My response to Meghan Cox Gurdon's latest rebuttal of criticism of her article on Dark YA in the WSJ: [link]
Monty: Whaddya mean she ain't my wife? Mal: She ain't your wife... cause she's married to me.
'Trash'
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."
Strix - Jun 27, 2011 8:22:31 pm PDT #15454 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Laga - Jun 28, 2011 6:53:37 am PDT #15455 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
Strix - Jun 28, 2011 7:06:34 am PDT #15456 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
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.
Laga - Jun 28, 2011 7:09:43 am PDT #15457 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I hate her a little bit and her too-easy adolscence too.
sumi - Jun 28, 2011 7:11:07 am PDT #15458 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
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.
Laga - Jun 28, 2011 7:14:56 am PDT #15459 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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?
Strix - Jun 28, 2011 7:51:14 am PDT #15460 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
INORITE?
Captain Logic, bound, flogged and in the brig of their tugboats....
Ha, sumi! I bet their servers CRASHED.
sumi - Jun 28, 2011 8:14:07 am PDT #15461 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
I bet they did too.
ETA: Of course, this should appease the release date doubters, shouldn't it?
smonster - Jun 28, 2011 8:24:57 am PDT #15462 of 28293
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Excellent essay, Erin.
Strix - Jun 28, 2011 8:35:10 am PDT #15463 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
And infuriate those who don't read German, sumi!
Thanks, smonster!