Also, I think younger adults are the right age to have contact with kids/teens who're the target audience for these books. I've always been a big YA fan myself, having grown up with it, but I also realize that I've read a lot of wonderful YA books because my (much-younger) sister has thrown them at me. (She knows that I'll pretty much read anything with words that you put in my hands.) This dynamic started with the first Harry Potter book when she was five or six and I was in high school. She's still doing it- she handed me Twilight a few weeks ago. A lot of the time, I read the description and go "Ehh, this sounds a little trite, but I'll read it for the sake of sisterly bonding," and then I end up loving it.
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Date: 2008-07-21 09:23 pm (UTC)Also, I think younger adults are the right age to have contact with kids/teens who're the target audience for these books. I've always been a big YA fan myself, having grown up with it, but I also realize that I've read a lot of wonderful YA books because my (much-younger) sister has thrown them at me. (She knows that I'll pretty much read anything with words that you put in my hands.) This dynamic started with the first Harry Potter book when she was five or six and I was in high school. She's still doing it- she handed me Twilight a few weeks ago. A lot of the time, I read the description and go "Ehh, this sounds a little trite, but I'll read it for the sake of sisterly bonding," and then I end up loving it.