2. They are about growing up. Are you growing up / have you grown up? Then YA is relevant to you.
3. They often start straight away and keep good pace. You don’t have to yawn your way through 50 pages of boring introduction.
4. The dialogue in today's YA often kick butt with the dialogue in today's adult novels.
5. You would miss an enormous amount of awesome novels if you didn’t read them.
(Shamelessly stolen from RabenSjögren’s Twitter: @rabensjogren, Swedish Publishing House)
I have over the years never let go of YA, do I have to say I agree wholeheartedly with the arguments above? There’s something about YA that makes me care so much more for the characters than when reading a novel written for adults. It’s almost as if I feel that I won’t even bother with novels that aren’t YA.
Yeah, yeah … I’m missing out on some GREAT STUFF, but you know what: I don’t care! Gimmi more YA and I’ll be a happy reader. Next week (can you believe the library is CLOSED on Saturdays during summer?!) I’m going to ask them to get me some more of that good stuff, there are a few books I have my eye on, and if I’m lucky they’ll get them for me.
I’d like to buy more books, for keeps, but when I go through a book a day it gets a wee bit expensive. When I do find one I’m reluctant to return I go online and order a copy for myself. My last “I-don’t-wanna-let-you-go-novel” was one by Melina Marchetta’s Saving Francensca. I laughed, cried, giggled and just loved it! Yes, YOU read it too!
Yesterday, Friday the 27th, my husband and I are celebrating our 10th anniversary.
I KNOW, 10 years! Wohooo! *happy dance.*
We’re going to Gothenburg to hang out without the kids, have a nice lunch and spend some hours in our favourite bookstore: Science Fiction Bokhandeln (The Science Fiction Bookstore, if you hadn’t figured that out). I have a list of about ten books I’m going to look for, most of them are by Ursula K LeGuin.
It’s the best place for any sci fi, fantasy, horror, games, films, graphic novels … you dream it, they’ve got it! I’ll take some pics and post, so as you can see how awesome a bookstore it is.
Now I need my beauty sleep, or some sort of sleep, any kind will do just as well. Pumpkin’s teething and waking us up at night, if the rings under my eyes get any darker I’m going to be able to give Gollum a scare!
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