My sister is 13 and asked for books for Christmas. She asked for things like sci fi, mystery, and fantasy. I have no idea why she has chosen those categories because last summer I tried to get her to read Harry Potter but she just made fun of it. I think that she got through like 2 pages before giving up. When I was 13 I didn't understand 13 year old girls. I assumed that when I got older I would, but apparently that was a bad assumption.
All the books that I'd recommend to her are sitting on our shelves, so I quickly grabbed a stack that reaches to my knee. The trouble is I don't want to give her a lot of them. Borrow them, sure, but not for classics that I know I'll re-read a couple more times. There's an alternative pile of anthologies that she can have, but things like 1984, Brave New World, anything by Clarke, Asimov, Wells or Verne I'd like to keep. I don't know if that's silly though - will I just format shift all them from the dead tree version?
Having a lot of books around can be comforting, but they take up a lot of space that could be put to better use. Like displaying lego for example.
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