If she’d been Christian, I would have sent her some Inspirational romance novels, which are great for young girls. Those books, a girl has to get on her own and usually through covert means. She wouldn’t have wanted family-oriented romances (she has enough family in her life) and I’m sure her mother would have killed me if I’d sent her anything with sex in it. The 18-year-old said I could send her “anything” so I found her historical, chick lit and romantic suspense novels that seemed tame. These girls have seen all kinds of violence/sex on TV and love Desperate Housewives, Cougartown and Gossip Girl–interestingly, female focused shows. Both want to read more adult books, but I wouldn’t dare send sexy Romances.
Years later, I now have two nieces by marriage: one is 16, one 18. Evolving into a Romance reader, I turned to those little books at age 14 and spent long hours in my dorm room reading Penny Jordan and ignoring my World Civ homework.
I read the supremely racy Princess Daisy five minutes later. Thank goodness, my father was clueless when I handed him Judy Blume’s Forever and Wifeyto buy for me when I was 13. When I was a teen, television marathons often kept me from reading, but there were some classics back in the 70s and 80s that I devoured. What do young people read these days? Unless it has to do with Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Vampire Diaries or Twilight, teens seem more immersed in texting, their iPhones, Facebook, TV and reading from technology.
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