It's funny - if you looked at my mom and watched what she read, you'd think she'd have no history with the fantasy genre. My mom reads romances by the bucket load from historical romance to modern day, both on her e-Reader and in paperback. In fact, there are piles of romance novels scattered around my parents house.
She might not watch House or Sex in the City but she tends to like a lot of the main stream things.
But my mom and I had a ritual that lasted until I was at least 13 in that she'd read out loud to me from whatever book we picked together.
And for the most part, my mom read me Tolkien and Terry Brooks, both fantasy. In fact, we made it through most of Brooks Magic Kingdom series - and when I moved out, that set of books were the only ones that I thought were mine that she claimed (pretty fiercely) as hers.
The Tolkien book that she read from had belonged to my dad when he was 17 years old. But it was my mom, not my dad, that I cuddled next to on the bed or the couch. It was in my mom's voice that I first hear the words Nazgûl, hobbit and Gandalf.
Generally, fantasy isn't my mom's thing but it was just as much her as it was my dad who set me down the path to reading and enjoying fantasy. And that's what makes me angry about Ms. Dellafante's limited world view - she completely dismisses my story about my mom and any other woman's story about their introduction to a genre that she doesn't like.
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Date: 2011-04-20 10:13 pm (UTC)She might not watch House or Sex in the City but she tends to like a lot of the main stream things.
But my mom and I had a ritual that lasted until I was at least 13 in that she'd read out loud to me from whatever book we picked together.
And for the most part, my mom read me Tolkien and Terry Brooks, both fantasy. In fact, we made it through most of Brooks Magic Kingdom series - and when I moved out, that set of books were the only ones that I thought were mine that she claimed (pretty fiercely) as hers.
The Tolkien book that she read from had belonged to my dad when he was 17 years old. But it was my mom, not my dad, that I cuddled next to on the bed or the couch. It was in my mom's voice that I first hear the words Nazgûl, hobbit and Gandalf.
Generally, fantasy isn't my mom's thing but it was just as much her as it was my dad who set me down the path to reading and enjoying fantasy. And that's what makes me angry about Ms. Dellafante's limited world view - she completely dismisses my story about my mom and any other woman's story about their introduction to a genre that she doesn't like.