DWEEB Paperback and Negative Reviews

When I was young, books were paperbacks. I knew of hardcovers, of course, but I rarely ever read a book in hardcover. I thumbed through cheaply produced, light-weight volumes that would split at the seams by the time I'd gotten to the final chapters. That was fine by me. I wasn't a collector of objects. I was a collector of stories and I shelved them in my mind.

Many of the paperbacks I read were published under the Yearling imprint. According to their web site, Yearling has published beloved ...