#ya-books — Public Fediverse posts

"It's Not Either/Or. It's Both/And. On Blink YA & Undermining Literary Choice.

Young people need access to *all kinds* of books, not just those that pass some kind of purity test." --Kelly Jensen

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Quasit's Book Recommendations: "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" by Hugh Lofting (1920)

"The Story of Doctor Dolittle" is the first book in the Doctor Dolittle series by Hugh Lofting. They began as a series of illustrated letters that he sent to his children from the trenches of World War I as a soldier.

The Doctor is a kind-hearted man, a doctor of humans (originally) whose lack of worldliness ends up losing him almost all of his human patients. His African parrot Polynesia decides to help him become an animal doctor instead—but a very special one, unique in fact, as she teaches him the languages of the animals. Things only get better from there.

In this first novel the character of the Doctor is established, along with many of his human and animal friends. He's asked to come to Africa by the animals there, to treat a disease that's killing them; once there he has more adventures.

Some of those adventures led to criticism and censorship in the latter 20th century. The idea that an English doctor would be summoned to save the animals of Africa was seen as racist, another iteration of the Great White Hope; this was intolerable to some critics.

Far more offensive to some, however, was the section in which the Doctor and his animal family were captured by an African king - a human. Locked up in the king's dungeon, the Doctor is only able to escape by tricking the king's son, Prince Bumpo. The Prince wants to become white (sorry, but that's in the story), because he fell in love with a sleeping white woman who cried out when she woke and saw that he was black.

The Doctor dyes his face white (temporarily), but remarks that the whole thing is ridiculous; the Prince has a good heart, which is all that should matter. The animals make disparaging remarks about the silliness of the white woman. Nonetheless, the publishing world would not forgive Lofting. Long after his death, with the assent of his estate, the book was rewritten VERY badly to replace that section with a threadbare hypnotism plot.

For years no published version of the book in the United States included the original text; just the bowdlerized version. And then the ironic gods of copyright laughed. For the book passed into the public domain—but NOT the rewritten text, only the original!

Let me get personal for a minute: I read this book when I was •very• young. Several times, in fact. I loved it; the gentle humor was perfect for me, and the adventures of the Doctor and his animals thrilled me without frightening me.

As for the racism of the Africa section, none of my brethren in the Klan have ever had any problem with it. KIDDING! I grew up without any racism, I hope, but in any case "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" certainly didn't make me a racist monster. What I took to heart was what the Doctor said about Prince Bumpo's heart, and that Prince Bumpo himself became a visiting member of the Dolittle family–unless he's been edited out of later books in the series as well, in the name of tolerance.

Obviously I have strong feelings about this. I won't apologize for them. I'll admit that some of the drawings of Africans in the book could be seen as offensive, but they did no harm to me as far as I know.

"So the swallow was brought in, all huddled and shivering; and although she was a little afraid at first, she soon got warmed up and sat on the edge of the mantelpiece and began to talk.

When she had finished the Doctor said,

“I would gladly go to Africa — especially in this bitter weather. But I’m afraid we haven’t money enough to buy the tickets. Get me the money-box, Chee-Chee.”

So the monkey climbed up and got it off the top shelf of the dresser.

There was nothing in it — not one single penny!

“I felt sure there was twopence left,” said the Doctor.

“There was” said the owl. “But you spent it on a rattle for that badger’s baby when he was teething.”

“Did I?” said the Doctor— “dear me, dear me! What a nuisance money is, to be sure!"

The Doctor's feelings towards money influenced me very much.

Anyway, the original, unexpurgated text and illustrations are available in a beautifully formatted ebooks, in all the major formats, at Standard Ebooks. The earlier books in the series are available, and more are entering the public domain regularly.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/hugh-lofting/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle

Happy reading! 🤓📖

#Books #Bookstodon #YA #ChildrensBooks #Humor #YAbooks #QuasitBookRecs

The People have spoken (damn them! 🤣), so I'll be trying to do a book recommendation every day. In addition to the standard hashtags, I'll also be tagging them as "QuasitBookRecs". And I'll add hashtags to indicate the genre as well.

Here's the first official one:

"The Portmanteau Book" (1974) by Thomas Rockwell, is lavishly illustrated by Gail Rockwell. It's a comedy riot between two covers for children, young adults, and any adult who remembers what it was like to be young. It's not a novel, though; it really lives up to it's name, a true portmanteau. There are short stories, a comic book, puzzles, poetry, an index that contains a bank robbery as you read from entry to entry, a contest...there's no other book like it in the world. If some of it doesn't get you to laugh, you have my pity.

Sadly it's long out of print and not available for sale digitally. But you can find used copies at reasonable prices online. You can also find PDFs if you're willing to hoist the 🏴‍☠️.

The comic book section includes a page of ads which always cracked me up.

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Blog Tour: The Ultimate Blindside by Leslea Wahl

Welcome to the Blog Tour for The Ultimate Blindside by Leslea Wahl, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book

Title: The Ultimate Blindside
Series: Blindside series #3
Author: Leslea Wahl
Publisher: Perpetual Light Publishing
Release Date: February 3, 2026
Genre: YA Adventure/Mystery

Jake’s silver-medal life is movie-worthy.

Sophie’s role is about to be sabotaged.

Their sleepy Colorado town is overrun by a Hollywood film crew as the two teens, now high school seniors, find their private lives laid open for the world to see. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman and her daughter seek the couple’s help running from a powerful, dangerous man. In this tale of twists, whom can Sophie and Jake truly trust?

PURCHASE LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon

More in This Series

About the Author

Leslea Wahl is an award-winning author of adventurous teen mysteries. She not only writes for teens but is an avid reviewer of Christian fiction and a founding member of Catholic Teen Books. Her journey to become an author came through a search for value-based fiction for her own children. Leslea now strives to be an advocate for other families battling against society’s secular messages through her faith-based writing and reviews.

Connect with Leslea by visiting lesleawahl.com to follow her on social media and subscribe to email updates.

My Review

There was a lot that I loved about this book–the setting, the filming elements, the healthy dating relationship between Sophie and Jake. I also liked the parental involvement (and disappointment and consequences) because I feel YA fiction sometimes likes to ignore that parents exist. The opening hooked me pretty quickly, and the end was WILD. But a few aspects made this book harder to enjoy.

I liked Sophie and Jake and the naturalness of their relationship… the way that they’re mostly friends doing life together with an occasional kiss that honestly didn’t feel sensual at all. I liked the discussion throughout the book about setting boundaries and following them, and the care that Sophie and Jake put into ensuring their relationship remains pure. I also liked how they both had their own interesting pursuits going on outside of their relationship.

I think the delicate balance of realistic teen angst vs. annoying teen angst can be difficult to navigate, and while most of Sophie and Jake’s decisions felt reasonable (despite being foolish at times), there was a lot of relational drama in their friendships. Jon and Rick showing up during filming just to anger Jake felt weird, and I didn’t like Jake’s responses to them for much of the book. For him being such a chill and kind guy, there seemed like such a lack of understanding. And then there was a blowup between best friends about keeping secrets, with your typical “I ALWAYS tell you EVERYTHING. Are we even friends?”, which felt very overly dramatic.

Without having read the prior books in the series, I definitely missed out on some of the buildup and couldn’t fully appreciate the villain reveal, but I did enjoy the mystery elements and the intense scenes at the end. The final reveal, however, felt completely out of left field and honestly disappointing. I feel the author could have either planted clues or picked someone more reasonable.

I did enjoy this book–three stars on Goodreads means I liked it. I just didn’t appreciate some of the elements included.

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from the author. All views expressed are my honest opinion.

Tour Giveaway

(1) winner will receive print copies of the first two books of the series and book-themed items including socks, a mug, a bookmark, and a bible-verse magnet!

Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight March 31, 2026 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on April 7, 2026. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US/CAN only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.

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#gamemastersbookclub Explores the Genres! Young Adult Fantasy (12-18yrs) #ya #yabooks #yafantasy #yafantasybooks #yafantasyseries #fantasy
A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik
The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
Howl's Moving Castle - Dianna Wynne Jones
Redwall - Brian Jacques
Akata Warrior - Nnedi Okorafor

"In Transition" by Emily Corbett covers the past 20 years of contemporary #YALiterature with #transgender characters and/or by #transAuthors (fiction & memoirs) as well as a perspective on the YA book market in UK & USA 🏳️‍⚧️

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I am celebrating one month until Worlds Divide releases! Currently you can add it on Goodreads!

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Die Arbeit am zweiten Band meiner Reihe "Im Rausch des Meeres" ist weitestgehend abgeschlossen. Das erste Feedback aus dem Kreis meiner Probeleserinnen fiel überwältigend aus und motiviert, weiterzumachen. Auf ans Werk mit Band 3: "Enthüllung" (Arbeitstitel)

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#52booksin52weeks 20. Day of the Week in the Title - Mr. Monday by Garth Nix #garthnix #YABooks #yaseries #YAParanormal #heroism #bravery #goodvsevil #sevensins #chronicillness #curiosity #perseverance #fantasy #adventure #suspense #booktok #bookstagram #booksky #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

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560. So viele Seiten hat das aktuelle Manuskript meines zweiten Buches. Der finale Buchsatz und das abschließende Korrektorat stehen aber noch aus.

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Just read Sarad Dessen's "Keeping Moon", American YA coming of age story.

It's flawed in many ways, including some weirdness about body weight and huge focus on being pretty that didn't work for me.

But there's also a fantastic stormy friendship between two of the secondary characters, Isabel and Morgan, two young women who live together. According to the story they are straight, but to me they seem passionately in love with one another and it saves an otherwise pretty meh book.

Their relationship has way more chemistry than the main love story.

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This new year will be about pushing myself to be the best I can be as a reader, a writer, and a student! However, I want to do my best to include YOU in the process.

With that said: what are YOU reading this month?

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