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 Lolita at 14. I spent the rest of that summer hanging by the road, hoping some handsome grown man would take me on a cool road trip.