Kids today!

[zzambrosius_02]

I was at Sam Bond's Garage Friday night. (That's the pub of choice for yours truly and a group of my mundane friends.) Tony S., a friend and sometime customer, is a teacher in the 4J district. He teaches at a school which is sorta the "last chance" high school for 'at risk' teens. He told me that he eats with the kids because he gets a free lunch that way. Probably enjoys the task as well, but that's what he said. He also said that one of the kids ("one of my favorite students," he said) was in the lunchroom reading my book. Tony said: "He was really digging the whole social system thing, where you'd do stuff cuz it was what you did. Really liked the idea."

Just doing my part to corrup...wake up the youth of America.

Seriously, my books not intended as YA stuff. OTOH, if teens like the stories, and their parents don't object to the themes and subtexts, then WTB.

Comments

[fjorlief.livejournal.com]

I'd have loved to read your books back when I was actually a young adult, since reading about different cultures, both imaginary and historical, was how I attempted to make some kind of sense of the odd planet that I found myself on. No one censored my reading once I was tall enough to choose books from the adult side of the library (pre-teen). I read a lot of things at a young enough age that on re-reading I was surprised how much went right over my head at age 11, (or again in my twenties, etc) The best sort of books bear re-reading again and again, with more information finding context as our own experiences deepen. I have a small collection of books on my shelf that I do re-read that way, and I expect that the next time I re-read Leontari, that will also be the case

[kareina.livejournal.com]

When the hero of the story is a child when the story commences, it appeals to the YA audience, and perhaps all the more so if it doesn't censor the themes it contains, which your book certainly doesn't do.

[hrothgar1.livejournal.com]

There is hope for the human race yet!