ursulavernon: lisalu22: I love Neil Gaiman so damn much. Best advice on how to raise a reader&mdas

ursulavernon:

lisalu22:

I love Neil Gaiman so damn much. Best advice on how to raise a reader—let them read…whatever they want to read.

My mother—who meant well!—was always trying to get me to read “good” books. “Garbage in, garbage out,” she would say grimly, as I loaded up on Star Trek novels and Dragonlance, and try to get me to read improving literature like “Jane Eyre” and “Two Years Before The Mast.”

Today I write children’s books for a living. She has since apologized and I have still never read “Jane Eyre.”

but JANE EYRE is trashy & sexy & full of over the top DRAAAMAAAAA & the great grandma of all the wooooo haunted gothick mansions & grim brooding scarred hawt heroes who have to be tortured & tortured & tortured some more before they are worthy of the snarky self-possessed heroine coming to rescue them ! !

& yes it is awful in so many ways

but it is like twinkies dipped in godiva chocolate

OMG THIS IS SO BAD FOR ME THIS IS SO TRASHY & UNBELIEVABLE & ALSO HOW DOES GETTING HURT AS A RESULT OF YR BAD DEEDS MAKE UP FOR YR BAD DEEDS & ALSO WHAT HAPPENED TO XYZ CHARAS???

I CANT STOP REREADING THIS IT IS SO AWFUL

but all the women even the most conventional / traditional are more self determining & badass than ANYONE in EITHER “TWILIGHT” or “50 SHADES ”