Atlas Shrugged

Redwall when I was probably 9 or so. Edit: wait! Maybe the Boxcar Children around 7.

Thanks for explaining this. I never had trouble believing the trope in the books because my stepdad WAS a functional alcoholic. He was a fireman and would start drinking as soon as he got up and never seemed to suffer any consequences for it, just the rest of us around him did.

God, this irks me so much. It was in a novel I recently read and I was like, why don’t they just… say something? It was over the top immature behavior for the characters.

I couldn’t concentrate enough to read for like, two years. Just this year I’m forcing myself to get back into the habit and keeping track of the books I read. My guilty pleasure at the beginning was Animal Crossing.