young-adult-literature

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

Please, touch me, I pray.

As a child, I read because books__iolent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not__ere the most loving and trustworthy things in my life. I read widely, and loved plenty of the classics so, yes, I recognized the domestic terrors faced by Louisa May Alcott__ March sisters. But I became the kid chased by werewolves, vampires, and evil clowns in Stephen King__ books. I read books about monsters and monstrous things, often written with monstrous language, because they taught me how to battle the real monsters in my life.And now I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don__ write to protect them. It__ far too late for that. I write to give them weapons__n the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to the reading act - his or her world of experiences, personality, and current frame of mind - is just as important in interpreting the text as what the author writes. According to this view, reading is a fusion of text and reader.

The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could smell was the ocean...

He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball. No. I really don__. He assures me if I stay in town long enough I will become a baseball fan. It__ a requirement of living in St. Louis. Everyone is a Cardinal__ fan. __oyal,_ he tells me. St. Louis is a loyal town.