![]() This is partly because of my job, of course it’s part of my responsibilities to know what is new and grabbing attention, and to have a wide knowledge of different genres so I can help readers with many different tastes. ![]() There’s always a loud clatter I am aware of, of books asking me to read them. ![]() For example, I hated The Grapes of Wrath as a high-school junior, but I loved it as an adult seeing more of the world, understanding history and politics better, and going through different difficult experiences let me appreciate it as I couldn’t as an angsty, angry teenager. I think that some books must be read at just the right time, and other books can be read whenever. ![]() This science fiction novel, Ammonite by Nicola Griffith, made me think about many things, but one of them is the process that brings specific books into a reader’s life. The death of change…the death of your way of life, the death that is not just an ending but a great and terrible new beginning.” But love and responsibility don’t give a person the prerogative to be always right. ![]() “How do you stop being afraid? You don’t. Perhaps she should not be asking who she was but, rather, of what she was a part.” “They were connected: the world, her body, her face. ![]()
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