Many of us readers like to think of ourselves as unlike everyone else. We're not macho or ego-driven, but retiring, introspective, and thoughtful, right? But anyone who's spent time around bookworms knows we can be deeply competitive, whether we're airily noting the time we read War and Peace in seventh grade or offhandedly mentioning that we read 200 books a year, no big deal. These two forms of literary competition tend to belong to warring factions, the snobs and the every-reader. The snob tu...
Many of us readers like to think of ourselves as unlike everyone else. We're not macho or ego-driven, but retiring, introspective, and thoughtful, right? But anyone who's spent time around bookworms knows we can be deeply competitive, whether we're airily noting the time we read War and Peace in seventh grade or offhandedly mentioning that we read 200 books a year, no big deal. These two forms of literary competition tend to belong to warring factions, the snobs and the every-reader. The snob tu...
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