Guest Post: Why Adults Should Be Reading YA Books
by Briana North
Enjoy whatever you want, as long as it wasn't written for children. Thus begins Ruth Graham’s unsurprisingly immature Slate article, “Against YA.”
I frankly felt more embarrassed reading Graham’s article than I ever felt (or likely ever will feel) reading a young adult (YA) or children’s book. Graham seems determined to take an extremely narrow and reductive view of YA literature, scornfully declaring it to be escapist, maudlin, uncritical, lacking the ambiguity and Read more [...] Why Adults Should Be Reading YA Books by Briana North
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by Briana North
Enjoy whatever you want, as long as it wasn't written for children. Thus begins Ruth Graham’s unsurprisingly immature Slate article, “Against YA.”
I frankly felt more embarrassed reading Graham’s article than I ever felt (or likely ever will feel) reading a young adult (YA) or children’s book. Graham seems determined to take an extremely narrow and reductive view of YA literature, scornfully declaring it to be escapist, maudlin, uncritical, lacking the ambiguity and Read more [...]
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OK, so I didn't really know that books could be written in present tense until I stumbled upon Sophie Kinsella's Remember Me. It was very disconcerting and I guess that's why for me, it was constantly an issue when a book is written in present tense. I don't know why, but it was just mentally jarring and something very new and outside of my comfort zone.
Books using past tense are very easy to relate to, in my experience, and I just grew up with them, so I guess I didn't really know that any other kind of book existed. But then I came across