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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another poster with a bad childhood who used books to survive. New books and old books over and over again. Also always had a big stack of books by my desk at school, and my teachers knew I loved to read and saw it as an endearing trait.

As an adult books feel nice, and I like seeing them on my shelves. Generally, now I read for intellect. Either learning directly from the books or by staying engaged in excellent writing, grammar, etc.[/quote]

I'm curious. did you see books as a "safe space". What did you do when books went into an area that got close to your trauma? I have a problem reading books that are too descriptive in certain villainous acts and I have had to put the book down (permanently) for this, but I can't imagine if this had been a trigger for me.

Is that the case, and if so, how do you avoid such books? [/quote]

8:15 here.  I typically don't read books that detail trauma I experienced.  I'm fine with it in a general sense or as part of a character's background but nothing more than something incidental.  It's one of the reasons I can't/won't read the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich.  In the very first book, she recounts how Morella stuck his head up her skirt when she was 6 and, when she was in high school, he came into the bakery where she worked and quickly convinced her to have sex with him on the floor of the bakery and never contacted her again.  He was never in her circle, she only knew him from the neighborhood and they had no relationship.  That's just so F'd up, peervy and abusive that I can't get past him being a major part of the books.  Had this just been part of her life story, I would have been fine.  But, it feels traumatizing to me. It's a shame because I live her Fox & O'Hare series. [/quote]

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