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#young adult (2 posts)

also me: the reason The Giver was so well-awarded in the trade press and esteemed by your teachers even though it seemed kinda...

also me: the reason The Giver was so well-awarded in the trade press and esteemed by your teachers even though it seemed kinda poncy to you EVEN AS a chosen one

me: yeah?

also me: the real payload was the emotional resonance of someone who knew he couldn’t save his generation but maybe could save the next

me: oh. thanks

also me: yeah?

me: yeah

Tagged: young adult the giver newbery medal lois lowry ya fiction

what’s this movie the fault in our stars supposed to be about and what’s that thing in that girl’s nose

glaciersofice:

what’s this movie the fault in our stars supposed to be about and what’s that thing in that girl’s nose

Adaptation of a famous 2012 “young adult” novel. As far as I can tell from secondhand media it seems like kind of a bridge between two subgenres of YA, the old Newbery-bait “problem novel” (“I’m just a teenager, but oh no, abuse/cancer/racism/eugenics/the fucking Holocaust”) and the ‘00s Teen Paranormal Romance (“we’re just teenagers, but I found a perfect boyfriend, also he’s a vampire/werewolf/gypsy mystic/fucking literal angel”), melding them into some sort of “I’m just a teenager, but oh no, cancer, but I found a perfect boyfriend, but oh no, cancer” Frankenstein.

And it’s a nasal cannula.

Tagged: the fault in our stars young adult tfios