YA Wednesday: Dogs, Monsters, and Links, Links, Links
In this edition of YA Wednesday, we are getting back into it, slowly.
Is this book really YA? 
This is the question posed by Bookshelves of Doom in a recent review of The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King:
"There's no topic here that I haven't found in other YA books -- it's the tone and the perspective(s). Then again, the genre is constantly evolving and expanding. Maybe in the future the line between YA and adult will get more and more blurred."
I'm reading this book now (it's really fun, by the way) and the tone seems like YA to me, at least so far. It will be interesting to see if this sparks more discussion. As I said last week, people love this book.
Monsters inside of Monsters
I enjoyed this article on Kelly Link and her book, Pretty Monsters, in the Boston Phoenix:
"It’s partly a tale of a teenage girl named Clementine whose life is saved by a blond-haired boy named Cabell, partly a tale of girls at a private school enacting an initiation rite on one of the new kids, and partly an examination on the act of reading and how stories can be shape-shifters. Plus latent-lesbian urgings. Also: werewolves."
Found through Colleen Mondor of Chasing Ray, who reviews the book in this month's Bookslut in Training, also titled "Pretty Monsters."
Quick links...
It's Poetry Day in the UK. Do students hate poetry?
I posted last week about Neil Gaiman's amazing The Graveyard Book and completely missed this (videos of him reading a chapter at a time on his book tour.)
Some interesting discussions on Murderati (Tess Gerritsen, Harvest) and A Lovely Shore Breeze: Can a bad review end your career? (found via My Friend Amy)
Something we missed: Dave Eggers questioning the frequently reported, though apparently unsubstantiated, notion that kids don't like to read.
This week, I'm also reading Downtown Owl, by Chuck Klosterman. It's not YA, but the perspective of the teenagers in a small town is pretty accurate as far as I can remember. And pretty dang hilarious. --Heidi
Comments