As a child, Understood Betsy and Meet the Malones, because they gave me family models other than my own. Then I got into pulp SF, which showed me it's OK to have a very active imagination and to escape reality whenever you can. I suppose everyone here dove into Fannie Hill at a certain point; I did, when I hit that curious about sex age in college. (But I always thought Harrad Experiment was dumb.)

Then I got into the Womens Movement bigtime. The Second Sex. Descent of Woman. anything by marge Piercy. Robin Morgan's book.

That was all about finding my tribe. I'm a librarian and I've kept on reading. I read a lot of childrens literature since that's my area and yes I'm reading Harry and loving it. What a crossover from my professional discussion threads.