Oh, it's on like Donkey Kong: YA author dissent and deconstruction of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight

[calledinvain]

I love Google reader, I really do - because it tends to suggest blogs that I would like, and 85% of the time, it is absolutely correct. So I've been rediscovering YA authors again (old and new - Sarah Dessen was pregnant! And now she has a cute little girl named Sasha! I love the exclamation point!) through their blogs, and anyway - a random link

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[dangermousie]

That was an...interesting...view of SMeyer.

You know, sometimes a trashy book is a trashy book. SMeyer is a lot more anti-feminist than she is racist (if she is racist) but that doesn't bother me either, because hey: she is just one random author of trashy romances, and trashy romances always had a very popular stand of forceful male and submitting woman, from The Sheik to 80s romance novels where hero raped the heroine to Haou Airen manga. SMeyer is weak stuff compared to that. (The fact that some women like that sort of fantasy doesn't bother me either...I don't so I don't chose it, but I don't begrudge anyone their preferences). The reason Bella prefers boring Edward is because otherwise SMeyer would have to write interaction and not love at first pretty sight...

Her 'evil people stole the election' stuff probably put me off in the first place. I don't like W, but anyone who is that rabid and out-of-proportion in one thing will likely be that way in the rest.

Ooops, sorry, this turned into a rant.

I think it's interesting in regards that right now, SMeyers is the big elephant in the room

[calledinvain]

where Twilight was this word of mouth-nowhere-book and it's turned into this intense thing where teenage girls and their moms are so devoted to it, and sure, I agree about the trashy romance aspect of it, but a lot of those are the disposable, go to the grocery store every week and forget about them the next day type of books - from my own experience as a bookseller who sold those type of books, the Twilight books are something more than that for the fanbase. And maybe SMeyers is too easy of an target because she is just so popular right now, or maybe this is just a prelude to Anne Rice or Laurell K Hamilton -level of crazy.

[birdofpray09]

I was indifferent towards Alisa Valdes Rodriguez until her review of Breaking Dawn, and now I totally have a girlcrush on her.