Do real-world catastrophes such as 9/11 (and the bombs in Madrid, and the ones in London, and the war in Darfur, and … really, all the human-driven, mass loss-of-life events) affect what you choose to read?
And here is My Friend Amy's response.
I don't have a spare minute to answer the question for myself, but what do you all think?
For me, if anything, reading is a way to escape the real-world tragedies. Which doesn't mean I don't read tragic stories. Just not... those that hit too close to home, I guess.
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