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Rainy Saturday. Make that very rainy.


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‡ We’ve been having a little light banter about a review of CHALICE that has it listed as for ‘grades 7 to 10′. Yo! You out there! If you’re over 16, put that book down!

HA! Not blinking likely. Razz I'll set my dog onto anyone who tries to take it away .....
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Yo! You out there! If you’re over 16, put that book down!


No. It's mine now!

(Or Suzi's.)

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Southdowner, better get Hazel up, too. Can't let b_twin_1 and me just get away with copying your idea, can you???


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Yo! You out there! If you’re over 16, put that book down!

Looks over shoulder, finishes last page of book, then furtively sets book on table.

Who, me? The book is down. I wasn't holding it. I don't haunt the Young Adult part of my library because that's where all the good books are. Nope, not me.

(Will someone please explain to me why most of Robin's books are in the YA section of my library, several are in the Fantasy/SciFi section, and Sunshine is in the regular adult fiction section? This makes no sense to me whatsoever.)


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blondviolinist wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 22:40

(Will someone please explain to me why most of Robin's books are in the YA section of my library, several are in the Fantasy/SciFi section, and Sunshine is in the regular adult fiction section? This makes no sense to me whatsoever.)

Weird. But maybe it'll find a larger audience that way? I tend to find Sunshine in the horror section (I guess because of the vampires).


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blondviolinist wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 22:40



(Will someone please explain to me why most of Robin's books are in the YA section of my library, several are in the Fantasy/SciFi section, and Sunshine is in the regular adult fiction section? This makes no sense to me whatsoever.)


Marketing. Smile

Sunshine is usually in the regular SFF section, as is Deerskin. The others sometimes appear in YA because Marketing likes them there.

In your area, Sunshine might have been mis-shelved, or the bookstore people might have thought it'd sell better there.


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I'm not sure if it'll find a larger audience there or not. I've never cared to look to see where they stick the Anne Rice books. The regular adult fiction section is usually the last place in the library you'll find me: I'm usually in Fantasy/SciFi, Mystery, YA, or Children's section. (Though I must have Horatio Hornblower novels from time to time.)

This is the same library that puts horror movies together with fantasy movies. I'm sorry, but I don't want to wade through Saw III and Jeepers Creepers II on my way to the Neverending Story.

I need to stop complaining about my library. It's actually a very wonderful library, one of the best I've ever been privileged to use. They've got a great selection, knowledgeable and helpful staff, a new and inviting building, and they let you bring coffee inside. The strange shelving choices are a bit of an anomaly.


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blondviolinist wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 23:00

I'm not sure if it'll find a larger audience there or not. I've never cared to look to see where they stick the Anne Rice books. The regular adult fiction section is usually the last place in the library you'll find me: I'm usually in Fantasy/SciFi, Mystery, YA, or Children's section.

Me too. Apparently, though, there are people who dare not venture into genre-land... Diana Gabaldon has been trying to get her books out of romance for years because she says she gets a wider (ie, male) audience when her books are shelved in the general fiction section instead (or as well).


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We've been having a little light banter about a review of CHALICE that has it listed as for "grades 7 to 10". Yo! You out there! If you're over 16, put that book down!


I feel an enormous rant coming on. Stop now if you don't want to read it.

Oh, oh, OH!!! This makes me so angry! I'm sorry, but there's nothing about this book that says YA. Not that I think it shouldn't be read by young readers, mind you, but come on--there aren't even any teenagers IN the book that I can recall. So why, why, why should it even begin at grade seven much less stop at grade ten?! I've said this before and I know I'm not alone, but I despise that kind of pigeonholing. I work in publishing and I STILL find it inexplicable. Not to mention utterly stupid.

*pantpant*

Okay, sorry. Carry on. Laugh, lest you cry. Light banter. Allow me to raise my blood pressure so you don't have to. Smile


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‡ We’ve been having a little light banter about a review of CHALICE that has it listed as for ‘grades 7 to 10′. Yo! You out there! If you’re over 16, put that book down!


I'm short. I bet I could pass for 16...

More seriously, 10th grade? Really? I'm puzzled.
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This makes me crazy as well. When I tried to find Dragonhaven, I figured it would be in the SFF section as usual. I asked for help, and got a real know-it-all for an "information guide." She told me Dragonhaven was a child's book, therefore it is in the child's section. And I said why? And she went on to explain blah blah blah so finally I said, The Hero and the Crown is in SFF, and she said, that's not a YA book. And I said then how did it win the Newberry? And she finally shut up. This makes me crazy too. Granted Dragonhaven and Sunshine are worlds apart, but the marketing pigeonholing makes me want to scream.

What platform is your book suited for? Oh, I get death in my eye when asked that.

[Updated on: Sat, 01 November 2008 23:31]


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Unfortunately, it seems that review journals have to pigeon-hole books into certain age ranges. I review for Booklist, and I have to use some rather rigid age ranges that don't always correspond to what I think the book should have. And many of Robin's books are in YA because of Blue Sword and Hero and the Crown getting those Newbery Honor and Newbery Award medals. However, instead of complaining about where the books are shelved, we should be happy the libraries have Robin's books! We want more people to read them! And discerning readers don't CARE where the book is shelved in the library, or what age range had to be applied by publisher, book reviewer, or whoever. And yes, I'm a librarian, have been one for decades, but I was a Robin McKinley fan first.
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ssshunt wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 22:30

This makes me crazy as well. When I tried to find Dragonhaven, I figured it would be in the SFF section as usual. I asked for help, and got a real know-it-all for an "information guide." She told me Dragonhaven was a child's book, therefore it is in the child's section. And I said why? And she went on to explain blah blah blah so finally I said, The Hero and the Crown is in SFF, and she said, that's not a YA book. And I said then how did it win the Newberry? And she finally shut up. This makes me crazy too. Granted Dragonhaven and Sunshine are worlds apart, but the marketing pigeonholing makes me want to scream.

What platform is your book suited for? Oh, I get death in my eye when asked that.


Was this in a bookstore? My local Books-a-Million shelved the hardcover of Dragonhaven in the children's section, which drove me bonkers (at least put it in Teen, for crying out loud!). However, the store redeemed itself by shelving the paperback in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chalice is in the Teen section, which is okay by me; it's in good company, together with Nancy Werlin's Impossible and Kristin Cashore's Graceling.
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And as I wrote to Merrilee a little later that morning,‡ I rang a quarter peal last night and had a lovely ride on Connie this morning, and I’m so swollen with self-satisfaction that I’d better get to work fast before I explode.

But isn't it nice to have a chance to feel self-satisfied every now and then, when the gods make a mistake and several things in a row go right?

We’ve been having a little light banter about a review of CHALICE that has it listed as for ‘grades 7 to 10′.

Snork! I'd be interested to know if there's any real data that supports the value/usefulness of these marketing categories. I've been ignoring them since I was in elementary school, and so have all the readers I know.



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More food for annnoy- I mean, thought:

http://www.fromrimtohub.com/499/pullman-pratchett-empotterem -author-denounce-age-banding-childrens-books/


Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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holmes44 wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 22:10

i love you dog, is he or she a collie.



She is a Sheltie (Shetland Sheepdog).
And yes. She worked sheep in her day. Smile


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She looks very wise - and she looks as if she wouldn't put up with any nonsense from any sheep... Smile


Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Okay, I had to laugh at this, because it's so true! While I have never quite managed to drop a piano lid on my hands, I swear I can remember doing things like somehow managing to drop a hymnal or other heavy music book off the music stand (always a part of the piano on the ones I've played) and knocking it onto the piano lid, catching it just barely through sudden reflex.


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L.R.K. wrote on Sun, 02 November 2008 01:53

She looks very wise - and she looks as if she wouldn't put up with any nonsense from any sheep... Smile


LOL Not a chance!


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The age thing is ridiculous. I was reading whatever I felt like from the age of 12, although I admit some of the stuff I read would have horrified my parents it did me no permanent harm. At least I don't think it did. My warped sense of humour and peculiar aesthetics would have come about regardless Smile

What I worry about in this post is this

"for the first ten minutes or so my shoulder was saying Twinge. I mean it, stupid. And then it stopped."

The question is, did it remain stopped? Or is it now throbbing in double time. Sometime exercise is just what an injury needs, sometimes it just exacerbates it. When it is all warm you don't feel the pain, but once it cools down - yikes. I hope that all is well and will light a candle. But full as Robin is with self satisfaction, she probably won't need chocolate or champagne ***whistles innocently, taking a page out of b_twin_1's book - which she hopes is suitable for forty-one year olds***


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Susan from Athens wrote on Sun, 02 November 2008 05:28

But full as Robin is with self satisfaction, she probably won't need chocolate or champagne ***whistles innocently, taking a page out of b_twin_1's book - which she hopes is suitable for forty-one year olds***


snork

I'm not that far behind you. *g* But hey. Any excuse for chocolate Wink


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b_twin_1 wrote on Sun, 02 November 2008 01:52

‡ We’ve been having a little light banter about a review of CHALICE that has it listed as for ‘grades 7 to 10′. Yo! You out there! If you’re over 16, put that book down!

HA! Not blinking likely. Razz I'll set my dog onto anyone who tries to take it away .....
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/2994072246_3fbdc2831f.jpg?v=0

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"Yaay" ferrets too!!!
Can we start a book club for animals who read Robin books??

Here's Hazel to join in Smile

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2867065603_a013a60ce3.jpg?v=1221742944

[Updated on: Sun, 02 November 2008 07:04]


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southdowner wrote on Sun, 02 November 2008 13:58

"Yaay" ferrets too!!!
Can we start a book club for animals who read Robin books??




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Which is another of these Rather Tall Girl on Rather Small Pony situations. There are several of them at Jenny’s yard.

I've met several of this species, many of whom fall into the category of post teen girls who have out-grown ponies but can't bear to pass them on - and most of these small ponies carried their owners without any struggle, but not always most elegantly - ... and one of them was me Smile

what a great description of bell ringing - remind me, what is the reason to do this? Wink


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ssshunt wrote on Sun, 02 November 2008 03:30

This makes me crazy as well. When I tried to find Dragonhaven, I figured it would be in the SFF section as usual. I asked for help, and got a real know-it-all for an "information guide." She told me Dragonhaven was a child's book, therefore it is in the child's section.


I asked my daughter, who was on holiday in the USA with her husband, to buy me a copy of Chalice, and told her to look in the SFF section. A few days later we were chatting on Facebook and she told me she'd found the book, but she'd had to ask, and it had been in the Young Adult section, not the SFF section. (Subtext, you could hear: Silly Mummy, fancy sending me to the wrong place and making me have to ask!).

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If I Ignore It It Isn’t Happening/It Didn’t Happen/It Doesn’t Hurt/I’m Fine/That’s Not Blood There’s Something Wrong with Your Eyes/ and Don’t Mention It On The Blog Because That Counts As Paying Attention. For any clever, careful, adept, talented, thoughtful, responsible people out there who are going, WTF?, hey, sometimes it works.


Would someone please tell that to my left leg, which was showing definite signs of A Tweaked Calf Muscle at skating this morning? I was definitely trying to Ignore It, but it doesn't really want to be ignored....



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Regret to say that none of the cats have shown an interest in reading Chalice... But I thought I caught the fish looking longingly through the glass at it last week.

And I ignored it, which is the first line of defense against stupid injury, as many of you other klutzim out there will know.


*SNRKKK*

The only reason I don’t shut the piano lid on my hands is because the music stand folds down over it.


This is called a Safety Feature. Smile I seem to recall falling off the edge of the piano bench once as a child--back in the days of forced lessons--and thinking that perhaps a seat belt might be another handy Feature for this instrument.

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Yes, it was in a bookstore. One I frequent. But they do make me crazy with what goes where. I have to use the information desk too often. Once I came in looking for Ellwand's Faereality, and they had it in fashion. Which was pretty cool in a way. But mostly they make me crazy.


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b_twin_1 wrote on Sun, 02 November 2008 01:50

holmes44 wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 22:10

i love you dog, is he or she a collie.



She is a Sheltie (Shetland Sheepdog).
And yes. She worked sheep in her day. Smile

she is beautiful and i bet that she showed the sheep who was the boss.


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Today here it's rainy Sunday. Coming down in buckets, and the mountains are getting snow. OK, we get it, it's November! Sheesh.


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We were thirty degrees today. I just spent the evening on a girlfriend's terrace, having tea and cake, with a view of the Acropolis floodlit before us. It is NOVEMBER, for goodness sake. We shouldn't even have wanted to go out on the terrace to look at the view, let alone sit there for two hours, in sleeveless tops. And I spent the day getting down my woollens, because I know that one day I will wake up and be frozen. ***Sigh*** climatological vicissitudes.


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Must remember 30 C, not 30 F. BIG difference. For a minute there, Susan, I thought you were out of your mind.

Of course it's pushing 35 F here...


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I had the same response, with the added confusion of "Why would somebody be using Celsius if they're from Georgia, US? Oh, wait... Athens, Greece!"

I'm slow today.


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Ah, the OTHER Athens.


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You know, I think I'll never take up ringing. The combination of kluztiness, myopia, and EXTREME lack of any musical ability look like I wouldn't be a winner.

I defiantly shelved Robin books in sf, at work. Of course, The Time-Traveler's Wife and Anne Rice and Jules Verne and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro go in fiction...


Sigh.
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Don't get me started.


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ssshunt wrote on Sun, 02 November 2008 23:08

Must remember 30 C, not 30 F. BIG difference. For a minute there, Susan, I thought you were out of your mind.

Of course it's pushing 35 F here...


Hah, Celsius, of course. Was watering all my balcony plants today and getting overheated (me and the plants too). They think it is spring again. All our biological temperature scales are a bit wacky.

Blond violinist: no, not Georgia. I have nothing against the southern US, but I am from the ORIGINAL Athens. (Slight bit of cultural snobbism there, but our city hasa been around for three and a half thousand years or so and we're PROUD of that fact). Smile

And no, Shelley, if it were 30 F I would be shut inside wrapped in all the knitted things I could find. We ain't trained to deal with such cold in our lil' ole town.


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Yeah, if I lived in Athens, Greece, I think I'd want to indulge in light snobbery as well Wink


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Yo! You out there! If you’re over 16, put that book down!

Hahahaha. I don't think so. Mine! All mine!

Well, one of them anyway. The other copy is going to my sister for Christmas.

*contemplates the pretty pictures of pets with artistically placed forelimbs on copies of CHALICE*

I think I may refrain from trying this out on the bird. He, uh, loves paper. He loves chewing paper. (Refer to above statements on ownership of book.)
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