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Letter to the Editor, Boston Globe*:
The September 18 Ideas section included a "Bibliophiles" interview with John Tierney, who asserted that boys play video games because so many young adult books are about a tomboy rescuing a crippled boy. Perhaps Mr. Tierney would be so good as to list a few of this cavalcade; I have clearly spent my entire life shopping in the wrong bookstores, attending the wrong schools, and submitting to the wrong publishers.
In return, I would be happy to point out a number of specialty titles in which a boy rescues a girl - often a girl with no disability at all! Better yet, in some of these titles, there aren't even any girls present! These books are obscure, I know, but I find they are available in most bookstores, filling almost every shelf. It's almost like looking at videogames! What a wonderful age we live in.
* Written by me; just sent; don't know whether it will be published.
The September 18 Ideas section included a "Bibliophiles" interview with John Tierney, who asserted that boys play video games because so many young adult books are about a tomboy rescuing a crippled boy. Perhaps Mr. Tierney would be so good as to list a few of this cavalcade; I have clearly spent my entire life shopping in the wrong bookstores, attending the wrong schools, and submitting to the wrong publishers.
In return, I would be happy to point out a number of specialty titles in which a boy rescues a girl - often a girl with no disability at all! Better yet, in some of these titles, there aren't even any girls present! These books are obscure, I know, but I find they are available in most bookstores, filling almost every shelf. It's almost like looking at videogames! What a wonderful age we live in.
* Written by me; just sent; don't know whether it will be published.
