YA Agony Awards: addendum

[rachelmanija]

While going through old LJ entries, I found this hilarious excerpt from a locked post. I was in Tokyo at the time, and having a lousy time for reasons having nothing to do with Japan:

Yesterday, rather than lurking miserably etc, I went to an English used bookshop in Ebisu on the theory that that would surely cheer me up. I immediately headed for children's/YA, hoping it would have lots of Bristish fantasy like the last time I was there. The first book I picked up was about a teen football player who becomes a quadriplegic. Just what I wanted to read. Nix! Then a book about a boy with a hawk. I flipped to the end. Someone shoots it. Next, race problems. Child labor in a coal mining town. Dead dogs. More race problems. Holocaust. Homeless teens. Holocaust. Homeless teens during the Holocaust. Race problems. Dead otters. Dead aborigines. Dead Jews.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

There may be a reason Delia Sherman's The Changeling is the only YA I recall reading in the last year or so...

[oyceter]

Actually, there's a lot of cheerful YA right now, thanks in part to HP and the YA fantasy boom. But there's also a big boom in YA chicklit, and much of what I've been binging on is pretty fun and frothy.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just the selection on the shelves in this town...