Future BOTM Themes

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Sat March 12th, 2011, 3:35 am

[quote=""Michy""]So would that be the works of Edith Wharton, for example? I really like her writing.[/quote]

From a class syllabis, some examples:

J K Huysmans, Against the Grain [A Rebours] (1884, Penguin edn., trans R. Baldick)

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886, various edns.)

H. Rider Haggard, She (1887, Oxford World’s Classics)

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), in The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, ed. M. Holland (Collins - NB. currently widely remaindered)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892, Virago - also in Norton Anthology of American Literature and other collections)

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895, various edns.)

Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897, various edns.)

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898, various edns. and collections)

Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899, Virago/Penguin, Norton American AnthologyI don't consider any of these HF since the author were writing about their own time, but I suppose there is a way to make an interesting discussion about any of these books, and compare them with books about the same time period but written as HF.

Margaret · Post by **Margaret** » Sat March 12th, 2011, 10:50 pm

YA's a great idea but I'll have to pass on that one. Now that I'm finished with mine I can talk a bit more, but after reading and reviewing 40 excerpts for Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Award of which 90% were YA and first person at that I think I will pass away from old age before I go year YA again

Oh, Ash - you should really read one of the super-excellent YA novels as a corrective to this experience before giving up on the genre. Kind of like getting back on the horse after it throws you, so you can show it who's master. I can highly recommend Catherine Jinks's Pagan's Crusade or Rebecca Barnhouse's The Book of the Maidservant, and others here will undoubtedly be able to suggest others. In fact, maybe this is a good reason to do a YA BOM - with the proviso that people should nominate novels they know to be of supremely high quality!

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Sun March 13th, 2011, 3:27 am

[quote=""Margaret""]Oh, Ash - you should really read one of the super-excellent YA novels as a corrective to this experience before giving up on the genre. Kind of like getting back on the horse after it throws you, so you can show it who's master. I can highly recommend Catherine Jinks's Pagan's Crusade or Rebecca Barnhouse's The Book of the Maidservant, and others here will undoubtedly be able to suggest others. In fact, maybe this is a good reason to do a YA BOM - with the proviso that people should nominate novels they know to be of supremely high quality![/quote]

Huh? Not only was that not me who posted, but that is not my opinion at all! I have read and enjoyed many YA books. Please check the poster name when you post quotes. Thanks

Margaret · Post by **Margaret** » Sun March 13th, 2011, 7:47 am

Huh? Not only was that not me who posted, but that is not my opinion at all!

Oops - so sorry, Ash. It was Misfit. I thought I had checked, but I was obviously a bit addled when I made that post.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Sun March 13th, 2011, 12:34 pm

[quote=""Margaret""]Oops - so sorry, Ash. It was Misfit. I thought I had checked, but I was obviously a bit addled when I made that post.[/quote]

Glad to know I am not the only addled person around here

I know there's lots of good YA out there, but I will need a breather after what I just went through.

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Sun March 13th, 2011, 2:24 pm

[quote=""Margaret""]Oops - so sorry, Ash. It was Misfit. I thought I had checked, but I was obviously a bit addled when I made that post.[/quote]

De nada ('not a problem' in Spanish)

LoveHistory · Post by **LoveHistory** » Sun March 13th, 2011, 7:38 pm

[quote=""Misfit""]I thing there was a winner or two, but for the most part very mediocre - bad. No vampires either, at least in my batch. Go to the Vine forums and read the ABNA 2011 thread, especially the last of the posts. It seems everyone got tons of YA.[/quote]

A lot of people (especially the younger set) at NaNo were talking about submitting to ABNA. I wonder how many did it with no editing.

Divia · Post by **Divia** » Sun March 13th, 2011, 8:47 pm

Wow. My YA must be a gem then.

Just kidding my could suck as well. Who knows! Its not first person though...

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Sun March 13th, 2011, 9:27 pm

[quote=""LoveHistory""]A lot of people (especially the younger set) at NaNo were talking about submitting to ABNA. I wonder how many did it with no editing.[/quote]

Sorry, but not allowed to talk specifics. There were some rather unusual ones though...

Wow. My YA must be a gem then.
Just kidding my could suck as well. Who knows! Its not first person though...

That's good to hear. First person generally doesn't work well for me

There were a few out of my 40 that were really promising knock your socks off type of books and I look forward to following them. I think by the time the next round of eliminations are over I can speak more about them. I think.

LoveHistory · Post by **LoveHistory** » Mon March 14th, 2011, 12:17 am

Not asking for info, Misfit. Just wondering aloud as it were.