Sometimes you're a little peckish and just want some carrot sticks. Or maybe you'd rather some chocolate. As one person said, they're teaching kids not to like reading and negative eating habits in one hit. Yikes.
y'know, the kind where you're not sure if you like it or not, but you keep eating it, and then you order it again the next time you're there even though you're still not sure you like it
surprised no one’s taken the cheese course yet, which i think mine are. not too heavy, could go anywhere from subtle to in your face foul, has smatterings of meat and sweets
Mine are probably Biryani. You finish them way too fast, think they're just another meal, but then wake up in the middle of the night, guts churning, unable to sleep, thinking of them.
My books are fruit juice. Some people say they're good for you; many say they're just empty sugar; other people never drink them. Some people had a bad experience with them as a mixer when they were younger and the reminder is haunting.
the original post was about some elementary school library grimly determined to fight literacy at all costs, but as a culture, this framing certainly exists in many adult minds, too
personally I like to think of myself as writing edible sea urchin books prepared specifically in such a way to trick you into swallowing the globiferous pedicellariae
I think you're writing the latter and when our civilization is overturned by super intelligent mutated-brain trash pandas who ate that fungus we'll know who to blame. Or thank.
I'm picturing this library with 'dessert' & 'nutritious' as the only sections. But what if you write books that are nutritious desserts?? Like mine have science but there's also cartoons (and mostly tasteful dad jokes)?? Is there no MIDDLE GRADE MIDDLE GROUND in this library??
like sometimes parents eyeroll at the pile of graphic novels their kids bring up to check out at the library and I try to appropriately be like "would you rather they have no interest at all?"
The easy thing for me to do here is make a gumbo joke, but really my books are etouffee, way too rich, way too messy, bane of both spellcheck and tourists, and probably unappetizing unless you've had it before.
I want to walk away from my reading experience of eighteen surprising and unrelated elements unsure whether I am satisfied or have just been peer-pressured into thinking I am
Comments
y'know, the kind where you're not sure if you like it or not, but you keep eating it, and then you order it again the next time you're there even though you're still not sure you like it
Then the next day you gobble another one😉
Sometimes with nuts.
I can only conclude it was very good for the developing writerly brain. :D
like sometimes parents eyeroll at the pile of graphic novels their kids bring up to check out at the library and I try to appropriately be like "would you rather they have no interest at all?"
Blanking on everything else about it, however....
😂