Reading Retreat: DRAGONS LOVE TACOS by Adam Rubin

I told myself years ago that no one should be ashamed or feel the need to justify themselves when they add a picture book to their yearly book count (at least for those who still do a quantity challenge). My reasoning being that just because they’re written for children does not make them less as books. Any suggestion like that would be absurd, so why would it be absurd to include them in, say, your Goodreads Reading Challenge? And this also goes for manga or anything that is technically considered a book. In truth, I still feel some niggling shame, I think coming from a fear of being judged. (Because they’re not “serious” books befitting an “adult” like me, blah, blah.) I know these qualifications are false and arbitrary—pretentious & discriminatory, at worst—so I barrel through the internal shame and post them. I wish I didn’t feel the need to defend this choice as often, though. Anyway, a few books just arrived at my house (c/o our workplace free book program), including DRAGONS…