tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post7238469597133062829..comments2024-03-28T16:31:23.093-07:00Comments on Books in Northport: Were there Young Adult Novels in the Nineteen-Sixties?P. J. Grathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-23468218013966565322015-01-14T17:17:49.540-08:002015-01-14T17:17:49.540-08:00Hi, Susan! It's a bit disorienting to read a n...Hi, Susan! It's a bit disorienting to read a new comment, hit "publish" so it will appear, and then realize it's appearing on an older post rather than a recent one. The photo of Sarah's "humiliation," for instance, does not appear on this page but on a later one. I don't care! I'm just glad to see a comment from you! And yes, we were happy not to be in that horrendous pile-up, too. We would have missed it, anyway, as it was east of 131, but by holing up for three nights in Hastings we escaped the worst blizzard driving -- after our first day that is.P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-38582662479233799532015-01-14T10:47:13.506-08:002015-01-14T10:47:13.506-08:00Pamela,
Glad to read that you, David and Sarah wer...Pamela,<br />Glad to read that you, David and Sarah were not part of the devastating pileup in southern Michigan. Your trip sounds great so far. Sarah looks humiliated.<br />I used to take a blanket for my short-haired dachshunds. I was relatively certain that your route did not include the area of the pileup in I-94 but I kept looking for your vehicle on the TV news.Susannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-18150456743366808062015-01-05T08:46:12.962-08:002015-01-05T08:46:12.962-08:00BB, you must have been catching up on several post...BB, you must have been catching up on several posts, as this comment clearly replies to my last post of December. As for the term 'sabbatical,' I used it very intentionally. Thanks for the link to that site differentiating 'sabbatical' from 'vacation.' You noted, I'm sure, that sabbaticals can (often do) involve travel, and everyone I know who's traveled on sabbatical has combined the pleasures of travel with the work (also pleasurable) of research and writing. My goals for this winter are very much of the sabbatical order: focus on creativity, productive work, and rejuvenation. And I'll have to answer to the boss, you know -- ME -- and she (I) can be very demanding!P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-47756669154870010182015-01-04T18:21:28.513-08:002015-01-04T18:21:28.513-08:00Having never been on sabbatical, but experiencing ...Having never been on sabbatical, but experiencing numerous vacations, I was a bit curious about the difference. There is<br /><a href="http://yoursabbatical.com/learn/employees/" rel="nofollow">one source</a><br />that suggests the sabbatical is more purposeful, albeit IMO, more worklike. So I hope you consider<br />taking a 'vacatibbatical'! BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-38650194605985003472014-12-27T10:25:22.099-08:002014-12-27T10:25:22.099-08:00What a wonderful post! Takes me back to whole day...What a wonderful post! Takes me back to whole days spent reading with one leg over a chair arm. Many of those books loved in late childhood are still on my shelf. Master Skylark, by John Bennett, about a young boy singing the parts of women in Shakespeare's England, Gene Stratton Porter's novels of the Limberlost in Indiana, horse books, dog books, especially Alfred Ollivant's immortal Bob Son of Battle, Melville and Thomas Wolfe, Dickens and Kipling and Maugham, and then the bounty of Sherwood Anderson, Welty, and the whole world of the American short story... <br /><br />I don't think very many of these books would be easily shelved now as fantasy, children's, teen, YA or New Adult. Many of them were sentimental by today's standards, but who's more sentimental than an adolescent? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-76083264018830935312014-12-18T10:51:20.046-08:002014-12-18T10:51:20.046-08:00I really wasn't thinking about classic adult n...I really wasn't thinking about classic adult novels here. I certainly wasn't reading Dickens in junior high myself! My bookselling experience tells me that books with teen characters begin to appeal to 10- and 11-year-olds, so YA fiction will often be read as early as 6th grade. In high school, in the old days, we usually left that behind. Nowadays, with the line blurring more and more between YA and adult, especially in the fantasy genre, and with more adults reading YA lit, it's a different scenario. Although I can still remember my grandfather reading my copy of THE BLACK STALLION'S FILLY, becoming so lost in the story that beads of sweat popped out on his forehead!<br />P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-65193768593755216052014-12-18T06:17:16.598-08:002014-12-18T06:17:16.598-08:00What an interesting topic! It's really made m...What an interesting topic! It's really made me reminisce about what I read during my junior high years. I also loved the Cherry Ames series that Yvonne mentioned. Besides A Light in the Forest, which you mentioned, two other titles stand out for me: Call it Courage and Call of the Wild. I remember reading those during my young teen years and, incidentally, they remained popular when I taught junior high English.Karen Casebeerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002150769292672779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-14828791318503810472014-12-18T04:41:05.072-08:002014-12-18T04:41:05.072-08:00What a great post, Pamela! A lovely trip down memo...What a great post, Pamela! A lovely trip down memory lane. Should we add Les Miserables and A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations to the list of YA novels?! They were surely assigned in my high school English classes and were life changers for me. Barbara Stark-Nemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13017787052118941061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-55102860703921343452014-12-17T11:41:45.666-08:002014-12-17T11:41:45.666-08:00Oh, my, yes! My next-younger sister devoured them!...Oh, my, yes! My next-younger sister devoured them! And that's another whole sub-genre: mid-20th-century YA novels featuring nurses or nurse's aides.P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-80886432794765870502014-12-17T11:37:15.357-08:002014-12-17T11:37:15.357-08:00Did anyone read the Cherry Ames series in their ea...Did anyone read the Cherry Ames series in their early teens?Yvonnenoreply@blogger.com