Short things about books

1) Wow, there sure are a lot of YA books with suicides or suicide attempts in them this year! I don't want to be one of those scolds complaining that YA books should be less dark, because I think there's a lot of value in talking honestly about suicide (and less value in talking about suicide in a way that's cheap and sensationalistic, but what can you do?) -- I suspect there's a little bit of riding the coattails of Thirteen Reasons Why, and a little bit that's just coincidence, and a lot of these books are genuinely good but I could use a kitten chaser, basically. (Fangirl should have been my kitten chaser but it made me cry buckets, so.)

2) Patrick Ness, we already knew this, but you are a bastard and a genius.

3) I have NO IDEA what I'm going to booktalk for Fall New Books this year. I have to game it a little because I don't want to be redundant and talk about anything we're going to discuss for Mock Printz, but we're only doing 5 books for Mock Printz this year so I don't want anything to fall through the cracks. It will probably be More Than This, Fangirl, or Rose Under Fire?