{"id":1736,"date":"2008-12-01T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:23","slug":"reading-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"Reading and You"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>A Happy and frosty cold first of December to you, people! November in Glasgow ended on a self-congratulatory note, as the temperature dropped to its coldest in November since 1985. Yes, round of applause, please. Being from a warm westerly place, I’d never before seen an ice mist. I have seen one now. It is not nice, though the air does rather sparkle!<\/p>\n

Ah, another well-meaning person is talking about young adult literature! Hie thee onward to Miss Rumphius’ blog<\/a>, and log in on the great debate: why do you<\/i> read?<\/p>\n

This conversation was sparked by the very well-meaning Caitlin Flanagan and her piece in The Atlantic<\/a><\/i> titled, What Girls Want<\/i>. As soon as I a.) read the title, and b.) realized that most of the article was a long run-up to a highly positive critique of the Twilight<\/i> series, I realized we have some deeply fundamental differences on men and women — but I read it anyway.<\/p>\n

The gist of her article is that young women are the best readers out there, because they need fiction to escape into — to ignore the world whilst they work out Those Big Questions. During their “sulks and silences” they’re thinking.<\/p>\n

Obviously, a.) boys don’t think, b.) boys have no inner lives, c.) she’s just wrong.<\/p>\n

This was a stunning<\/i> piece — as in, I’m stunned and, like Miss R., not quite sure how to respond…<\/p>\n

Meantime, I’m in search of opinions — I’m looking for books again — for babies, which is totally beyond my frame of reference. What’s the happening one and a half year old man reading these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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