Another day, another take on YA books

Not sure exactly how I feel about this, so I’m opening it up to comments in an attempt to get a dialogue going, and maybe I’ll be able to sort out my own thoughts. Basically, I saw this piece on MediaBistro yesterday which reads as a pretty rough indictment of YA (the author Caitlin Flanagan proclaims “I hate Y.A. novels; they bore me.”), but at the same time, the full-length piece in the Atlantic from which the MediaBistro extract is pulled is a lush paean to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.

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Ask Daphne? What’s Women’s Fiction

Shannyn writes, “What exactly do you consider women’s fiction? Are you lumping all romance categories into that? Or are you looking for the non-romance genre fiction?”

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Love in the afternoon

After yesterday’s post about book related love stories, it seems only fitting to ask about your favorite romances.

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