How embarrassing

Another elevator encounter - I was heading down to the garage to go to an evening meeting. A young upwardly mobile looking couple got on the elevator two floors below me. She noticed I was carrying a book (I was planning to return it to the library after my meeting) and asked me what I was reading. I showed her the cover and admitted it was just a romance novel and she said her mom also loved that author.  The author happened to be Susan Elizabeth Phillips, one of my escape reading favorites. But afterward I thought why couldn't I have been carrying something intellectual or currently on someone's best seller list?  The honest answer is because I don't read those kinds of books too often. At least it didn't have a "bodice ripper" cover.