I would believe it if she said fifth grade, maybe. I definitely read and loved Animal Farm at that age, which is probably at the same level of difficulty.
I had no idea it was an allegory for the Russian Revolution, of course. I thought it was just an animal story.
I had every Sweet Valley High book - INCLUDING the Sagas - Babysitters Club, Choose Your Own Adventure, and Judy Blume book I could get my hands on. But I had to pass the "age inappropriate introduction to Stephen King in 4th grade" barrier long before I could approach classic literature.
(I loved to read. It was easy to run out of material. My mom LOVED Stephen King. She literally owned every single book and bought the latest releases like the same week they came out. I blew right through the Scary Stories to Read in the Dark books and clear into Christopher Pike territory. There's only so much power a human can muster. She couldn't keep me away from The Master of the Macabre forever.)
I read everything I could get my hands on .My aunt would send me huge cardboard boxes of banned books that she thought I should read .I remember judy Blume and Sweet valley high .
My parents heavily encouraged us to read as much as possible, but what really got me absolutely hooked on it was Wishbone. That little dog knew how to tell a story!
Omg I had forgotten about sweet valley high! I read those all the time. And these one books with horses cuz I was the horse girl. It was like Ashleigh and the horses name was Ashleigh’s Wonder and they raced. That’s all I remember. However I also read a lot of horror and read Desperation and The Regulators for the first time during the same time period (junior high) and remember every bit of that lol!
I don't think I did! It definitely seems like something I would have read, but I don't remember this at all so now I think I have to read it. I LOVED SWH. I'm an Elizabeth through and through.
Woooooo! If you haven't, it have and don't remember, I 10/10 recommend! And I completely get what ya mean lol those books also remind me of a simpler time. Those and the Famous Five/Secret Seven books
For sure. It's a simple book on paper (hehe) - short, and simple vocabulary. I could buy a 2nd grader at least picking it up and starting to read it. It's harder to imagine it catching their interest enough to finish it. But to appreciate it and be able to write a BOOK REPORT on it? With the dialect, themes, characters, and literary devices involved? Get out of town.
I don’t even think we did ‘book reports’ in grade two. Other kids were often still learning to read entire books just a year before, iirc. They had these horrible basic little blue books that I absolutely hated and was well beyond.
Pretty sure we only started that type of thing in like grade four?
I distinctly remember doing a book report in 2nd grade because we had to deliver it in front of the whole class and that's when I found out several students kept track of how many times I said "um" in a tally on their desk. I can't remember the book but I feel like it had something to do with a bear.
This was in like 1987 though so ymmv. It wasn't like a big critical analysis or anything, but we were learning the basic structure of reiterating the plot and what we got out of it.
In one of my sixth grade classes there were little games at the beginning and one was to speak about something for one minute without saying um and if you did it you got a jolly rancher haha.
We didn't have book reports but we did have to do a "speech" about the book in that grade level. However, I don't recall anyone discussing much more than ,"I really liked this book because the character is funny."
We were still learning cursive in 2nd grade. We did read, but book reports? No. Book reports are for provoking thought and reading retention skills. In 2nd grade, reading is still “learning to read” oriented. I learned to read at a very early age, but a lot of second graders still struggle.
i definitely had to do at least one book report in second grade. i only remember because i was struggling to get through "i survived: the titanic," and my grandma picked it up during dinner and finished it by the time dinner was over. i was so annoyed because it was so difficult for me and asked her if she could help me, but she said i wouldn't learn anything that way. i was a really avid reader, it was just an aggressively boring book to me. it was a really simple "report" though, just a worksheet with a few questions about the plot, characters, and your opinions
Yeah I remember these chubby little copies of classics that would be in a tub on each group table in 5th grade and every six weeks we had to pick a different one. I definitely remember war of the worlds being one. Fifth grade I’d say I could see it but second indeed pushes believability too far.
Was this very compelling and rich and obviously true story intended to make us forget that Kaia Gerber is only famous because she’s a nepo baby who looks like a rough draft of her mother?
Kind of reminds me of the bit in Black Books where they write a 1000 page book about an academic who survived Stalinst purges, for 3-6 year olds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Yrd5YK2H4
Harry Potter where there are creatures that you can only see if you’ve seen someone die, another creature that literally sucks out and eats your soul, has magic racism, lots of death and torture?
I read Of Mice and Men years before Harry Potter was published. The former didn’t bother me. The first Harry Potter book, however, freaked me out. There was a man with someone else’s face growing out of the back of it for God’s sake!
A lot of people (myself included) find realistic more scary than the fantastical. Why the first Friday the 13th is the scariest in the series to me...big immortal monster teleporting sround to kill people? I don't have to worry about that. Derranged woman killing people? That can happen in our reality.
I recently read Of Mice and Men and it requires a lot of contextual knowledge of The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl, the knowledge of the outdated terms and ideas, as well as knowing stuff like “cyclical structures” and “microcosms” which I don’t think an 8 year old could really deliver well
What exactly would be traumatizing about it? “Hey, in this book a guy gets his hand crushed. And at the end a guy has to shoot his friend.”
I can imagine a few gasps, but by that age I was certainly aware that people in books and movies get killed sometimes.
I forgot about that part, but unless she described the event in excruciating detail and kept hammering them with it I doubt anyone's day got ruined, let alone traumatized.
I was a VORACIOUS reader, and I read pretty far above my grade level from an early age, but I wasn't anywhere near "Of Mice and Men" in 2nd grade. It would have been so hard to appreciate the subject matter, and the literary devices are fairly complex for a child of this age to do a cogent book report on.
I'm not saying I was the most sophisticated reader, nor that no 2nd grader in the world has ever done this.
As you mention, a six or seven year old doesn’t have the knowledge or life experience to understand John Steinbeck.
It is why you see child prodigies in math, music, and science, but rarely in the humanities. Some things require maturity to appreciate.
My mom was an immigrant who went to community college when I was in elementary school. Since English was her fifth language, she had to start with the most fundamental classes.
So, when I was 7 or 8, I read a lot of the books she was assigned because they were what was lying around - Hemingway, Steinbeck, Dickens, Orwell, Twain, Faulkner, Dumas, etc.
I had no fucking clue what I was reading. LOL
I was absolutely befuddled as to why something called “Animal Farm” was so deeply unfunny.
Dickens convinced me to stay away from sewers, because that was where I imagined Sikes and his gang of dirty thieves to be living.
My encounter with Steinbeck left me bereft when my dad went on a work trip to Oklahoma, because I took the term “Dust Bowl” literally.
And when she read “2001” by Arthur C. Clarke, I had no idea what the fuck was up with those hominids.
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Right, the flex being that she’s so much more advanced than the kids reading Harry Potter. Which I’m saying is not necessarily true. What about my comment is confusing?
And that still doesn’t mean she’s more advanced or smarter for reading Of Mice and Men instead. Which is what I’m saying. I swear some people on Reddit are obsessed with arguing over literally the most meaningless comments in the world.
Also, the recommended age for the final Harry Potter book is 12+. Recommended age range for Of Mice and Men is 13+. Which is why it’s assigned to kids in high school.
Right. A second grader reading a high school book is impressive, especially in comparison to a second grader reading a book that is intended for children.
You're trying to say that, because adults love Harry Potter, that it's not impressive that a second grader read Of Mice and Men. I'm disagreeing.
If a 1st grader did a book report on War and Peace, and their classmates all read Dr. Seuss instead, would the fact that adults also love Dr. Seuss mean that the 1st grader's book report on War and Peace isn't impressive?
You would have a valid point if it's true that lots of second grader read Of Mice and Men, but that's not the case.
Aha so you are confused about my point. I’m saying that reading Of Mice And Men does not necessarily mean that she’s more mature or smarter or more advanced than her friends just because they’re choosing to read Harry Potter. And judging by upvotes, the majority of people agree with me and had no confusion with what I said.
And love that you totally ignored the recommended reading age for Harry Potter because it negates your point.
The Reddit culture of taking offense to every comment and twisting it to start dumb arguments is truly out of control.
You started your comment with “what?” and then proceeded to explain what the flex was, as if I was talking about something else. That all implies that you didn’t understand something.
I found it necessary to separate the art from the artist here. I wasn’t going to stop reading something I loved just because the author has some shitty opinions on certain things.
If you're still paying for harry potter books, buying tickets to see the movies or watching the new HBO Max show you're giving money to a bigot who will use that money to take away rights from trans people.
I don't fault anyone for still enjoying harry potter but please pirate or steal that shit.
She’s actively funding campaigns to change legislation that will discriminate my wife, so i’m nog giving her my money. If you cant understand that or feel attacked by it, that’s on you.
Huh? When did I say I don’t understand that? Of course I understand that. And I have absolutely no idea where you’d get that I feel attacked by anything you said. You replied to my comment with how you feel about the topic, I responded. I thought we were just…having a conversation. Not sure why you took offense to anything I said. Truly bizarre.
Let me put it plainly to avoid any confusion - I fully support anyone who feels that they can no longer spend money on Harry Potter because of JK Rowling’s views.
Ah, so you feel attacked and are trying to start an argument with me. Now your comment makes sense. Do you buy anything manufactured under the Nestle umbrella of brands? Does that mean you support forced child labor and modern slavery? How about Disney? Apple? Let me guess - you only boycott the things that directly impact your life?
If you have nothing better to do than argue with people who agree with your views just because they don’t choose to handle it the same way you do, you need to get a life.
Not saying it’s not possible or even that it’s terribly difficult. My brother read all 6 that were out at the time when he was in second grade (or maybe third?). But it’s a long series for a child that age. I’m just saying most second graders probably aren’t reading all seven Harry Potter books. It’s more about the attention span than writing style. Again, I don’t doubt some second graders have done it, I just doubt that it’s terribly common.
Yeah I know my brother read them super young but I also helped him with a lot and I’m sure he missed a lot of what was going on until he reread them later on.
It's not just writing style. Of Mice and Men isn't a technically mature writing style, either.
It's subject matter, character development, plot, pacing... The first book would definitely appeal to a mature reader in 2nd grade, IMO. The later books would be tougher and potentially less engaging. I say this as a former mature reader.
What a weird thing to lie about. Of mice and men is not even a particularly dense or difficult novel. Not to say that Harry Potter is either, but like. If you’re gonna claim to have had superior literary comprehension in 2nd grade, you could at least claim you were reading shakespeare or something
I was traumatized by Where the Red Fern Grows when it was assigned in 2nd grade so I can see kids being equally horrified at Of Mice and Men with some of the violence. I was also a voracious reader and often wanted to read books above my grade level and Of Mice and Men isn't technically hard to read, but the subject matter is above 2nd grade. I can believe this story because Kaia is known for her love of reading.
But I guess to all the misogynists and general haters, she should just shut up and pretend to be stupid just because she's attractive. 🙄
Not like the other girls.
Literally have no idea who this is
I would believe it if she said fifth grade, maybe. I definitely read and loved Animal Farm at that age, which is probably at the same level of difficulty.
I had no idea it was an allegory for the Russian Revolution, of course. I thought it was just an animal story.
All second graders are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Even as just an animal story, the message works
Geez, I didn't read that book until high school.My fave books were Halleqin romance novels in high school.
I had every Sweet Valley High book - INCLUDING the Sagas - Babysitters Club, Choose Your Own Adventure, and Judy Blume book I could get my hands on. But I had to pass the "age inappropriate introduction to Stephen King in 4th grade" barrier long before I could approach classic literature.
(I loved to read. It was easy to run out of material. My mom LOVED Stephen King. She literally owned every single book and bought the latest releases like the same week they came out. I blew right through the Scary Stories to Read in the Dark books and clear into Christopher Pike territory. There's only so much power a human can muster. She couldn't keep me away from The Master of the Macabre forever.)
I read everything I could get my hands on .My aunt would send me huge cardboard boxes of banned books that she thought I should read .I remember judy Blume and Sweet valley high .
My parents heavily encouraged us to read as much as possible, but what really got me absolutely hooked on it was Wishbone. That little dog knew how to tell a story!
I bought the wishbone dog for my son one year.
Omg I had forgotten about sweet valley high! I read those all the time. And these one books with horses cuz I was the horse girl. It was like Ashleigh and the horses name was Ashleigh’s Wonder and they raced. That’s all I remember. However I also read a lot of horror and read Desperation and The Regulators for the first time during the same time period (junior high) and remember every bit of that lol!
Oooh did you ever read Carnival Ghost for SWH? Fucking fire book that was. Sorry, random, but I rarely see SW mentioned
I absolutely loved reading Poe and Ray Bradbury a lot also.
Ooh fun! I've been meaning to get to those.
They are all great books.
I don't think I did! It definitely seems like something I would have read, but I don't remember this at all so now I think I have to read it. I LOVED SWH. I'm an Elizabeth through and through.
Woooooo! If you haven't, it have and don't remember, I 10/10 recommend! And I completely get what ya mean lol those books also remind me of a simpler time. Those and the Famous Five/Secret Seven books
lol those are just straight up dirty
Lol.
For sure. It's a simple book on paper (hehe) - short, and simple vocabulary. I could buy a 2nd grader at least picking it up and starting to read it. It's harder to imagine it catching their interest enough to finish it. But to appreciate it and be able to write a BOOK REPORT on it? With the dialect, themes, characters, and literary devices involved? Get out of town.
I don’t even think we did ‘book reports’ in grade two. Other kids were often still learning to read entire books just a year before, iirc. They had these horrible basic little blue books that I absolutely hated and was well beyond.
Pretty sure we only started that type of thing in like grade four?
I distinctly remember doing a book report in 2nd grade because we had to deliver it in front of the whole class and that's when I found out several students kept track of how many times I said "um" in a tally on their desk. I can't remember the book but I feel like it had something to do with a bear.
This was in like 1987 though so ymmv. It wasn't like a big critical analysis or anything, but we were learning the basic structure of reiterating the plot and what we got out of it.
In one of my sixth grade classes there were little games at the beginning and one was to speak about something for one minute without saying um and if you did it you got a jolly rancher haha.
Man that would have been so disappointing to me I could NOT refrain from constantly saying "um" and "like" 😂
We didn't have book reports but we did have to do a "speech" about the book in that grade level. However, I don't recall anyone discussing much more than ,"I really liked this book because the character is funny."
I know we didn’t.
We were still learning cursive in 2nd grade. We did read, but book reports? No. Book reports are for provoking thought and reading retention skills. In 2nd grade, reading is still “learning to read” oriented. I learned to read at a very early age, but a lot of second graders still struggle.
i definitely had to do at least one book report in second grade. i only remember because i was struggling to get through "i survived: the titanic," and my grandma picked it up during dinner and finished it by the time dinner was over. i was so annoyed because it was so difficult for me and asked her if she could help me, but she said i wouldn't learn anything that way. i was a really avid reader, it was just an aggressively boring book to me. it was a really simple "report" though, just a worksheet with a few questions about the plot, characters, and your opinions
Yeah I remember these chubby little copies of classics that would be in a tub on each group table in 5th grade and every six weeks we had to pick a different one. I definitely remember war of the worlds being one. Fifth grade I’d say I could see it but second indeed pushes believability too far.
That's nothing! I read War & Peace in original Russian and gave a report on it when I was in pre-school.
Was this very compelling and rich and obviously true story intended to make us forget that Kaia Gerber is only famous because she’s a nepo baby who looks like a rough draft of her mother?
With zero talent or looks .
Kind of reminds me of the bit in Black Books where they write a 1000 page book about an academic who survived Stalinst purges, for 3-6 year olds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Yrd5YK2H4
Man, I love Black Books.
How the fuck did we all think a laugh track was acceptable? I’ve always meant to watch Black Books, but it’s nearly unwatchable with the laugh track.
Lol
Harry Potter where there are creatures that you can only see if you’ve seen someone die, another creature that literally sucks out and eats your soul, has magic racism, lots of death and torture?
I read Of Mice and Men years before Harry Potter was published. The former didn’t bother me. The first Harry Potter book, however, freaked me out. There was a man with someone else’s face growing out of the back of it for God’s sake!
A lot of people (myself included) find realistic more scary than the fantastical. Why the first Friday the 13th is the scariest in the series to me...big immortal monster teleporting sround to kill people? I don't have to worry about that. Derranged woman killing people? That can happen in our reality.
I keep laughing at her complaining about the paparazzi following her acting like she doesn't famously call them on herself all the time
I recently read Of Mice and Men and it requires a lot of contextual knowledge of The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl, the knowledge of the outdated terms and ideas, as well as knowing stuff like “cyclical structures” and “microcosms” which I don’t think an 8 year old could really deliver well
The Grapes of Wrath falls into that category.
‘Famous’ people are better than you are. At every age. You didn’t know that?
What exactly would be traumatizing about it? “Hey, in this book a guy gets his hand crushed. And at the end a guy has to shoot his friend.” I can imagine a few gasps, but by that age I was certainly aware that people in books and movies get killed sometimes.
And we’re comparing it to a book where a kid’s parents are murdered
Its the way death is portrayed that is different. Of mice and men is a damn tragedy what happens.
But how would that play out in a second graders verbal summary
It’s like Old Yeller, but with people.
I think the whole puppy killing part would probably upset some 2nd graders.
I forgot about that part, but unless she described the event in excruciating detail and kept hammering them with it I doubt anyone's day got ruined, let alone traumatized.
Harry Potter is a lot harder to read than Of Mice and Men…
At least Steinbeck didn't leave plot holes big enough to drown in
Mainly because it sucks and Of Mice and Men is a page turner.
And there’s a good 4,000 page difference between the two.
I was a VORACIOUS reader, and I read pretty far above my grade level from an early age, but I wasn't anywhere near "Of Mice and Men" in 2nd grade. It would have been so hard to appreciate the subject matter, and the literary devices are fairly complex for a child of this age to do a cogent book report on.
I'm not saying I was the most sophisticated reader, nor that no 2nd grader in the world has ever done this.
But I'm saying it's pretty fucking unlikely.
As you mention, a six or seven year old doesn’t have the knowledge or life experience to understand John Steinbeck.
It is why you see child prodigies in math, music, and science, but rarely in the humanities. Some things require maturity to appreciate.
My mom was an immigrant who went to community college when I was in elementary school. Since English was her fifth language, she had to start with the most fundamental classes.
So, when I was 7 or 8, I read a lot of the books she was assigned because they were what was lying around - Hemingway, Steinbeck, Dickens, Orwell, Twain, Faulkner, Dumas, etc.
I had no fucking clue what I was reading. LOL
I was absolutely befuddled as to why something called “Animal Farm” was so deeply unfunny.
Dickens convinced me to stay away from sewers, because that was where I imagined Sikes and his gang of dirty thieves to be living.
My encounter with Steinbeck left me bereft when my dad went on a work trip to Oklahoma, because I took the term “Dust Bowl” literally.
And when she read “2001” by Arthur C. Clarke, I had no idea what the fuck was up with those hominids.
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Yet she never made it to college. She's probably just trying to compensate for not being seen more than a model/actress.
No second grader was reading Harry Potter either imo.
I know a ton of older and very educated people that fucking love Harry Potter. This isn’t the flex she thinks it is.
What? The flex is that she supposedly wrote a book report on Of Mice and Men in second grade, while other kids were reading Harry Potter.
Right, the flex being that she’s so much more advanced than the kids reading Harry Potter. Which I’m saying is not necessarily true. What about my comment is confusing?
Adults loving Harry Potter doesn’t mean that the Harry Potter books aren’t kids books. They obviously are, even if adults like them.
And that still doesn’t mean she’s more advanced or smarter for reading Of Mice and Men instead. Which is what I’m saying. I swear some people on Reddit are obsessed with arguing over literally the most meaningless comments in the world.
Harry Potter books are kids books. Of Mice and Men is not. The fact that adults also like Harry Potter doesn’t change those facts.
Good lord. Like talking to a brick wall.
Also, the recommended age for the final Harry Potter book is 12+. Recommended age range for Of Mice and Men is 13+. Which is why it’s assigned to kids in high school.
Right. A second grader reading a high school book is impressive, especially in comparison to a second grader reading a book that is intended for children.
You're trying to say that, because adults love Harry Potter, that it's not impressive that a second grader read Of Mice and Men. I'm disagreeing.
If a 1st grader did a book report on War and Peace, and their classmates all read Dr. Seuss instead, would the fact that adults also love Dr. Seuss mean that the 1st grader's book report on War and Peace isn't impressive?
You would have a valid point if it's true that lots of second grader read Of Mice and Men, but that's not the case.
Aha so you are confused about my point. I’m saying that reading Of Mice And Men does not necessarily mean that she’s more mature or smarter or more advanced than her friends just because they’re choosing to read Harry Potter. And judging by upvotes, the majority of people agree with me and had no confusion with what I said.
And love that you totally ignored the recommended reading age for Harry Potter because it negates your point.
The Reddit culture of taking offense to every comment and twisting it to start dumb arguments is truly out of control.
Nothing about your comment is confusing. I was disagreeing.
You started your comment with “what?” and then proceeded to explain what the flex was, as if I was talking about something else. That all implies that you didn’t understand something.
I used to love it too and then JK went off the rails and is trying to silence my wife so now i’m kinda done with that.
I found it necessary to separate the art from the artist here. I wasn’t going to stop reading something I loved just because the author has some shitty opinions on certain things.
If you're still paying for harry potter books, buying tickets to see the movies or watching the new HBO Max show you're giving money to a bigot who will use that money to take away rights from trans people.
I don't fault anyone for still enjoying harry potter but please pirate or steal that shit.
She’s actively funding campaigns to change legislation that will discriminate my wife, so i’m nog giving her my money. If you cant understand that or feel attacked by it, that’s on you.
Huh? When did I say I don’t understand that? Of course I understand that. And I have absolutely no idea where you’d get that I feel attacked by anything you said. You replied to my comment with how you feel about the topic, I responded. I thought we were just…having a conversation. Not sure why you took offense to anything I said. Truly bizarre.
Let me put it plainly to avoid any confusion - I fully support anyone who feels that they can no longer spend money on Harry Potter because of JK Rowling’s views.
But you do give it money?
Ah, so you feel attacked and are trying to start an argument with me. Now your comment makes sense. Do you buy anything manufactured under the Nestle umbrella of brands? Does that mean you support forced child labor and modern slavery? How about Disney? Apple? Let me guess - you only boycott the things that directly impact your life?
If you have nothing better to do than argue with people who agree with your views just because they don’t choose to handle it the same way you do, you need to get a life.
i know a ton of older and very educated people that fucking love watching tiktok. that doesn't make it high art.
Who said it was high art? I’m saying reading Of Mice and Men instead of Harry Potter doesn’t mean she’s better than anyone.
The rag is called Vanity Fair, the whole point is to have people lie to morons who are desperate
if i was famous id lie for fun too idk
……..who?
Im sorry, almost no second grader is reading either one of those.
The first Harry Potter books I can believe. The whole series, nah.
I 100% read the entire Harry Potter series in 2nd grade. I’m sure I missed some things, but I got the plot.
This sounds like a Reddit brag but I don’t think it’s as crazy as you think, Harry Potter isn’t that mature of a writing style.
Not saying it’s not possible or even that it’s terribly difficult. My brother read all 6 that were out at the time when he was in second grade (or maybe third?). But it’s a long series for a child that age. I’m just saying most second graders probably aren’t reading all seven Harry Potter books. It’s more about the attention span than writing style. Again, I don’t doubt some second graders have done it, I just doubt that it’s terribly common.
Especially Order of the Phoenix, I can’t imagine a second grader being that invested in wizardry politics for 700 pages
Yeah I know my brother read them super young but I also helped him with a lot and I’m sure he missed a lot of what was going on until he reread them later on.
It's not just writing style. Of Mice and Men isn't a technically mature writing style, either.
It's subject matter, character development, plot, pacing... The first book would definitely appeal to a mature reader in 2nd grade, IMO. The later books would be tougher and potentially less engaging. I say this as a former mature reader.
What a weird thing to lie about. Of mice and men is not even a particularly dense or difficult novel. Not to say that Harry Potter is either, but like. If you’re gonna claim to have had superior literary comprehension in 2nd grade, you could at least claim you were reading shakespeare or something
That’s cute. I performed Hamlet to an adoring audience in second-grade.
Who?
Her acting is so painful to watch.
Dude save some of that Harry Potter devouring for me! I too wanna rip out the pages and eat them.
Who?
She’s so smart
Of mice and men is a pretty basic book also. What’s the implication here? It’s not like she was reading critique of pure reason or something.
…second grade? As if that is even remotely plausible.
I was traumatized by Where the Red Fern Grows when it was assigned in 2nd grade so I can see kids being equally horrified at Of Mice and Men with some of the violence. I was also a voracious reader and often wanted to read books above my grade level and Of Mice and Men isn't technically hard to read, but the subject matter is above 2nd grade. I can believe this story because Kaia is known for her love of reading.
But I guess to all the misogynists and general haters, she should just shut up and pretend to be stupid just because she's attractive. 🙄
I'm not even going to pretend I know who this person is. I agree with her "why do people care" comment completely.