Confronting the backlist

Books were a major part of my life growing up, and still are. I remember having a recent conversation with someone about horses, where I happened to know a lot mainly because of a book series I had read as a young girl that followed a character who lived on a horse farm. The series was fictional, but it still shaped my view of horse breeders and the lives of those who lived with them. This may seem like an insignificant example but the truth is, in the same way as I learnt about horses, the books I loved shaped my views on much of the world around me.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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