tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post8098906570809512763..comments2024-03-29T04:15:38.341-07:00Comments on Writing About Writing (And Occasionally Some Writing): Best Y.A. Series (Poll Results)Chris Brecheenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07819138776404280633noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-11920375773240258962014-12-03T10:12:49.130-08:002014-12-03T10:12:49.130-08:00I don't understand - rose-colored glasses are ...I don't understand - rose-colored glasses are a GOOD thing - they represent happiness and optimism. Nostalgia, also a good thing. The description was based on how I myself answered the poll and I felt positively about doing so - I voted for two sets of classics I loved as a kid and have not reread and don't plan to, but I look back on them with great happiness. Like I said, it was just my personal guess as to why the poll went the way it did. Obviously you had a different reason for answering how you did, which is totally legitimate. Plymouth Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00539297105353238798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-88341988175533882562014-12-03T09:50:51.646-08:002014-12-03T09:50:51.646-08:00The word choices of your explanation evoked a sens...The word choices of your explanation evoked a sense of dismissal in me. For example, the phrase, rosy nostalgia lens, sounds like a rework of the phrase, rose-colored glasses. I can understand that you did not intend to dismiss, and I ask that you understand why I felt that your phrasing dismissed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06575902449982773635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-22276556987302339242014-12-02T23:47:58.791-08:002014-12-02T23:47:58.791-08:00I am confused as to why "rosy nostalgia lens&...I am confused as to why "rosy nostalgia lens" counts as a dismissal. I was EXPLAINING, not dismissing :P Geez.Plymouth Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00539297105353238798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-11480385477341763152014-12-02T22:48:32.523-08:002014-12-02T22:48:32.523-08:00I think people judging YA novels from the standpoi...I think people judging YA novels from the standpoint of being a YA or having been a YA is an extremely valid one. I don't know why remembering myself as a YA reading these series for the first time should be dismissed as a filter through rosy nostalgia. As it happens, I looked at the series both through the memory of what they did for me growing up and again as an adult re-reading them. Judging by conversations at lit conventions, a great many adults revisit these old treasures even as adults. That they speak to us meaningfully both as kids and as adults provides additional validity to their vaunted status in western literature.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06575902449982773635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-50616097618176396142014-12-02T22:44:18.201-08:002014-12-02T22:44:18.201-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06575902449982773635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-58606189799767933622014-12-02T14:41:21.846-08:002014-12-02T14:41:21.846-08:00I think when you're talking YA it's just a...I think when you're talking YA it's just a surer bet that a lot of readers have read then AND read them when they were actual YAs themselves and as such are filtering then through the rosy nostalgia lens. <br /><br />But that's just an offhand guess as to an explanation.Plymouth Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00539297105353238798noreply@blogger.com