2009 Books to be devoured...

I am highly anticipating a few books from emerging authors in 2009 (one from a published author) and I think this might be the first year I've anticipated books much like most, i.e. lay people, i.e. people who 'don't have time to read', anticipate movies...

How sad that must be, to not have time to read. Or worse, to not want to read, not ache to read. But then I confess, I have an unusually rich imaginary life...not something I readily admit at dinner parties, but am apparently happy to admit to the blog-o-sphere...but I digress...

So here it is, the 2009 MUSTS:

1. In the Forest of Hands and Feet, Carrie Ryan
2. The Demon's Lexicon, Sarah Rees Brennan (who is my new best friend, by the way, she just doesn't know it yet) (Into that world Inverted http://sarahtales.livejournal.com/)
3. Fragile Eternity, Melissa Marr
4. Faery Rebels - Spell Hunter, RJ Anderson
5. The Prophecy of Days, Christy Raedeke (this is actually a 2010 release, but this books sounds frickin' cool) (now in truth, this author could write crap and I would buy her books because she is a fellow Oregonian, but she doesn't write crap, she is funny and you should read her blog Juvenescence (http://raedeke.blogspot.com/) (not to put more pressure on you to be clever Christy!)