Book Club on Yik Yak | This is probably an unpopular opinion but we need some type of age verification in adult fiction sections in bookstores. Because why am I finding out just now that so many preteens read haunting Adeline. Kudos to teachers on TikTok for stating this.

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This is probably an unpopular opinion but we need some type of age verification in adult fiction sections in bookstores. Because why am I finding out just now that so many preteens read haunting Adeline. Kudos to teachers on TikTok for stating this.

Anonymous 14h

I see ur point that haunting adeline isn’t particularly “classic preteen reading material” but I think a stronger argument should be made for building the communities to discuss if the kids enjoy and understand the books they read vs outright age blocking stuff. Cause like i would not have my current job if I had not read the weird horrifying not-age-appropriate things I did as a tween

Anonymous 14h

I ran into basically porn when I was 12 and my parents suggested I go to the “adult” fiction section.

Anonymous 14h

As a bookseller I leave it to parents to decide, which should be the case everywhere imo. I have before given parents a heads up when their teen has picked up dark romance with a little “just so ya know, that’s adult romance and is fairy explicit! Up to you :)” and the ones who have let their kids go ahead with the book have had reasonable talks with their kids about fiction vs reality—something way more parents should do anyway. I also have to be against any law enforced barriers to literature

Anonymous 2m

Don’t do that. We have enough book police without you joining in. Not your kids, not your problem.

Anonymous

#2 14h

Yes to all of this! Also it should really be a parent by parent decisions thing when it comes buying and checking out and not age verification in sweeping calls and categories. Because that only devolves into all queer/BIPOC/maginalized/anti-narrative in power books getting put behind red tape. That’s how school library bans are starting to happen and it’s not because of Haunting Adeline, it’s because of TKAM and other classic texts. Just can’t be pro blocking access to lit in any way personally

Anonymous

#3 11h

I agree to an extent but as a kid I only got books for xmas/birthdays. My parents would buy off my list and they def wouldn’t have if they knew what they were about. It wasn’t even anything real bad, a bit of sex/dark topics, but I still turned out all right and I might not be a reader today if I hadn’t (tastes have changed but im still reading) If you’d asked me back then I wouldn’t have seen an issue, and I’m sure teens today would be frustrated by adults making the decision for them