Knowing your Brontës

Warwick Today chats with a couple of antiquarian booksellers who give a very nice and useful piece of advise:

"You might know your Brontes and your Austens but you need to know a lot more than that so having the background is essential."

Don't you hate it when you enter a shop and the shop assistant could be selling washing machines or garden furniture for all they know about books?

Fortunately, there's still a little ray of hope in the world.

Five of the best and brightest young readersfrom across Canada gathered in Toronto yesterday to discuss their views on teen reading with top executives from Indigo Books and Music Inc., RandomHouse, Harper Collins and Scholastic. This group of young and savvy booklovers were recently selected from thousands of applicants to represent Canadianyouth on reading trends through the third annual Junior Advisory Board (JAB)Team contest. [...]
While new modern titles are appealing to many of today's teens, the classics like The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are still finding their way on young reader's bookshelves. Topics and themes may have changed but the overall ideas of growing pains, peer pressures and family problems are still eminent in books old and new.

And that's why the classics are classics! :)

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