plh
06-15-2007, 08:51 PM
Hi all,
I am curious about which books parents out there pass on to their teenager(s). Whenever I read something that I like & that think my 15 year old daughter might get into, I pass it on, and more often that not she finishes them and says she enjoys them. I have been doing this since she outgrew Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson series. I did this with my now 27 year old son when he was in high school. Here is a recent sampling:
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, A Personal Matter -- Kenzaburo Oe
Kafka on the Shore, Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World -- Haruki Murakami
Things Fall Apart -- Chinua Achebe
The Magus -- John Fowles
(ABookOfShortWorksTheNameEscapesMe&ICannotFindAtTheMoment) -- Franz Kafka
If this list is a little heavy on Japanese authors that is because she into Manga & there fore things Japanese tend to interest her. Do any of you do this? What have you passed on & what have they liked?
-plh
I am curious about which books parents out there pass on to their teenager(s). Whenever I read something that I like & that think my 15 year old daughter might get into, I pass it on, and more often that not she finishes them and says she enjoys them. I have been doing this since she outgrew Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson series. I did this with my now 27 year old son when he was in high school. Here is a recent sampling:
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, A Personal Matter -- Kenzaburo Oe
Kafka on the Shore, Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World -- Haruki Murakami
Things Fall Apart -- Chinua Achebe
The Magus -- John Fowles
(ABookOfShortWorksTheNameEscapesMe&ICannotFindAtTheMoment) -- Franz Kafka
If this list is a little heavy on Japanese authors that is because she into Manga & there fore things Japanese tend to interest her. Do any of you do this? What have you passed on & what have they liked?
-plh