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A couple o' questions, part the first:

What was your favourite genre at age (around) 12?

Favourite book?

What was it about?

Why did you like it so much?

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I was mostly into sci-fi fantasy lite at that sort of age, I think.

I had a major love affair with the Animorphs books round about then, altough everything I liked was pretty much the same: ordinary kid/s plucked from obscurity, given special powers and told that they must fight evil. My absolute favourite book was one about fish though, 'cause I was a massive dork who wanted to be the world's first evil-fighing marine biologist or something.

Mostly though, it was books were the characters were elevated from ordinary to special, quite often with a healthy dollop of angst and self-sacrifice - make my favourite character have to make a choice between saving the world or saving themselves/something they hold dear and you had me in the palm of your hand.

I think I liked it for the escapism factor, and the fact that they were all normal people made it that much more tantalising. I knew that nothing in the books was ever going to happen to me, but it made it so much easier to imagine that it might. I was rather a day-dreamer.

Hope that my rambling on isn't entirely useless!