Amen. The fact that anyone is reading anything in this country in this day & age is great. Also, I'd like to paraphrase something from a book for adults entitled "Tuesdays With Morrie." It's about a man dying from Lou Gehrig's disease, &—at 1 point—he talks to his protege about being old. He says something along the…

And of course this hatred for all things YA just happens to have the same condescending tone aimed at anything feminine. Hm..wonder why...maybe cause lots of YA is written/read by women....hmmm

I am a high school English teacher and have spent the last twenty-five years reading comic books. No, no no ... not graphic novels, but COMIC BOOKS. You know ... Batman? Superman? I have a complete run of Teen Titans comics from 1980 to the present. I think that if the writer of that slate piece knew this, she's…

I think a lot of adult YA readers (along with other fans of genre fiction) read in a different way than these readers who claim that literary fiction is the only way to go in that we're always reading. We're the type that always have a book or two on the nightstand or in our bags or purses. We're reading because we…

Congratulations to Ruth Graham. Since I just commented on this story over on Facebook, I can only guess she's getting oodles of attention for lacking an understanding of the spirit and the joy of reading.

I read about that on GOOP! The hot thing for summer is leaving your corporeal form behind to inhabit the spiritual plane!

Right, because only overweight people arm bash. Skinny people, however, are like ghosts that you can walk through.

Life is too short for me to care about a snobbish cunt who thinks that adults reading YA novels makes them an inferior person. There are some legitimately good quality YA novels, and I would hate for anyone to miss out on them because they think reading comes with an age limit. This can be applied to tv shows and…

I just read Graham's piece and it really pissed me off. This quote from Gillian Flynn is apt here: "I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don't really like that kind of book.' It's akin to marking yourself as proudly poorly read."

Is that how Russians flirt?

You mean, spirits aren't real? I AM SHOCKED.