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've tried to march in the Slayer Pride Parade ...
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Amy - Jan 15, 2014 10:05:08 am PST #21948 of 28359
Because books.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 15, 2014 10:13:13 am PST #21949 of 28359
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
P.M. Marc - Jan 15, 2014 10:29:23 am PST #21950 of 28359
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
Atropa - Jan 15, 2014 10:40:58 am PST #21951 of 28359
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Toddson - Jan 15, 2014 11:06:03 am PST #21952 of 28359
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
My parents didn't censor my reading or TV (in fairness, back then TV was pretty consistently family friendly).
Jesse - Jan 15, 2014 11:23:49 am PST #21953 of 28359
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I only remember trying to censor my mother's reading, because she was reading YA along with me, and I eventually read something where the Did It, and I didn't want my mother to know I had read that. I don't think I was ever interested in anything really inappropriate, though -- assuming you think Agatha Christie is appropriate for small children.
Fred Pete - Jan 15, 2014 11:55:46 am PST #21954 of 28359
Ann, that's a ferret.
Don't know how small you mean, but at 11 or 12, I read a lot of whodunits from the public library. Although I preferred Ellery Queen and Erle Stanley Gardner to Agatha Christie.
Amy - Jan 15, 2014 11:59:18 am PST #21955 of 28359
Because books.
I found the Beany Malone series in our library when I was a kid (not mystery, to be clear, just circa early 1950s kids' fiction), and I LOVED them.
I also read a lot of my mom's romantic suspense, like Dorothy Eden and Phyllis Whitney.
Jesse - Jan 15, 2014 12:00:52 pm PST #21956 of 28359
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was into the Poirot at probably 9 or 10. So murder, but light!
Jessica - Jan 15, 2014 3:32:28 pm PST #21957 of 28359
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My parents had rules about TV and movies, but not books. My mom was definitely better about guiding me towards age-appropriate stuff - I think my dad sort of mentally logged anything he read before age 30 under "stuff I read as a kid" so his notion of what I was ready for at age 10 was a little skewed.