It’s been a while, I know, but I’ve been reading tons of responses to the movie based on the romantic novel Me Before You and I wanted to post some of my favorites before the movie premieres on Friday. This… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Criticism
Links: Tuesday, April 14th
Today’s Links: 2014 Reviewers’ Choice and Career Achievement Winners – Award season is here, so let’s start off with the list of RT Award winners. If you scroll down a ways, you’ll see LITM’s own Rebekah won for Best Novella… Read more »
Links: Wednesday, March 25th
Today’s Links: Little Miss Crabby Pants Ruminates On Disclosure – In case you missed it, yesterday Jane Litte revealed that she’s been publishing New Adult romance as author Jen Frederick since May of 2013. The reception on Dear Author was… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, March 17th
Today’s Links: Spilling Tea, Choking on Silence and Perhaps Burning Bridges – Suleikha Snyder vents her frustration with a white-run publishing industry and how easily it forgives and forgets sometimes. I’m not a bestselling author. I’m not a degree-holding academic… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, March 10th
Today’s Links: Character Catnip – This was a lovely post from Ana Canino Fluit about what she looks for in a book’s characters. I ended up thinking about that post for a long while. I was particularly struck by the… Read more »
Links: Wednesday, February 18th
Today’s Links: On concern trolling & the policing of reading or why I’m not talking about that book with you – When it comes to problematic books, I’m all about pointing out the problems. But, a lot of the Fifty… Read more »
Links: Saturday, February 14th
Today’s Links: Perceptions of Diversity in Book Reviews, Part 1: "Scarcely Plausible" – Malinda Lo has put together a fabulous series looking at how reviewers talk about diverse themes in their reviews of YA lit. Not all reviews discuss diversity… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, February 3rd
Today’s Links: You Talking To Me, Sonali? (an authenticity in diversity a-ha moment) – This short post from Sonali Dev is a clever observation of the details that make an author’s voice authentic. The point here is that despite the… Read more »
Links: Thursday, January 29th
Today’s Links: Sex in Europe: Gender and Sexuality in European Popular Culture – Someone, maybe RRRJessica, tweeted a link to this academic journal that looks interesting. What is European popular culture? And how does it represent gender and sexuality? These… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, January 13th
Today’s Links: Three Funerals That Shaped My Life – Jason Reynolds has a YA novel about a 17-year-old boy who works in a funeral home in Brooklyn and talks about funerals on Diversity in YA. You know what sucks? Death…. Read more »
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