“What Kind of Book Reader Are You? A Diagnostics Guide” from the Atlantic Wire lets you determine if you’re really a book hater, a multi-tasker, a bibliophile or another and gives you ideas of how to spend your reading time.

“Everything Is Fiction,” a blog on the New Yorker by novelist Keith Ridgway, who points out we’re all living stories every day.

“I don’t know how to write. Which is unfortunate, as I do it for a living. Mind you, I don’t know how to live either. . . When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and weave a narrative out of a collection of random experiences and events.”

The young adult novel is a literary grey area. Designed to appeal to readers from about age 12 to 18 (many facile readers are ready at ten), they often have protagonists in that age group. But perennial favorites of adults also are included, such as To Kill a Mockingbird. NPR has winnowed down suggestions to about 250 and now is soliciting votes from the public to pick the top 100. Go here to cast your votes.

An essay By Meg Wolitzer, in the New York Times Sunday Book Review ponders “On the Rules of Literary Fiction for Men and Women,” (March 30, 2012). If “The Marriage Plot,” by Jeffrey Eugenides, had been written by a woman yet still had the same title and wedding ring on its cover, would it have received a great deal of serious literary attention? Or would this novel (which I loved) have been relegated to “Women’s Fiction,” that close-quartered lower shelf where books emphasizing relationships and the interior lives of women are often relegated?