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Window or Mirror?

One book I have enjoyed reading recently is The Compound by S. A. Bodeen. This book is a mirror because the main character, Eli, like me, has a lot of siblings and sometimes feels kind of stuck with his family. This book is also a window book because he is 15, which is older than I am, and has lived underground for six years because there may have been a nuclear attack. Fortunately, I have lived above ground and never lived through a war. This book is both a mirror and a window book.

A window and a mirror book are expressions to show how a book relates to you. A mirror book is a book that relates to you in general. A window book is a book that you can’t relate with at all. If you are reading a book that’s a window and mirror then that book relates to you in some ways and doesn’t relate to you at all in other ways.