With that in mind, let’s get to the reason for this post. The more important thing is what we do going forward. Our society is very different from the way it was 30, 20, or even 10 years ago. The great thing about human beings is that we learn and adapt with the circumstances. The book you have read as a child might be very different now. Ebooks make editing even a published book a snap. If I let them read something like that, it came with a caveat of “see how you are being manipulated.”īooks are no longer static things. My children don’t need to be exposed to USSR-spawned propaganda, not matter what feelings I have attached to it. So of course, when I had my own children, I wanted them to read the same books.Įxcept that I realized as an adult that some of those books I used to love have problems. Some of those books left a huge impression on me. My regular library haul, which I carried over two tramway stops to my home in a canvas bag, usually required me to stop a few times and rest, because dragging 8 hardbacks over long distances was a bit much for a 9 year old. Like most prolific readers, I started reading in childhood.
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