Yeah, this managed to make me feel like I'd done being a book-addicted geeky teenage girl wrong, which was a bit disconcerting. Made better by the fact that I've tried a number of Jo Walton's books, and had the same "not for me" experience (I liked Ha'Penny, but not really anything else).

I need to look at my copy again, but I thought there was a lack of re-reading and, in particular, re-reading books from childhood, that didn't synch with my own reading experience.