For a while now I've been writing at thinking a lot about the life of the imagination and its role in the adult world. So when I found this quotation in an NPR review of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, well, I figured I better add it to my list:
But don't ask adults who grew up on Harry Potter to give up magic, says Salon reviewer Laura Miller:
"That generation has grown up to say: 'Yeah, I may want to read Jane Austen. I may want to read Jonathan Franzen. But I also want to read this intoxicating imaginative narrative as well. I don't want to have to leave that behind just because I'm a grown-up.' And really there is no reason that they should."
On a side note, when I read that phrase "adults who grew up on Harry Potter," I thought, what?
Oh, right, that's me.
Read Miller's review.
