...or not.
From Tom Grimes' memoir:
"I began to consider the implications of having a book marketed as a baseball novel published by Disney. I imagined serious reviewers tossing it into a bin reserved for young adult novels, all of which ended with a World Series winning home run that completed the fairy tale season of a team of plucky underdogs."
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Josh is re-reading All Creatures Great And Small, and as I was wandering by this afternoon, I noticed this bit on the back cover:
If Jonathan Livingston Seagull needed a doctor, James Herriot would be the one he'd choose...
Just... WHAT??
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People who use the term "graphic novel" as a catch-all term for any book in comic format, EVEN IF IT'S A MEMOIR.
According to the Wikipedia page, it can be used in that way, but I protest. Strongly. On the grounds that IT MAKES NO SENSE.
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Salon lurrrves Hannah Friedman's Everything Sucks!
Want to know how to tell that they really, really love it? That it's really super fantastic?
Because it's not like THAT OTHER YA:
Not only is Friedman's writing striking for its blunt, unromantic realism; her prose also displays a self-aware wit that is all too rare in the genre.
Her refusal to moralize or provide an easy resolution sets "Everything Sucks" apart from YA literature's preponderance of breezy, formulaic narratives.
Because a memoir marketed to YAs is exactly the same thing as a series novel marketed to YAs, or a SF novel marketed to YAs, or a historical fiction novel marketed to YAs, or a thriller marketed to YAs, or a romance marketed to YAs, or literary fiction marketed to YAs.
I mean, heck, that's how we look at books marketed to adults, right? When talking about whatever new memoir is taking the adult literary world by storm, it would be totally acceptable to say it was better than the majority of adult literature by comparing it to books by James Patterson, right? Because not only does it make sense to compare a memoir to series fiction, it totally makes sense to take potshots at popular fiction while we're at it?
I am so over this garbage.
(link via LizB who got it via Omnivoracious)
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If the fat sandwich didn't do you in, you should go and read* Justine Larbalestier's hella-disgusting (and hilarious) first kiss story.
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*Or re-read, if you've already read First Kiss, Then Tell.
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From PW:
HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired world rights to 13 children’s books featuring the Labrador John Grogan wrote about in his bestselling memoir, Marley & Me.
I'm sorry, but gag me.
And also, BO-RING.
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*My mistake. Apparently, there are already two Marley picture books in addition to the middle grade adaptation of the adult memoir.
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