@Hamlet Well, an unreasonably strict interpretation of "back it up" would hold that the only valuable backup is direct canon sources, rather than common sense.
Theories are not correct or incorrect. Theories either explain things or don't explain things.
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Someday I want to read YA that isn't the Hunger Games reskinned or overly wise manic pixie dying teenagers. (I know there are exceptions. I have read exceptions to this rule but lately I feel like I keep running into these these two things.)
Plus Points: Narratives. A short YouTube series about reading the Bible through the lens of genre and context without losing sight of it as a document of faith.
@Ash Hmm. I always have a hard time figuring out whether what I'm reading falls into that nebulous category, but MacGuires' Wayward Children series probably fits the bill.
Also Joyce's Guardians of Childhood, though it may lean a little young.
Vernon's got some good stuff like Castle Hangnail.
(I'm trying to think of recent stuff I've read; if we go back to my days of actually being a YA I'd have a lot more but they're the things you're probably already more aware of.)
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@BESW this reminds me I have a Hamster Princess book I haven't read yet, and I also actually have Castle Hangnail to read as well.
But, again, I'm not good at figuring out what people mean by YA. It's generally a post-facto marketing label that has little to do with the content and a lot to do with who middle-aged executives think it can be marketed to.
When I was in that target demographic I was reading Asimov, McCaffrey, and Applegate interchangeably.
So I think of "Foundation" and "Dragonriders" as YA.
(I don't think I'd have patience for either of them now.)
On the other hand, apparently The Last of the Mohicans was considered schoolboy fantasy pulp when it was published.
Bujold's "Penric and Desdemona" series starts off about a teenager; one of the main characters in Jemisin's Prey of Gods is a teen; in comics there's Paper Girls and Lumberjanes and Goldie Vance and Hi-Fi Fight Club...
I feel that most of the Star Wars novelizations are aimed to be comfortable for a YA audience, but don't have a lot of teens in 'em.
I'm also really liking Paper Girls and Goldie Vance, and the Power of the Dark Crystal looks like it's not only pretty but has a legitimately knotty moral problem for its plot to gnaw on.
Paper Girls is, 80s tween and teen girls get caught up in an intergenerational time-traveling war from the future.
Goldie Vance is kinda if you take the "yey, cars!" of the Hardy Boys and the "yey, breaking and entering with my friends!" of Nancy Drew and cram them together into a teenage detective who lives in her dad's hotel in Florida in the 1960s.
The e e cummings poem "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" mocks the titular ladies for their small-minded domesticity. The last four lines read:
.... the Cambridge ladies do not care, above
Cambridge if sometimes in its box of
sky lavender and cornerless, the
moon rattles...
The quote from "The Sign and The Seal" by Graham Hancock:
"If this had been what had happened then it would undoubtedly go a long way to explain the strangely menacing suggestion to the King of France that it might be a good idea if he were to have the 'treacherous Templars' (still mainly Fre...
Simply put it, can someone explain to me how is HBO series made, when there are no books written by Martin yet.
I read all books and watched all series, but I dont get it. Season 7 is running currently, but there is no book that covers it.
Is Westeros universe moved to small screens?
Thank you
@Bookworm if I understand this correctly, it's asking how the TV show is being made as there is no book to base it on. If so I feel that that should probably go to SFF.
The book "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry seems to extremely popular across the whole world, but how does it compare with other children books?
I read in a book having seven parts/volumes that there was a friend of Krishna called Chhandak who was always with Krishna.
Can someone provide me the name of the book?
Although I don't myself think that someone called Chhandak really existed, specially who was always with Krishna but the way i...
Directly
Did he openly and directly declare himself belonging to the conservative tradition?
Indirectly
or did he do it indirectly through his view of human nature and his choice of themes in his works? For example in his works about the decline of tradition (in example Brideshead Revisited)...
I'm trying to figure out the name of this story that I remember reading as a child. Here are the only details I remember:
There is a child who is going to school and his father, who is an old fashioned farmer, doesn't see the value of school and education. The child then brings his father to sc...
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The e e cummings poem "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" mocks the titular ladies for their small-minded domesticity. The last four lines read:
.... the Cambridge ladies do not care, above
Cambridge if sometimes in its box of
sky lavender and cornerless, the
moon rattles...
Simply put it, can someone explain to me how is HBO series made, when there are no books written by Martin yet.
I read all books and watched all series, but I dont get it. Season 7 is running currently, but there is no book that covers it.
Is Westeros universe moved to small screens?
Thank you
The book "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry seems to extremely popular across the whole world, but how does it compare with other children books?
I'm trying to figure out the name of this story that I remember reading as a child. Here are the only details I remember:
There is a child who is going to school and his father, who is an old fashioned farmer, doesn't see the value of school and education. The child then brings his father to sc...
Is The Battle Hymn of the Republic the only well known example of iambic heptameter in English, or are there others?
