Take a breath, it's Friday

[bironic]

I find it funny that six years ago, I started reading Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfic and found it a fantastic distraction from schoolwork, and now I am supposed to be finishing a paper on Angel (among other tasks) and have instead been reading House fanfic

Comments

[bironic]

I don't know how I'd never heard of it before. Probably if we'd read it in elementary school or if I'd noticed it in the library, I'd've done what you did.

[catilinarian]

I've never read Bridge to Terabithia, but I absolutely agree about children's books. You're right about the sheer honesty of them, as well as the immediacy and vividness - there's something so uncompromising about well-written children's books. They're not afraid to deal head-on with the really big stories - love and loyalty and death and adventure - that adult novels often feel they have to treat with ironic disdain.

[bironic]

Ironic disdain, well put. Which has its place, and I love it a lot of the time, but returning to children's lit is like a microcosm of what I want resensitization to accomplish.

P.S. When you're through with exams, if you like, I can endsay the audiohay ookbay to you, electronically.