How did you find your way to reading literary fiction and nonfiction?
I found myself reading more literary fiction by the fact that the school I attended in Grade 7 didn't have much in the way of my favourite series, The Babysitters Club, available to sign out. I had been reading the series for the better part of two or three years and when I started at my school that fall there wasn't much choice in the library to sign out at first. There wasn't anything I was reading and then I signed out Jacob Have I Loved that September, I was able to change my reading habits drastically. Also I was unable to find anything in my local library at the time because at that time asking for a loan was quite difficult, without having to ask the library staff to see if they could get a book for me. As a result, I was forced read more difficult things. And by the time I went to high school in Grade 8, the transition wasn't too hard and I was able to read more difficult things and was able to understand them.
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I adore Jacob Have I Loved. I remember vividly reading it for the first time. It made as much an impression on me as it did you.
Interesting how your inability to find what you thought you wanted led to you to find books that stretched you.
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Jacob Have I Loved made a great impression on me as well. I need to reread it.
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