Good grief, Barb. What utter pillocks.
Did you all see this response? I did rather love it, I have to say.
Gunn: Well, how horrible is this thing? Lorne: I haven't read the Book of Revelations lately, but if I was searching for adjectives, I'd probably start there.
'Hell Bound'
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."
Fay - Dec 20, 2008 8:12:04 am PST #8202 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Pix - Dec 20, 2008 9:42:33 am PST #8203 of 28431
The status is NOT quo.
Barb, to build on your point, it also makes me mad because implies that the YA crowd cannot enjoy any of the books they read and discuss in school. To Kill A Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men, for example, are two books commonly read in middle school that students tend to love, but clearly any book they read in their free time has to be insipid and simple. Grr. Believe it or not, stupid article-writer, some of us English teachers don't just force literature down students' throats like bad medecine. Some of us try to help our students gain the skills to read complex and meaningful books and enjoy them.
Pix - Dec 20, 2008 9:48:47 am PST #8204 of 28431
The status is NOT quo.
Coffee: Oh dear lord, Fay, that video is awesome.
beth b - Dec 20, 2008 12:16:19 pm PST #8205 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I read everything from picture books to adult
I remember YA from the time when I was a YA. There was very little -- and much of it was simple and had a moral lesson. It is way more varied now.
I am a librarian . I like to categorize books. But it is only fun because it is complex, not easy, to put a label on a book. Oddly, most books have multiple labels.
Consuela - Dec 20, 2008 12:57:32 pm PST #8206 of 28431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just finished reading Molly Gloss's The Hearts of Horses and I LOVED it. So beautifully written, so moving, such insight into peoples' lives in the West in the early years of the 20th century. Golly, that was fabulous; I wanted it not to end.
Highly recommended if you like horses, or the West (it's set in eastern Oregon), or like books where women do things and nobody makes a fuss about it.
Wow, that was great.
Gris - Dec 20, 2008 7:40:28 pm PST #8207 of 28431
Hey. New board.
I will make sure to buy Jackson Pearce's novel next year. That video rocked.
Kathy A - Dec 20, 2008 8:51:15 pm PST #8208 of 28431
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Molly Gloss's The Hearts of Horses
We've got this featured on our main aisle (it's in its own display). I was thinking about picking it up; now I know I will next time I go into work!
Anne W. - Dec 21, 2008 3:42:28 am PST #8209 of 28431
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I will make sure to buy Jackson Pearce's novel next year.
I was thinking much the same thing
Fay - Dec 21, 2008 4:10:39 am PST #8210 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
t random
So I was in a bookshop yesterday here in the UK, perusing biographies in search of something presentish for my dad, and I discovered that there is now a whole SECTION devoted to voyeuristic true life emoporn ( A Boy Called It, A Man Called Dave, Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes etc etc) entitled 'Tragic Lives'.
A whole section with its own title.
I'm still gobsmacked.
beth b - Dec 21, 2008 7:58:10 pm PST #8211 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!