#JKRowling I am not into sci-fi, magic realism or any other related genre that I don’t know the names of. I know lots of wonderful people who are but I just never got it. I like my culture nitty gritty. I’m a realist nerd.
But my son was prime Harry Potter generation. He was around 6 years old when the whole releasing books at midnight thing happened and of course he loved the hype, the dressing up, the release parties. He loved getting the very big books really loved to walk around with them
He also loved having them read to him and I shared that. They were often funny and scary and unusual. And he learnt loads of new words and was very quickly reading them himself. Remember the length of them? That was good on holiday!
I never once said oi, son, you should be reading about pregnant girls in council flats forget that magic public school nonsense. JkR was a decent kids writer ((I find her adult fiction truly mediocre) but give me Jacquline Wilson, Michael Rosen, or Michael Morpurgo any day
As for the rest, as I said, one big, very loud, very long yawn.
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