Library books I've read since my last post

[kadharonon]

Because it has been a long time since I read some of these, and because I really only snapped photos of the spines before taking them back to the library (because I was too lazy to write blog posts? I dunno), I'm mostly just going to list titles and maybe provide brief summaries. Though I may go back and add more about some of these. Maybe. Grouped

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[daybreak_a]

#21: Wut. Just... wut. Sigh. This is why, when parents ask about books for their 'advanced reader' preteen, I try to steer them AWAY from our teen section. It's not the difficulty, people. It's the content.

[kadharonon]

And for 75-90% of the books out there in the teen section, it's not even the content! It's just every once in a while, you find one that is kind of horrible...

Like, I would probably recommend everything on this list (except Ava Lavender and the Of Poseidon series) to an advanced reader preteen of the sort I was at that age. Well, I wouldn't RECOMMEND them, but I wouldn't actively steer the kid away from them due to inappropriate content. (Leviathan and co would get a hearty recommendation, as would Dragonhaven.)

But my dad handed me the Dune books when I was 10, so goodness knows I'm not a good role model here.

[daybreak_a]

Yeeeeah, I was reading some pretty racy stuff as a preteen, given I'd already devoured the juvenile sci-fi/fantasy section of the library and had moved onto the adult one. I don't have a problem with kids reading that stuff, so long as they're mature enough to handle it.

It's... more that I don't actually READ these books, and when one that's not obviously grimdark, angsty, or otherwise focused on deep, gritty issues has a scene like you describe in Ava Lavender, guess who gets the blame when the parents find out? Obvs it's the store's/salesperson's fault.

I once got lectured for having the Myracle books in the teen section (TTYL and the rest of that series that's written like a string of texts) because the characters discussed squirting.

"This book was ridiculous. I loved it."

[anonymous]

I hope you don't mind me commenting but I couldn't resist. Thanks, because that's exactly what I was going for with HTDYF.

Justine Larbalestier.

Re: "This book was ridiculous. I loved it."

[kadharonon]

Hah! Of course I don't mind.

I spent the entire book going "this setting is ridiculous and these children are ridiculous and this school is ridiculous and this slang is ridiculous and THIS IS ALL WONDERFUL, PLEASE KEEP GOING, TELL ME MORE."

[sea_of_tethys]

That was how I felt about no. 7 too. There was just something missing.

[kadharonon]

Oh thank goodness I'm not alone in thinking there was something missing from it.

Something vital. Like a heart.