Like me, the girl will just have to be patient for the next one. :) I've been named her "book chooser" now because I've turned her on to good stuff. (I'm thinking along with Hines' Goblin trilogy I might give her Hidden Qneen/Changer of Days, since summer is coming up.)
Like you and others have said here, I started reading "adult" books quite early -- partly because the YA just wasn't there at the time, and what was there was, frankly, was not of interest. (I didn't *want* to read about cheerleaders and popular boys. Those weren't people I could relate to.) When I was trying to think of books to start Kiddo on, her mom and I discussed what *we* were reading at her age (she's 15 now), topic-wise, and some of the "adult" issues that we either glazed right over or were introduced to by reading grown-up stuff, and that it hadn't damaged us. I'm far less concerned about sentence length and vocabulary than I am about some of the subject matter that can come up, but I think she's pretty capable of coping with most things. (As far as I'm concerned, looking up a word or two while I'm reading is not a bad thing -- I still do it. As long as it's not every third word, which frustrates me.)
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Date: 2008-04-25 08:13 pm (UTC)Like you and others have said here, I started reading "adult" books quite early -- partly because the YA just wasn't there at the time, and what was there was, frankly, was not of interest. (I didn't *want* to read about cheerleaders and popular boys. Those weren't people I could relate to.) When I was trying to think of books to start Kiddo on, her mom and I discussed what *we* were reading at her age (she's 15 now), topic-wise, and some of the "adult" issues that we either glazed right over or were introduced to by reading grown-up stuff, and that it hadn't damaged us. I'm far less concerned about sentence length and vocabulary than I am about some of the subject matter that can come up, but I think she's pretty capable of coping with most things. (As far as I'm concerned, looking up a word or two while I'm reading is not a bad thing -- I still do it. As long as it's not every third word, which frustrates me.)