Young Adult Literature Puns

I think YA can be enjoyed by all ages. I myself am not young adult, and i'm interested to see who might fall into the same category as me, and how much of the YA demographic are actually young adults.

From what I can see online, "young adult" is typically considered to be anywhere between 12-25. (12 years old are you kidding me!)

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As someone that really enjoys this genre of literature, DO NOT take this course. The professor was by far the worst professor I've ever had. Rude, childish, and has such a disdain for his students. The way the course is advertised makes it seem very fun and interesting, but unfortunately, it was anything but that.

I’m grateful to all you thoughtful and generous people. you have really helped activate my memory! When I read the titles you listed it comes back! I’m excited to introduce my granddaughters to many of these. And I think I might reread some of these! The only upside of memory loss is that I can reread books and it’s all new and fresh! (you have to look at the silver lining, right?)!

YA lit, mainly read by teens by now also read by 20-somethings, has been popular for a long time. This is very, very important because good representation at a young age changes a lot. Most YA readers are teen girls and adult women in college.

There's been quite a few smash hit books in YA with positive Asian rep:

• The Maze Runner - One of the main characters is an Asian guy named Minho who is very useful to the group, kind of like Glenn in The Walking Dead. The entire trilogy has been turned into movies, where Minho is played by Ki Hong Lee.

• Eleanor and Park - This one is kind of problematic due to the white author messing up some depictions of Korean culture, but it is an AMWF teen love story set in the racist 1980s. It's going to be turned into a movie but production seems to have stalled.

• The Sun is Also A Star - Asian boy meets Black girl. They have one day to fall in love before the girl will be deported. Gorgeous and heartbreaking story. Made into a movie where Charles Melton plays the boy (the casting for the movie was awful, just read the book). Written by a real life Black woman married to an Asian man.

• Frankly in Love - Asian boy falls for a white girl but his parents only want him to date other Koreans. Same with an Asian girl falling for a white boy. So they have a plan: pretend to date each other while actually getting with their actual love interest. But things gets more complicated... This book is written by the husband of the author that wrote The Sun is Also a Star.

• Cinder - Cinder is a cyborg... and she falls in love with Prince Kai, a mysterious Asian man. It's a forbidden love that threatens to destroy everything, but she's willing to risk it all for him.

• North of Beautiful - An Asian woman author writes about a white woman that falls in love with an Asian man. Can you believe it?

• American Panda - Asian college g

For reference, ive read far too many stephen king books to count so I'd like other author recommendations. A few personal favorites include The Stand and The Shining.

I would like to get into some classics if there are any recommendations? I haven't really enjoyed John Steinbecks works (as far as I can remember from high-school) but Lord of the Flies was definitely a memorable read.

I have a young child and I'm looking for literature that we would be able to enjoy together in the coming years. Mostly books I would be able to read for them in my spare time, but anything lightweight that they can enjoy on their own would also be appreciated. I'm looking for literature (genre doesn't matter as much, I'm also open to horror) that would let the child glimpse into the darker nature of people, and of life. I do not wish for them to grow up to be too naïve, thus ill equipped to venture out in the world on their own when the time comes.

Life can be beautiful but also brutal at times, and I want them to have a general idea of this through literature beforehand. Something that would prompt us to naturally talk about heavier matters, as I'm not much of a conversationalist and I'm afraid that I might make things too uninteresting for them. So I'm looking to have some discussions within the context of a fictional world to make sense of the real world, if that makes any sense. :)

This goes without saying, but I do not want anything that would be too traumtic or cynical. I would also like to avoid stories with the typical good-evil dichotomy that is prevalent in books targeted for children/young adults.

I already purchased the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Leguin which I am very satisfied with, because its presentation of good&evil is more in tune with how it is in real life, which is almost never monochromatic. The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams is also in our bookshelf for reasons that are in a similar yet different vein. I especially enjoyed this for its humorous approach to somewhat perplexing situations and ideas.

I do not wish to stop my child from choosing their own reading material, but I would like to offer something more nuanced and different than what they would normally go for.

Thank you in advance for any recommendations!! :D

Edit: choice of words

Can it compete when it comes to prose and writing quality?

Ascendance of a Bookworm is in the upper echelons of light novel rankings, so I was wondering how it would fare to many of the young adult western fiction in terms of writing quality and prose.

A man comes back from schooling with a stunning wife to settle back in his home area. Family not too keen on her. She takes a lover. I think the lover marrys or is the love interest of the sister/cousin? There's some lowly man that travels across the moors for work. He's stained blue from the chemicals involved. Spies lady with lover. They eventually get found out. One or the other lover/lady either fall from or jump off a bridge in an emotional chase scene in a storm. Some sort of letter involved.

Seriously, i read most young adult horror novels, but i notice this in non horror as aswell. This is from one book that i have read:"Edward was tall and good-looking".And it's always the same thing, always a description on how the male love interest is handsome, and i wonder why, there are plenty of ugly and average guys who have girlfriends.

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We all know that incels are a serious problem in today's world, with many unhappy incidents surrounding them, like Eliot's Rodger's case, but i want to know what create them.

I like to read a lot and watch tv series, specially horror, and it surprises me that in most of these books and series , the reality is how an incel think the world works.For example, in MOST Young Adult books that i read, the male love interest is described as attractive, or a certain character is interesting only if he/she, but specially he, is attractive. So, one of the fist thing that is described about a male love interest is that he is hot

Two examples of movies and tv series:I have read at least four Vampire Diaries books, and dear God, you are only interesting to the oposite sex if you are attractive.Second, the tv show Riverdale, whyt this show have a shirtless guy every five minutes?Is the show trying to tell me that i will only get a girl if i look,like that?

Now,i ask, do you think these contents have some influence on how incels are created?I mean, incels claim that if you aren't attractive you can't get girls, or if you aren't attractive, you only be used, and we have all thse contents that only shows attractive people with partners.Or, all these contents is helping create more superficial people who thinks that all that matters are looks, i mean, why most Young Adult books, the male love interest is attractive?Why don't we have more books were they are normal people or even ugly?So i ask again, do you think that this is an influence for incels?

Ps:i'am writing this because this is NOT how real life works, unattractive people can have partners too.

In August 2017, a new YA novel titled Handbook for Mortals found its way to the top of the YA bestseller list, having sold 18,000 copies in its first week alone. That is a LOT, and people were immediately suspicious because no one had heard of the book. It hadn't been reviewed by any of the usual blogs or publications. No one had even heard of the author, Lani Sarem. Hell, it wasn't even available at many major retailers. People in the YA community (including some authors) did a bit of digging and found out that either Sarem or someone she knew had bought the book in bulk from several bookstores, boosting the sale numbers.

Sarem defended herself, claiming that this is a normal practice in the writing world, (it happens, but the writing community considers it unethical) and that she sold those copies by promoting her books through "unconventional" ways like comic conventions instead of the usual route. She claims that the REAL reason she got so much hate was because she was an "outsider" to the YA community. Never mind that around the same time her book came out, The Hate U Give was getting a ton of praise, despite also being written by a new author. Never mind that if she really was getting all of those sales through convention promotions, there would have been some buzz about her book. She also claims that the reason her book sold so well at conventions was because movie star Thomas Ian Nicholas was helping her promote it. Never heard of him? Me neither. Apparently he's most famous for his roles in Rookie of the Year and as one of the virgins from American Pie.

Making her look worse, she was open about her book just being a means of fame for her. She intended to get a movie deal and have herself cast as the main character. (in fact, it was originally written as a screenplay) Oh, and another thing regarding The Hate U Give? Her cheating of the system knocked that book off of the top of the bestseller list. YA community wasn't happy that a badly written, fame grubbing, wish-fulfillment fantasy novel cheated a legitimate new (black) writer who writes about serious social issues and actually does it well. Also, Sarem stole art for her cover.

Sarem claimed that despite the controversy, the movie was still going to get made. But there doesn't seem to be any progress on that. The book was also promoted as the first in a series, but there has been no update on the sequel. The Facebook page for the book (which only ha

As the title says, TIA!

All of YA twitter has been in an absolute lather about a book themed box company that made the questionable decision to sell a smutty "boyfriend box" based on a character from a novel marketed to young adults.

An entrepreneur named Yaira Lynn had the bright idea to service the fans of author Sarah J. Maas's popular novel, A Court of Throne and Roses, with a $50 theme box. The content description on her website included a booksleeve, pillowcase, "character scent inspired" lip balm, character art print, a personalized "smutty character love letter", a *mystery item*, and a mature content warning.

Unboxing pics (since deleted) showed up on instagram, and the mystery item was revealed to be...a purple, anatomically correct, penis shaped soap. With a suction cup on the end. The package came to the attention of YA twitter, and for two long, phallic filled days, it was packed full of #soapdick.

There were...concerns. Have some copypasta.

First the safety issue of soap vs delicate mucous membranes:

>Sarah Hollowell 🐝‏ @sarahhollowell
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>it is really important to me that everyone who gets this box does NOT
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>TRY
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>TO FUCK THE SOAP
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>especially if you have a vagina, and especially if this is perfumed soap (oh god what scent - NO I AM NOT THINKING ABOUT IT)
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>please do not fuck the soap

Then the blatant copyright infringement:

>D Franklin‏ @D_Libris
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>Re #soapdick. I don't get the "the series is NA!" justifications.
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>A) that's not how it's sold or marketed or targeted
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>B) that doesn't explain the COMMERCIAL FANFIC in there
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>C) I don't care how old you are, soap is not for internal application, ffs!

And finally the genre itself:

>Sarah Taylor Gibson‏ @s_t_gibson
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>The whole #soapdick controversy is just the tip of the discussion we need to be having about an audience of primarily straight women consuming media that fetishizes (either in canon or fanon) young men, (esp queer ones I am looking at you m/m #RomanceReaders).

Bloomsbury, the publisher, has only issued a terse tweet that the now infamous box was in no way authorized by them or the author. Undoubtedly their lawyers are busy, and the controversy will probably rise again once they take legal action.

TL;DR: Book th

Lately ive been suffering anxiety and apprehension because I dont want to have sex yet im usually thinking of same-sex (im a male) relationships and how'd nice it be. I had bad experiences with online dating apps, also good ones, but the culture of hookup i experienced made me slightly trauamtized about the whole thing. tinder is less smutty but the matching system creates self-esteem issues.

Im trying to become known trough wattpad or just facebook by writing shonen-ai literature about anime shows I like, (i try to write about IRL kpop ships but its harder to study real humans),strangely enough my audience are hetero girls even tho I try to write for other boys.

Anyways im confused as if im asexual,gay, a third option. I dont want sex but i feel sefl-esteem issues steeming from sex,for example having a body that *would* function well to attract others.I also experience certain sensual pleasure if a look at photo of a boy i like, even if its SFW(and it is,dont worry)

Through freshmen to senior year, we were forced to read books like Fahrenheit 451, Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, Slaughterhouse Five, and whole bunch of memoirs. Now i’m not saying any of these books are bad, but are these really the books you want to use to get somebody into literature? What about books like Percy Jackson, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (not really YA but still entertaining asf), The Giver, or Ender’s Game. Shit, something we can relate to.

Instead they give us books we see as chores. I don’t know a single one of my English classmates that could tell me 5 facts about any of the books we read and we graduated just last year. Adults choosing their favorite adult books for teenagers to read is killing waves of teenagers interest in books across the country, which will lead to almost everyone associating books with a chore or a borefest.

I'm personally a fan of The Maze Runner books and movies, it is my second favorite next to Harry Potter, what about others ?

Young Adult literature are books meant for teenagers, often with teenagers as protagonists.

A famous example from the USA would be A Catcher in the Rye. In Australia, probably our most well known YA author would be John Marsden who I credit with sparking my interest in reading as a teenager instead of being stuck to a computer screen.

[30+ BOOKS] 2020 Black Literature Young Adult Books #BlackLitChallenge

So it's that time of the year again.. or actually based on what I see from this young lady that time of the month again. But if you're interested in expanding your black literature reading this year this is a good place to start.

Also I didn't see a post on this topic over on this side but there was this incident with B&N using "diverse covers" to sell classic books. When I understood finally what that meant I started laughing and I'm still chuckling over how idiotic an idea it was. I mean you couldn't come up with a worse way to demean the black community if you tried. I mean it's literally diversity that's only cover deep. Shame too because some of the art isn't terrible. Annnnnnnny way before I hop on that rant TAG has a video on it including some recommendations for actual black books based in classic stories to read and those sound pretty good too.

The Problem with the Barnes & Noble "Diverse Editions" + Retelling recommendations

Happy Black History Month Ladies.

hey guys!

i was wondering if you guys have any YA lit discords with small groups of friends i could join please? looking for people who are in their 20s who don't mind making new friends.