Teenagers on What Books and Reading Mean to Them

Teenagers on What Books and Reading Mean to Them

Welcome to Current Events Conversation, where each week we round up some of our favorite responses to one of our student writing prompts. “Every book you have is a story of who you are and who you were when you acquired it. And who you became when you read it,” writes Roger Rosenblatt in the guest essay “Before You Toss That Book ….” He explores the deep emotional ties we have to the physical objects on our shelves, calling his books “houses,” “…