I was going through my paper mail this morning, and I found a letter from the school district where I used to do time as a kid. Apparently the high school English department head found out that I've written a couple of novels, and wants to make my first one required summer reading.
I'm horrified by this. I don't want a captive audience, and I don't want people to grow up despising my work because it was shoved down their throats at school. Save that shit for when I'm dead and buried, please.
It was all good until the required part.
Understand your hesitance but they could probably use a talk from someone like you. Plant some subversive seeds.
@generica @starbreaker I would be way more encouraging if it was part of an optional list, but yeah, required summer reading just.......nah...
@generica There was also something in there about me coming and speaking to the students -- and I had sworn that if I ever returned to my hometown it would be with an army so that I could forcibly evacuate the populace, burn the entire town to the ground, and seed the earth with salt. :)