Ah I missed that detail, but I wonder how many said no because they just don’t remember? I don’t remember much from when I was young enough not to be able to read. I can’t remember my parents reading aloud to me at all, but they told me they did and there’s pictures in family albums.

Yeah, I wasn’t saying you SHOULDN’T read to kids once they can read by themselves, just that I am not surprised that many parents don’t. I also don’t think not being read to at that point will mean that kids won’t enjoy reading. I think that modeling reading (as in, if the parents read books themselves where the kids can see them) and having age appropriate books available in the home for them would help in making kids interested in reading too. My parents had many bookshelves around our house and I would just pick books off of them whenever I was bored, I read Lord of the Rings when I was in middle school because it was on my dad’s bookshelf for example. Just doing stuff like that will help advance their vocabulary a lot.

A coworker said one of her fondest memories was reading the Harry Potter series with her daughter who did not like books. Her daughter fell in love with the series. They’d read together. By the time Half Blood Prince and Deadly Hallows were released her daughter was in college, but they talked about every chapter over the phone. Reading with your child also grants beautiful bonding moments.

This is one of my fondest memories too. I was in 5th grade when the books started coming out and I got the first Harry Potter book as a gift from my Aunt. Both my Aunt and my father read every single HP book along with me (not together or out loud, but at the same time as me) and we talked about them together. We would hypothesize what was going to happen in the next books. My dad and I went to midnight book releases with me as the rest of the series came out. When the movies started coming out we went and saw them all together too, some as midnight showings.

I’m not surprised that 6th graders aren’t being read to. My parents read to us until we could read on our own, but even though they didn’t read to us I was a book addict. I had 3 bookcases full of books that I read myself.

I don’t think that’s true. The brutality of the riders quadrant is not seen as a good thing. Also, it’s repeatedly stated how information and thus the scribes are the true power, and that’s what Violet had always intended to be, plus she has a deaf friend in the scribe quadrant who is very important to the plot of the second book.

This is exactly my experience. There were so many parts that I was cringing at, but damn if it wasn’t entertaining enough to keep me hooked! Overall I really enjoyed it, cringe and all.

Honestly it just sounds like you lack reading comprehension at this point.

I’d me way more interested in reading a book about a girl with EDS who really, really wanted to become a dragon rider but couldn’t due to her condition and therefore found another passion in life, like being a scribe maybe.

Well, that’s you. Maybe there are other people (like the author herself, who has EDS) who would like some escapist fantasy that shows them being the hero and being able to do things that they can’t do in real life while still having their condition and physical limitations (such as how Violet has to use a saddle to ride her dragon, and she use other modifications and strategies to complete the tasks that other riders do). I don’t think anyone is reading popular fantasy novels to get a realistic idea of what EDS is in real life. It’s a fantasy world, not reality. Also it is made very clear in the book that Violet never set out to be a dragon rider, she was forced into it by her mother. Her entire life goal was to be a scribe.