This could be from any age really. I remember reading lots of books like Harry Potter as a 4th grader to seem smart to the teachers looking at me but I didn’t understand any of it. When the big YA dystopian boom was happening, I read tons of terrible YA dystopias to seem cool but many of them frustrated me.
I read what I want to. It’s nobody’s business but my own. Impressing other people is a bore, it is a complete waste of time. Life is too short to worry about what people think. Get out there and life.