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Originally Posted by sun surfer
The tone of some of your comments about adults reading YA sound rather disparaging to me. There's been other disparaging remarks about YA in the club in the past as well and I'm not sure if others have said things as well or if the comments have always been from you
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I'm sorry that "[t]he tone of some of [my] comments about adults reading YA sound [sic] rather disparaging to [you]." They weren't meant to be and I tried to qualify them so they didn't sound that way. For my own amusement, I want to parse them a bit. I've quoted the comments I made about the genre before your post below.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Frankly, I don't see what a discussion of a YA book offers an adult, but I do understand that's just my opinion. I'll even make an exception for The Golden Compass, but for the reason that it's not light.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Just to be clear, I'm not saying that adults shouldn't or can't read YA with enjoyment. But I don't think it offers much to discuss except in the context of what the book says to children, which doesn't seem that interesting to me for a book group.
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Originally Posted by issybird
I think its own merits are inextricably tied to its function as a children's book. I admit, however, YA is uninteresting to me as a topic of discussion unless I read it with a child of the appropriate age. I know that's very much a MMV situation.
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There were three comments, so I don't know if by some of my comments you meant two of them or all of them. But when I read them, I see that only one mentions adults reading YA and I said, pretty much in so many words, that I didn't have an issue with it, and indeed, why would I? People read what they like and I had said earlier that I already had read three of the YA nominations, so obviously I'm a fellow offender. I also would hope it's clear that the point of this post was to diffentiate between adults reading YA and adults discussing YA in a book group.
All three comments did cite my real point, that I don't think YA makes for a good discussion in an adult book group. I'm sticking to it. However, I was careful each time to qualify it as my opinion only and one that I knew wasn't shared. Really, I don't see why I can't say that.
Finally, I have no memory of having said anything disparaging about YA in the past, but it's not impossible that I said something which I phrased poorly or which was misconstrued. I do think you'll have to look for another villain here, though. My full apologies if I'm wrong. No one should have to defend what they like. A book club nomination is another matter, however.