It totally made sense. And I've noticed that in the UK too, actually. They don't separate YA books, while in the US they do, and they don't often do it in a way that makes sense (those Wrede and Stevermer books I told you about were split between three different 'genres' in the bookshop and I was baffled).
Do you need anything specific about Notre Dame? I could probably track books and articles down.
Oh, and I want to read about your space pirates. A lot.
I second the Austenesque Space Pirates, though I haven't had an opportunity to look into YA novels, I think they do get a genre sort as well, or they did when my kid was reading them.
It remains to be seen whether Heyer/Austen-esque Space Pirates really works.
I suppose it does, but I'm dying to find out!
Any categorization taken as a rule becomes tricky, usually detrimental.
Insert a not-obviously related (but I believe is relevant) favorite quote:
"The central assertion of this book is that the world of humankind constitutes a manifold, a totality of interconnected processes, and inquiries that disassemble this totality into bits and then fail to reassemble it falsify reality. Concepts like “nation,” “society,” and “culture” name bits and threaten to turn names into things. Only by understanding these names as bundles of relationships, and by placing them back into the field from which they were abstracted, can we hope to avoid misleading inferences and increase our share of understanding."
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Do you need anything specific about Notre Dame? I could probably track books and articles down.
Oh, and I want to read about your space pirates. A lot.
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Heyer/Austen-esque Space Pirates really works.
I suppose it does, but I'm dying to find out!
Any categorization taken as a rule becomes tricky, usually detrimental.
Insert a not-obviously related (but I believe is relevant) favorite quote:
"The central assertion of this book is that the world of humankind constitutes a manifold, a totality of interconnected processes, and inquiries that disassemble this totality into bits and then fail to reassemble it falsify reality. Concepts like “nation,” “society,” and “culture” name bits and threaten to turn names into things. Only by understanding these names as bundles of relationships, and by placing them back into the field from which they were abstracted, can we hope to avoid misleading inferences and increase our share of understanding."
~ Eric R. Wolf
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