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This Week’s Topic:
What IRL people can you talk to about YA?
Back in the day, as in just a few years ago, my ya-loving friends were like this cat’s friend:
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No, not colorful, blobby, cigarette-smoking cyclops..es (cyclopi? no clue). They weren’t real!
I didn’t know anyone who loved to read ya literature. Sad, I know. But that’s started to change!
My mom took a ya literature class in school and fell in love with it. But now she’s an elementary school librarian, so most of her energy goes into MG.
I’ve turned my younger sister onto ya, and she and I love talking books.
My sister-in-law also enjoys ya books, so I love giving her suggestions.
And lastly, one of my writing group members is ya writer and reader like me, so we’re always swapping suggestions at meetings.
And now I’m all never leave me!
Kristina Atkins 
I get ridiculously happy when I find someone I can talk YA with–at our last garage sale, a neighbor girl from up the street spent about an hour enthusing over books with me.
Sounds like you’ve got a good YA support group going there.
Bahahaha, I love that last gif. And it’s so great to have people to share your opinions with. I really didn’t have anyone like that until I started blogging last summer. (I also didn’t read as much YA as I do now until I started blogging.)
Although, it is a LOT harder for me to find someone whose opinions on books match mine. Especially in terms of book bloggers–so many of them tend to only sing praises for books because they’re afraid of repercussions. I love the ones who give strong, detailed opinions.