I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales in which one good turn elicits another. But in writing, yes, some older writers were kind to me when I was young; although some others were not.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.