An experiment in gendered and generational reading respones

Posted on Saturday, March 5th, 2011 at 2:58 pm

PoniesPonies by Kij Johnson

This Nebula award nominated short story pushes some readers’ buttons and they light up. Not mine. Maybe your’s?

It will be interesting to see how tween readers and guys respond to this contemporary dark fairy tale. I will try it out on some and let you know how it goes. The saving grace: It is short and to-the-point, though not sweet.

my rating

The initial tween avg rating of three 10 yo girls

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