* By guest blogger I Heart Monster

See, we know that a lot of adults read teen fiction (young adult or YA). And we think that even more adults should read YA. The problem is that a lot of our peers snicker and look down their nose at us when we talk about a book we've read that was meant for teens. My grandma gives me the look when she thinks I could be doing something better with my time. My coworkers used to give me the look when I snuck my Meg Cabot book out during my lunch break. My doctors give me the look every time they check out the cover of the book I'm reading when they finally walk into the exam room. Sometimes the look is paired with the eye roll and the insinuation that I'm so immature. Sometimes it's paired with the dismissive smirk. And sometimes it's followed-up with the even more severe you-are-such-an-idiot look. Know the look? Young At ♥ is a book club for you.

Young At ♥: A YA Book Club for Adults is a joint effort between I Heart Monster and Bookmans. We'll meet every third Thursday at 7 p.m. starting June 21 to discuss a particular YA book at Bookmans Mesa. The title schedule (posted a year in advance) is available at Bookmans.com and iheartmonster.com along with the dates that we will be meeting to discuss the awesome that is YA literature and buck the masses who think it's lame. It's going to be fun. Scratch that. It's going to be epic legit... quick someone come up with a non-teenaged word that means... Oh heck, it'll rock. And just to prove it will rock....

Young at Heart will kick off with The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 21 in the Mesa Cafe.