Where I've been

Hi, everyone! Sorry Bookduck hasn't been very bookish lately. I'm taking quite a few credits this semester, and my freetime is small. I miss posting and reading and commenting and all that good stuff I haven't had time to do.

I have been blogging lately, but not at Bookduck; my American Lit class requires me to maintain an online reading journal in blog format. (I'm not inserting the link because it's pretty boring, unless you're dying to discuss Phillis Wheatley's poetry with me.)

In other literature-related news, my first painting assignment of the semester required me to draw inspiration from a work of literature, and I chose Paper Towns by John Green. (Which, if you haven't read it, is fantastic.) (Yes, I'm the only student who selected a work of YA fiction.) I'm finishing that up tonight and crossing my fingers for good things at critique this week.

I'll leave you with some links I've found interesting over the last few weeks:

Literary classics= VIDEO GAME GENIUS (at Kiersten Writes; probably one of the funniest things I have ever read)

So, YA Literature Is Going Down the toilet (an intelligent, funny defense of YA lit at Maggie Stiefvater's blog)

"Young Adult Lit Comes of Age" (article at the LA Times)