![]() “These strong, charged images have never left me,” says Skurnick. Having divvied up the books into categories (Girls On The Verge, Danger Girls, Girls In Love), she unpicks the themes at the heart of the novels, paying special attention to those that elicit visceral reactions. ![]() Skurnick’s essays as well are a joy to read. Uncomplicated by subtlety or the trappings of Great Writing (see Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, & etc…) they not only never let you down, they don’t slow you down, either. Skurnick’s classics demand a different kind of attention than the other kind. ![]() Open any selection, to any page, and you’ll see what I mean. Her witty, insightful essays on over five dozen novels that set the standard for the richly diverse selection of young adult novels crowding bookstore shelves today are like a crash course in hindsight. Leave it to Lizzie Skurnick, whose Fine Lines columns for are now collected in a book, Shelf Discovery: Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, to respond at length to my questions. ![]()
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