Today, I'm honoured to have Erica Gillingham stop by my blog. Erica is a MPhil/Phd student at the University of Roehampton in Children’s Literature, researching romance in contemporary young adult fiction with lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender characters. Erica's here to recommend LGBT novels that differ from your normal novel.
6 LGBT Young Adult Novels with a Twist by Erica Gillingham
Who doesn’t love a great young adult novel with LGBT characters, right? The more I read, the more I love this field of literature. While I could easily share with you my ‘best picks’ list, some lovely people have already done a fine job of it here and here so I’m taking the somewhat quirky road instead: LGBT novels that play with the structure of the printed page.
There may be a technical term for this kind of playfulness (please inform me if there is, the Google doesn’t know how to answer that question), but what I’m talking about is the extra stuff, the literary surprises that are so delightfully extraneous to the printed text that it makes you sit up and pay attention.
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6 LGBT Young Adult Novels with a Twist by Erica GillinghamWho doesn’t love a great young adult novel with LGBT characters, right? The more I read, the more I love this field of literature. While I could easily share with you my ‘best picks’ list, some lovely people have already done a fine job of it here and here so I’m taking the somewhat quirky road instead: LGBT novels that play with the structure of the printed page.
There may be a technical term for this kind of playfulness (please inform me if there is, the Google doesn’t know how to answer that question), but what I’m talking about is the extra stuff, the literary surprises that are so delightfully extraneous to the printed text that it makes you sit up and pay attention.
