![]() Eventually, I discovered that these books were available for even lower prices at the nearby used bookstore, where I could trade in my Sweet Valley High collection for store credit that could be used to purchase books on Princess Diana, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Nancy Kerrigan, and Audrey Hepburn. I was charmed by the glossy covers, but also by the familiar names and famous faces: these books were about people I had heard of and wanted to know more about. ![]() There, in the magazine and book aisle, I quickly blew through the Sweet Valley High series before sliding over to the adjacent shelf of mass-market paperback biographies. My first regular encounters with book-buying were at the grocery store. ![]() Growing up in the 1990s, in a middle-class, American household where near-constant reading was expected and book ownership was encouraged, I believed books were objects meant to be bought and displayed and, as a result of the cost, to be read multiple times and cherished. ![]()
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