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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:52:53 -0400 (EDT)
I find Maia's eloquence powerful and deeply felt. I do not doubt that libra rians are in the center of a cultural storm -- as Celeste also pointed out. But Maia's passion also confirms my earlier point -- what we as adults jud ge as "good" reading also shapes how we define "popular" reading. You can't on the one hand say Google is the New Nonfiction -- as if kids did not rea d NF books, and, at the same time, discount active nonfiction book reading because you don't like the subject. That is a double bind imposed by us -- not a service to them.
Marc Aronson
Received on Thu 14 Oct 2010 01:52:53 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:52:53 -0400 (EDT)
I find Maia's eloquence powerful and deeply felt. I do not doubt that libra rians are in the center of a cultural storm -- as Celeste also pointed out. But Maia's passion also confirms my earlier point -- what we as adults jud ge as "good" reading also shapes how we define "popular" reading. You can't on the one hand say Google is the New Nonfiction -- as if kids did not rea d NF books, and, at the same time, discount active nonfiction book reading because you don't like the subject. That is a double bind imposed by us -- not a service to them.
Marc Aronson
Received on Thu 14 Oct 2010 01:52:53 PM CDT
