(ya) booookkkksss!!!! & other recs

[chinbat]

Hey lords and ladies. Here's an amazing post from ontd. 15 pages of YA book recs featuring female protagonists. Go ontd! Even though the comm is ripe for/with wank I love that there is also a (small?, persistent) strong presence of feminists on there willing to educate/debate, and we get posts like this that call out the misogyny in a book that

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[supergasnojutsu]

i own a ton of those books on your list. if you wanna pick them up from me when i'm back during thanksgiving you are free to. also, i saw that you're going to melting pot for chantel's b-day! wanna commute together? let's save gas and the planet.

here are the following books i'm pretty confident i have: walk 2 moons, chasing redbird, the rose and the beast, his dark materials trilogy, the westing game, are you there god?..., wayside school is falling down

i would say that gail carson levine pretty much only features strong female protagonists in her novels. i didn't read the thing so i don't know if anyone talked about her but she's a huge name in YA fiction (what w/ ella enchanted and everything) and she does women justice.

[chinbat]

yes I would love to.

yeah I read Ella Enchanted before and I love it also. I own it but I lost it somewhere so.. I'm pretty sad about that. I think I glanced at some of her (one) other book (at the time) but it didn't really jive with me, but I'll check it out.

[chinbat]

I think mostly cos it was yet another book revolving around romance (yeah I know, if it's in YA it's likely to be about romance anyway) and even if it featured a strong girl protagonist I was sick of the whole girl --> thinks about love only connection.

[supergasnojutsu]

what was the book?

i read the one about the 2 sisters and that plot was more about one sister saving the other sister. the love plot was kind of secondary.

and fairest doesn't really have romance as the central plot i would say... plus i liked fairest because the main character was neither pretty nor thin, two things which are annoyingly common in books in general.

[supergasnojutsu]

yes to both things?

i think the problem is that ella enchanted was soooo good nothing else seems as good in comparison.... but i did like Fairest and the little novellas based on other fairy tales. i thought they were funny.

[chinbat]

yeah to both things. I don't rmb the book but I looked on amazon and I guess I saw all of them and was like "princesses! love!" and skipped them based on that. Since....how many books w/ boys are about being princes and love? and I was going through a period of avoiding everything stereotypically girl.