Re: Whatcha reading/watching/listening to?

--- On Wed, 7/25/12, Maida 'Mac' Cain <maida.mac@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Gods know, I read an huge pile of age inappropriate novels
> at a much
> younger age...

I think that my sister was 12 when a rather conservative teacher caught her reading my mother's (hardcover) copy of the recently published "To Kill a Mockingbird". The teacher exclaimed that it was a highly inappropriate book for her to be reading and asked if her mother knew she was reading it.

The teacher was very surpised when my sister responded that it was her mother's copy of the book and that her mother had recommended that she read it. And then my mother later told the teacher that she felt it was a very age appropriate book for my sister.

That's one marvelous thing about my mother. She never restricted books -- never said we were too young to read something. Otherwise, I'm sure I wouldn't have read "Lord of the Rings" at 10 and "Beowulf" at 11.

Ellen