Showing posts with label Stephenie Meyer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephenie Meyer. Show all posts
Friday, April 15, 2011
Friday, November 20, 2009
New Moon Frenzy: Tomorrow Night!
Don't forget the rgz New Moon Frenzy right here at the readergirlz blog tomorrow night (Saturday) at 6pm PDT/9pm EDT!
Join readergirlz and TwilightMOMS to dish about the movie, and have a chance to win a Twilight necklace from Gypsy Wings and other fantastic swag!
Join readergirlz and TwilightMOMS to dish about the movie, and have a chance to win a Twilight necklace from Gypsy Wings and other fantastic swag!
Friday, July 17, 2009
Twilight graphic novel in the works
Speaking of graphic novels - which we are all month long here at readergirlz, with a special feature on The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg - Entertainment Weekly has reported that there will be a Twilight graphic novel with art by Young Kim. Click here to see a sample panel.
Do you think that Twilight will translate well in graphic novel format?
Do you think that Twilight will translate well in graphic novel format?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
From Stephenie Meyer, to Stephen King, to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe
I've been intrigued by Justina Chen Headley's post about Stephenie Meyer's writing. How Stephenie is beloved, an amazing contributor of YA lit, and that she ought not say that she is a storyteller rather than a writer. Yet, how does one withstand the verbal hit by a writing legend such as Stephen King?
With those thoughts popping around in my mind, I was assigning my daughter her reading in the college curriculum American History, a Survey by Alan Brinkley.
There's a section concerning sentimental novels. This quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne stopped me:
"and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash."
Nathaniel was complaining about middle class, female-generated fiction of the mid-nineteenth century. Here was a selection of work giving voice to female hopes and anxieties. Many were romances, while others dealt with social injustices and urged reform. This was a time in which women were new consumers in the growing industrial economy.
And who was the most famous sentimental novelist of the time? Harriet Beecher Stowe, known for her 1852 antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Alan Brinkley calls the work, "one of the most influential books ever published in America."
When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet, he said, "So you are the little lady that has brought about this great war."
Maybe Nathaniel didn't respect Harriet's work, but it still stands. It spurred national change. Stephen King claimed, "Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn," he said. "She's not very good." Not that different than Nathaniel's sentiments: "America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women."
We women will continue to exercise our voices through the written word and our novel purchases. We will publish alongside amazing male writers. And we will all instigate change in one heart or many.
Here's to Stephenie Meyer who has encouraged literacy across the world with a story we can delight in. Brava!
With those thoughts popping around in my mind, I was assigning my daughter her reading in the college curriculum American History, a Survey by Alan Brinkley.
There's a section concerning sentimental novels. This quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne stopped me:
"and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash."
Nathaniel was complaining about middle class, female-generated fiction of the mid-nineteenth century. Here was a selection of work giving voice to female hopes and anxieties. Many were romances, while others dealt with social injustices and urged reform. This was a time in which women were new consumers in the growing industrial economy.
And who was the most famous sentimental novelist of the time? Harriet Beecher Stowe, known for her 1852 antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Alan Brinkley calls the work, "one of the most influential books ever published in America."
When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet, he said, "So you are the little lady that has brought about this great war."
Maybe Nathaniel didn't respect Harriet's work, but it still stands. It spurred national change. Stephen King claimed, "Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn," he said. "She's not very good." Not that different than Nathaniel's sentiments: "America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women."
We women will continue to exercise our voices through the written word and our novel purchases. We will publish alongside amazing male writers. And we will all instigate change in one heart or many.
Here's to Stephenie Meyer who has encouraged literacy across the world with a story we can delight in. Brava!
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