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November 21, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I’m slightly jealous. My mother reads mainstream fiction and mysteries but owns hardly any books; my father doesn’t read. (He can, but he doesn’t.) When my parents grounded me as a kid, they forbade my reading anything, usually for a day or two. I became very good at sneaking books into the occasional longer dry spells.
This is yet another reason (albeit idiosyncratic) why public libraries are awesome, since my tiny allowance was nearly enough for one mass-market paperback per month. heh.
The only Hardy I’ve enjoyed (or finished) is Desperate Remedies. Re: Le Carré, you might like Tim Powers’s Declare.
November 21, 2008 at 9:19 pm
@skg046 – Thanks for the book rec. I definitely had it easy growing up in a reader-friendly household. I also had the benefit of my older siblings’ books: there’s was always something to read at the next reading level above mine. (I regularly read the books that my older brother was assigned in class, which meant I was very familiar with them when I was given the same assignments two years later.)