Posts by Emma Hart
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Busytown: She loves you, YA, YA, YA!, in reply to Islander,
Islander: if you email me your postal address, I'd be more than happy to mail my copy down to you.
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[Edited to remove insane over-reaction]
So let me just say, in response to Graeme, "nuh-uh" and possibly also "whatevs".
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And if you haven’t, I recommend taking heed of James George’s request
I'm often deeply touched by the way pseudonymous commenters will use their first comment to recommend paying more attention to another, fairly new, commenter. It's so generous and sincere.
Come on girls!
I take it this is an example of the "enlightening analysis" you were after?
Yeah. It's too hot for socks today.
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surely there must be heaps more women writers of brilliant science fiction.
Willis is brilliant, and Butler should certainly be on that list. As, I think, should Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Writing perfectly readable scifi: Elizabeth Moon and Catharine Asaro. Also Martha Wells, though that might be a bit 'soft' scifi.
[The assumption being that more people read YA books than fantasy. I wonder if that’s true?]
I wouldn't have thought so. And not subject to reverse snobbery: I don't know anyone who will only read YA.
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Hmm, a good question. Should 8 year olds be allowed to read YA titles? They do, but should they?
Kids should read whatever they're ready to read. If they're not emotionally ready for the kind of issues that start to appear in YA fiction, they'll get bored and leave it. If they are, they'll go mad being restricted to children's books. Our kids have always had free rein to graze our bookshelves, though occasionally I will direct them - my 13 yo has just started reading Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden books.
I think she would really like Guardian of the Dead from the sounds of this, and I shall be acquiring it for her.
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That sucks!!! Sorry if it has been discussed here before, but hadn't heard.
Yeah, I hadn't mentioned it before. But, as commiserbrating might suggest, it's not all bad.
Out of interest, how many people are familiar with the slang verb usage of 'twat', meaning 'to hit'?
Yep. Mostly in a Red Dwarf context, to be fair.
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I'm also rather liking commisibration which Emma has been using quite a bit lately.
Commiserbration came out of the earthquake too, originally. It does nicely describe the new habit of Chch people to get together, drink, and talk about how good it is that we've got through such awful things.
My most recent commiserbration was the 'bottle of bubbles each' commiserbration of my losing my Metro job.
Also, I'm a 'twat to rhyme with hat' person.
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So if one of you is the other's alibi for a heinous crime...?
Um... could you define "heinous"?
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Heh, yeah, see, everything Megan and I say is true. We can independently verify each other.
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I also nominate twatcock because 1) it was coined by one of our own 2) it is a multipurpose word suited to all situations and occasions 3) I am innately scatalogical.
Indeed. 'Twatcock' as a word has a deep ontological import for our community. It neatly encapsulates our deeply liberal nature, our thought and care to not be inadvertently offensive, together with our desire to be pointedly deliberately offensive where such is due.
Also I've been hanging out to hear Russell do the WOTY interviews since we realised what it was going to be.