If you list every Urban Fantasy author in your comments in a giant wall of text, people will just skim it. If the person is asking for PG 13 books about teenage vampires being bullied in school, recommending books by Julia Quinn, as awesome as they are, probably won’t help.įourth, please limit your comment to one favorite title, unless you are responding to someone asking for something specific. We all like books, and we get enthusiastic, and it’s easy to hijack the discussion. Third, when responding to people asking for books to read in the comments, please make sure your recommendations are on topic. We all have read and admired the genre classics, such as the work of Mercedes Lackey and Ray Bradbury, but this is your opportunity to let people know about your new finds.Īs an aside, last time Ilona did this, an author made a sock puppet account (fake account) and recommended her own books. Second, please try to focus on newer books. Some books are timeless, others…not so much.

Do you feel comfortable handing this book to a child today? Skim it, you might be surprised.

If it’s a childhood favorite, does it hold up? Please do your due diligence, especially if it’s a recommendation aimed at a young reader. To make this post as helpful as it can be, we ask you to keep in mind four things.įirst, before you recommend something, ask yourself how recently you read or reread it. The recommendations on posts following this one will be removed to keep those discussions on topic. We want your new favorites! Please post your book recommendations and your requests for books to read in the comments, all genres welcome. It’s that time again! The old book recommendation thread is too long and cumbersome, so Mod R made a new one. 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.

Naughty Neil by Louisa Masters