From: Maia Cheli-Colando <maia>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:44:49 -0700

Steven Engelfried wrote:


Reporting from my thirteen year old sib: At the beginning of the summer, a friend of hers provided her with a list of books to check out, many of which she did (for good and ill). And, she mentioned a few days ago that she had seen Eragon in the bookstore this summer, but didn't follow up on it until her roommate at camp was reading it. (I also share/suggest titles with Nikki, but I am not sure if I fit in the adult or older sister categories here.)

Reporting from my own youth and early college (restep fifteen-twenty years): My bookish friends and I absolutely shared titles. One in particular turned me on to a number of things, especially Marion Zimmer Bradley. In high school, adults didn't intervene much, beyond what we read for class. Of those, only my high school American Lit and Advanced Placement teacher really turned me onto much that was new that I enjoyed; the others were either retracing ground I already knew well or supplying "classics" I hated. Fortunately, college was a great improvement.

Maia
Received on Thu 07 Oct 2004 02:44:49 PM CDT