If you are looking for some good books, keep checking back here for the GCC tour stops. Summer is a busy time of year.
This stop features author Jennifer Lynn Barnes, whose first book Golden went on sale recently. Now, normally I read through the press release, post about the book and move on. Something on Jennifer's bio stopped me:
A Native Oklahoman, Jennifer Lynn Barnes is a recent graduate of Yale University, where she studied cognitive science (the study of the brain and thought). Her research on animal and child cognition has been featured on ABC’s World News Tonight, Animal Planet, and The New York Times, and Jennifer will be spending the 2006/2007 school year abroad, doing autism research at the University of Cambridge.
Jennifer wrote Golden at the age of nineteen, and her second book, Tattoo, will be available in January of 2007.
Now, when you first read that, you probably can't tell what line stopped me. Was it that she graduated from Yale (you go girl!)? Was it that she will be doing research abroad? Or was it the fact that she wrote Golden WHEN SHE WAS 19?
HUH? 19?!?!?
Do you remember what you were doing when you were 19? Are you cringing, blushing, or both? ;) Sounds like a woman who knows what she wants and knows exactly how to get it.
About the book:
At Emory High, there are two kinds of people: those who matter, and those who don’t.
When Lissy James moves from California to Oklahoma, she finds herself in the middle of a teenage nightmare: a social scene to rival a Hollywood movie. And if understanding the hierarchy of the Goldens vs. the Nons isn’t hard enough, Lissy’s ever growing Aura Vision is getting harder and harder to hide, and if she’s not careful, she’s going to become a Non faster than you can say “freak.”
But it’s becoming clear that Emory High has a few secrets of its own. Around the halls, the term “special powers” goes way beyond one’s ability to attract the opposite sex, and there may be something more evil than the A-crowd lurking in the classrooms. Lissy can see a lot more than the average girl, but she’s about to learn the hard way that things aren’t always as they appear and you can’t always judge a girl by her lip gloss.
What People Are Saying:
“…A well-balanced blend of fast-moving fantasy and light, playful chick lit.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“Golden glows with the spot-on
insights and pitch-perfect prose of someone whose knowledge of adolescence is absolutely fresh… Golden is a captivating mix of everyday teen terrors and supernatural suspense."
-Borders Online, July Newsletter
Check out Jennifer ~
Website:
http://www.jenniferlynnbarnes.com
Blog:
http://jenlyn-b.livejournal.com/