Wash ,'War Stories'
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."
Extras explores more of the world.
Westerfeld's scope is a little narrower, but I think it works for him, and it makes any holes in the world-building less obvious. And, frankly, I think he's just generally better with narrative, although he doesn't have that ability Collins has, to make you absolutely desperate to find out what happens next.
If she could bottle and sell it, I would be first in line.
I liked the Uglies, but I really loved the Pretties even more. Watching the beige people of the world wake is is very interesting. In the end I liked the Extras , best because it did explore more of the world.
Of all the westerfeld books I never finished Leviathan. I didn't hate it , but it didn't grab me enough to keep me from the other 20 books I had to read
My response to Meghan Cox Gurdon's latest rebuttal of criticism of her article on Dark YA in the WSJ: [link]
Great essay, Erin. I posted a comment about how wrong Gurdon is about what constitutes a normal adolescence. I also think she's way off base about why drug education does not keep kids off drugs.
Thanks, Laga!
I gotta stop reading Twitter right before I go to bed. The last couple of nights, I've been all prepped to pop into bed, and then I see something and my fingers take off, and it's two hours later and I'm hoping I'm making sense.
Her first article pissed me off enough, and that that ridic rebuttal...GRR.
I hate her a little bit and her too-easy adolscence too.
Yeah, that was an excellent piece not just on where that woman is wrong but on what we should look for in good YA fiction.
ION - ADWD was released early (by mistake) by Amazon.DE. I believe that is German amazon - so 'ware spoilers.
and this lady
who works at a high school in Idaho,
who said
You are naive if you think young people can read a dark and violent book that sits on the library shelves and not believe that that behavior must be condoned by the adults in their school life.
Wait, what? If I read it in a book, adults condone it? So when we read Huck Finn adults were condoning running away from home?
INORITE?
Captain Logic, bound, flogged and in the brig of their tugboats....
Ha, sumi! I bet their servers CRASHED.
I bet they did too.
ETA: Of course, this should appease the release date doubters, shouldn't it?