On 3/22/26 14:21, Terrence Fugate wrote:
> We had lunch with some friends, their daughter is a bright 22 year old
> who is into music. Really into music, Ph.D. in music theory...plays
> guitar, organ at her church...really really into music.
>
> She used a term I'd never heard before.
> The Suck Fairy, no it isn't obscene
>
>  From https://reactormag.com/the-suck-fairy/
>
> "The Suck Fairy is an artefact of re-reading. If you read a book for the
> first time and it sucks, it’s nothing to do with her. It just sucks.
> Some books do. The Suck Fairy comes in when you come back to a book

Time changes your brain, and your outlook.  Our contexts change as we grow.

My suspicion is that the Suck-Fairy really prefers YA fiction and the
stuff teenagers gravitate towards as teenagers - that looks very
different through adult eyes