If I had millions of dollars, I'd pay for those girls to finish The Shoebox Project.
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Aims - Jun 04, 2011 4:53:45 pm PDT #15102 of 28287
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Polgara - Jun 04, 2011 4:54:03 pm PDT #15103 of 28287
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Which in turn is why Snape's patronus is so important.
Aims - Jun 04, 2011 4:55:34 pm PDT #15104 of 28287
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Reason # 45923 why I wish they had waited until canon was completed before making the movies.
Amy - Jun 04, 2011 4:59:41 pm PDT #15105 of 28287
Because books.
I got through four paragraphs of this Wall Street Journal article on YA books and am so enraged I'm not going to finish it right now. I did glance at the sidebar of books they *can* recommend for young readers, and noticed how helpfully they split the list into books for boys and girls.
Did we go back to 1950 today and I missed it?
Gris - Jun 04, 2011 5:28:12 pm PDT #15106 of 28287
Hey. New board.
The article's pretty annoying, but I don't generally think that breaking YA books into separate lists for boys and girls is necessarily bad, though I certainly think there should be a third (larger) list for the crossovers. It's the rare boy who likes "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" (though we are a generally cool bunch).
erin_obscure - Jun 04, 2011 5:37:29 pm PDT #15107 of 28287
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I thought the big deal with Snape's patronus was that it's the same as Lily's...i.e that he loved Harry's mom SO MUCH that his patronus matched hers. Did i even read the same books as everyone else??
Aims - Jun 04, 2011 5:38:00 pm PDT #15108 of 28287
Shit's all sorts of different now.
No, that's right.
Ginger - Jun 04, 2011 5:40:39 pm PDT #15109 of 28287
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
What an odd assortment of books they do recommend for "boys" and "girls."
Fahrenheit 451? Hardly young adult. Also, not just for fucking boys. (Oh, that's right. Exposing young people to language likes that coarsens them. Oops.)
Old School? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? Also not young adult.
The world of Ship Breaker values human life less than the Hunger Games world and has an abusive, homicidal parent. The main protagonist is a boy rather than a girl, though, so maybe that makes it different.
Z for Zachariah just isn't a very good book and very dated.
Maybe those are the only books with teen characters and/or dystopias they've actually read.
beth b - Jun 04, 2011 5:52:25 pm PDT #15110 of 28287
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I did try to read the marbury lens recently , and I couldn't. It was pretty harsh. But than Bleeding Violet was really graphic and I couldn't put it down. There is a lot more violence in YA than when I was growing up. How ever, The Chocolate war is much older and on all the classic lists -- I thought that was horrible.
I looked at the list and - some of them look good - but I'm not sure who I'm recommending them too. if they are readers, great, if not , some o those are hard sells
Kat - Jun 04, 2011 6:26:10 pm PDT #15111 of 28287
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
In a skim of the article, I'd imagine the author thought that YA meant late high school -- since she mentions that end of the term private school juniors only admit to reading YA in small numbers.
Which is a stupid small bar and sample!
Dumb article.