{"id":40,"date":"2009-07-08T09:12:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T14:12:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T18:24:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:24:50","slug":"ysquareplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/ysquareplus\/","title":{"rendered":"YSquarePlus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/244417484\">Park, Judith. <em>YSquarePlus.<\/em> New York: Yen Press, 2007 [2008 English language edition]. paperback. 200p. $10.99. ISBN: 9780759529274.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bloglink\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0pt none initial;\" title=\"y square plus\" src=\"http:\/\/coverart.oclc.org\/ImageWebSvc\/oclc\/+-+9392699975837_140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"211\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>YSquarePlus,<\/em> a sequel to Judith Park&#8217;s 1997 <em>YSquare<\/em> manga, continues the story of best friends Yagate, a gay student, and Yoshitaka, who is straight. Though tagged OT for &#8220;older teen,&#8221; this book is not sexually explicit, and Yagate&#8217;s sexuality is accepted matter-of-factly by all of the characters.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in German, the story dialogue is translated into English, but traces of German remain in the graphics, usually with explanatory notes. The story&#8217;s conclusion brings to mind older, dated, gay YA fiction, in that the boy gets the girl, but the boy does<br \/>\nnot get the boy.<\/p>\n<p><em>YSquarePlus<\/em> is recommended for public libraries with patrons interested in manga.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by,\u00a0<strong>Dave Combe<\/strong><br \/>\nEP Foster Library<br \/>\nVentura, CA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park, Judith. YSquarePlus. New York: Yen Press, 2007 [2008 English language edition]. paperback. 200p. $10.99. ISBN: 9780759529274. YSquarePlus, a sequel to Judith Park&#8217;s 1997 YSquare manga, continues the story of best friends Yagate, a gay student, and Yoshitaka, who is straight. Though tagged OT for &#8220;older teen,&#8221; this book is not sexually explicit, and Yagate&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,31,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}