What book are you reading?
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Thx. Will check them out. I’m OK with PG13 but would like to limit the gratuitous sex and gore as long as possible
It’s a good starting point, but the range for YA is about 14 (her age) to high school Juniors and Seniors. Just looking to crowd source some suggestions.
You are likely going to find mostly older stories that fit your criteria.
All the new authors seem to want to fill their stories with sentence enhancers and all the gratuitous sex and violence they can.
I'm guessing that they're hoping to be picked up by HBO or Netflix for a series.
One series that was picked up by Netflix is The 3 Body Problem series.
Of course Netflix added some gratuitous violence and sex that wasn't in the books.
There are suicides and beatings in the books, so it may be a bit much for an early teens reader.
But they are a good read. A bit hard SciFi for some but they are well done.
All the new authors seem to want to fill their stories with sentence enhancers and all the gratuitous sex and violence they can.
I'm guessing that they're hoping to be picked up by HBO or Netflix for a series.
One series that was picked up by Netflix is The 3 Body Problem series.
Of course Netflix added some gratuitous violence and sex that wasn't in the books.
There are suicides and beatings in the books, so it may be a bit much for an early teens reader.
But they are a good read. A bit hard SciFi for some but they are well done.
I started reading Empire of the Summer Moon. It is a good one...
Just finishing up "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Part of a reading list assigned to me some 15+ years ago by an honors English teacher I was dating...and no, I wasn't her student at the time (or ever). 
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Just finishing up "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Part of a reading list assigned to me some 15+ years ago by an honors English teacher I was dating...and no, I wasn't her student at the time (or ever).
I've never read it - how is it vis-a-vis Atlas Shrugged?
Good question...that's on the list but farther down.
As well, it's my first read by anything from Ayn Rand, so no frame of reference. I tend to read a lot of biographical stuff.
Started "Fighter Pilot", the memoirs of Robin Olds. I just read the first paragraphs while having my morning constitutional, gonna be a good one, I think. Always nice to get reassurance from the first words. 
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Seems like these days I'm always reading an FSM on one thing, or another...
So... I can't get through a novel to save my life but my jam is text books (physics and geology lately) and books on economics.
Reading "The Road to Serfdom" again presently after finishing "On the Shoulders of Giants" (Hawking... not Abdul Jabbar, although I've read that one too)
Reading "The Road to Serfdom" again presently after finishing "On the Shoulders of Giants" (Hawking... not Abdul Jabbar, although I've read that one too)
Good read and very enlightening. I did not know how huge the scope of the CG is and how they manage to get by on an insufficient budget and tired old equipment.
While the federal government and FEMA were fumbling around to get their act together after Katrina the Coast Guard had started rescues immediately on their own and rescued over 33,000 people.
While the federal government and FEMA were fumbling around to get their act together after Katrina the Coast Guard had started rescues immediately on their own and rescued over 33,000 people.
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Just finished this based on your suggestion. Great book. My dad had a Cub when I was growing up and it is what I learned to fly in. Book brought back quite a few memories. Thank you for suggesting it.
Just got done How to test negative for stupid by Senator John Kennedy, before that it was Confronting Evil by Bill O Reilly. What is everyone else reading,?
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