of tool of differentiation or management. So if there were people in the group who actually were [not] able to read much of it themselves but could get a sense of what's going on, then they may have lots to offer from their own experience on certain topics, and so they're still really involved in it.
And then you'll talk about the characters. Do I like this character or not, or do I like their behaviour, or could you imagine this, or imagine they did that rather than just, 'I like this,' or, 'I don't,' which I thought was a really good thing.
Irene: I had the same experience when I did reading with my group. They really got into the characters and we'd spend ages thinking about what the characters might do. It stopped them in their tracks when someone said, “You know it's only a book, it's not real life.”
Sam: Yes, towards the end of the novel, one of the main characters dies and they were just horrified. And the woman who was least confident with her decoding, who saw herself as not a reader in the beginning, she said, 'Can you believe it? What he did! What he did!' I said, 'Who?' 'The writer! Can you believe he did it! Just as she was beginning to get into books and things.' You could tell how engaged they were with the characters, but then by saying, 'He killed her,' it also showed that, they knew this was a creation.
So it also showed I guess the sophistication of what we're all doing when we're reading novels; that we know it's a creation but we suspend that. And then she was linking that to how awful to die, or to be killed, just when you're beginning to understand the world of books. Which was something I hadn't thought of when I read it, I guess because I didn't have the same appreciation as she did of how nice it is to get into books if you hadn't been into them before.
References Duncan, S (2012) Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development. London and New York: Continuum.
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