My take is that an awful lot of today's YA books are just more explicit versions of the first-crush, no-one-understands-me material that's been aimed especially at teen girls over the years.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, huh? That does seem, to my mind, to be a pretty good description of it. Though I kind of wonder what teenage boys are reading these days, because it seems like a lot of the YA fantasy out there is either pointed at girls or made extremely girl friendly.
I didn't realize that that McKillip's books had been re-released as YA. I knew that OSC's "Ender's Game" (yes, I know, I too feel bad mentioning He Who Shall Not Be Mentioned on this LJ), was remarketed rather a while back and it always struck me as odd, because Ender's Game was held up as a stunning book for adults and had a lot of adult fans before it was remarketed.
Do you think there will be a lot of shelf shifting in the coming years?
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Date: 2009-07-15 11:26 am (UTC)The more things change, the more they stay the same, huh? That does seem, to my mind, to be a pretty good description of it. Though I kind of wonder what teenage boys are reading these days, because it seems like a lot of the YA fantasy out there is either pointed at girls or made extremely girl friendly.
I didn't realize that that McKillip's books had been re-released as YA. I knew that OSC's "Ender's Game" (yes, I know, I too feel bad mentioning He Who Shall Not Be Mentioned on this LJ), was remarketed rather a while back and it always struck me as odd, because Ender's Game was held up as a stunning book for adults and had a lot of adult fans before it was remarketed.
Do you think there will be a lot of shelf shifting in the coming years?