ecaterin: Miles's face from Warrior's Apprentice. Text: We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement. (Default)
ecaterin ([personal profile] ecaterin) wrote in [personal profile] lightreads 2011-06-10 05:39 am (UTC)

But even at the time, even when all this was happening, I was kind of bored with it. It was – the word I’m trying not to use here is frivolous.............

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES YES YES YES YES. Totally completely yes. The banality of highschool-sized-problems was cringe-worthy to me even as they happened to me (and I didn't have nearly the shenanigans you managed :D). And not surprisingly, I've never had an iota of patience for books about middle/high school kids that centered on those problems and how they are THE END OF THE WORLD. Not when I was a teen, and never since then either.

I think this is the reason the Harry Potter books worked so well for me. The school shenanigans are kept firmly in perspective by the Big Problems....and yet the honesty that they still wound our characters is well played.

Any way. Sleepy, can't write more. BUT YES!

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