Critically Looking Back at Books from My Childhood
Hi friends 👋🏻 September marks my 10 year blogging anniversary and I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting. Originally I planned to make a post about how blogging has changed in ten years, but that post ended up really boring so I want to talk about books I read as a child that I think have aged like milk. I was a child at the turn of the millennium but most of the books that I read were much older. If you can name any classic British children’s author from the 20th century, I probably read their books. When I was little, I didn’t think much about the content of these books because I didn’t know any better, but looking back has made me wince a little bit and now I’m wondering why I liked them in the first place. The obvious disclaimer is that this is just my opinion. There are people on the internet who get very defensive when you say that certain author’s books haven’t aged well and I’m never in the mood to argue with those people. ENID BLYTON’S SHORT STORIES Enid Blyton can be a bit of a hot button author in British bibliophile spaces […]
