[ SECRET POST #574 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #574 ⌋

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Comments

Re: 141

[hopelikefever.livejournal.com]

It's all good. And there IS a lot that parents can do to encourage their kids to read, but so many of them are so wrapped up in their own lives (as many parents here in CA have children just for bragging rights, or as another accessory) that they don't realize the importance of literacy and education.

Which is why I would much rather have a bunch of girls reading a terrible book about controlling relationships and sparkly vampires than naught.

I mean, in elementary school I was reading James Harriet novels and listening to books on tape, so I'm not saying that an interest in reading can't be sparked, but my dad is a HUGE bookworm, which is not normally the case. XD

Re: 141

[sweetersong.livejournal.com]

lol rp account, lazy etc. Still coloa.

Yeah, that's true too. idk, my grandparents are both authors so like. It. I. I had to read? And even before I wanted to do so in my own free time, my parents made the rule that I could only watch TV or play online for as long as I had read a book that day. ... But then they realized that most of what I do online was write and read stories so that rule went away.

idk, I just. Wish that those kids that don't read very much could be started off with something better.

Re: 141

[hopelikefever.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's cool that your grandparents were authors, though. I guess people whose parents are involved in that sort of track focus more on their children getting a better education because they know that you can't do jack if you don't at least know how to read and write at a decent level. I think my dad actually encouraged me to use the computer more, but then again he's a huge tech geek. We'd play computer games together and stuff, like DOOM and Freddy Pharkus. I think that was back when we were still using floppy disks for video games and DOS as an OS, though. LOL

Yeah, it would be nice. But you kind of have to think of young girls and Twilight and compare it to your first car--it's probably going to be a piece of crap, but pretty soon you'll be able to get a better one. XD

Re: 141

[sweetersong.livejournal.com]

My mom was a big tech geek too, and my step dad played PC rpg games all the time like icewind dale and stuff, haha

Yeah. idk, when Twilight was the kind of book people would give me going "YOU ARE A TEENAGE GIRL, YOU WILL LIKE THIS," and I didn't... Know what to do with it, since I couldn't stand reading it? sob

Re: 141

[hopelikefever.livejournal.com]

I haven't even touched Twilight, myself. ;P It's hard enough getting myself to read stuff that I actually want to read... vampire fantasies aren't really my bag...

Re: 141

[xanykaos.livejournal.com]

I think the problem with that last analogy is that most of the girls who read Twilight as their "first car" aren't really going to pick up a better one. They're going to keep to books of that sort, harlequinn romance and twaddle, and never actually read anything good or enriching. And I don't mean classic or difficult by enriching. I mean Bruce Coville or Patricia C Wrede or something. Easy, fun, accessible...but still so very good and good for you.

It's more like food. The girls reading Twilight are eating fruit-by-the-foot or something more junky than that--and very little else. And sure, fruit-by-the-foot taste nice, but there's those little fruity gums that taste just as good and are a better snack, or the dried fruits that taste even better, if not as sugary, and they're even healthier, or even an actual apple or something. But they're just eating the fruit-by-the-foot.

I just feel like if some other book was being pushed the way Twilight is, whether or not it was new or shiny, that the girls could be reading something a little healthier. But at any rate, the fact that all the non-readers are gravitating to this series is just sad...that's the exposure they're going to get.

Re: 141

[popehippo.livejournal.com]

Which is why I would much rather have a bunch of girls reading a terrible book about controlling relationships and sparkly vampires than naught.

I'd rather have girls reading about anything else, really. Because girls have enough relationship issues in the modern day, I don't need a book craze to make it worse.