Sunday Salon: Thinking to No End

I love book blogs, not only for the wonderful book reviews that have me adding to a TBR pile that rivals a library catalog, but also for the thought provoking posts you wonderful people write.  Lately I've been stuck in a thinking rut, continuously contemplating the issues without coming to any real decisions or opinions.  Don't get me wrong. This does not bother me at all.  I'm perfectly happy with the abstract and indefinite, and I've even been known to willingly hold two contradicting opinions in my head simultaneously without going any crazier than I already am.

Today I thought I would share with you some of the posts that have me sitting in a quiet place with a meditative (probably rather idiotic) expression on my face.

Steph from Steph Su Reads wrote a great post about the validity of teaching YAL in the classroom way back in December, and I still find myself returning to the post and thinking the merits of the canon v. contemporary YAL.

Aimee at my fluttering heart is my go-to girl for the artistic and back in November, she put up a post about Agnieszka Szuba, and I fell in love.  Two of my favorites:

Ana over at things mean a lot always gets me thinking, and last Sunday I found myself really intrigued by her post on the attitudes of non-readers towards readers and the tendency for the more overachieving readers to feel embarrassed by the amount of time spent reading - or at least loathe to admit it due to stereotypes.

Rebecca at Lost in Books, J.C. at The Biblio Blogazine, Pam at bookalicio.us, and C.B. at Ready When You Are all responded to a post made by Jackie at Farm Lane Books.  The original post called attention to distinctions between American and British bloggers which painted Americans in a far from positive light. The fall out from the original post actually inspired Jackie to write an apology post.  The whole shebang had me thinking about nationalism, stereotypes, culpability, snarkiness, and forgiveness.

Shellie at Layers of Thought turned me on to an article about Why Men Don't Read Books that I found especially intriguing.  I'm always surprised by the small number of males in my Introduction to Literature courses.  Not Nessie at Today's Adventure posted about a related issue, asking if guys have book blogs.

Speaking of Today's Adventure, there is also an intriguing post up about Sex in Teen Lit that had me thinking. More sex stuff happened over at Life with a Little One and More where Jenners has been reading her childhood diary to us lately, and this last post had me cracking up and thinking hard. Her post on the sexual awakening of her childhood self and the struggles with religion that caused was unbelievably honest.

I could keep going.  So many of your posts delight me that making a list like this is downright painful - like choosing your favorite child or something.  And as you can see, I'm certainly not limiting myself to just the last week's posts!

So any thought-provoking posts you think I should read?