Reddit mentions of Matched

I am officially back stateside, and in the last 24 hours I have successfully fixed the water softener, shoveled a fine collection of oak logs, leaves, live plants, and raccoon shit off the roof, made bank tutoring o-chem, and taught the Verizon employee how to connect to their own 4G network. I was unaware the name of their APN was such a secret. Also, that 4 tiers of escalation would be so damn useless. I ended up guessing the name like some sort of movie cracking and then went back and made the guy write it down because I can't be the only person ever to have that problem and it was seriously a 10 second fix. See also: was feeling smug.

I also got a lot of reading done in the past month, apparently. Finished The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Name of the Wind, Matched, Graceling, Sapphique, Assassin's Apprentice, the first Circle of Magic book, and started a bunch of others.

If we're running out of discussion ideas, another book recommendation/rant/rambling thoughts thread might be fun.

Friends still have my MS and are being slow readers and I can't bug them about it because they have real work to do. Argh. I'm planning to cover my office in sticky notes and reorder some scenes that way while I wait on them.

Skippy Dies an english style novel that's both funny, sad, ironic and and iconic all at once.

Matched for me

I recommend: Enclave, Delirium, Matched, Birthmarked, Cinder, The Scourge, Obsidian, Angelfall, and Divergent.

All of them are series and available on kindle.

Some YA dystopias that haven't been mentioned:

• Feed, where everyone has the internet in their heads from birth. On a trip to the moon, boy meets girl who didn't get it until age 6.
  
• Uglies series, where the perfect society will give you massive plastic surgery to make you pretty and dumb on your 16th birthday.
  
• Delirium trilogy, in a totalitarian society where love is a disease and everyone is "cured" at 16 and given a partner.
  
• Matched trilogy, in a totalitarian society where there is no love and everyone is given a partner at 17. Yes, it's the same book as Delirium. Delirium has better writing; Matched is easier to read.
  
• The Selection trilogy, where America has become a monarchy filled with castes and there is a televised event to choose the next princess.
  
• Leviathan trilogy, a steampunk retelling of WWI where the Austro-Hungarians use mechas and the British use genetically-engineered whale blimps.
  
• Legend trilogy, which starts off as a cat-and-mouse chase between a 15-year old government super-agent and a 15-year old terrorist in future Los Angeles.
  
• Boneshaker, about steampunk, blimps, and zombies in frontier Oregon. Has incredibly wooden characters.
  
• Across the Universe trilogy, where a girl is being shipped to a space colony with her parents, but is unfrozen early and stuck in the midst of a murder mystery and an unrecognizable spaceship society.
  
  By the way, Little Brother is a free ebook.

I saw that you're always looking for YA with strong female characters? Let me crack my knuckles, I love exercising the Masters degree I never get to use.

• Legend by Marie Lu is hugely wonderful. It's a 3-book dystopian trilogy, but the girl is kick-ass. This is probably my favorite YA dystopian.
  
• Matched by Allie Condy - in case you haven't picked this one up yet, it's a dystopian "arranged marriage break out of your shell" bit. It's pretty good.
  
• Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins. This was SO GOOD. Everyone needs to read this book. It's got a kick-ass heroine, a hilarious and dry wit, it's soulful, it's sweet, it's got twists I actually DID NOT EXPECT!! A+ would wipe my memory and reread. (she's a female paladin, need I say more?!)
  
• You gotta have the Vampire Academy series as well. I thought it was just going to be a silly "vampire boarding school" book but it's actually a whole lot more.
  
• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins is an amazing YA book dealing with living overseas, finding love and home ... it's pretty great. Its sequel (Lola & the Boy Next Door) is also great, for different reasons.
  
• Love Letters to the Dead is about a girl who writes letters to deceased celebrities, and it helps her cope with her older sister's death. A really relateable read.
  
• My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick is a lovely, sweet book about finding family everywhere.
  
  I could keep going if you want, just let me know! :D