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A rare, gorgeously clear day brings us to the treehouse, a bit cold, but optimistic. Saints & Spinners wants to know<\/a> which A.A. Milne character you are. I’m pretty sure personality-wise most people tend to hang between Eeyore or Owl, but my favorite character is the unsung Roo. However, I think most adults will end up being Kanga, won’t they? I mean, who would admit to being an unstrung manic like Tigger?!<\/p>\n

I’m feeling a bit cranky about the L.A. Times article by staff writer Scott Timberg that derides Robert Heinlen as being a has-been<\/a> and his work as not being anything classic to stand the test of time. “‘When an emerging science-fiction writer’s work earns him comparisons to Robert A. Heinlein,” Dave Itzkoff begins a 2006 New York Times review, “should he take them as a compliment?'” OUCH. I disagree — if I, as a YA writer had a YA science fiction novel compared to Heinlen, I would be beyond pleased. I love<\/i> his books, and reading about tough, wary, narrow-eyed young people who, with steely determination, go out and take on the perils of the universe. Admittedly, I haven’t read that much of his adult fiction but Have Spacesuit– Will Travel<\/i> is like the best combination of a frontier space western novel, ever. As a writer, I look at his work and see archetypes and the Hero’s quest written in all kinds of interesting ways. It’s a good exercise to mimic his style, for those who want to write adventures. No matter what anyone says, I can’t imagine that his YA novels, anyway, will ever really be unpopular (as long as no one else makes movies out of them — When I realized Starship Troopers<\/i> was based on a novel of his? It just proved my point about YA novels and movies. BAD).<\/p>\n

Cluck Roosterman is guest blogging at Bottom Shelf Books<\/a> — promoting Punk Farm’s latest gig, their fundraising raffle. For only five bucks, you can buy in to a raffle to maybe win a painting of your favorite Punk Farm rocker. The money raised is going to the Central Massachusetts Arts Assembly, and to cover a few band expenses (band stuff — you know, instrument tuning, etc.). Check out the portraiture<\/a> — punk rockers don’t sit still for their portraits, man. They make MUSIC. More awesomeness for a good cause.<\/p>\n

Via Bookshelves of Doom<\/a>, probably the most inappropriate YA book of all time is being celebrated by Jezebel<\/a>, and with it the bygone YA literary trope of The Parent That Had to Die<\/i>. (Remember them?) Ah, the 8O’s. One ten year span, one thousand percent awful… <\/p>\n



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