Hahaha, that’s a fair assessment. Yeah, your life is fine without it.

Thanks! Utopia the Thomas More book? I feel like I read that a looooong time ago. It was…less interesting than I was hoping. I wanted his Utopia to have all kinds of cracked-out rules, and it sort of didn’t.

Were you? I don’t remember that.

Aw, I’m not in a fight with Dan Brown. His books are very, very silly, and not well-written, but they are engagingish.

I do not know Julie from Contractually Obligated to Like Books but I shall get right on making her acquaintance.

I always want YA authors’ books to be awesome so I can prove my point to everyone about how YA is just as good as adult literature. It’s an unfair standard because when adult books are bad nobody says “See! Adult books are trash!” Who else is Robin Wasserman BFF with? Like Maureen Johnson and those ones?

Hm. Noted. Well, I went to a public university, not liberal artsy at all, so I think we had a very different crop of classics majors. I could be wrong, and just doing that thing where the grass is greener on the other side, but they always seemed cool and interesting to me.

It is! It has come in handy in most of my jobs despite none of them (except one) having anything to do with Latin.