“Reading for fun becomes a kind of foreign concept … It’s [perceived to be] better not to have read anything at all than to have read something “trashy” or something off the bestseller list/front table.”

I completely agree with her. I read for fun and I CONSTANTLY get criticized for it. I try to talk to people about books that are considered not ‘important’ and I get looked down upon. So I don’t talk about books for the most part and when my husband tells people I love to read, I list ‘important’ books that I have read – classics, nonfiction, ‘deep’ books – so people won’t look down on me. It’s sad really because I can honestly say that some of the bestseller/popular books that I have read have been better than some of the ‘important’ books I’ve read. They have been better written, more interesting and contain deeper subject matter.

Oh good, I thought I was the only person whose mind went to a not-so-appropriate place when I read “twixter”.

Twixters to me sounds like a sex kink. But I’ve got a dirty mind.