What stayed with me was Mori's passionate investment in SF/F, and how she talked about the novels. Perhaps that would have been more of a problem had I read it when I was in my teens, but I didn't, I read it in my 30's; and I think younger people reading it now will be buffered against over-identification by the technology gap. Mori could not google her karass, or search out tumblr.
It's hard for me to say whether it's good Mori connects to people through books. Many of her other routes to connection have challenges. Her mother is, well, one of the problems; her father is terrible, and his sisters are a threat to Mori's connection to magic, which she doesn't want to give up. There's an English-Welsh issue with a lot of her classmates. Once in boarding school, Mori's isolated from a lot of non-school community options. We do see Mori integrated with her mother's family in Wales, which I'd argue points to life outside books.
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Date: 2019-05-26 04:04 am (UTC)It's hard for me to say whether it's good Mori connects to people through books. Many of her other routes to connection have challenges. Her mother is, well, one of the problems; her father is terrible, and his sisters are a threat to Mori's connection to magic, which she doesn't want to give up. There's an English-Welsh issue with a lot of her classmates. Once in boarding school, Mori's isolated from a lot of non-school community options. We do see Mori integrated with her mother's family in Wales, which I'd argue points to life outside books.