Utopia is one of the oldest sub-genres of SF. In fact, many people consider Thomas More’s 1516 treatise that introduced the term to be one of the earliest evidences of the beginning of science fiction. It’s easy to see why utopia was a popular concept in literature- especially utopias set in the future of our […]
This week has been Banned Books Week. Celebrate your right to read with these banned speculative fiction books by female authors. The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood This feminist dystopian novel was banned in 2006 for being too sexually explicit and offensive to Christians. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth’s Children’s series) — Jean […]
I read a lot of bad YA growing up. A lot of predictable teenage romance novels set in predictable high schools. A lot of Mary Sue fantasy. I read a lot of novels I’m still hesitant to admit in public that I’ve read. My views on YA are colored by my past history of poor reading […]
Spoilers! If you haven’t read and/or seen the Hunger Games trilogy you shouldn’t read this blog post – however if you are the sort of person who doesn’t mind some pretty major plot points being given away, then go ahead and read! I saw the final Hunger Games movie, Mockingjay Part 2, a couple […]
At some point, between running a one-day comic convention for my library and hosting a Doctor Who party at the launch of the new season, I realized that I’m not categorically a “young adult” librarian. And most of the time patrons wouldn’t recognize me acting as the assistant director, since I am usually running a […]
