The 20 Stages Of Reading By Lynda Barry
Jo Walton asked Is There A Right Age To Read A Book? and follows up with What Is Reading For? after a number of commenters seemed to prescribe reading lists, perhaps taking much of the enjoyment out of childhood reading.
“If you believe at 50 what you believed at 15, then you have not lived – or have denied the reality of your life.”
- poet Christian Wiman in the NY Times Book Review
Which series of books are good for a seven year old girl? at The Guardian
When you’re in middle grade and you’ve been reading about a disproportionate number of middle class white boys ( and isn’t that every middle grader?) from Lee & Low Books
14 Books Every Girl Young Woman Should Read In Her Twenties from Books Are The New Black
When you’ve just started university/college from Huffington
What to read when you’re a recent grad, from The Hairpin
The year before you come out as gay, from Thought Catalog
When you go on a fantastic road trip
5 Books To Read Before You Turn 30 from Farnam Street
15 Books You Should Definitely Not Read in Your 20s according to Flavorwire
What To Read Through Your Quarter-life Crisis, from Book Riot
When you think you should probably read some Neil Gaiman. (More things about Neil Gaiman.)
When you are mentor to a young woman about to make decisions that will impact her career path
When you’re going through your teenage emo years
When you meet somebody new and you want to impress them with your literary breadth from Lit Reactor
When you’re into graphic novels but in need of something more ‘literary’
When you’re sad because you just watched the last episode of Breaking Bad.
When you realise that you’re getting short shrift because of your gender
The year before you turn 40, from Heidi Legg
