Discussions

Here is the archive for our discussion posts!

• Are YA Books Maturing Too Fast?
• Can We Have College-Aged Characters in YA Books?
• The Dilemma of Delphini Diggory (A Criticism of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)
• Why Didn’t Cinderella “Just Leave?”
• Why I Won’t Buy Books on Amazon

• Analyzing Books Does Not Have to Ruin the Fun
• Are Classics Really Timeless?
• Are We Failing Students By Not Turning Them Into Readers?
• Are YA Books Maturing Too Fast?
• The Book World is Debating the Value of Audiobooks–Again
• Can We Have College-Aged Characters in YA Books?
• Can You Be Wrong When Interpreting Literature?
• The Canon: A Series of Happy Accidents?
• The Canon vs. the Classics: What Are They and Do We Need Them?
• The Case for Reading More Non-Fiction
• Curating Collections or Hidden Censorship?
• The Debate Over YA Is Over
• Do Our Moral Standards Change When We Read?
• Do We Value the Work of Professors?
• Do You Dislike Books Without Strong Morals?
• Don’t Be Afraid to Read Middle Grade
• Don’t Stress About How Many Books You’ve Read This Year
• Eight Places to Donate Your Gently Used Books
• English Classes Have Content and Aren’t Just about Skills
• The Ethics of Grade Inflation
• Feeling Like  You Read the “Wrong” Books
• Five Benefits to Reading Outside Your Comfort Zone
• Five Great Things About Project Gutenberg
• Five Reasons I Struggle to Listen to Audiobooks
• Five Ways to Support Authors When You Have No Money
• How Can Barnes and Noble Save Themselves?
• How Do We Avoid E-Book Piracy? (A List of Book Resources)
• How Do We Teach Readers that E-Book Piracy Is Wrong?
• How Fantasy Reveals the Things We Wish Were Easy
• How I Know You Lied About Reading a Book
• How to Insert Social Media into Your Story without Dating It
• How to Reclaim Your Social Media and Your Sanity
• I Don’t Need Every Character to Be a Role Model
• I Don’t Really Care about Your Grammar
• I Want More Holiday Books in Young Adult
• I’m No Longer Interested in Reading about Princesses (And I Hope It’s Temporary)
• Is It Cool to Hate on Middle Grade?
• Is It Possible to “Hate Classics?”
• Learning in Front of the Internet
• Let’s Promote Dialogue
• Life Doesn’t End After the Wedding
• The Mysterious Case of the Missing Social Media in MG and YA Books
• The Myth of the Solitary Genius Author
• Picture Books Aren’t Just for Children
• A Place for the Classics in the Classroom
• Plot Should Not Trump Logic in MG and YA Novels
• Rethinking the Value of MLA
• Should We Have Required Reading in Schools?
• Should YA Characters Be Role Models?
• Some of My Favorite Books Were Required Reading
• Stop Apologizing for All the Books You Haven’t Read
• Textbooks: Offering Priceless Knowledge or Swindling Students?
• There’s No Good Reason Not to Represent Characters of Faith
• Top Eight Reasons to Read Picture Books
• Top Seven Reasons to Read Middle Grade
• The Value of Reading Widely (Even if You’d Rather Not)
• Wanting Realism in Fantasy
• What Is the Content of English Classes?
• What I’ve Learned from Talking About the Need for More Diverse Religious Representation
• What Makes You Finish (or Give Up on) a Series?
• What Should We Do with ARCs?
• Why Aren’t You Reading Middle Grade?
• Why Aren’t You Reading Picture Books?
• Why Aren’t We Talking about Religious Diversity?
• Why Do Students Think They Don’t Need to Know How to Write?
• Why I Can’t Get Into Mysteries
• Why I Don’t Collect Books
• Why I Don’t Really Mind Book Spoilers
• Why I Hate Most Literary Twins
• Why I Limit the Number of Books I Own
• Why I Think Reading Slumps Are Valuable
• Why I Won’t Buy Books on Amazon
• Why I’m Not Interested in Symbols in Literature
• Why Is It So Difficult to Be Accepted into an English Grad Program?
• Why It Saddens Me When Authors Disparage YA
• Why Teachers Need to (Pretend to) Like Required Reading
• Will Barnes and Noble Actually Fail?
• Writing Realistic Politics in Children’s Fiction Matters More Than You Might Think
• You Can’t Justify E-Book Piracy

• “Beauty and the Beast”: A Story of True Love or a Problematic Relationship?
• Boromir the Bold: Reconsidering One of Tolkien’s Most Maligned Characters
• The Continuing Appeal of Little Women
• Dante’s Inferno Isn’t What You Think
• The Dilemma of Delphini Diggory (A Criticism of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)
• Does The Hobbit Need More Female Characters?
• Eowyn: A Feminist Character?
• Is the Ending of The Call of the Wild Positive?
• “Look What You Made Me Do”: Must Art Always Reflect the Creator’s Personal Beliefs?
• Maleficent Surprised Me with Its Thoughtful Look at a Character’s Fall and Redemption
• Nature vs. Nurture in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• The One YA Love Triangle I Actually Liked (Grishaverse Trilogy)
• Reclaiming Arwen: Why I Don’t Appreciate Peter Jackson’s Limited View of Womanhood in His LotR Films
• Re-Examining the Women of The Lord of the Rings
• Shakespeare for Children and Teens?
• Should Teens Read Fifty Shades of Grey?
• Why Didn’t Cinderella “Just Leave?”
• Why I’ve Never Liked Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree
• Who Would Hate Shakespeare?

• Are There Reviewing “Rules?”
• Blogging “Rules” I Ignore with Relative Impunity
• Can You Run a Book Blog Without Book Reviews?
• Do You Use Library Books for Bookstagram?
• The Ethics of Blogging
• Everything There Is to Know about Co-blogging
• Four Things that Might Happen if Book Bloggers Were Paid
• Four Ways to Spread Love to Book Bloggers This Year
• Getting Personal (Or Not)
• Have You Plagiarized Another Blogger?
• How Can Book Bloggers Promote Literacy?
• How I Take Charge of My Blog Before It Takes Charge of Me
• How I Write Book Reviews
• How It Feels to Be Plagiarized
• How to Find a Great Co-blogger
• How to Rock Bookstagram on a Budget
• Is It Dangerous to Relax Our Writing Standards While Blogging?
• Keeping Book Reviews Fresh
• The Pressure of Reviewing Classics
• Reflections on Five Weeks of Bookstagram
• Responding to Comments
• Should Bloggers Provide More Evidence in Their Discussion Posts?
• Should You Host Giveaways to Increase Blog Traffic?
• Six Blogging “Failures” at Pages Unbound
• Social Media and Blogging; The Pressure to Keep Up Is Damaging
• Thirty Discussion Post Prompts for Your Blog
• Trends I Think We’ll See in Book Blogging in 2018
• The Unwritten Rules of the Blogosphere
• What Constitutes Plagiarism?
• What’s in a Title?
• Who Has the “Authority” to Review Books?
• Why Book Reviews Are Not Going Anywhere
• Why the Future of Book Blogging May be Co-blogging
• Why I Don’t Watch Booktube
• Why I’m Not Interested in Requesting ARCs
• Writing Creative Posts
• You Don’t Have a Good Reason to Plagiarize

• Are Libraries Going Extinct?
• The Best Things about My Local Library (Part One)
• The Best Things about My Local Library (Part Two)
• Has the Internet Really Made Libraries Obsolete?
• How Libraries Are Expanding Accessibility
• How to Access YA Books While at College
• How to Keep Your Library Fines Low
• How to Obtain a Library Card When You Can’t Leave Your House
• Library Online Resources
• Secret Services from the Library
• Secrets from the Library
• Six Easy Ways to Support Your Library
• Summer Reading at the Library
• What to Do if You Owe the Library Money
• Why I Love My Library: The Joys of Browsing (Guest Post)
• Why You Should Support Libraries Even if You Don’t Use Them
• Why You Should Support Your Library

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