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8/7/14 08:40I guess I would not have gotten het up about the whole "adults should feel ashamed of reading YA" discussion if it had not generated a whole mess of Catch-22 reading guilt: that I am not reading enough YA for my own professional development purposes (as a librarian and as a writer), and that I am not reading enough Serious Fiction to be a Serious Person and a good writer, and that I cannot possibly do both.
Eugh, I guess the sense that you're good enough has to come from the inside, but that's so much work.
(Maybe in an ideal world I would be reading enough to stay on top of the heavily buzzed YA books, and the books that I'm genuinely excited about, but sometimes the Books Of Grim Duty turn out to be surprising and fantastic. I'd be sad if I'd skipped over Middlemarch because it was a Book of Grim Duty.)
Eugh, I guess the sense that you're good enough has to come from the inside, but that's so much work.
(Maybe in an ideal world I would be reading enough to stay on top of the heavily buzzed YA books, and the books that I'm genuinely excited about, but sometimes the Books Of Grim Duty turn out to be surprising and fantastic. I'd be sad if I'd skipped over Middlemarch because it was a Book of Grim Duty.)