Evergreen rant: if you are giving book recommendations you need to both both "read the brief" as it were, but also consider "is this actually appropriate to recommend or am I just nostalgic about it?"
Examples seen today: For a 12 YO girl someone wants to steer away from bad relationship models: Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series, Anne Rice's Vampire books
also if you have to write "I don't know if these are appropriate for a 12 YO girl, I'm a 50 YO guy" maybe you should reconsider making recommendations in this case? you weren't required to respond...
(and yes, we readers all love to share our favorites, that doesn't make every favorite appropriate for every situation!)
Sam Levine
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