{"id":2073,"date":"2008-03-05T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:37","slug":"grrrrrrrrrrl-powerrrrrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2073","title":{"rendered":"Grrrrrrrrrrl Powerrrrrr!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, MAN, do I wanna go.
<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

NO, silly, not to the film. To camp.
I would be *dangerous* if I could play the bass. Wickedcooldangerous.
Really? Where was all of this when I was, like, young enough for it? Seriously?
Someday, I am getting<\/i> a drum set.<\/p>\n

I’m just sayin.’<\/p>\n

We now return you to your regularly scheduled YA literary content.<\/i><\/p>\n

So, Read Roger<\/a> has some interesting things to say about grownups and their reading habits…<\/p>\n

I’m reminded of the ruckus in SLJ some years back when a library school professor wrote that l.s. students like to take children’s literature classes because the reading is so easy, “like eating popcorn.” You can imagine the heated response, but I think she had a point. While noting the exceptions of James Patterson on the one hand and William Mayne on the other, children’s books tend to be easier and thus potentially “fun” for adults in a way they tend not to be for children, an incongruence librarians need to remember, not dissolve. Whatever whoever chooses to read is their business, of course, but adults whose taste in recreational reading ends with the YA novel need to grow up.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine)<\/p>\n

Please, read the whole thing. I’m still thinking of what I think. Meanwhile, Kelly has posted an interesting question on the whole Innocence War<\/a> thing that I’m not sure what I think about yet, either. Hm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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