Sunday, July 5, 2009
Why I wish I was a teenager
After going over the list of awesome YA titles in class, I wish I was still a teenager, at least not a teenager trapped in a pushing middle-age body. Advantages: my reading list would be awesome I could read books about vampires, the undead, graphic novels all of which would have real SEX in them. When I was growing up the best I could get was a dog-eared copy of Judy Blume's Forever. I pretty much watch all the teen TV shows and was a huge fan of the Gilmore Girls. So yeah maybe true coolness has been marginalized, but access to cool YA titles, music, shows and movies is ours for the taking. Now if I could just find that time capsule to transport me back about xx years.
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Ha! Totally. I remember thinking that most of the information I had about sex and sexuality came from reading Where Did I Come From/What's Happening To Me and my grandmother's romance novels and my aunt's Judith Krantz novels...probably the first one was the "best" resource, though. Funny, I think I actually spent more time reading adult titles than anything published for YA back then--I read the younger stuff, like Susan Cooper and Robin McKinley and a few others, but most of all I was into books published for adults...Flowers in the Attic, above all, of course.
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