Just Read All the Books. There, Solved.

Did you read this Slate article from last week about how grownups who read YA fiction should be ashamed of themselves? Well, what the author actually says is that adults who read fiction intended for young adults should be embarrassed, which makes all the difference in the world. I read the article before I read any of the backlash, and I didn't think the author was YA-shaming, although butthurt and snarky articles have appeared all over the internet arguing that she was.

I don't really have a dog in this fight. Which may be why the article initially made almost no impression on me, aside from a feeling of justification that I stopped reading Slate entirely after its format change. (It's too busy, and I haaaate their new font.) Some lady thinks YA books aren't complex enough for grownups. So she's a snob. Yawn. But the more I thought about this, the more it troubled me.