I feel like I was a really lucky kid, my mum introduced me to some really good books when I was young and we’d have discussions about them. I read The Stand at ten, then Pillars of the Earth, I read a lot of Sharon Penman and Barbara Erskine. I was a really mature kid and I had read the entirety of the children’s library by the age of eight so I was introduced to more mature books quite early.
After I had finished a book me and my mum would spend hours talking about them, like what would we do differently? How did it make you feel? What was the author trying to say? The gift of reading from my mum is the best gift that I have ever received.
I understand this approach wouldn’t work for everyone but for me it was the right one.
I feel like I was a really lucky kid, my mum introduced me to some really good books when I was young and we’d have discussions about them. I read The Stand at ten, then Pillars of the Earth, I read a lot of Sharon Penman and Barbara Erskine. I was a really mature kid and I had read the entirety of the children’s library by the age of eight so I was introduced to more mature books quite early.
After I had finished a book me and my mum would spend hours talking about them, like what would we do differently? How did it make you feel? What was the author trying to say? The gift of reading from my mum is the best gift that I have ever received.
I understand this approach wouldn’t work for everyone but for me it was the right one.