Shané Oosthuizen

Only a couple of years after I started working here.

So it's like just feels like coming home.

For so long.

I haven't reread them in about 10 years.

I was trying to figure out when was the last time because I have read them as an adult, but I think more as like I was in uni, I think, when I last reread them.

So it's definitely due.

When did you last read Eragon?

It's also for like multiple books.

I feel like it's also a similar one where I think maybe that's why I love yearning so much as well.

And I don't like a quick payoff because you used to have to wait years, multiple books for anything to happen and you weren't guaranteed a happy ending.

I think similarly with The Northern Lights and even Six of Crows to an extent kind of did that, like not to spoil things there too, but like it doesn't end happily for everyone.

Um, so I think, yeah, that kind of clearly has shaped the kind of stories that I enjoy now.

And I think it's also, it's just really special, like all the memories you have tied up with these books that you read as a kid.

Like, I think, you know, I always kind of say like my favorite thing about reading is just that it teaches you empathy and like seeing things from another person's point of view.

But then also like sharing stories with others.

Like I remember trying to read this book to my brother who was four years younger, so he couldn't read it himself.

And I remember trying to read it to him.

And yeah, it's just it's really special, like the way that it can still, you know, mean a lot to so many people.

Well, isn't it in the reprint, they've removed the ages.

Oh, that's right.