tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post8259577582886648940..comments2024-03-27T02:13:13.079-04:00Comments on Original Content: Adult Books For YA Readers: Plot And Summing UpGail Gauthierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01673131515563387968noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-84846971519280282922009-03-26T11:59:00.000-04:002009-03-26T11:59:00.000-04:00>But I don't know how much of that followin...>But I don't know how much of that following involves teenagers.< More than you might imagine if you read the stuff on Fanfiction.net, but sites like Letters_Of_Mary are from a more mature viewpoint, but also has some younger contributers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-47007124266325842502009-03-19T18:33:00.000-04:002009-03-19T18:33:00.000-04:00My impression from what I've seen on the Internet ...My impression from what I've seen on the Internet is that they have a following. There is Mary Russell fanfiction, for instance. But I don't know how much of that following involves teenagers.Gail Gauthierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673131515563387968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-6242018859119540072009-03-19T10:02:00.000-04:002009-03-19T10:02:00.000-04:00"How many fifteen-year-old girls look forward to t..."How many fifteen-year-old girls look forward to the possibility of one day meeting a fifty-four-year old man with rheumatism? I'm guessing not many."<BR/><BR/>::bursts out laughing::<BR/><BR/>(and i love these books.)sdnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298423833124213171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-16948497515326852202009-03-16T07:59:00.000-04:002009-03-16T07:59:00.000-04:00Actually, I'm about half way through the second bo...Actually, I'm about half way through the second book, and she's pretty much lost me altogether, for a number of reasons.<BR/><BR/>As far as my misreading the relationship in the first book, there seems little doubt about that now. I do think, though, that the narrator describing Holmes as her "substitute father" and saying that he had "slid into the niche my father had occupied" as well as her calling his friend Watson, "Uncle John" was bizarrely misleading, especially given that she had knowledge of the future and clearly knew what the relationship was.<BR/><BR/>I also think that a romantic relationship instead of a parent child relationship undermines <B>Beekeeper's Apprentice</B>'s YA crossover potential. For one thing, you lose the child identifying with parent and then separating from parent (which was what I thought was happening). For another, I don't think a lot of teenagers are going to be interested in a romantic relationship between a girl in her mid-to-late teens and a man nearly forty years older. How many fifteen-year-old girls look forward to the possibility of one day meeting a fifty-four-year old man with rheumatism? I'm guessing not many.Gail Gauthierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673131515563387968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-63034143722157638522009-03-15T16:49:00.000-04:002009-03-15T16:49:00.000-04:00"Or that I thought was going on."Exactly. We'll se..."Or that I thought was going on."<BR/><BR/>Exactly. We'll see if Laurie King convinces you to think differently. She did me.Nancy Werlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16256045390045803711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-47572344057711294352009-03-14T17:27:00.000-04:002009-03-14T17:27:00.000-04:00Well, you know, Nancy, I started the next book, wh...Well, you know, Nancy, I started the next book, which opens with something...odd. Plus I read a little something on-line that I found <I>just a bit</I> strange, even creepy, given the intense father-daughter thing that goes on in the first book. Or that I thought was going on. <BR/><BR/>Great meeting you, too.Gail Gauthierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673131515563387968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-53705736864887051762009-03-14T17:09:00.000-04:002009-03-14T17:09:00.000-04:00"This book is supposed to be an account by an elde..."This book is supposed to be an account by an elderly woman who does, indeed, remember not only Jerusalem but the companion/father/partner of her youth."<BR/><BR/>Er. You clearly have not yet read any other of the Mary Russell books. (Good to meet you today, Gail!)<BR/><BR/>-Nancy WerlinNancy Werlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16256045390045803711noreply@blogger.com