![]() ![]() With that in mind, let’s get to the reason for this post. ![]() The more important thing is what we do going forward. Our society is very different from the way it was 30, 20, or even 10 years ago. ![]() The great thing about human beings is that we learn and adapt with the circumstances. The book you have read as a child might be very different now. Ebooks make editing even a published book a snap. If I let them read something like that, it came with a caveat of “see how you are being manipulated.”īooks are no longer static things. My children don’t need to be exposed to USSR-spawned propaganda, not matter what feelings I have attached to it. So of course, when I had my own children, I wanted them to read the same books.Įxcept that I realized as an adult that some of those books I used to love have problems. Some of those books left a huge impression on me. ![]() My regular library haul, which I carried over two tramway stops to my home in a canvas bag, usually required me to stop a few times and rest, because dragging 8 hardbacks over long distances was a bit much for a 9 year old. Like most prolific readers, I started reading in childhood. ![]()
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