Interesting opinion piece from Kelly Jensen, a librarian and a blogger.
Snip: “When we buy into these ideas about boys and reading, we also make a statement about girls and reading. We believe they’re automatically readers. They don’t need our support or encouragement to be life-long readers because reading is part and parcel of being a girl.”
Read: Books for Boys and Books for Girls: Problems with Gendered Reading | Book Riot
Readers around the world | Russia Beyond The Headlines
It would be interesting to see a comparison of genre popularity across the G20. Maybe I should ask my Russian friends if there is any meaning to the fact Russians love fantasy novels…spurred by Sputnik and utopian dreams??
You may also like: Russian science fiction and fantasy | Wikipedia and The Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko, which has been translated into English.
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