tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364116677912521674.post8424105347701889178..comments2024-03-27T04:43:10.452-04:00Comments on Random Musings of a Bibliophile: Orbiting JupiterBrandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12105770016693038906noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364116677912521674.post-25023531232007230132015-10-01T10:50:59.169-04:002015-10-01T10:50:59.169-04:00Maybe I'll love the Thousand Nights book?! Oth...Maybe I'll love the Thousand Nights book?! Otherwise, frankly, I can't even <i>remember</i> the YA I've read this year aside from Ash & Bramble. Which obviously means I didn't like it very much :D<br /><br />I think there's a growing in-between category (which includes Goodbye, Stranger - that's not what you were referring to as YA, is it? Because you're right, I didn't like that - OH. BONE GAP) but if it doesn't appeal to both MG and YA, then yeah, it'll just get lost in the shuffle!<br /><br />It's funny, because Okay for Now wasn't really euphemistic at all. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364116677912521674.post-691880971759558482015-10-01T08:16:48.849-04:002015-10-01T08:16:48.849-04:00You and I are not liking the same YAs AT ALL this ...You and I are not liking the same YAs AT ALL this year. :)<br /><br />This was something I meant to mention in the review of this but forgot: I"m not sure what age category this fits in. The narrator is a 6th grader and the prose is quite simple. He is innocent and every difficult subject matter is couched in a lot of euphemism and implications rather than actually addressing any of the harsher realities. I would say it is more MG, but I don't know it will have an audience there. But I don't really know it will with Teens either. I'm stumped. Brandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105770016693038906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364116677912521674.post-81172931361308362432015-10-01T08:14:29.312-04:002015-10-01T08:14:29.312-04:00I was not okay when I finished reading it, but it ...I was not okay when I finished reading it, but it wasn't a good not okay. I was ANGRY but not how I think Schmidt intended me to be. It took some DMing someone on Twitter who had also read it for me to fully figure out what made the book not work.Brandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105770016693038906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364116677912521674.post-54349248717689538862015-09-29T21:52:04.079-04:002015-09-29T21:52:04.079-04:00Okay, yikes. Yikes yikes yikes. I'm going to p...Okay, yikes. Yikes yikes yikes. I'm going to pass on this for now, too. Sighhhhhh.<br /><br />And I didn't really like Ash & Bramble, so I <i>still</i> don't have a book to back for the Printz. I was hoping this would be it :/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364116677912521674.post-54385464126328634032015-09-29T12:47:09.527-04:002015-09-29T12:47:09.527-04:00Halelujah! I've been trying to pinpoint why I ...Halelujah! I've been trying to pinpoint why I had such a drastically negative reaction to this book, and I think you hit it on the head. That, and I'm glad I'm not the only one.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00217383813263874657noreply@blogger.com