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thisbluespirit · 1 year ago

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I was a librarian in the 2000s, not the 2010s, so wrong decade, but you need to remember Susan was in London (the UK), not the US, and there can be a big difference between what's popular in the two.

In the 2000s basically the only thing the actual YAs liked much in my libraries was Point Horror, which I think Susan would have found very amusing. Or screamed at. Could have gone either way. But those would be mostly a little younger than that - at 15, she and her friends would either be in the adult section already, or too cool for reading.

But cool, in-reading for 15 year olds in the UK? Probably still likely to be popular adult horror.

This, somehow, made me wonder:

If Susan Foreman was trying to blend in as a Regular Teenage Girl in the 2010s, she'd certainly be into a YA series. Which one?

Discuss.

#replies #susan foreman #honestly yas at 15 do not read ya series #it's the 11-14s who tend to do that #(one of the reasons the tv series press gang was considered so remarkable was because it may be the only teen-orientated thing #ever made to actually have garnered 80% of the teen audience it was aimed at)#when we were 15 i was reading Jane Eyre and classics and my friends were reading Flowers in the Attic #plus uk-us book publishing differences can be major #but if there's a film out obv that makes a difference #hunger games probably #percy jackson would be a bit young for a 15 yo to be considered an 'in' thing #15 is about the right age for a giant wwii or wwi teen novel/bios if you're the right sort of teen #(angst-fests. misery-lit. horror. or v light romance stuff)

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