This article was fascinating. Apparently there is a huge cohort of women in their late 30s who are still fuming over the grave injustice of that one time, in primary school, when somebody made them read a book geared towards what boys like.
Because remember, if boys like it, then it isn’t really a book.
The first novel I ever loved was the survival classic Hatchet, but recently I’ve learned that a *lot* of women despise this book, and see it is as something they were forced to read in school to entice the idiot illiterate boys in their English class. I dove into that tension!