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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!

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[rhonan.livejournal.com]

Drop all your plans for tonight, and if necessary tomorrow. Go directly to a book store, buy a copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and attain the bliss that is Heinlein. Now, TMiaHM is not one of his juveniles, but it is regarded by many as one of the greatest works of Science Fiction.