More on him later in this blog as we will be traveling together in January. Sadly he is not the Daniel Waters who wrote Heathers. He is another Daniel Waters. But I forgive him for not being the other one and am psyched to read his book and jaunt around the country.)