books kinda
I was lucky that as a kid, no one was monitoring my reading. I read broadly and wildly. Example: I don't know why Dave Pelzer's A Child called It was available in my primary school. So I read it when I was like 11 and my brother read it too (he was 8).
We also had trips to the public library where I quickly got bored of the kids section and went into YA even though I think I was like 10-12. My choices were never supervised so I end up reading a bunch of american teens in high school falling in love, doing drugs and other questionable activities. I think i remember Ellen Hopkins' Crank.
I know it is important to be educated as a kid about drugs but in Singapore we have been brought up knowing drugs = death penalty. It was eye-opening reading about teens doing meth. I think It was also the first time I read about people doing drugs in books.
Then when I got into my teens, I had access to the libraries completely without supervision. Each library card allowed 4 books and I had the cards of my whole family so it was 16. I regret not knowing to record all the books I've read in a notebook somewhere cos I think I was doing like at least 10 a week.
All fiction. Back then there was no Goodreads so I just read whatever looked interesting. I learnt about sex not from a class but from authors like Amanda Quick.
And then there are the fantasy novels. Terry Brooks. Swords of Shannara (?). I read Holly Black before social media existed.
It is quite interesting to see the new generation fall in love with books that I read back when I was their age too.
Oops time for work bye