[HPforGrownups] Pullman's books. was Re: a couple of things

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 4254

Jen Piersol wrote:

> voicelady said:
>
> > On to Pullman's series:  these are supposed to be kids' books?!?
> > I think they would be rather difficult for kids.
>
> Well.... not children's literature, exactly, but young adult
> fiction.  Aimed to a higher aged audience than HP, but still
> not old enough to qualify for the NYT Adult list. ;)  Difficult,
> though, yes.  They have got a lot of older themes in them (not
> to mention vocabulary and sentence structure!), but I think
> the fact that the main character(s) has/have not even reached
> puberty yet is what puts them in the "younger readers" category.
> Personally, I think these books should be on the adult shelf,
> too.  Don't take them out of the kids' areas... it gives them
> something to "reach" for.
>
> I wish they'd been around when I was a YA.
>
> Jen (who is actually a young adult now (25), but doesn't think
> she's young enough to fit in the typical YA demographic...)

I am definitely going to have to get these books.  My best friend Kij
Johnson (see her latest, _The Fox Woman_ by Tor Books) and I talk by phone
every Sunday (we live across the country from each other) but she missed our
regularly scheduled call this week because she was bawling over the last
book in the trilogy.  She doesn't tend to rave about books indiscriminately,
so I'm planning on picking them up.

Peg
Who thinks one possible way to wean herself off her repetitive HP reading
jag is to find new authors she hasn't read before.  Radical idea!  It's also
a great way to avoid writing her next novel.