But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.
I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.
I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.
Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of money and capitalism.
Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.