The Name Game

As I stare at my pillow pet trying to think of a name for a new blog, I began to think; recently a new fad has taken over every department store. You can’t walk into Walgreens, Target, or even Disneyland without seeing a pillow pet for sale. Sure, these pillows are cute and appealing, coming in all different types of animals with their ability to transform from a stuffed animal into a pillow, but I think in a couple years it will just become a dying fad. Pretty soon people will wonder what to do with their pillow pets, and eventually it will become one of the nostalgic objects we all look upon to symbolize the 2010s.

This blog is about literature, which I think is made up of fads. As the centuries go by, different genres and authors have come and gone. Literary fads are now categorized into such eras as romanticism, postmodernism, and classicism. Like the many types of animals in the pillow pet fad, there are many authors that go with each literary era. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne was popular during the transcendental era, or fad, in the 1850s, but now is only read out of necessity in school or by avid readers. Current book fads are the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling and the Millennium Trilogy by Steig Larsson. These authors are one of the highest selling authors, quite like Charles Dickens, but who knows how long their raving fame will last. I will probably be writing about literature from many eras, but my opinions will be from this era, the same era as the pillow pet fad.