This weekend, I was mostly unplugged from the Internet, since I was busy doing things in the bright shiny real world. Sunday evening, a friend told me about The Incident that had the book blogging & YA world up in arms. Summary of The Incident: Kathleen Hale, author of No One Else Can Have You,... Continue Reading →
This morning, I read what I thought was a great article in the New York Times, addressing the matter of boys and reading, and why there aren't more guy readers. I liked the article. I shared it with a couple friends. I posted it on Facebook. The main argument of the article was this: If... Continue Reading →
This weekend, The Wall Street Journal published an article of the utmost idiocy. If you haven't heard the hubub yet, the article basically lambasts YA lit as being too dark for today's teens. As a reader and supporter of all literature, but in particular YA lit, I take issue with pretty much every word in... Continue Reading →
The YA Twitter community was up in arms this morning, after the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled "Sex? Violence? An Author Tests the Boundaries of YA Fiction." The basic premise of the article is this: writer of article says he wanted to transition from writing adult fiction to YA, therefore he had to... Continue Reading →
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