Why I Refuse to Be a Book Snob

Have you ever encountered a book snob? Are you one yourself? [See today's writing prompt at the bottom of this post.]

I am proud to have earned my master’s in English, but it’s not the first thing I tell others about myself when I join a book club or public discussion about books. Why? Because people will typically assume I'm a book snob, or that I only read ‘serious literature,’ whatever that's supposed to mean (although it probably means books exclusively written by …