YA fiction controversy and bizarre dreams

( Dreams and mental health stuff )

Meanwhile, my husband continues his love affair with NPR, and so a couple of days ago he showed me this blog entry.  It took me a few days before the fog of RAGE before my eyes dissipated enough that I could read some of the articles linked within.  My poor husband thought I'd enjoy the poke at Twilight, and apparently forgot about my feelings on problem novels/issue-fiction, which tells me something about how much he listens when I rant... anyhow, the main thing to take from the NPR blog entry is AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH NO NO NO STOP IT STOP BEING WRONG ON THE INTERNET, but moving on from that, it's a wrong-headed rebuttal to an utterly wrong-headed WSJ editorial, and everyone being wrong is my very favorite kind of dispute! 

( Here are all the wrong people. (Cut for length, and for mention of subjects including self-harm, suicide, sexual assault, etc. etc.) )

Yes, my YA fiction tag is "YA fiction is evil." 

FF Meme catchup

Since I forgot to post it earlier today. 

( Days 19 through 23 )

As an addendum to my YA Lit rant - might I point out that two of the books singled out as "omg so dark and awful" in the WSJ article were a (presumably) urban-fantasy novel, and another one that sounds like horror?  Dark, scary, gory content is, you know, kind of a feature of horror fiction.  Which has been a YA genre for quite a while, as all those Christopher Pike books I read in middle school can attest.