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[butterflydreaming]

Somehow I've been reading "Young Adult" catagorized books. The first was Feed (M.T. Anderson). Now I'm in the middle of Wolf Moon (de Lint). It's perplexing to see how things are marketed. What criteria earn the YA label? Sex? Age of protagonist? Themes? Length?

Why isn't Promised Land (Cynthia Felice) YA?

On an only vaguely related note, Beverly Cleary is turning 90. She has recently okayed a movie version Ramona. She made the writers change the ending of the screenplay.

Newsweek told me this, the same issue that has a big cover story about user-generated web content. The article mentions My Space, Flickr, and others. The article is a minimum content overview, but I did learn that as many people as live in St. Paul, MN (I think that was the city of comparison) signed up for My Space all on one recent Monday, making it the largest new account activation day to date.

Before anyone {*cough*rhonan*cough*) says anything like "that's a lot of emo", I would like to remind my readers that my big brother is on My Space.

And don't go saying Emo like it's a bad thing. Emo is the natural decendant of Goth!

Comments

[ironymaiden]

wow, i'd call Promised Land a SF romance.

i was trying to find someone on MySpace tonight, and it was one of the worst user experiences i've had. obviously it is compelling to others in some way i don't comprehend. C says it's a meet market?

[rhonan.livejournal.com]

No, Emo is all the angst of goth, without the style, cultural, or literary underpinings. Besides, I'm glad to see that the emo kids prefer MySpace to LiveJournal.

On another note, what do you think of Heinlein's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Heinlein) juveniles?

[buhrger]

if you're looking for Young Adult books, i of course recommend the incomparable Young Adult Novel by Daniel Manus Pinkwater. it's the book that introduced me to dada, among other things. the author's blurb on the jacket included this:

When asked to comment on this novel of sociological import, the author said "I honestly don't remember writing this. Are you sure there hasn't been some mistake?"

[joyful-storm.livejournal.com]

I discovered today that my big sister is on My Space. . .

I looked at her profile and got spooked because it said "User so-and-so is in your extended network!", and I thought, "WTF, I have no network here. . . do I?"

General ick in the direction of that electronic venue.

Sordid family history XDD

[shiro-no-wired.livejournal.com]

Emo is the natural decendant of Goth!
Well, the child of Goth and Punk, anyways. Goth's other child, by Techno, is Industrial.

Rap wants in, but he's the black sheep of the family ^^;