Sara Zarr and the Darkness of My Soul
Sara Zarr, whose excellent first novel Story of a Girl comes out in January, asks a lot of penetrating questions. For instance, in an interview that will appear later in the blog tour over at Not Your Mother's Book Club, she asked, "If you were going to be on Intervention, what would be Intervening about?"
So for today's blog tour stop, Sara proves that she is way smarter than me in a conversation about writing and YA literature and religion. (Trivia: This is the first of the blog tour interviews to be conducted over instant messenger.)
Thanks again to Dean for yesterday's "An Abundance of John Green" day.
posted by John Green @ Friday, September 29, 2006
4 Comments
4 Comments:
yes, ya know what peeves me?.. i am an "evangelical christian" *gasps* and Looking For Alaska is my favorite book of all time, so i tell my boyfriend aka pastors son to read it...he reads it and loves it and kept raving about it and then his mom does too, and she like sat down with me and had a discussion about how she might be pursuaded that my boyfriend and i just read it to rebel and act out..she acts like its one of those cheap romance books by the candy at the grocery store...but after i told her to ask her 12 yr old daughter about her first blowjob story and how it was way more entertaining then the one in the book, i think she got my point. its not porn, its reality...and even her blessed angel sucks peckers!
I'm going to skirt the blessed-angel question, if I may, although I think angels are supposedly to be asexual. As for the rest of this comment:
Thanks; I appreciate your defending the book. I'd also say that there's nothing *gasp* wrong with being an 'evangelical' Christian (i.e., we might have theological disagreements, but I have theological disagreements with many of my friends, and they are still nice people).
What IS wrong, in my opinion, is acting like "Alaska" is a cheap romance book by the candy at the grocery store, as you put it, simply because the book contains sex. Or acting like the fact that a book contains sex is inherently bad for children. (I mean, literally no one argues that books containing violence, like say the LEFT BEHIND series, are inherently bad for children.)
Thanks again for your comment.
John
its halarious that you would mention the left behind thing becuase i argue that with my mother daily in regards to video games....anyhow..if you have theological arguements great, thats awesome because i mean at least you have an understandable disagreement, i hate it when someone has a bad experience with one of "us" ps. i dont mean to be like ohhhh us!!!..but i really dont have time to word it any better, but anyhow i will be the first to admit there are some real faggots out there that call themselve evangelical christians but the way they act is a horrible portrayal of christians, let alone evangelical christians. anyhizzow, i wonder how you might react to the movie Jesus Camp, which is a "documentary" soon to be out. the trailer i saw for it disgusts me..i just cannot describe how awful it is, and its not true...at least in my, and my churchs case, its completely blown WAY OUT of proportion and edited really poorly..it makes them look like they are worshippinh hitler, though i will admit even if they are worshiping Jesus..they are a little out of it... ugh..now i am just ranting and i have no structure so i will shut up...hey aim me sometime if you have a chance... Buddynielsonlove is my s/n
link to jesus camp trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/jesuscamp/trailer/
hey!
i just read 'looking for Alaska' and im currently dazed. its so eye-opening and so..well..genius. let my entire vacation pass me by because i couldnt put it down and then just had to read it again.
i havent read a book quite as captivating as this in a REALLY long time. thanks for that.
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