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Something negative
Mar. 4th, 2011 10:10 pmI'm probably going to regret this, but I posted on Wordpress about the recent debate on negative reviewing that's been bouncing around the YA blogosphere for the past couple of weeks.
[Just a little disclaimer. Most of you probably know already, but I should mention that I am both a book blogger and a book-reviewer for a newspaper. Unlike many of the book bloggers involved in this debate, I am not an aspiring author. But I am a passionate reviewer and I feel that our position is being deliberately misrepresented so that some in the YA literary world don't have to engage with some of the issues - mainly related to misogyny in some YA works - that we've raised. And I feel that comments like Becca Fitzpatrick's to 'be nice' could be interpreted as slightly threatening. Of course there's no secret cabal of YA authors. Some YA authors like to hang around together because hey, they work in the same field and have similar interests, like friends everywhere. But the aspiring authors who are also book-reviewers are not just randomly lashing out in order to console themselves for their failure to land publishing deals. When Fitzpatrick says things like this, she is INHIBITING OUR ABILITY TO DO OUR JOB PROPERLY. That is all.]
[Just a little disclaimer. Most of you probably know already, but I should mention that I am both a book blogger and a book-reviewer for a newspaper. Unlike many of the book bloggers involved in this debate, I am not an aspiring author. But I am a passionate reviewer and I feel that our position is being deliberately misrepresented so that some in the YA literary world don't have to engage with some of the issues - mainly related to misogyny in some YA works - that we've raised. And I feel that comments like Becca Fitzpatrick's to 'be nice' could be interpreted as slightly threatening. Of course there's no secret cabal of YA authors. Some YA authors like to hang around together because hey, they work in the same field and have similar interests, like friends everywhere. But the aspiring authors who are also book-reviewers are not just randomly lashing out in order to console themselves for their failure to land publishing deals. When Fitzpatrick says things like this, she is INHIBITING OUR ABILITY TO DO OUR JOB PROPERLY. That is all.]
