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shadowkatLJ has been dead lately.
Spent time on Good Reads playing the Never Ending Book Quiz. My favorite question and answer bit?
What didCamus Satre consider hell in No Exit? [My bad, not Good Reads, remembered it wrong. I get the two authors confused in my head.]
(the correct answer is other people, but one of the options:
"answering endless questions in a literary book quiz about Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Twilight."
LOL! So true. At least I haven't seen a 50 Shades of Grey question yet, but give it time, I'm only 1.5% of the way through. They repeat some of the same questions too, so if you get it wrong on the first try...rest assured it will pop up again.
Should add Christopher Paolini's Eragon series. And a lot of YA novels I've never heard of.
On the Catcher in the Rye discussion thread, a teacher asks if she should teach this to high school students. One 15/16 year old replies: "As long as you don't call it a coming of age story - people call EVERYTHING that is YA - a coming of age story." I had to physically restrain myself from replying: "That's because all YA fiction is a coming of age story, seriously, name one YA tv show, book or film that isn't? I can't think of any."
I don't remembering reading YA fiction that much as an adolescent or teen. I was reading Lord of the Rings, Dune, Advise and Consent, Leon Uris novels, and various adult novels. There wasn't that much out there...or there was, but it got really repetitive after a bit.
In school? We read Edith Wharton. And in Boarding Schools and Prep Schools - kids read Faulkner, Hemingway, Cather, etc.
The public schools need to spice up their act. [ETC: Some public schools need to. Clearly not all are created equal.]
Spent time on Good Reads playing the Never Ending Book Quiz. My favorite question and answer bit?
What did
(the correct answer is other people, but one of the options:
"answering endless questions in a literary book quiz about Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Twilight."
LOL! So true. At least I haven't seen a 50 Shades of Grey question yet, but give it time, I'm only 1.5% of the way through. They repeat some of the same questions too, so if you get it wrong on the first try...rest assured it will pop up again.
Should add Christopher Paolini's Eragon series. And a lot of YA novels I've never heard of.
On the Catcher in the Rye discussion thread, a teacher asks if she should teach this to high school students. One 15/16 year old replies: "As long as you don't call it a coming of age story - people call EVERYTHING that is YA - a coming of age story." I had to physically restrain myself from replying: "That's because all YA fiction is a coming of age story, seriously, name one YA tv show, book or film that isn't? I can't think of any."
I don't remembering reading YA fiction that much as an adolescent or teen. I was reading Lord of the Rings, Dune, Advise and Consent, Leon Uris novels, and various adult novels. There wasn't that much out there...or there was, but it got really repetitive after a bit.
In school? We read Edith Wharton. And in Boarding Schools and Prep Schools - kids read Faulkner, Hemingway, Cather, etc.
The public schools need to spice up their act. [ETC: Some public schools need to. Clearly not all are created equal.]
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Date: 2012-09-03 10:19 pm (UTC)I confuse those two, will go back and correct.