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What Happens When Kids Pay Attention To Your Bookshelf?
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Permalink Reply by Joe Mama on -
I keep wondering when STB#1 (age 12) is going to start reading my more "colorful" books. I am doing my best to keep him stocked with books of his choice so he doesn't have a reason to wander over to my shelf, but I was about 12 when i discovered my dad's supply of Playboy and Penthouse so I won't be surprised...
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Permalink Reply by StitchyWench on -
My daughter is a very advanced reader who constantly asks if she can read my books. I finally gave in late this spring and told her she could read "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - I thought there was no way in hell she could get through an entire Shakespeare play, and want to read more. She did. And she wanted to read more. I immediately was cursing myself for not choosing, "Richard III".
Oh well, so far she hasn't raided my bookshelf.
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Permalink Reply by Mamawho on
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We have a shelf of pin-up books. Somehow, with all the Vargas, she beelines for the one book with Bunny Yeager photos of Bettie Page. Not so all-American, girl-next-door.
She saw my copy of John Fowles' The Collector and said "Oh, is it about collecting butterflies?" (There is a butterfly on the front.) I handed her a cookie.
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Permalink Reply by guinnessgoddess on -
Nice. Fun times with kids reading.
I'm probably going to get "Why are all your books about animals?" (because I study animals in literature) or "What does 'She's on Top' mean? What is she on top of?"
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Permalink Reply by kommishoner on -
"Oh, that's right. I forgot you can read." is amazing.
Right now the little man likes pulling books off the shelf. Interestingly enough, he seems to focus his energy on J. Edgar Hoover's "On Communism" (for a little fun with anachronism), "The Politics of Masculinity" and a book of poetry by Thea Hillman. We keep putting them back on the shelf and he keeps pulling those specific books off. Mercifully he's avoided "PhotoSex" which contains what you'd expect and is on the same shelf as the others.
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Permalink Reply by DLBK on -
Is Beauty's Punishment by Anne Rice? Yeah, that would be rather difficult to explain to a kid...LOL!
Bettina Au Baking said:i think my daughter would ask what the book " forget the roses, give me the thorns" was about.
And i would say, "just gardening dear"
now, "beauty's punishment"....would be harder to explain.
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Permalink Reply by jenra on -
"So mom, is Cunt a kind of flower?"
http://www.amazon.com/Cunt-Declaration-Independence-Expanded-Update...
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Permalink Reply by Teacher Tom on -
I wish. I've been trying to get my 12-year-old interested in my book shelf for years, but all she wants to read are those damn Harry Potter and Twilight things. She's got it in her head that whatever mom and dad have read must by definition be boring, although like Stitchy Wench's kid mine willand does read Shakespeare. Go figure. I could be a lot worse.
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