synchronicities: 1. the quality or fact of being synchronous
2. the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality —used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung
--Merriam-Webster Online
This list of similarities and coincidences among the 2010 Cybils YA Fiction nominations is humbly submitted to you by the 2010 Cybils YA Fiction Panel. It is no way to be considered completely exhaustive, as we are certain nominated books and coincidentals will have been missed. This list was originated out of amusement as the seven panelists read their way through the 182 titles. If you know of a nominated title that should be included in one of the synchronicities below, please feel free to submit it in the comments! To get the entire list, you’ll have to visit all seven of the panelist’s blogs.
Featuring a Car Named Holden:
A Little Wanting Song
Butterfly
Featuring Twins:
The Twin’s Daughter
Dangerous Neighbors
Will (not ‘featured’, but reappearing)
Jackie’s Library Teen Events
Fiona Apple:
A Little Wanting Song
and ???? (we know there's one more...help, readers!)
Finding a Friend’s Dad’s Impressively Large Porn Collection:
Exit Strategy
Half Brother
Grandparents as Caregivers:
Harmonic Feedback
The Sky is Everywhere
What Mama Left Me
Sellout
When I was Joe
Historical:
The Agency 1: A Spy in the House
The Agency 2: The Body at the Tower
Anxious Hearts
The Brothers Story
Butterfly
Bright Young Things
Cate of the Lost Colony
City of Cannibals
Crossing the Tracks
Dangerous Neighbors
Faithful
Firefly Letters
The Fiddler’s Gun
Folly
Freaks and Revelations
Half Brother
Hellie Jondoe
Joe Rat
Life, After
Prisoners in the Palace
The Red Umbrella
Revolution
Something Terrible Happened on Kenmore
Three Rivers Rising
The Twin’s Daughter
We Hear the Dead
Wicked Girls
Wildthorn
Woods Runner
Homelessness Caused by Mother Relying on Boyfriends for Housing:
Harmonic Feedback
Sorta Like a Rock Star
IEDs:
Things a Brother Know
Sweet, Hereafter
In-n-Out Burger Love:
Harmonic Feedback
Amy and Roger
Isabel Allende:
Split
This Georgeous Game
“It is what it is” as a coping phase:
Myself and I
Stringz
Want to find out how many featured snake bites in Australia? Stockholm Syndrome? Lunchtime oak trees? Go check out the rest of the list! There are some surprises on there, I promise....
Amanda (#1-10)
