I never had that exact feeling, the ick feeling, but I did have the ‘I’m missing something here’ feeling when I would read an adult book as a child. It’s made for some interesting re-reads.

No I haven’t read this play!! But I just googled it and the first bit of the exchange came up in which this Septimus fellow says it is “the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef”. Sounds like a delightful play 😛

Between 5th and 6th grade. Which I don’t think is automatically too young, I just think for me I was too young.

Tom Stoppard, STOP! That is so clever that l almost missed it while READING. I can never go see a Stoppard play.

Oh, yeah, my reading was VERY tame. And I never read a single word by VC Andrews! The covers didn’t appeal.

Yay, enjoy it! Amitav Ghosh is such an impressive writer.

The second one’s good, but I did also find it a little frustrating that the characters were scattered so widely. It’s fun to see them come back together in this book.

How old were you when you first read The Chosen? (What a great book.)

Oh, yeah, I definitely stopped reading a few books because they were too scary. But like, I remember reading this book when I was ten (it was a gift) about a kid who had been (I think?) sexually abused and was considering suicide, and I got that icky feeling so strongly I threw the book away in the garbage. I wish I could remember literally ANYTHING about that book apart from how it made me feel, so I could look it up and see how it reads to an adult.