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Boy crazy.

Publication: The Horn Book Magazine
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
I've always felt like a traitor to my gender, as least as far as my taste in books is concerned. The problem is that ever since I was a kid, I've been boy crazy. Not just in the romantic sense, but also in the cat-that-thinks-it's-a-dog sense.

My favorite novel genre is the male coming-of-age story. While other girls were experiencing powerful recognition in stories about girls coming to terms with their womanhood, I was busy identifying with the boys and their stories. Sociologists sometimes refer to this phenomenon as false consciousness.

I blame my condition on Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. I discovered the book when I was eleven or twelve,...

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