Book Club on Yik Yak | Why do we need to gatekeep reading?? Reading is reading, no matter what or how you are reading. Enough people look down on us book nerds without the book community doing it for them. (And yes I love Sanderson’s books too)

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Why do we need to gatekeep reading?? Reading is reading, no matter what or how you are reading. Enough people look down on us book nerds without the book community doing it for them. (And yes I love Sanderson’s books too)

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Anonymous 15w

People who hate on fantasy and romance hate joy. Sorry I don’t want to read depressing shit constantly sometimes I just want a fun read

Anonymous 15w

Even reading children’s books or YA literature is better than nothing. And tbh… YA literature is better written than 80% of adult literature

Anonymous 14w

It’s the double standard of being a Sanderson fanboy but shitting on women for reading romance. I don’t like talking about books with people who don’t think critically about what they read, whether it’s McCarthy or Sanderson or what have you.

Anonymous

#1 15w

And there’s nothing wrong with that, there are definitely books/genres that I strongly dislike myself. What some people can’t get through their heads for whatever reason is that you can hate something without hating/discounting the people who like it. I love fantasy, my bestie loves classics. Neither of us are right, wrong, or better than the other

Anonymous

#2 15w

low key at this point i would say most ya is adult fiction just classified wrongly but thats a whole other conversation

Anonymous

#3 15w

What do you mean by that?

Anonymous

#2 15w

i also think people tend to miss the fact that YA books aren’t classified as being for teens, they’re for Young Adults. even if we read them when we were teens, we currently ARE the target demographic for YA books. read whatever the hell you want!! reading is supposed to be FUN, it takes the fun out of it when you’re ashamed of a book you enjoy <3 🫵🫵

Anonymous

#1 15w

like for a WHILE sjm was classified as ya when just based off the content of her books (the smut) she should have been classified as adult fantasy. and while i dont like sjm i think this happens to a lot of female fantasy writers. like if a man wrote the same book it would be high fantasy but since a woman wrote it, its considered ya

Anonymous

#4 15w

hey i love a good ya dw

Anonymous

#3 15w

oh i was trying to support your argument more than anything, i wasn’t disagreeing with you at all 🫡

Anonymous

#4 15w

I’m not saying anything about that. I’m just saying that from a critical perspective, YA is written better than the majority of adult literature. Also YA is classified as 12-18 I just took a course on it last semester.

Anonymous

#3 15w

Not within the past 20+ years no

Anonymous

#2 15w

I agree with the first point. Strongly disagree with the second, depending on what you mean by adult literature

Anonymous

#7 14w

*Readers are readers no matter what, how, or *why* they read. I mostly do it just for fun or distraction. Doesn’t make me understand the plot or intricacies any less/hamper my enjoyment. Reading is supposed to be fun, and readers should do everything they can to make that so for them. Good on you that it makes you happy to only read critically, there’s nothing wrong with that, but I would say the majority of readers read more casually and there’s nothing wrong with that either

Anonymous

OP 14w

There’s nothing wrong with that, correct. Likewise, there’s nothing wrong with me not wanting to talk books with surface-level readers.