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⌈ Secret Post #2627 ⌋

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[Malcolm In The Middle, Everybody Loves Raymond, Home Improvement, Rescue Me, Prison Break]

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[Michelle Kwan]

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[Bear Nuts by Alison Acton]

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[Supernatural]

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[OP note: pic credit to Ksenia Nurtdinova]

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[Seanan McGuire, Jonathan Ross and his wife Jane Goldman]

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[Karen Gillian/Doctor Who]

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[Mary Poppins (1964 movie)]

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[El Goonish Shive]

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[Noragami]

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I wouldn't side-eye anyone for it because I was a rabid consumer of any and all books from a young age. We had reading levels in the early school years which are kindergarten, year one, and year two here, and you could only read books from your level and then advance as the teacher allowed you.

By the end of kindergarten I was allowed to just borrow from the library or bring books from home for reading time.

I don't think it's ever really a bad thing for someone to start reading more complex novels from a young age. There are definitely things I've read again as I've gotten older that I understand differently now, but I don't regret reading them earlier either.

I was a huge fantasy nerd. Anything with dragons or magic, I had to try it. I was given a set of Tolkien novels (LotR and The Hobbit) when I was 8 and tried The Hobbit, ragequit because TOO MANY CHARACTERS WITH SIMILAR NAMES, and then a few months later I read all three LotR books with only the occasional frown over the long, flowery descriptions of the scenery.

I'm never going to pretend that I had any patience for romance at that age though, or Shakespeare. I did try Dickens but A Christmas Tale and Oliver were all I managed (and still are, tbh).

I guess I can believe that fandom attracts lots of early readers.

Dickens was the worst as a kid. I want to try reading Oliver again, but as a kid, it was so dry and boring and the only reason why I made it to the book instead of rage quitting was because I had really bad asthma as a kid and I had to be separated to the nurses cabin in the middle of a school camping trip and it was the only book I had brought to read. I literally and figuratively choked through Oliver.

I wonder, as an adult, I would like it more.

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