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ReThinking

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Adults Reading Young Adult Novels

I think one of the reasons we tend, even as adults, to be drawn to stories of adolescence is because so many things that are still happening to us now happen to us for the first time as teenagers. I've never understood until you just explain that why I'm so drawn to young adult novels, even as an adult. It's a portal for understanding experiences we're still having that we're much more, that we imprint it on. We're so much more informative when we have them at that age. There's such an intensity to that first experience of it. You really do feel like nobody has ever experienced anything like this in all of human history. And that makes it fun to

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