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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Title Poetry.

You can call me The Book Thief. I'm an Evil Genius, a Fallen Liar, riding the Ink Exchange with Beautiful Creatures until I'm Gone. Gone. Then I Wake next to Artemis Fowl and he tells me I'm late for my first day at Vampire Academy. I tell him I'm out Looking For Alaska. When I get back, we'll cross The Line and Shiver, 'cause there's Thirteen Reasons Why and Strange Angels will lead me to The Body Finder.

I'll watch The Hunger Games until Twilight, then meet Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I'm in a Delirium Across the Universe, and I want to take a Maximum Ride Before I Fall. 

A Princess of Roumania will teach me The Westing Game and tell me about The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. I'll listen, Beastly and Unleashed, sitting in a room full of Glass Houses. It's Life As We Knew It, baby. We're Identical, performing in the Cirque Du Freak right after The Mysterious Benedict Society.

The Host is a Great and Terrible Beauty, a Graceling really. She tells me about Dreaming Anastasia and I keep it Hush, Hush for The Summoning. I follow The Golden Compass to the Uglies and we Shift, seeing Things Not Seen and playing Ender's Game because Midnight Never Comes in Fablehaven.

I stand in The Forest of Hands and Teeth, where the Beautiful Dead dance with The Midnight Twins and Leviathan. They sing a song called The Black Tattoo and Lord Loss watches them, Devoured by his Skin Hunger. The City of Ember fights his Faerie Wars, his Revenge of the Witch, and The Young City burns. The Orphans of Chaos lose their home to The Watcher, The Thief of Always.

When I'm XVI, I'll be Empty on The Brimstone Network, feeling like The Knife of Never Letting Go. It'll be a Shadowed Summer then, playing out in the Shadow Hills where the Ship Breaker welds Perfect Chemistry and chases the Huntress into the City of Fallen Angels.

If I Stay, I'll Need Deception. Past The Humming of Numbers, an Other will trade me the Bones of Faerie for his Runemarks. I'll become The Maze Runner, Fallen once again, Evermore, with The Sight and my Divergent Cryer's Cross. Obernewtyn will read me The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod and I'll become a Guardian of the Dead, The Tear Collector, trapped in Attica and officially -

The Replacement.

All previously-read titles on my YA bookshelf. Thought I'd go for some poetry today. 

14 comments:

  1. lol, this rocks! How long did it take you to write?

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  2. Love this. And you have great taste!

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  3. lol this is awesome! I don't think I'd be able to come up with something like this. Well done!

    :-D

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  4. Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

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  5. That's so cool! I love all the different titles you used. :)

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  6. LOL, you are so creative and imaginative! Very clever. Have a super Wednesday and week.

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  7. Wow! Love your mind! And humor.

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  8. That was quite lovely, and there were a number or titles I had not known before. Will check them out now. Haha. Thanks!

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  9. Ooo that would have made for a hard adlib. Amazing how titles work together in harmony though. It's as if they know they'll be sharing shelf space.

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  10. Loved this. You have great taste in books by the way! :)

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  11. Of all the titles you mentioned, I loved Graceling the most. Great poem.

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