Yeah, Sara's there, too. She still plays with her dolls, but she wants to play with makeup at the same time.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Yeah, Sara's there, too. She still plays with her dolls, but she wants to play with makeup at the same time.
Hey, some of us didn't grow out of that stage.
Bad example! Sorry.
No, it's a great example! I'm just really amused by it, because after I get home from my job interview today, I am going to play with the doll I was given for my birthday.
How do you feel about violent YA novels?
Interview~ma, Jilli.
I was reading wildly inappropriate things when I was not much older that Casper. My mother was sort of strict about movies and TV shows, but she never said no to a book. Although she wasn't buying them for me either. I was either buying them myself or getting them out of the library.
I was reading my mom's books when I ran out of mine. I'll never forget looking up "officious" when I read that the hotel manager was an "officious little prick" on the first page of The Shining.
I am pretty sure I read Fear of Flying when I was Casper's age! But I may be traumatized! My mom had so many books that she hadn't read, and I was usually at home with my grandma, so no one really bothered about what I read.
How do you feel about violent YA novels?
I was reading violent adult novels at that age. (I'd steal my sister's books. She's 14 years my senior and read a lot of horror.)
There's a lot of violence, though, even in the children's books of our day. Not so much with the human on human dystopias, but plenty of bad things happening to good animals.
How do you feel about violent YA novels?
I was reading violent adult novels at that age.
I am Plei, but without the stealing the horror novels from an older sister. I'm pretty sure that's around the time I was reading H.P. Lovecraft, plus non-fiction about the Salem witch trials, and really dodgy SF.
My dad never censored my reading, and made it clear that I could talk to him if I was upset, scared, or confused by something.