“the classics” - to be considered “well-read.” Some people believe in it so strongly that they actually feel bad about themselves for not having read some giant or other of the literary canon.
There’s some unspoken rule that says you have to have read all the best books - a.k.a. She’s on Twitter and you can find more of her work online at. She now lives in an old textile city with her husband and their clowder of cats. Kristian Wilson Colyard grew up weird in a one-caution-light town in the Appalachian foothills.