Week Seven- Assignment 3 Pt. 2 Ya blogfollowing
Forever Young Adult is the other site I have been monitoring. In its own description it calls itself a site "that is a little less Y and a bit more A". It also calls itself a "girlie counterpart to the Badass Digest." This makes me ask an important question--"What is the ratio of women young adult readers to men?" My perception has been reinforced that much of YA is chicklit.
This site has immediate links to Netflix, Book Reviews and Book Clubs. There is also a jargon dictionary, that might help if evthg wsnt so abbvt tht it was hd to rd.
As I am an oldster, not into text language, and a devotee of traditional spelling and expanded vocabulary, this doesn't really work for me.
I am getting close to answering my own question from paragraph one. Reading through a few of the Publisher's YA websites, I see much more content to appeal to young ladies than young men. I have visited Harper Teen, Teens/Penguin and Little-Brown Teen, and most of these have the look of YA Romance, paranormal and otherwise. The paranormal part seems to be longest recent trend. This is evident on the WEB as well as on our YA shelves. Is this The Genre that wouldn't die ???
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