Casie Hermansson's Web Sitehttp://www.casiehermansson.com/home/Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:22 +0000en-USSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Young Adult (YA) Rises in Popularity[Your Name Here]Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:51:27 +0000http://www.casiehermansson.com/home/young-adult-ya-rises-in-popularity.html367124:3940788:14961617In this week's Time magazine, Lev Grossman reviews a YA novel by John Green, The Fault in Our Stars. The review is a strong endorsement of the novel, the story of two adolescents with cancer, but also of YA in general:

"Green's book is also a good example of why so many adult readers are turning to young-adult literature for the pleasures and consolations they used to get from conventional literary fiction. Its pacing is steady and brisk--it declines to linger lugubriously over ever last observable detail--and its prose is sharp and clean and unshowy. It's funny, but it's not clever or overly impressed with itself."

YA is carving out a much-deserved share of the adult reader market share. Why do you like YA?

]]>http://www.casiehermansson.com/home/rss-comments-entry-14961617.xmlReading Vacation[Your Name Here]Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:34:09 +0000http://www.casiehermansson.com/home/reading-vacation.html367124:3940788:14727522Not a vacation from reading, but a vacation from the daily --by reading. That's what I plan to do over the next few months. I'm overdue a reading rampage, and when I think back to the spring of 2012, that's what I plan to remember. I'm reading everything. Fiction, non-fiction, YA, adult, middle-grade, genre... all of it.

Aren't you due a reading vacation too?

]]>http://www.casiehermansson.com/home/rss-comments-entry-14727522.xml