Oof that’s a tough question, I’m not really sure! A lot of the series I loved in elementary and middle school went on longer than the few years I read them and I also used the library a lot back then, so less buying. For example, I loved Goosebumps, Fear Street, and Redwall, but I was reading them in the 90s when they were being actively published and they continued passed the time I would have been reading them. I’d be tempted to say it’s probably something I read in early or mid- high school, like the Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell.

By “controversial content”, do you mean the existence of queer and trans people in the world and an inclusive narrative?

Whether it gets said or not, the vast majority of the time people talking about “age appropriateness” in books are against books that include critical discussion of racism/slavery/homophobia/transphobia/misogyny, or take an inclusive perspective on gender identity, unorthodox gender presentation, non-heterosexual sexuality, non-heterosexual families, and women’s rights.

Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese was definitely a very emotionally powerful book. A general fiction book that deals with complicated family relationships and consequences of Canadian colonialism on families. The main character, Franklin, is a teenager living with an adoptive father. He gets news that his estranged biological father is dying and wants to see him one last time. Highly recommend it.

Yeah, I’m just very stubborn lol I’m not a big fan of audio and also would just really love to have a complete mmpb collection of the Heresy. I’m hoping against hope some of these will be part of the next reprints on the WH webshop 😅

None because I don’t want to add to my TBR pile right now lol

But if someone really did want to get me books for the holidays, if they managed to find me the Horus Heresy mass markets for Shadows of Treachery, Angel Exterminatus, and everything between Mark of Calth and Vengeful Spirit that would make an absolutely epic present 🔥