Our older daughter has been reading quite a few books this summer, and she recently read a book that is the first novel I can recall being genuinely disappointed in. Let me know you’re interested in more memories from my library.
What a fun experience to see your daughter exploring her reading tastes! I love that it brought back this memory for you. Your descriptions of having to search for books using those computers at the libraries to find authors/books brought back memories for me as well! This reminds me of the experience of seeing a book somewhere and having interest in it but not picking it up then and there and then never being able to find it again because I couldn't remember the exact title or author name! That's probably part of the reason why I'm a list maker now and my Goodreads TBR has thousands of books. I now document any book I'm remotely interested in!
It’s amazing how our memories work from stimuli. I’ve had different ways of keeping track of books I am interested in note cards or Post-It notes to a notebook and eventually to a note on my phone before Goodreads. The next challenge is going to be helping my daughter figure out what she wants to read next week once she finishes Dahl’s children’s books, but it has been super fun to see her grow as a reader.
I’m glad, I guess, that your daughter liked it better than you. I find that the most hyped books (DemonCopperhead for example) are most likely to be a disappointment to me
I’ve learned to trust certain readers’ recommendations, but I’m leery of overhyped books. Some are classics or generate loads of conversation for the right reason, but others just don’t work for me.
