#daniel ehrenhaft

[we-are--demigods]

Books i read in 2017

10 things to do before I die - Daniel Ehrenhaft

Read: July 14

I have plenty of baggage. You just can’t see it. It’s swirling around with the guilt and poison and all the rest of the crap I’ve gotten stowed up there.

[bookdedication]

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

For those with history stuck in their heads and hearts.

Shout-outs to Daniel Ehrenhaft, who discovered me, and Meredith Barnes, who helps everyone find me. Best tag team ever. 

[crimelibrarian]

10 Things to Do Before I Die by Daniel Ehrenhaft

Very fast book, only 176 pages, most chapters not even a page long, which was nice because I could finish it quickly but didn't really allow me to connect with the characters. Ted Burger is pretty simple teenage boy, he has a couple friends Mark and Nikki, he has a girlfriend Rachel, he enjoys playing guitar and looks forward to getting his drivers license soon. His parents are big advertisers and aren't around, or paying attention if they are around. One day, eating at their favorite restaurant, a crazy fired fry cook comes in threatening the place and Mark tackles him to the ground. Ted doesn't feel well after this incident and makes his way homes, only to have Mark and Nikki showing up quickly after claiming that the fry cook has poisoned the fries and now Ted is going to die in less than 24 hours. They've decided that Ted hasn't really lived and so they create a list of ten things for Ted to do in order to make the most out of his little time left. What follows is a random running around New York City attempting to accomplish the list, while Ted gives us a few insights into his past and how he got to where he is, while failing to communicate cohesively with any of the fellow characters of the story. The ending is rushed, mostly because the whole book is rushed trying to give the sense of imminent death. The philosophy of life that is given is very typical, and honestly after the poisoning not being an actual poisoning just a let down. This isn't a bad book to read, but it's not one that will change your life.

[yainterrobang]

The YA community is often a fun and strange place, and no group of YA authors exemplify that more than Tiger Beat. You know all about Tiger Beat already, I bet – no? You don’t? Then boy, have you been missing out.

Tiger Beat is an all-YA author band. Libba Bray sings. Daniel Ehrenhaft and Natalie Standiford rock the guitar. Barney Miller - who writes under his much more formal full name Barnabas Miller - plays drums. They’ve become an accidental staple of YA conventions and launches, where they’ll pop up, play their wickedly awesome YA-themed music, and disappear into the night like ninjas. They’re loud. They’re fun. And they, of course, are completely unconventional.

Learn more about the YA band Tiger Beat with this exclusive interview on YA Interrobang, where the band came together and answered  questions in one (hilarious) voice.

[katsahobbit]

If they were to make a movie adaptation of any animal based books I've read I'd honestly love to see movie of The Last Dog on Earth. I'd be the first one i theaters to see that

[quillkirkland]

“Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on.”

- Daniel Ehrenhaft, The Last Dog on Earth

[ishouldwriteaboutthat]

Come to this Panel If You Think You Hate Romance

In the Come to this Panel If You Think You Hate Romance panel, the authors spoke about the stigma around romance novels and how romance impacts their lives.  Laini Taylor said that she has RDWRS, Reader’s Dissatisfaction With Reality Syndrome.  For her, she loves fiction and romance because it’s an escape from the real world.  For Stephanie Perkins, romance is essential.  She had a whirlwind teenage romance with her now husband and it has greatly influenced her novels.  Daniel Ehrenhaft admits to loving romance and he even writes under a female pseudonym when he writes girly and romantic fiction. 

Overall discussion between the authors focused on why we like to read romance.  One reason being that when you’re a teenager your hormones are going crazy, so romantic fiction is highly relatable in young adult novels.  Another reason, and it may be the main one, is that in addition to food, water, and shelter, love is a basic human need.  From a social aspect, it’s something everyone needs in order to help lead a happy and emotionally healthy life.