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Loving Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller as a woman
I've just finished Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. I wish I could give it one star and five stars at the same time. I don't think I've felt this way before about any book.
I read the first 10 pages 6 or 7 years ago, sure that I wouldn't pick it up again because of how misogynistic and pretentious it seemed to be. Still, those few pages I read made a great impression on me and I found myself thinking about those sentences often.
Tropic of Cancer has been a strange read to me. It feels utterly demaining towards women (refering to them as c***s) but, at the same time, (and perhaps this is just copium for me, only wanting to justify how much I love Miller's prose elsewhere) it feels like he had a special insight into toxic masculinity, into society's obession with sex and how often it is tied to bringing down/dominating the object of attraction.
In his attempt of trying to put into a book the "unspeakable", the taboo, the worst thoughts of men... I find something touching and humane. As if he was startled more than most at the pits of humanity and it shook him so much he couldn't just let it go.
The sordid (true or not) tales in Tropic of Cancer seem "passé" now, or so I've read in many reviews. Isn't that the point? Miller didn't "invent" a new depth of depravity. He just portrayed it. And the fact that we can now read those lines, that violence in sex, and feel nothing... Isn't that his point exactly? Whatever scandal his writings provoked weren't because what he said was new, but because it was said at all. I don't believe humans 100 years ago were more pure than they are now.
Despite all the allegedly autobiographical horribleness in Tropic of Cancer, I can't bring myself to hate Henry Miller. And I don't know if the reason is because I feel I can find empathy between his lines or because I want to believe I can.
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Finnish children's author-illustrator Oili Tanninen (1933-2024) won the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Certificate of Honor a total of three times—yet her work remains largely unknown outside Finland
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I've come to the realisation that I'm a snobby audiobook listener - and an asshole.
Currently listening to a series and they switched the narrator and my God, it akways takes a while to get used to it, but there's just certain things that itches my ears the wrong way. And it's perfectly normal things, but I can't help but really dislike them, hence me being a snob. Like a lisp, or that the pronunciation of 's' is too sharp. Too nasal or high-pitched. Or if they make weird changes to their voices for females/male characters. Speaking without inflection, or too much inflection, or like they're always asking a question or are out of breath.
As for the awakening, I keep thinking to myself that they shouldn't narrate books. I'm a fucking asshole really. I should be glad there even are audiobooks available.
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John Feinstein, bestselling author and one of country’s foremost sports writers, dies at 69
https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/basketball/john-feinstein-bestselling-author-obi-rcna196352
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Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/technology/meta-book-sales-blocked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k4.D8bC.46j2ffWq5U6t
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Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon Publishing Poems for the First Time in Literary Arts Magazine
https://pitchfork.com/news/bon-ivers-justin-vernon-publishing-poems-for-the-first-time-in-literary-arts-magazine/
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Lapvona Ending
I just finished Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh. I was confused by a few things at the end. Would love to hear different takes on it.
Did Ina and Agata switch places at the end? Was it really Ina’s dead body in the bed? Is that how “Ina” became young? If yes, why brown hair? Was it really Ina and just…Magic? My library has the book listed as fantasy. I thought it was historical fiction the whole time but maybe the magic (like the horse eyes actually working)is the thing that pushes it over into fantasy.
Why does Ina, in her cottage, tell Grigor that she has a child of her own when really Marek has the baby at the top of a cliff?
Where the fuck are Dibra and Luka? Did Ina, or someone else, eat them? Really bummed we didn’t get more of their storyline.
Loved the book. The ending felt rushed.
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the mods don't let this one through, I just needed to really get this off my chest.
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I Finished To Kill a Mockingbird about a day ago, and I still can't get it out of my head.
First of all, English isn't my first language. I usually read Bengali literature. For the last couple of years, I've been trying to get myself into reading more English books and got really deep into fantasy. I blame ASOIAF. But recently, I've been trying to read more general literature.
Reading this book was such an experience I’ve never had before. I have a weird habit: I use both a physical book and the audiobook at the same time. It makes it easier for me to read in English.
And this method really brought the novel to life.
The last half of the novel, especially the final 20-30 pages, was so tense I couldn’t put it down.
The ending wasn't sad at all, but I couldn’t stop crying. The last few passages, where Scout was telling their story from Boo Radley's perspective, had me sobbing like a child.
What a beautiful book! I've been missing out so much!
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Bestselling author Louise Penny cancels U.S. book tour over trade war, except for one border library
https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-03-11/bestselling-author-louise-penny-cancels-u-s-book-tour-trade-war-except-border-library
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Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/arbitrator-prohibits-meta-whistleblower-from-promoting-tell-all-book.html
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Right book, wrong time?
Have you ever picked up a book, read a few chapters, and just knew it wasn’t for you—only to return to it years later and absolutely love it? Because that just happened to me.
Today I decided to give Emily Henry another shot, I’ve never got on with her books but the premise to Funny Story sounded like it was right up my street. I got to around chapter 6 and realised that I think I absolutely love this book so went to download the audiobook from Libby as well. Well lo and behold, I had already tried to read this when it came out and DNF’d it at exactly chapter 6!
So, is there such a thing as the right book at the wrong time? And if so, how do we know which books deserve a second chance? Should we be re-reading everything we once disliked, just in case it was us and not them?
I don’t think every DNF’d book is secretly a future favourite, but I do think timing matters more than we admit. Our tastes shift, our life experiences change, and what once felt boring or confusing might suddenly feel profound and necessary. But at the same time, I’m not about to re-read every book I’ve abandoned—sometimes, a bad fit is just a bad fit.
Have you ever had a “right book, wrong time” experience? How do you decide when to give a book a second chance?
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S. A. Cosby Appreciation Post
I'm about half way through my first S. A. Cosby book, Razorblade Tears. Every now and then you open a book and realize that great writing is mostly a gift that can't be taught. Maybe it's because I recently finished a couple stinkers (looking at you, Airframe by Michael Crichton), but Cosby has a magic for creating character depth and real empathy for his subjects. He definitely popped onto favorite authors list, and can't wait to explore more of his work.
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Black says, "No. You don't. You never did. You never will. You have no imagination. You're blind that way. I'm reminded of a line said by Oscar Wilde's Algernon Moncrief: "What on Earth you are serious about, I haven't the remotest idea. About everything, I should fancy. You have such a trivial nature."
A bit before the Man in Black says this to Roland, he performs a bastardized Tarot reading (The Sailor, The Prisoner, and The Lady of the Shadows are not real Tarot cards, which the man in black acknowledges he made himself). In that reading, he has the hanged man (representing Roland) placed in the center of 4 other cards: The Sailor, The Prisoner, The Lady, and Death. The 6th card is the Tower, which he places on top of the Hanged Man. Roland demands to know what it means, but of course he isn't told.
Later, Roland asks the Man in Black (or Marten or Randall or Walter or whatever his damned name is) if he will succeed. "If I answered that question, gunslinger, you'd kill me." He says this after he showed Roland the Universe, that their reality was encompassed within a single blade of purple grass, much like Vishnu told Indra that he is but a grain of sand on a beach of Indras. The critical difference between Roland and Indra is that when Indra learns his place in the universe, he is humbled and stops insisting poor Vishwakarma make his palace grander and grander; Roland lacks the imagination to realize that the Tower is the universe, and he's in it right now. "Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size."
I mentioned I was reading The Gunslinger with a friend. I quoted multiple statements the Man in Black makes to Roland in the final chapter and I asked him what he made of it. He said, "Roland has done all this before, and he doesn't remember." I didn't probe deeper than that. I don't know what he means by "this" precisely. I'm not sure if he knows for a certainty that it means "ascended the Tower." I figure I should leave him a little bit of mystery.
The point is the clues are are all there, all laid out in the first book, and it really doesn't matter other than to point and say "Look! Lookit the Easter eggs." It's not about the destination, it's about the journey (Very fun to see King say that, as I'm a Stormlight Archives fan). It's why, I think, King rarely writes a good ending. To quote him again in part 1 of the Coda, "Endings are heartless. Ending is just another word for goodbye."
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We need to talk about Kevin and how it’s an excellent discussion of fault and the nature versus nurture argument (slight spoilers)
I’m not even finished yet but holy shit Lionel shriver is so damn good. What made Kevin do what he did? Who is at fault? Was Kevin just like this when he was born or did something happen? Was it because of the father enabling his behavior? Was Kevin brought up to be like this or was it an outside influence or maybe he was like that from the start. It’s such a complex book that’s told from the perspective we never see; the mother of the shooter. It’s hard watching Eva try to grapple with her emotions and come to terms with what her son has done. From her eyes, Kevin was like this from the start. But these letters are from her perspective, is there something she’s leaving out? Is there something she doesn’t know about? I’d love to discuss this, and please mark spoilers cause I’m not finished yet but I just really wanted to share my thoughts
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Fifteen Years Later by A.E. Brightwater
Fifteen Years Later by A.E. Brightwater
I’m having a hard time moving on from this book because I feel like it struck the right balance between proper character development and the plot line moving forward. In my experience this is rare for a thriller, so for me this is a gem. I’d love to open a discussion about the book with those who have read it.
One of my biggest questions is, do you think the ending, where Dylan begins dressing in a more traditional way and having a more traditional life, takes away from her character arc? I struggle with this because I feel that very often books and movies tend to have characters marry off and/or have babies in the end to fit the more stereotypical “happy life” ending, which really just seems to mean conforming to societal norms. I loved Fifteen Years Later, and while Dylan isn’t exactly cookie-cutter by the end of it, she does check more of the boxes that pertain to having a more traditional life. For me, a lot of her appeal from the beginning was that she was alternative and didn’t present as some cheerful, happy-go-lucky kid who would bend herself into a pretzel to conform. I think personally, I would’ve liked her to have maintained more of her original idiosyncrasies.
I’d love to hear your thoughts!
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Dear Audiobook Publishers, do you hate money?
I have listened to hundreds of audiobooks. The deciding factors of whether or not I will buy an audiobook are
1. The Reviews
2. The audio sample
Publishers. Why on earth would you EVER use the dedication as the sample to the book? Why would you EVER use the introduction to the book that is read by the author and not the narrator? For the love of god, why would you EVER use anything other than a gripping passage that really shows what the experience of the book is?
Because every time the sample is just the dedication, the introduction, or someone reading it who is not the narrator it is an instant no-sale from me.
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Felice Picano, Champion of Gay Literature, Is Dead at 81
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/books/felice-picano-dead.html
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This may sound silly… But have you ever read a book/series and grown to love the characters so much, you actually missed them when the book was finished and wished their story could continue forever? If so, which was it?
For me, it was the flowers in the attic series by VC Andrews. As crazy as it sounds, it was as if I actually knew the characters personally, and had a bond with each one of them. When they were happy, I was happy for them. When they cried, I hurt for them. And when the series was finally over, I cried so hard. I’m talking crocodile tears. My heart ached for their family so badly. Obviously they are just made up characters, and I know I probably sound foolish. But I can’t help myself. I often find myself thinking about the characters and their story and wishing I could check in on them to see how they’re doing. Lol. Has this ever happened to anyone else? If so, what was the book or series that Grabbed onto your heart strings and refused to let go??
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Weekly Recommendation Thread: March 14, 2025
Welcome to our weekly recommendation thread! A few years ago now the mod team decided to condense the many "suggest some books" threads into one big mega-thread, in order to consolidate the subreddit and diversify the front page a little. Since then, we have removed suggestion threads and directed their posters to this thread instead. This tradition continues, so let's jump right in!
**The Rules**
* Every comment in reply to this self-post must be a request for suggestions.
* All suggestions made in this thread must be direct replies to other people's requests. Do not post suggestions in reply to this self-post.
* All unrelated comments will be deleted in the interest of cleanliness.
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**How to get the best recommendations**
The most successful recommendation requests include a description of the kind of book being sought. This might be a particular kind of protagonist, setting, plot, atmosphere, theme, or subject matter. You may be looking for something similar to another book (or film, TV show, game, etc), and examples are great! Just be sure to explain *what* you liked about them too. Other helpful things to think about are genre, length and reading level.
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If this thread has not slaked your desire for tasty book suggestions, we propose that you head on over to the aptly named subreddit /r/suggestmeabook.
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What’s a universe you wish an author would explore more of?
Personally, for me, it’s the hunger games. I would love to know more about the first rebellion, how the districts came to be, Snow growing up and his years as president, Finnick’s games and basically his whole life. I also want to know how life is in the career districts because I think that would be such an interesting story.
There’s so much that I want but I doubt Collins is going to do anything.
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What are your favourite modern romance book tropes?
I’ve been listening to a lot of LGBT romance books, the pulpy ones that are fairly interchangeable.
The most fun trope is in the bridgerton-esque gay period pieces.
One of the characters is usually betrothed to a cold stern girl/woman named something like “Lady Patience Chastily”, who about half way through when figuring out their love interest is gay, immediately becomes a gossip-y yassified woo girl bff who never wanted to marry anyone in the first place. So dumb yet I find it funny every time!
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I attempted to read Icebreaker and got a very particular despair from it
WARNING: This post is going to be largely negative regarding the book Icebreaker and what I read from it, so if you enjoy that book and don't want to see this post, that is entirely fair. It does not reflect on you as a reader, read what you like and, if you enjoyed it, all the better. That's one more book you've enjoyed than I did.
I usually prefer posting about things I enjoy rather than things I dislike, because it's tiresome just to complain, it usually just leads to discussion and I prefer telling people about some great art they might not have heard about rather than just bitch.
With that said, I wanted to make this post because of the feeling I got reading Icebreaker before I finally threw in the towel.
It's not my type of book, but I always want to give books the benefit of the doubt and I genuinely believe in going outside of your comfort zone to try new things. In my opinion, if you just always read the same type of book, you'll get stuck into a very formatted way of thinking and it does us good to branch out and try totally different genres that don't appeal.
I knew this was popular and I'd ended up reading one of the sex scenes online and thought "That's actually not badly written", considering other sex scenes I've been subjected to in similar books. So I got the ebook and began reading and... I was just... attacked by this deep dread.
Like, if the book was just boring, I wouldn't be here. I've had plenty of books I tried, didn't enjoy, that was that. But for some reason, Icebreaker just... just hit wrong.
It was an overwhelming feeling of despair at its existence, as if it was some Lovecraftian artifact, and its words were turning my brain to mush. I was deeply bored by its characters, yes, but as its writing slid across my eyes, I could just feel it chipping away at my soul, with each mildly amusing quip that wasn't really funny, but was just there to fill the noise.
You know those kinds of people? When you talk to them, at work or something, and all they can say is something inoffensive, approaching funny, but not actually funny? Boring people? Like, they're not talking to say anything in particular, merely to fill the void of silence between you? The kind of people who go on Tinder and write shit like "My favorite show is The Office and I love adventures!"?
This book felt like those people personified.
Again, I wouldn't be writing this post if I was just bored by it, but I just felt this deep, black despair at it. It was like I wasn't reading a book, I was staring at TV Static while white noise played in the background. I threw in the towel early too, I believe it was after the guy in the book first meets the girl in the book and invites her to a party.
Afterward, I tried to look for those rant type videos about it, like I did for Colleen Hoover books, but I couldn't even find many of those. I think it's because this book isn't even noteworthy enough to be mad about.
I don't like Colleen Hoover's books, but I dislike them with fervour, with passion. They are bad in a particular way that is fun to mock (for me, again, not trying to badmouth anyone who enjoys them), but I can't muster that same kind of heat for Icebreaker. In fact, I wouldn't be sitting here, writing about it if, for whatever reason, it hadn't drawn this deep sucking horror from me. This post is a borderline exorcism.
Anyway, after giving up, I started Night's Master by Tanith Lee, which I bought yesterday on Ebook. I heard a lot of good stuff about her and this seemed like a good spot to start. It's really great so far and the brilliance of her writing is so good, it's actually started to heal me. This line:
>The year was woven on the loom, finished and folded away upon the pile of other years in the tall chests of Time.
Genuinely better than every single page I read of Icebreaker. So, to leave off on a positive note, I recommend this book, it's moving, epic in that old mythology kind of way and excellently written.
I understand if
I’m sick of this tired, sloppy, barely thought through talking point. From The Telegraph: “Social justice is destroying the pleasure of reading.”
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Best instrumental music / soundtrack to listen to while reading litfic ?
Hi !
Lately I've been enjoying reading to a few different soundtracks while reading. Thought I could share some of them because I find them to be a perfect fit :
– Kajillionnaire and Minari, both by Emile Mosseri
– First Man, by Justin Hurwitz (didn't care for the movie, loooove reading to the music)
– Normal People, by Stephen Rennicks
– The Andy Wharhol Diaries, by Brad Oberhofer
– Slowdive's album "everything is alive"
– Andre 3000 latest album
To me the perfect reading soundtrack needs to be relaxing, without too many things happening or else I lose focus. I could also get into some soft classical music but I really don't know where to start.
I just finished reading Matrix by Lauren Groff and I'm starting The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, if anyone has specific albums in mind for this one !
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Unbound goes into administration as Archna Sharma and John Mitchinson launch new publisher
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound-goes-into-administration-as-archna-sharma-and-john-mitchinson-launch-new-publisher
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Does any other country have a dedicated book week every year or is it just mine?
Every year in March (and October for children) there are ten days where books are promoted and celebrated in the Netherlands. This year it's the 90th year that it gets celebrated. The theme of this year is about your mother tongue, whether it's about a dialect of Dutch or a different language from abroad.
Every year there is a writer that creates a short story specifically for the book week and you get it for free when you spend a certain amount on Dutch books in that particular week. There is a book prom that "opens" the book week. The children's version of book prom also announce the winner of an book award.
Are there any other countries that organize some sort of book celebration/promotion thing? If not, should there be?
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What’s a book that completely broke your brain—in a good way?
You know the type. You finish the last page, sit there in silence, staring at the wall, questioning everything. Maybe it changed your outlook on life, your beliefs, or just made you think in ways you never had before.
For me, it was The 3 Alarms by Eric Partaker. His approach to structuring life into three core areas—Health, Relationships, and Career—just made everything click. I can’t unsee it now, and my life feels way more structured because of it.
What’s a book that did something similar for you?
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Analyzing the final chapter of The Gunslinger and the Coda of the final Dark Tower book
This is my third trip down the beam. I just finished reading The Gunslinger with a friend whose reading the Dark Tower for the first time. He's been making his way through Stephen King's books already, but hadn't touched the Dark Tower, so it's exciting to read them with someone familiar with King's style but no familiarity with is Opus.
Since I'm reading it with someone, I'm taking notes, looking at it more critically. When I reached chapter 5, The Gunslinger and the Man in Black, I felt this mad urge to read the very end of the series, the Coda.
I know for many who've read to the end, they view Roland's journey into the tower as a disappointment. "All of that, just to start over again?" It never was that for me. Before I ever read a single King novel, I knew how it all ended.
When I was a kid, my best friend's mother was an avid King reader. She religiously read his work, including the Dark Tower. One day, when she was driving us somewhere, we got to talking about time travel. I asked her about stories that featured it, because I was obsessed with the concept at the time. So she asked me, a 10-year-old, if I had any interest in reading the books. I said no.
So she told me about the Coda of the Dark Tower. She told me how King speaks directly to the audience, warns them to stop now. You turn the page, and he sighs and says something like, "Alright, come on then. See it. See the Dark Tower." The Gunslinger finally reached his damned Tower, and the Tower was his life. Every floor, another snapshot moment. And then he reaches the top, and he starts over in the desert, mind wiped, doomed to repeat his journey again and again.
Ever since, I knew I had to read those books one day. And I'll tell you, King puts it best in part 1 of the Coda. "I can close my eyes to Mid-World and all that lies beyond Mid-World. Yet some of you who provided the ears without which no tale can survive a single day are likely not so willing. You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you." He goes on to insult your view of love making, but the point is he is rebuking you, and Roland, for only caring about getting to the end.
Roland's journey in the Tower itself further reinforces this rebuke. At first, he took the time to look into each room. At first it was a joyful thing. But then he reached the room of the day where David the hawk died, where he passed his test to become an apprentice gunslinger, and he smelled the cheap perfume of the prostitute he lost his virginity to. It reminded him of an early memory of his mother taking him out of his baby's bath. It made him hard, and afraid, so he fled. (Has his journey to the Tower, at least in part, really been running away from his confused recollections of his mother?)
After the 38th floor, the floor where his lover Susan Delgado burns, he climbed the Tower faster, no longer even acknowledging most of the rooms. But why? See your journey, Roland. See how far you've come. See what you did to get here.
But of course he won't. He'd have to face that he had damned himself his whole life just to see himself laid bare. So he skipped to the end, as I have just done, straight to the top with the door that had his own name on it. He opens the door...and remembers everything. He remembers that he's done all of this before, and he'll do it again and again, because here in a moment he'll forget and it will be the first time again. And he's pulled through the door...and brought to the moment, in the desert, when he realized he will succeed in his quest to get to The Dark Tower.
It is fascinating to read Roland's palaver with the Man in Black with the context of the Coda fresh in my mind. The Man in Black doesn't know everything but he knows enough: "This is not the beginning but the beginning's end. You'd do well to remember that...but you never do." Roland didn't understand. The Man in
Reading in prison and donation of books
I'd like to start a light debate after reading a doctorate thesis on reading and minor's prison in Brazil.
I found it very interesting. In short, even in the most developed state in Brazil, not all minor's prisons have a library. On those that have, the author noticed that girl's prisons have move mature and developed readers than boy's. She also noted that, because it is an intense imprisonment and despite the very oppressive nature of it, education is also more focused in such places than in public school, and many adolescents start their learning of reading and reading habits there. Speaking about Brazil, such places aren't served books by the Education Department, btw, and are dependent on donations.
She ends with a note of hope, saying how, despite everything, the boys and girls find a way to escape their harsh realities by reading.
* Out of clarification, a "minor's prison" is an intensive facility where adolescents between 12 and 18 years stay locked in, up to their 21 years, after commiting a "crime" (wich isn't called crime. there's another word, but I don't know the translation), in a socioeducative regimen.
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So I'm curious about people's opinion: how is reading and libraries handled in similar situations in your country?
And what do you think about the right of these young people to have access to culture? I've know people of my family who were very against the idea of me donating books to such facilities, out of prejudice.
For myself I'm keen on the idea of donating my children's and young books, and a few boardgames, to such places. Until now I've either sold, donated to libraries or public shools. I'd be happy if even one young reader find pleasure in these books.
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