STACKGirl news: We are not alone reading YA! YAY!
Obviously, if you follow our blog, listen to our podcasts, watch our video’s, laugh when we make a short video using the titles of Maggie Stiefvater books, enjoy the questions we ask the authors, you should know that we are YA LOVERS!!!! We have never hid it. We made a website to shout our love from the rooftop errr…or laptop. We just couldn’t contain the love we have for these books even though we are older than 18 and have kiddo’s. What we have found out is that our readers are older than 18 and have kids too. Yep, that is why we started girlsinthestacks.com. Who else would get our reference and know we are referring to the STACKS in a bookstore and not…well, you know!
Well, guess what was confessed in the Sunday New York Times ? We are not alone! We have been shouting our YA love for years now and we find out, in addition to the hundred
s of other beloved blogs out there, that several in the entertainment business agree with us. It’s kinda funny. I feel like we are friends now. We have a ”little” club for those who are not still in high school who can scream about Katniss, yearn for the love of Grace and Sam, be friends with Simon, wonder what is to happen to Patch, and experience difficult times that maybe we wouldn’t have taken so much to heart if we were still in high school – Speak and Compromised anyone?
I feel that kids these days are just so bright! Maybe if I had these books to love when I was younger, I would think I had been smart too! I love Nancy Drew and
Babysitters Club but they don’t compare to The Hunger Games, The Mortal Instruments Series, The Wolves of Mercy Falls Trilogy where we learn a bit of German poetry.
Or even Compromised where we learn about homeless kids. Doesn’t that hit home now that we have kids of our own? And who doesn’t enjoy a little love from a sexy vampire (or werewolf) to innocently dream about?
Now I am not saying that there isn’t a place for adult books anymore. Some of my favorite books this summer have been adult books. Stay by Allie Larkin and The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen struck my heart and made me yearn for more. How long has The Help been on the best sellers list? I’m saying that YA fiction makes me happy. It makes all of us happy. So, yeah, we’ll stick with it and besides, some women share clothes with their high school kids, we will just share books – and have something to talk about.
See you in the STACKS!
Shannan - who is darn stinkin excited about MOCKINGJAY!
Finished Hunger Games and halfway through Catching Fire…
Of course we’re not alone! I always knew it!
YAY, Kelley! I can’t wait to see what you think!!!!
@Jenny, you make us smile!
Love it!! YA is where it’s at!
I just read the NY Times article, Pamela expressed everything I wanted to say but never have. I proudly fall in the group that buys mostly YA, I shall never be embarssed again.
I proudly fall into the group now, but it wasn’t until Twilight that I really started reading YA. Now its 90% of what I buy.
Shannan,
I did browse read a tad bit, but I really liked it. I am SOOOOOO Team Peeta!